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# Fiberglass Pergolas by Baldwin — The Complete Guide *DRAFT — Style section descriptions to be refined with photography. Structure, content, and tone are final.* ## Overview A Baldwin fiberglass pergola is the result of nearly four decades of design, engineering, and manufacturing experience applied to a single goal: building the most beautiful, most durable, most thoughtfully made outdoor structure available. Fiberglass is the right material. The design is custom to your property. The manufacturing is precise to thousandths of an inch. The finish is factory-applied in a climate-controlled paint booth and cured for seven days before anything ships. The electrical is pre-wired in the shop, completely concealed inside the structural members. And the installation — when Baldwin does it — is performed by the same team that designed and built the pergola. The result is a structure that looks like it was always part of your home. One that transforms the appearance of your property in a single day. One that your family will use for decades — for dinners, gatherings, and the kinds of moments that define a life well lived. ## Key Concepts - Six pergola styles: Traditional, Modern, Modern Classic, Curved, Colonnade, and Gable - Available freestanding or attached to a building for Traditional and most other styles - All styles use pultruded fiberglass — rot-proof, insect-proof, dimensionally stable - Factory finishing in Benjamin Moore paint — any color, custom matched - Fully concealed electrical available in every style — fans, lights, outlets, heaters - Pre-cambered beams: 3/8"–1/2" upward crown built in at manufacture — beams never sag - CNC precision throughout: rafter notching, tail profiles, spindle spacing — all to 0.001" - PE-stamped engineering available for commercial and permitted projects - Transparent ERP-backed pricing — same price for every customer --- ## The Six Styles ### Traditional — The Best Seller The Traditional pergola is Baldwin's most popular style and the one that most fully expresses the company's design heritage. It is the classic pergola form — columns supporting beams, beams supporting rafters, rafters supporting purlins — executed with decorative rafter tail profiles, carefully proportioned members, and the architectural detailing that makes a structure feel like it belongs to its building rather than sitting beside it. Traditional pergolas are available in both attached and freestanding configurations. The attached version connects to the house at the ledger, framing a door or set of doors and extending the architecture of the building into the outdoor space. The freestanding version stands on four or more columns, independent of any structure, defining its own outdoor room in the landscape. What makes a Traditional pergola traditional is the vocabulary of its details: the decorative rafter tail — Windsor, Kensington, Baldwin, Cove, or Huntington — that carries through to beam
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