"Trying to find the best wood, the best manufacturing techniques and the most appropriate designs for historical millwork has been a consuming passion for the last ten years." — Brent Hull, Founder Hull Historical Millwork

Trained in the art of preserving historic buildings, Brent Hull started his company in his brother’s garage in Ft. Worth, Texas. The year was 1993, and Hull had just returned to Texas after graduating from the prestigious North Bennett Street School in Boston where he was trained in museum quality preservation.

Brent Hull started his career restoring pre-1940 homes. He then moved into providing doors, windows and moldings for historic buildings as demand for authentic and accurate millwork increased.

He discovered that there was no defnitive resource for historic millwork—no one location to verify the authenticity of the doors he was reconstructing on the historic train depot in Grapevine, Texas.

To rediscover the lost art of millwork manufacturing, Brent began hunting through America’s “attic” of classic millwork literature. He collected more than 70 trade catalogs from millwork firms around the country within the period of 1870 to 1945. They provided priceless historical and technical data essential to building collections of architecturally true moldings and millwork. In addition, he built an expansive library of more than 300 historic trade journals and publications.

In his travels, from architects and builders, to carpentry enthusiasts and homeowners, Brent found the same frustration from the lack of resource for historic millwork design. His recently published Hull Historical Molding Catalog has become a respected resource in chronicling historical moldings. In addition, Brent has written a book, entitled Historic Millwork: 1870–1940. The book will be published by John Wiley and Sons in early 2003. A frequent public speaker and lecturer, Brent has become an expert in the area of historically accurate moldings and millwork detail.

In addition to the WindsorONE Moldings Collection, WindsorONE offers standard molding patterns, traditional paneling profiles and perfectly-primed trim boards - everything you'll need to customize and refine all the rooms in your home with warm, inviting natural wood. Patterns include a traditional double beaded casing, wainscot caps, and back bands.

The following resources were used in part for this website:
Calloway, Stephen and Cromley, Elizabeth. The Elements of Style. Simon and Schuster, 1991.
McAlester, Virginia & Lee, A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Hull, Brent, Hull Historical Molding Catalog. 2002