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Stage Four: Jugglers Cove Restoration

After the floor is complete, the next step in restoring Jugglers Cove Root Cellar was to begin constructing the walls of the wooden shed.

Stage Three: Jugglers Cove 3 Restoration

Stage three included completing the construction of the wooden floor. The hatch door entrance is also completed during this step. It is located roughly in the middle of […]

Stage Two: Jugglers Cove Restoration

The second step to this root cellar restoration was to construct the ceiling of the root cellar and the floor of the wooden shed top house. The floor […]

Stage One: Jugglers Cove Restoration

The Jugglers Cove Root Cellar restoration project is an example of restoring a hatch and shed cellar. The first stage of restorations involved assessing the root cellars foundations. […]

French’s Cove Root Cellar, Bay Roberts

French’s Cove Root Cellar eight years after restorations were completed.

Stage Four: French’s Cove Restoration

The fourth and final stage to the restorations on French’s Cove Root Cellar is to complete the finishing touches on the appearance of the root cellar. The previous […]

Stage Three: French’s Cove Restoration

The third stage of restoring the hillside root cellar involved building the entire wooden shed structure. This included the wooden wall below the peak of the roof, building […]

Stage Two: French’s Cove Restoration

The second stage of restoring French’s Cove Root Cellar involved beginning the construction of the rest of the cellar structure. In this case, the construction involved creating the […]

Stage One: French’s Cove Restoration

Stage One of restoring root cellars typically involves assessing the foundations of the cellar. This hillside cellar has a foundation of stacked stones that were originally in ruins […]

Harbour Grace Root Cellar

Exterior of the Harbour Grace Root Cellar. The cellar is constructed out of stacked stone and concrete and is no longer in use.

Late 18th Century Cellar, Ferryland, Newfoundland

Late eighteenth century cellar found through archaeological excavations in 2017 at the Colony of Avalon site in Ferryland, Newfoundland. Originally, the cellar appears to have been dug into […]

Ducey’s Root Cellar, Keels, Newfoundland

Owned by John and Phonse Ducey, this concrete above ground root cellar was built in the early 1950s and features a unique wooden braced exterior wall which holds […]