Weather slowed down, but has not stopped Bryan Wolf and Nichols Career Center building trades students' work on a home on East Dunklin Street - the last home Wolf will build as an instructor.
Wolf is retiring at the end of the school year, so the two-story home under construction in the 1100 block of East Dunklin Street is the last of 27 homes he's worked on with students.
At an open house Thursday at the home, he said he may not remember each of those homes specific design features, but he does recall the moments with the students who worked on them, as well as the locations.
"It has been a tough challenge," he said of this year's cold, snow and rain, but building trades students have adapted.
Shane Spalding, who is River City Habitat for Humanity's construction manager, said site issues also slowed the project's timeline somewhat, but he anticipated the home would be completed sometime around August.
Wolf said the project will be handed off to River City Habitat for Humanity for completion in about a week. Right now, the home has its walls and its roof up, but it's all wooden beams, frames, sheets and studs without many further features.
He said the home is a one-family unit with four bedrooms, two full baths - one upstairs and one down - a kitchen, living room and laundry room.
Nichols' building trades program has constructed a house in Jefferson City every year since 1976. For about 15 years prior to 2010 - when the program partnered its efforts with Habitat for Humanity - Nichols students had worked with the city's Housing Authority.
Wolf said 25 students have worked on the home under construction on East Dunklin since construction started in October.
Jefferson City High School senior Trish Minor said she's helped put walls up, mainly on the first floor, but had done most of the walls in the second-floor bedroom overlooking East Dunklin that she was standing in.
Minor plans to study architecture at Ranken Technical College in St. Louis.
"I just really like working," she said.
"We're giving somebody a home," she said, adding "that's what I want to do with my life."
Fellow JCHS senior Jared Daly said he enjoys framing, and has liked working with his hands since he was young. Growing up, he built a bridge across a creek on his family's property, he said. Daly said he will go to State Fair Community College to study construction management.
New Bloomfield High School junior William Rogers enjoys framing, too, and said he's thinking about doing a union carpentry apprenticeship.