Fort Christian in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands was constructed during the island’s Danish possession. Although the original structure dates…
Menokin, located near Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia, was the plantation home of Patriot Francis Lightfoot Lee, a signer of the Declaration of…
Beverley Mill (or Chapman’s Mill) was built in 1742 by Jonathan and Nathaniel Chapman, father and son business partners from a prosperous…
The Flag House and Star-Spangled Banner Museum is a complex of three buildings, the earliest of which was the home of Mary…
When 5 Beekman Street, the NY Financial District Hotel and Residence (then known as Temple Court) was completed in 1890, the ten-story…
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, Florida, was constructed in a Mediterranean Renaissance style with colonnaded loggias on the first and second…
This work is characteristic of the fine craftsmanship and pleasant whimsical lighness of 18th century French sculpture and decorative arts. Built into…
The McKinley Monument was designed by Carrere & Hastings and erected in Buffalo, New York in 1907. It commemorates the murder of…
The Stewart Memorial is a small mausoleum constructed of rustic ashlar Quincy granite with a bluestone façade, adorned with two bronze bas-reliefs.…
The two sculpture groups—Love and Labor: The Unbroken Law and Burden of Life: The Broken Law—designed by George Grey Barnard have flanked…
The Bok Tower was completed in 1929 as a public monument for the people of the United States by an immigrant from…
One of the first buildings to be built in the Collegiate Gothic style at Boston College, St. Mary’s Hall originally served as…
The three stone mantels—Norfolk, Chesterfield, and Heathcote—were removed from historic homes and installed in the British Decorative Arts Galleries at the Metropolitan…
Sailors’ Snug Harbor was founded in 1801 after Captain Robert Richard Randall’s (d. 1801) will specified that his estate be used to…
The original landscape design for Kykuit (The Rockefeller Estate) in Tarrytown, NY includes a marble canal in the gardens to the north…
Oatlands Plantation, founded in 1798 on 3,408 acres of Virginia soil, is now a house museum and property of the National Trust…
In preparation for the millennium, New York City restored City Hall Park before its historic City Hall in lower Manhattan. Occupied since…
Following a condition assessment survey completed in 2015, we were contracted to investigate areas of deteriorating concrete found on the sand bins…
We were contracted to conserve a number of military relics for the National Museum of the US Army. Among them is a…
The Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC was built at the end of the 19th Century within the Federal…
The Cooper Hewitt Museum, which became part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1968, moved into its current location at 91st Street & Fifth Avenue…
Sergio O’Cadiz (1934-2002) was a Mexican-born Orange County artist and architect who created numerous paintings and murals, as well as a number…
The Manhattan Bridge was the third bridge to be built connecting the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Completed in 1909 to a…
Foreign visitors to The White House often stay at the Blair House, an ensemble of early 19th century brick buildings across Pennsylvania…
Coral Gables, “The City Beautiful,” was planned and developed during Miami’s land boom in the 1920’s by George Merrick. The first land…
Coral Gables, “The City Beautiful,” was planned and developed during Miami’s land boom in the 1920’s by George Merrick. The first land…
Construction of the Carnegie Library in Mt. Vernon Square, Washington, D. C. Was completed in 1902. The symmetrical, Beaux-Arts building is constructed…
Working as part of an inter-disciplinary investigative team, we conducted an exterior condition assessment survey for the John F. Kennedy Center for…
The Ximenez-Fatio House Museum, located in St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest European city in America, dates to 1798, the Second Spanish Colonial…
We assessed and developed treatment recommendations to restore the stone and tile fountain and works at the Carrollton School. The fountain is…
Between 1914 and 1916, agricultural industrialist James Deering, one of the founders of International Harvester Company, built his European-inspired winter home on…
In 1902 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania commissioned the American sculptor George Grey Barnard to design a work for the main entrance of…
Preston Gardens Park is located in the Preston Gardens area of downtown Baltimore, MD. A graffiti-vandalism event occurred in February 2015, amounting…
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, located near Keystone, SD, is a tremendous granite sculpture by Gutzon Borglum. It features the faces of former…
The hurricane season of 2005 brought destruction to Miami, particularly to the European sculpture collection and antiquities at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.…
In 2010 we worked with HGA Architects for the Architect of the Capitol to conduct a feasibility study of the upgrading of…
The National Law Enforcement Officer’s Memorial is an elegant and expansive memorial to the more than 20,000 officers killed nationwide in the…
The M&T Bank Building fronts the north side of the Rodney Square in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. The original 3-story Indiana limestone building…
A limestone gazebo with a cast iron lattice dome and stone pavers, column bases with sculptural lion heads, benches spanning between the…
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum opened in April 1993 in Washington D. C. In recent years certain areas of the limestone cladding…
The Long Wharf Fountain was built in this beautiful bayside town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to remember the local sons who served…
Coral Gables, “The City Beautiful” was planned and developed during Miami’s land boom in the 1920’s and immediately became an icon of…
The Slow Sand Filtration Plant was one of the many improvements introduced to the city of Washington as part of the McMillan…
We working under contract with C. A. Lindman were awarded a five year contract to conserve and maintain the marble and granite…
The developers of the City of Miami Beach incorporated fountains and monuments into the streetscapes of the city that they built on…
Columbia University’s Millbank Chapel is an architecturally significant building designed by William Potter in 1897, with an intact, High Victorian style interior.…
Originally built as Temple Tifereth-Israel, the newly restored and renovated building serves primarily as a 1,200-seat performing arts center for Case Western reserve…
The Minnesota Monument is one of seven monuments in National Cemeteries throughout the country that were commissioned by the State of Minnesota…
In 2012, we were selected by the National Cemetery Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs to treat and preserve a number…
The United States Naval Academy Chapel was built between 1904 and 1908 and was designed by Ernest Flagg, the Beaux Arts architect…
Mount Vernon was the home of George Washington, Founding Father of the United States of America. With construction beginning in 1730, the…
The National Cemetery Administration cares for the extensive network of national cemeteries throughout the United States. Many of these contain important historic…
The Oceanus Fountain is situated in the forecourt of the gardens at Kykuit (The Rockefeller Estate), and is modeled on Giambologna’s Oceanus…
The Old DC Courthouse was designed by George Hadfield in 1820. It was originally constructed to serve as City Hall within the…
At the request of SWCA Environmental Consultants, we performed an on-site condition assessment of “The Orange Show” in Houston, Texas. “The Orange…
The pirate ship Whydah sank off the coast of Wellfleet, Cape Cod, during a storm in April 26, 1717, less than two…
The City of Alexandria, Virginia, sponsors and maintains a wide and varied collection of public art for its residents, businesses, and visitors.…
Traditional center for the arts and crafts movement in western North Carolina, the City of Asheville has made a serious effort to…
The Rose Garden Fountain is a reproduction of the original Boy with Goose fountain in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, believed to…
By the time Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and dumped 20’ of water in the Sanger, the 4,000-seat atmospheric theater had already been…
In 2012 we restored “Mars”, an over life-sized sculpture of the mythological god of war. The sculpture likely dates to the late…
Vizcaya was the winter residence of American industrialist James Deering from December 1916 until his death in 1925. In addition to its…
Vizcaya was the winter residence of American industrialist James Deering from December 1916 until his death in 1925. In addition to its…
ST Thomas Church, in the DuPont Circle section of Washington, was built in the1880’s. It was severely damaged in a fire in…
The Italianate stone teahouse at Kykuit was designed by William Welles Bosworth circa 1910 and is a main feature of the grounds,…
Fort Crawford Cemetery includes a small soldiers’ lot that was established in 1866. It contains 8 above-ground limestone box tombs for soldiers…
Brackenridge Park in San Antonio, Texas, encompasses acres of parkland, streams, bridges, and the remnants of a former estate known as “Miraflores.…
Designed in the Beaux Arts style by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury in 1908, this former federal Post Office is a…
The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial anchors the east end of the National Mall in Washington DC, and is meant to balance the…
We were contracted to preserve the Defenders Monument in New Ulm, Minnesota. The state monument commemorates those killed in the 1862 Dakota…
The Association for Preservation Technology International Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA, USA, October 2001 Author and Speaker: Joseph Sembrat The Barnard Statuary Group…
Fountain Conservation Fundamentals July 10–11, 2013–Kansas City, MO Author: Mark Rabinowitz Fountain conservation requires treating historic elements within an active and public…
Where the Structure and Associated Features (Interiors, Gardens, Outdoor Sculpture) Are Major Components of the Collection Program Chair, Building Museums Symposium 2007,…
12th International Congress on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone Columbia University, New York, NY Authors: Justine Posluszny Bello, Daniel Lane, Mark…
12th International Congress on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone Columbia University, New York, NY Authors: Mark Rabinowitz, John Carr Created by…