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c. 1760 |
Mount
Vernon,
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c. 1730 |
Stratford Hall,
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c.1840 | Goodwood
Plantation, Tallahassee, FL. A combination of vibration and water leaks contributed to the damage of these two important ceilings. These ceilings have the earliest known frescos in Florida and were in danger of immediate collapse. The ceilings were brought back into plane, the medallions repaired and reinstalled as needed, and the cracks raked out and filled. The final treatment was to inject an acrylic adhesive between the plaster and the lath to give the ceiling monolithic stability again.
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c.1784 | The
Solitude, Philadelphia Zoo, Philadelphia, PA. This estate house, built by John Penn, had water damage in one corner of the library ceiling. The original stucco corner medallion was taken down, stripped of its paint, repaired, and restored to its original position. The surrounding area of loss was in-filled and the enriched cornice corner was replaced.
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c.1819 | Richardson-Owens-Thomas
House, Savannah, GA. Considered the finest example of Regency Architecture in the States, designed by William Jay, the Owens-Thomas house had its front drawing room, elliptical, dome ceiling resurfaced and the center medallion leaves repaired. Water damage in the upstairs hallway caused cornice damage at either end as well as in the center field. The rotten plaster was removed and replaced with new plaster. The upstairs library had the cornice repaired extensively, as well as one corner replaced completely. Other general plaster repairs were undertaken throughout the house, using both adhesive reattachment and in-kind replacements.
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c.1865 |
Park-MCCullough
House, Bennington, VT. Bennington’s finest Second Empire, a 42 room mansion suffered a major failure in the Master Bedroom. The original technique used in plastering this room caused there to be no keys to hold the plaster up. Even so with just the friction of the plaster between the lath and the plaster grabbing onto the wood fiber on the face of lath, it lasted 133 years. Wire lath was attached to the area of loss, and it was filled with a historically formulated lime/hair plaster. The rest of the ceiling being at risk still was reattached from the reverse using acrylic adhesives. The second project was the replacement of an under-stair ceiling plaster and associated plaster moldings. The void perimeter was reattached with acrylic adhesives. The flat plaster was a lime/hair formulation, with the molding, bench run and applied.
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c.
1820 |
Isaiah
Davenport House, Savannah, GA. This Historic Savannah Foundation Museum was extensively renovated in the 1950’s. One of the results was the Library ceiling centerpiece medallion was lost. Using the elements of the Drawing Room medallion and the Library cornice a new medallion was custom designed and installed using a multi-piece format.
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c.1892 |
Franklin-Adams
House,
This
Queen Anne style house, due to foundational movement, was structurally
stabilized. After which plaster friezes were reattached with acrylic
adhesives and plaster festoons were duplicated and replaced
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c.1865 |
Lockwood-Mathews
Mansion,
The
Lockwood-Mathews is a sixty-two room Second Empire mansion. The
many-leveled roof contributed to periodic water infiltration. At the
conservatory attachment to the building a water leak brought down part of
the plaster soffit in the Library. The entire western soffit was removed,
cleaned up and reattached in its proper position. A new bench run was
installed replacing the missing piece of soffit. Then the cornice was
evaluated for attachment, and reattached as necessary with acrylic
adhesives and screws.
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