When a bungalow across the street came on the market last year, the two men undertook a more straightforward job: They knocked it down and built a reproduction 2,700-square-foot 2,700-square-foot 2,700-square-foot
The Shakespearean scholar and second president of Hofstra University was so enamored of the playwright and his creative milieu, he painstakingly designed and built a reproduction of the Globe Theater, the 17th-century home of Shakespeare's dramatic work.
Intrigued, he'd built a reproduction of the spider milking machine; spurred on by Mr Godley's enthusiasm, the pair decided to give spider-silk production a go.The entrepreneurs initially tried to farm the arachnids.
In his barn workshop off Westwood Road, Craig Farrow, a cabinet maker, is concentrating as he builds a reproduction 18th-century banister-back chair with a carved crest.
Indeed, developer Traveller's Tales has taken Tolkien's original maps of Middle Earth and used these to build a reproduction of the entire kingdom, which they say will seamlessly stream in as the player explores.
And the moving force behind plans to build a reproduction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre near its original site as part of an international Shakespeare Center is the Chicagoan Sam Wanamaker, actor, director and a resident of London since 1951.
The Norse built a functioning reproduction of the predominant northern-European civic model of the time — devout, structured, and reasonably orderly.
Today, Friedman favors a decaying-Versailles look: "deconstructed" wing chairs with exposed burlap and nail tacks ($1,435), or a bar cabinet built inside a reproduction nineteen-twenties German light-bulb voltage tester ($1,995).
Whatever Google does, its officials said, it would not build a Facebook reproduction that requires users to re-enter all their personal and social data.
In Windsor, Sunderland Period Homes has created a subdivision, Ellsworth Settlement, of four restored houses (with three brought from elsewhere) and built a neighboring development, Settlement Hill, of five reproduction houses.
Wallace Nutting, who learned stage presence as a Congregationalist minister, built a splendid collection of Colonial furniture a century ago, took pictures of it and made reproductions to sell in department stores across the country.
