About
A small shop, a long memory.
The shop is owned and operated by Marc Wartner, a trained Preservation Carpenter, Engineer, and Architectural Historian. Marc has worked in the trade since 2008 and established the shop in 2019, building a practice around the buildings of eastern North Carolina and the wider Atlantic seaboard.
Today the mill sits at 915 George Street in New Bern, NC. Inside its 1,400 square feet, an industrial CNC works alongside a complete traditional woodshop: shapers, jointers, mortisers, and hand tools, used in equal measure depending on what the building asks for.
For rare and historically appropriate species — heart pine, old-growth cypress, quartersawn white oak, and the occasional one-off — we work closely with Precision Moulding and Woodworks here in New Bern. Their yard keeps stock most mills never see, which lets us match a 19th-century building on its own terms.
Principles
How we work.
Match the original.
If the building has it, we copy it. If it's gone, we research it. We do not invent.
Build it to outlast us.
Mortise and tenon. Linseed oil and lead-free putty. Materials chosen for the next century, not the next inspection.
Document everything.
Drawings, rubbings, and photographs leave the shop with the work — for the building's next steward.
The Owner
Marc Wartner
Marc's work sits at the intersection of three disciplines — the bench, the drafting board, and the archive. That combination shapes how the shop takes on a project: every piece is researched as a historian, engineered for the building it serves, and built by the same hands that drew it.
- Preservation CarpenterTrained
- EngineerTrained
- Architectural HistorianTrained
- In the tradeSince 2008
- Shop established2019