Upcoming Workshops

Exterior Wood Repair for Historic Structures

July 25, 2026 –

July 26, 2026

Belvedere School for Hands On Preservation
521 Bird Street, Hannibal MO 63401

Too often it just seems easier to rip out the old and replace exterior materials on old and historic properties with new products. This urban legend is just not true. For historic property owners this will often diminish the value of their property and cost them more money than repairing original exterior wood. Cost effective preservation of exterior wood components is an excellent way to keep your properties integrity and save money. Bob Yapp, author, teacher and nationally known old house expert will be the instructor. Students will learn the techniques used to preserve original, exterior wood components. You will learn how to repair & install wood siding, repair rotted trim, sills, and other a wooden architectural features rather than replacing.

$595.00

7 in stock

Making & Restoring Stained Glass Windows- Basic

June 5, 2026 –

June 7, 2026

Belvedere School for Historic Preservation
521 Bird Street
Hannibal MO 63401

Ever wanted to learn how to make or restore a stained-glass window. This is your opportunity to learn from the best. In this class, Rhonda will teach you hands-on, how to make a stained-glass window as well as how to repair and restore an old one. This is a 3-day class with a limit of 8 students for this session and the tuition is $595. Pre-registration is required.

$595.00

8 in stock

Restoring Stained Glass Windows- Advanced

May 29, 2026 –

May 31, 2026

Belvedere School for Historic Preservation
521 Bird Street
Hannibal MO 63401

Ever wanted to learn how to restore stained-glass windows? This is your opportunity to learn from the best. This is our 18th year at the Belvedere School for Hands-On Preservation and we’re excited to offer a class called, “Restoring Stained Glass Windows-Advanced” We’re even more excited to have instructor Rhonda Deeg back for 2026. Rhonda is considered one of the top stained-glass artists in the country. She born in Kokomo, IN only a few blocks from Kokomo Opalescent Glass, has devoted much of her career to teaching the construction trades and historic preservation in the vocational trades, both at the high school and college levels for Adult, Continuing, and Vocational Education academic programs in Michigan, Wisconsin, Maryland and Indiana. Rhonda also has over 25 years’ experience in stained and art glass repair and restoration and is sole owner of RLD Glass Art & Restoration. Rhonda is an expert in creating new stained glass as well as restoration of the old and historic leaded glass windows

$595.00

5 in stock

Window Restoration & Weatherization Boot Camp-1

June 19, 2026 –

June 21, 2026

Belvedere School for Hands On Preservation
521 Bird Street, Hannibal MO 63401

Window Restoration & Weatherization Boot Camp is a fun and intense, three-day, hands-on learning experience. Students will learn cost-effective restoration & weatherization of historic, double-hung, wood windows. You will be part of a team restoring the original wood windows in a historic property located in the Central Park National Historic District in Hannibal, Missouri. This is a tuition-based class with a limit of 8 students. You will be working side- by-side all three days with instructor Bob Yapp.

$595.00

7 in stock

Wood Window Repair-Advanced

February 6, 2026 –

February 8, 2026

Belvedere School for Hands On Preservation
521 Bird Street, Hannibal MO 63401

Wood Window Repair-Advanced is a fun and intense, three-day, hands-on learning experience. Students will learn the woodworking necessary to rebuild wood sashes and jambs. This is a tuition-based class with a limit of 8 students. You will be working side-by-side all three days with instructor Bob Yapp. Bob is nationally recognized as one of the top experts in window restoration and has made or restored over 10,000 windows in his 51-year career.

$695.00

3 in stock

Window Restoration & Weatherization Boot Camp-2

August 14, 2026 –

August 16, 2026

Belvedere School for Hands On Preservation
521 Bird Street, Hannibal MO 63401

$595.00

8 in stock

Woodworking 101 with Traditional Hand Tools

February 20, 2026 –

February 22, 2026

Belvedere School for Hands On Preservation
521 Bird Street, Hannibal MO 63401

“Woodworking 101 with Traditional Hand Tools” is a new class offering a fun and interesting, three-day, hands-on learning experience in the Belvedere School’s woodworking studio. This is a basic class learning how to make a small wall cabinet out of old growth, hardwood. Each student will make a cabinet and take it home with them. This is a tuition-based class with a limit of eight students. You will be working side-by-side all three days in the with instructor Mark Johnston. Mark is a remarkable woodworker from the Twin Cities in Minnesota. He is also one of the top traditional tool users and collectors in the Midwest. This will be a learn-by-doing opportunity for beginners and students with moderate woodworking skills. You will learn how to pick and grade wood, dimension wood, how to hand and machine plane lumber, create hand dovetails for the drawer, create handmade dado grooves, how to make a door with mortise & tenon joinery and the finishing of your project cabinet.

$650.00

8 in stock

Exterior Painting of Historic Structures

January 23, 2026 –

January 25, 2026

Belvedere School for Hands On Preservation
521 Bird Street, Hannibal MO 63401

Exterior Painting of Historic Structures is a fun and intense, three-day, hands-on learning experience. Students will how to paint the exteror wood of any structure. You will be part of a team painting a section a historic structure in a Hannibal Historic District. This is a tuition-based class with a limit of 10 students. You will be working side-by-side all three days in the field with instructors Duffy Hoffman & Bob Yapp. Duffy is a multi-generational painter and considered one of the top paint experts in America. Bob has been a historic property rehabber for 51 years.. This will be an intense, learn-by-doing opportunity. You will learn why paint fails, how to prepare the surfavces for long term paint jobs, how-what & why in regard to the right paints and prep, how to apply paint properly, determining moisture contents, how to remove old paint safely and how to determine how much paint you’ll need. All work will be done from the ground or on short ladders-no high work!

$595.00

10 in stock

Making Wooden Storm Windows-2

March 6, 2026 –

March 8, 2026

Belvedere School for Hands On Preservation
521 Bird Street, Hannibal MO 63401

Making Wooden Storm Windows is a fun and intense, three-day, hands-on learning experience. Students will how to make traditional, wooden storm windows. You will be part of a team building exterior storms for a house in a National Historic District in Hannibal, Mo. This is a tuition-based class with a limit of eight students. You will be working side-by-side all three days in the shop with instructor Bob Yapp. Bob has been a woodworker and furniture designer/maker for 48 years.

$595.00

6 in stock

Making Wooden Storm Windows-1

January 23, 2026 –

January 25, 2026

Belvedere School for Hands On Preservation
521 Bird Street, Hannibal MO 63401

Making Wooden Storm Windows is a fun and intense, three-day, hands-on learning experience. Students will learn how to make traditional, wooden storm windows. You will be part of a team building exterior storms for a house in a National Historic District in Hannibal, Mo. This is a tuition-based class with a limit of eight students. You will be working side-by-side all three days in the shop with instructor Bob Yapp. Bob has been a woodworker and furniture designer/maker for 51 years.

$595.00

4 in stock

Making Wooden Storm Windows-3

August 28, 2026 –

August 30, 2026

Belvedere School for Hands On Preservation
521 Bird Street, Hannibal MO 63401

Making Wooden Storm Windows is a fun and intense, three-day, hands-on learning experience. Students will how to make traditional, wooden storm windows. You will be part of a team building exterior storms for a house in the Maple Avenue National Historic District in Hannibal, Mo. This is a tuition-based class with a limit of eight students. You will be working side-by-side all three days in the shop with instructor Bob Yapp. Bob has been a woodworker and furniture designer/maker for 51 years.

$595.00

8 in stock

Wood Floor Repair & Passive Restoration

March 20, 2026 –

March 22, 2026

Belvedere School for Historic Preservation
521 Bird Street
Hannibal MO 63401

You will be part of a team restoring tongue and grooved wood flooring in a historic house in the Central Park National Historic District in Hannibal, Missouri.

This is a tuition-based class with a limit of 8 students. You will be working side-by-side all three days with instructor Bob Yapp. Bob is nationally recognized as one of the top experts in hands-on preservation and has restored over 70,000 square feet of historic wood floors of every variety.

This will be an intense, learn-by-doing opportunity. This class is not about aggressively drum sanding wood floors so they look new. Much like fine antiques we want to keep the character defining features and patina of the flooring.

$595.00

8 in stock

Faux Painting & Restoration of Painted Stone & Wood Grain

April 11, 2026 –

April 12, 2026

Belvedere School for Historic Preservation
521 Bird Street
Hannibal MO 63401

Faux (Fake) Painting & Restoration of Painted Stone & Wood Grain will be a unique class.

Before the 1870’s it was not very classy to have much real, natural wood. You could really show your affluence if you could afford an artist to grain your plain pine or poplar to look like exotic woods such as mahogany, rosewood or even quarter sawn oak.

This class will be taught by Bob McCarty. Bob is a St. Louis area artist who is renowned throughout the central Midwest as one of the country’s best faux (fake) wood grain and faux stone artists. His company, Painted Effects, has done work in many iconic and historic structures in the St. Louis area.

$595.00

8 in stock

Old House Maintenance for Women

July 11, 2026 –

July 12, 2026

Belvedere School for Historic Preservation
521 Bird Street
Hannibal MO 63401

Too often in our society fathers tend to spend more time teaching their sons how to think in a so-called “handy” way. As instructor and owner of The Belvedere School, Bob Yapp says, “This is really unfortunate. In truth, when women are given the opportunity to learn this way of thinking, their skills almost always exceed men’s. Our goal for this class is not to discriminate against men, they’re just not invited.” You will be a part of a team of interesting and interested women learning a variety of old house maintenance skills at the school’s headquarters, the historic Lamb-Munger Mansion in the Central Park National Historic District in Hannibal, Missouri.

$495.00

6 in stock

Historic Plaster-Making & Restoring Decorative Plaster

April 17, 2026 –

April 19, 2026

Belvedere School for Historic Preservation
521 Bird Street
Hannibal MO 63401

Historic Plaster-Making & Restoring Decorative Plaster is a fun and intense, three-day, hands-on, learn by doing, total immersion experience in historic plaster molding creation and repair. Students will learn state-of-the-art techniques in mold making, casting & mixing plaster. You will also learn to create straight runs of plaster moldings. How these decorative plaster elements are installed will also be taught. This is an entirely hands-on shop & field class. Corey Wallis, from Iowa, will be your instructor. Corey has over 30 years’ experience in all facets of the trade. Including traditional plaster repair, patching, skim coats, drywall repair, exterior stucco, decorative plaster molding creation & restoration, ornamental & cove work. His family history in the plaster trade goes back generations.

$595.00

5 in stock

Historic Plaster Repair Boot Camp

September 25, 2026 –

September 27, 2026

Belvedere School for Historic Preservation
521 Bird Street
Hannibal MO 63401

Historic Plaster Repair Boot Camp is a fun and intense, three-day, hands-on, learn by doing, total immersion experience in historic plaster repair. Students will learn state-of-the-art techniques in re-attaching loose plaster back to the wood lath and how to mix & patch historic plaster & cracks properly. You will be part of a team of students restoring original plaster in a property located in the Central Park National Historic District in Hannibal, Missouri. Corey Wallis, from Iowa, will be your instructor. Corey has over 30 years’ experience in all facets of the trade. Including traditional plaster repair, patching, skim coats, drywall repair, exterior stucco, decorative plaster molding creation & restoration, ornamental & cove work. His family history in the plaster trade goes back generations.

$595.00

9 in stock

Historic Masonry Preservation-Repointing

September 12, 2026 –

September 13, 2026

Belvedere School for Hands On Preservation
521 Bird Street, Hannibal MO 63401

Historic Masonry Preservation is a fun and intense, two-day, hands-on learning experience. The stone, brick and mortar being preserved will be done in accordance with The Secretary of the Interiors Standards for Rehabilitation. You will be part of a team of students performing the foundation preservation on the circa-1859 Lamb-Munger Mansion in the Central Park National Historic District in Hannibal, Missouri. John Speweik is back teaching the workshop here at the school. You will be working side-by-side with John for the two days.

$795.00

10 in stock

Advanced Historic Masonry Repair Techniques

August 8, 2026 –

August 9, 2026

Belvedere School for Hands On Preservation
521 Bird Street, Hannibal MO 63401

John Speweik is back and teaching this new class here at the school. You will be working side-by-side with John for the two days. Students registering should have taken Johns basic “Historic Masonry Preservation” course here or demonstrate some basic masonry experience. John is a 5th generation mason and is internationally recognized as one of the top experts in hand-on historic masonry preservation training. He is an author and conference speaker on historic stone, brick and lime mortar preservation techniques. This will be an intense, learn-by-doing opportunity. The class includes: color matching brick, stone & mortar with breathable stains; should I use a masonry sealer?; Crack repair with German DHL injection; fabricating your own tools specific for your job; Should I paint my brick and with what?; paint removal products; stone Dutchman repair tools and techniques; foundation repair do’s and don’ts; decorative mortar joints and even what true tuckpointing” really is. John also teaches the science and the why-to.

$795.00

10 in stock

Bob Yapp

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Upcoming Workshops

Exterior Wood Repair for Historic Structures

Making & Restoring Stained Glass Windows- Basic

Restoring Stained Glass Windows- Advanced

Window Restoration & Weatherization Boot Camp-1

Wood Window Repair-Advanced

Window Restoration & Weatherization Boot Camp-2

Woodworking 101 with Traditional Hand Tools

Exterior Painting of Historic Structures

Making Wooden Storm Windows-2

Making Wooden Storm Windows-1

Making Wooden Storm Windows-3

Wood Floor Repair & Passive Restoration

Faux Painting & Restoration of Painted Stone & Wood Grain

Old House Maintenance for Women

Historic Plaster-Making & Restoring Decorative Plaster

Historic Plaster Repair Boot Camp

Historic Masonry Preservation-Repointing

Advanced Historic Masonry Repair Techniques

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