Category: Institutional
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.
Our scope of work includes removing/salvaging the roof system in its entirety, rebuilding the south masonry wall at the roof line, and rebuilding the interior masonry walls at the door openings.
We will be undertaking slate roof repair, stone façade repair, and exterior carpentry repair, doing our part to transform historic Grosvenor Mansion into Hope Connections.
We will be undertaking spot pointing with lime mortar in deteriorated areas, repairing the copper gutter system to ensure a watertight exterior, stained glass repair, and repairing the plaster on the inside that was damaged due to water intrusion from the gutter.