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• Count Rumford corner fireplace

• Detail of adobe arch framework

• Fixed glass windows

• Site built doors and windows with side vents

• Wall and floor sealers (includes photo of of a completed arch)

• Annotated booklists: Books on adobe buildings, Books on adobe construction

• See also: Alamos, Sonora, Mexico for a Spanish colonial town built with mud brick, burnt adobe and stone.

The photo shows the beginnings of our mud brick home in 1991. Our adobe contractor was Lyle Hymer-Thompson of Tucson, Arizona. His spoke method framed up the continuous arches around our patio without the expense of plywood forms. Karen Hymer-Thompson manages their Tucson Adobe Desert Vacation Rentals.

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