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Fine Homebuilding’s “Great Moments in Building History” was a longtime back-page favorite, where readers shared funny, personal, and thoughtful accounts of experiences that made their building or remodeling projects memorable. You can find almost every installment from the magazine column’s 25-year history right here.

  • The Patient in the Basement

    It was like performing an emergency tracheotomy at base camp on Everest. A surgeon’s crackling voice on the satellite phone was guiding me through the tricky procedure. Everything was going…

  • The Wheelbarrow

    Great moments in building history: A wheelbarrow is too useful to become a flower planter

  • The Missing Cat

    Great moments in building history: Feline companion trapped in a bathroom remodel

  • The Builder’s Hand

    Great moments in building history: A hundred-year-old handprint immortalized in a plaster wall

  • Trimming the Tree

    When all else fails, an unlikely tool gets the job done

  • Great Moments: An Evening with the Ambassador

    BY EVERETTE M. HILL Forty-three years ago, I left college with a diploma in my hand and a plan in my mind. I would marry my college sweetheart, who was…

  • A Perfectly Good Roof

    Great moments in building history: Roofing in the summertime

  • Survey of Job-Site Dogs

    Great moments in building history: The contractor’s dog

  • Even Lengths Only

    Great moments in building history: An arithmetics proves to be trouble in the lumber yard

  • Murphy’s Fun House

    Great moments in building history: Please pardon Mr. Murphy

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