Category: Institutional
For the Old Treasury Building, Durable Restoration executed historic brick repointing with custom oyster shell lime mortar and installed reclaimed Cypress wood shingles with historically accurate swept valleys.
Durable Restoration preserved the 1914 Beaux Arts-style Morehouse Parish Courthouse by expertly removing and replacing its intricate copper roof and iconic four-stage cupola.
Durable Restoration meticulously preserved Baltimore's 1807 Davidge Hall. We fully restored its iconic Pantheon-inspired Delorme dome and roof back to their original historic copper.
Durable Restoration performed a complete dismantle and structural rebuild of the 1861 Circleville City Hall cupola, replicating historic Italianate woodwork and reframing the roof to support a 2,000-pound bell.
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 replaced all failing metal in the dome, which had reached the end of its functional lifespan.
Preservation efforts included 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 restored the cemetery's magnificent mahogany doors. The Battery Jameson's undercarriage and the Liberty Bell's headworks were both historically replicated and replaced.
For this project, we repaired and painted areas of decaying wood on the south side of the farmhouse.