WOOD GATE 39

 Wood Gate 39 is Base Price + 38%
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Wood gate 39-2 as double gates.
Featuring a lower center vertical stile between separate floating T&G panels.

Borrowed, from one of Thomas Jefferson’s original 20 wood gate designs for the University of Virginia campus. Slightly modified

La Jolla, CA

The double gates 39 with the Colonial Williamsburg weave. Painted finish. Rocky Mountain Latch E414 and dead bolt with the Silicone Bronze Light patina. The residence itself offers a glimpse of the traditional architecture and railings of 17th century Pennsylvania while blending the disparate rooflines and niches of a creative west coast architect.

Belvedere, CA

Colonial garden gate 39-3 in Belvedere, California.  Set to stone columns, with jambs. Rocky Mountain latch E414.

Belvedere, CA

The hamlet of Belvedere is an island off the Tiburon peninsula in Marin County, jutting out into the San Francisco Bay with a topography and nuance reminiscent of the Portuguese coast. Foot paths and stairways meandering among a cluster of prowell’s gates and fences flankked by residences that are best appreciated on foot. One of the best urban hikes in America. And along one of these hidden stairway hikes is the garden gate 39-3.

Flourtown, Pennsylvania

Our original Garden Gate 39 in Flourtown, Pennsylvania.

Flourtown, Pennsylvania

In collaboration with:
John Toates Architecture and Design LLC
Devon, PA 19333
[email protected]

Illustrating the use of the Cannonball Gate Closer on the garden gate 39. A gravity-based mechanism that’s been around since the early 1800’s. An appropriate choice here, given that the gate style is a Jeffersonian replication from an age when such closers were common.

Although Prowell doesn’t offer the Cannonball Closer, the best of the solid bronze closer can be purchased with Sun Valley Bronze

Flourtown, Pennsylvania

Like most of the gate designs patterned from the Colonial Williamsburg weave, the angles of our grid drivers on the gate 39 vary as per the width of the gates. 

Traverse City, Michigan

Garden Gate #39-4 differs slightly in that the center diagonal is open. Hence only Base + 32%.
Set along the lake in upper Michigan. 42″ width x 40″ ht.
Bronze Latch: Coastal F1-405.

Traverse City, Michigan

Colonial architecture is not, as suspected, relegated soly to the Northeast. With a few adjustments, such as the colonnade portico, it can easily swing toward the American Farmhouse, or Four-Square.  And yet, with the Gate 39, and the bank of Adirondacks, we’re unmistakably Colonial.

IN-PROGRESS
How do I build a wood gate?

A few in-progress images on building the Colonial Weave pattern for the gate 39. Below, the framework dry-fitted to allow the pattern layout.

G enerally, at some point, it becomes a confusing puzzle.

The various components must be labeled, on the drawings, and on the wood members themselves.

Photo credit: Ben Prowell

Ben Prowell shown with the Colonial Williamsburgh Weave for a wider gate, hence the more obtuse angles.

Photo credit: Ben Prowell