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Furniture Mill

Gregg Lipton turned 1860s era water-powered sawmill into a dream shop

By Jonathan Binzen #188–Tools & Shops 2007 Issue

Furniture maker Gregg Lipton stumbled upon his dream shop while mountain biking in the woods in Cumberland, Maine, in 1990. The old, cedar-shingled structure perched over the spillway of a dam in the Piscataqua River, now holds Lipton’s shop and serves as home base for his business.

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