The Octagon House has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is considered one of the most important historic buildings in Washington.
The Octagon House has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is considered one of the most important historic buildings in Washington.
The Durable Restoration Company will replace all failing metal in the dome, which has reached the end of its functional lifespan.
Preservation efforts include replacing the cedar shake roof with an in-kind replacement; repairing and preserving the upper floor windows, trim, and dormers; and, finally, repairing and resetting the upper belltower.
For this project, Durable Restoration performed a full repoint on sections throughout the Embassy as well as spot pointing on lower sections below the balcony.
Besides historic plaster work on the Cloister Sanctuary and Little Chapel, The Durable Restoration Company will be restoring the cemetery's magnificent mahogany doors. The Battery Jameson's undercarriage and the Liberty Bell's headworks will both be historically replicated and replaced.
For this project, we repaired and painted areas of decaying wood on the south side of the farmhouse.
The Durable Restoration Company will be performing granite repair on the historic Hurff A. Saunders Building in Juneau, Alaska.
The Durable Restoration Company will consolidate, fill, and paint the wood elements of the house. In extreme cases of damage, the wood may need to be patched or replaced – but this will only happen if the damage is beyond repair.
Durable Restoration precisely restored the four missing or broken stones on the bell tower and patched all cracks using historically accurate methods.
The Stifel Fine Arts Center will receive a new repaired Ludowici clay-tile roof from The Durable Slate Company, as well as masonry restoration along the parapet wall and underneath the cornice.