Upcoming Workshops

Exterior Wood Repair for Historic Structures

May 17, 2025 –

May 18, 2025

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.

$495.00

7 in stock

Making Wooden Storm Windows

March 28, 2025 –

March 30, 2025

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

$495.00

7 in stock

Exterior Painting of Historic Houses & Buildings

October 3, 2025 –

October 5, 2025

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

Exterior Painting of Historic Houses & Buildings is a fun and intense, three-day, hands-on experience. It often just seems easier to replace wood siding that just won’t hold paint for more than 3 to 5 years. This workshop will teach each participant how to achieve a paint job that can last 15 to as many as 20+ years. For property owners and small contractors, cost effective painting of wooden exteriors is an excellent way to save money and preserve original materials. Bob Yapp & Duffy Hoffman will be your instructors.

$495.00

10 in stock

Faux Painting & Restoration of Historic Faux Painting

March 15, 2025 –

March 16, 2025

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

Faux (Fake) Painting & Restoration of Historic Faux Painting is 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. Stone was also faux painted in many high end, historic houses.

$495.00

8 in stock

Choosing Exterior, Historic Paint Colors

July 19, 2025 –

July 20, 2025

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

We are honored to have a new instructor with a whole new practical and scientific approach to choosing period paint schemes for historic properties, Mark Johnson. Choosing a period-appropriate exterior color palette for your historic home or business can be a challenge. The bewildering array of modern colors and poor advice from many designers make it difficult to create an authentic color scheme. This class will prepare you to choose appropriate exterior colors and color placement that will complement the architectural character and style of your historic building.

$495.00

10 in stock

Making & Restoring Stained Glass Windows- Basic

June 6, 2025 –

June 8, 2025

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

6 in stock

Window Restoration & Weatherization Boot Camp

April 25, 2025 –

April 27, 2025

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

6 in stock

Window Restoration & Weatherization Boot Camp

February 28, 2025 –

March 2, 2025

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

$595.00

8 in stock

Window Restoration & Weatherization Boot Camp

August 8, 2025 –

August 10, 2025

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

$595.00

8 in stock

Making Wooden Storm Windows

February 7, 2025 –

February 9, 2025

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 48 years.

$495.00

5 in stock

Historic Plaster Repair Boot Camp

September 19, 2025 –

September 21, 2025

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. This is a tuition-based class with a limit of 10 students. You will be working side-by-side all three days with instructor Eric Aulbach.

$595.00

10 in stock

Old House Maintenance for Women

May 3, 2025 –

May 4, 2025

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

8 in stock

Wood Floor Repair & Passive Restoration

June 20, 2025 –

June 22, 2025

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

Historic Stone Restoration & Repair

September 6, 2025 –

September 7, 2025

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

Historic Stone Restoration & Repair is a fun and intense, two-day, hands-on learning experience. The stone restoration & repair will be done in accordance with The Secretary of the Interiors Standards for Rehabilitation. You will be part of a team of students performing stone restoration in historic Hannibal, Missouri. John Speweik is back teaching this workshop here at the school. You will be working side-by-side with John for the two days. The dates for this class are back-to-back with “Historic Masonry Preservation-Repointing” September 4 & 5, 2025. Some students may opt to take both classes over four days.

$795.00

10 in stock

Historic Masonry Preservation-Repointing

September 4, 2025 –

September 5, 2025

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

9 in stock

Bob Yapp

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Upcoming Workshops

Exterior Wood Repair for Historic Structures

Making Wooden Storm Windows

Exterior Painting of Historic Houses & Buildings

Faux Painting & Restoration of Historic Faux Painting

Choosing Exterior, Historic Paint Colors

Making & Restoring Stained Glass Windows- Basic

Window Restoration & Weatherization Boot Camp

Window Restoration & Weatherization Boot Camp

Window Restoration & Weatherization Boot Camp

Making Wooden Storm Windows

Historic Plaster Repair Boot Camp

Old House Maintenance for Women

Wood Floor Repair & Passive Restoration

Historic Stone Restoration & Repair

Historic Masonry Preservation-Repointing

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