Using materials salvaged from the ship, he constructed a sailing canoe, the Liberdade, and returned to the United States in it.
This three-year-old house was built of local fieldstones and materials salvaged from older houses nearby.
After 1960, when she started summering in Southold, she began to make sculpture out of materials salvaged from the beach below her house, which overlooked Long Island Sound.
Clad in white stucco, it was gutted in 2001 and renovated using old bricks, antique doors and other materials salvaged from demolished houses in the area.
But the school must reconstruct the facades of the houses as they appeared in the 19th century, using bricks, lintels, cornices and other materials salvaged from them.
According to the listing agent, they assembled it primarily from materials salvaged from a Civil War-era barn, a nearby Baptist church and an estate in Trenton, N.J.
Scott Hocking, an artist who creates works out of materials salvaged from the many abandoned buildings here, said that the D.I.Y. culture is "in our DNA".
Mr. Weisfeld's first milestone, however, came years ago, in 1978, when he opened VPI Industries after shopping around his first record-cleaning machine, which he had built using materials salvaged from his job as an apprentice sheetmetal worker.
Remarkably, he managed to fashion a kind of circular economy whereby his urban interventions were being financed by the sale of artworks created from the materials salvaged from the interventions.
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