HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND FINISHES
We have completed several projects to conserve and re-create historic interior finishes for National Park Service sites and museums. Below are photos of our most recent project working with Cultural Heritage Conservation to restore a section of the Great Hall in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City in 2019.
Restoration of a section of the Great Hall in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Great Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Restoration and refinishing of the front doors and overdoors of the Federal Hall National Memorial in New York City.
Before and After photos of our restoration of damages to the western column in the front of Federal Hall National Memorial Site in New York City.
Restoration and recreation of interior decorative finishes on the cast-iron doors and stair-rails. In collaboration with Craddock Painting LLC and AM Art Conservation.
Federal Hall, NYC
Our project at Frederick Law Olmsted Historic Site near Boston, Massachusetts in 2011. In Olmsted's Plant Room, pebble-dash stucco walls were painted over with white in the 1960's. Using a small stripped reveal as reference, we faux painted the white pebbled walls to recreate the original 19th Century look. Six doors in the Main Hall and Olmsted's office were also faux-painted to create mahogany and cherry wood finishes. This project was completed in collaboration with Craddock Painting, LLC.
Pebble-Dash Stucco, Olmsted NHS, Brookline MA
Our project to recreate Faux-Marble baseboards at the Hampton National Historic Site in Baltimore, Maryland, 2009.
Faux-marble was painted to re-create original 18th Century treatments, Baltimore MD
Before and After wood-graining to re-create historic 18th Century treatments likely painted by enslaved artisans.
Before and After wood-graining to re-create historic 18th Century treatments likely painted by enslaved artisans.
Detail of faux-bois doors painted to match original cherry wood banisters and stair rails, Olmsted House, Brookline MA.