To reconstruct the fence, white oak rails, pine pickets, and locust posts were used to match the materials that President Madison’s carpenters would have used.  Restoration carpenters also used traditional lap-joints to attach the rails to the posts and reproduction ca. 1812 double-struck machine-cut nails to secure the pickets.  A gate based off of the de Neuville watercolor was also designed and built, completing the reconstructed fence.