HISTORIC PROPERTIES WE HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN RESTORING

• 1910 Tobacco Warehouse converted into a single-family residence. Featured in Lancaster County Magazine and on Lynette Jennings Design on the Discovery Channel.  This project won the 2000 C. Emlen Urban Award for building preservation from the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County.

• Log Home in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.  Removed the 1950’s asbestos siding to reveal logs, converted front room into art gallery and made the second floor livable space.

• Victorian Farmhouse in eastern Lancaster County.  Built a sympathetic addition to match original house.  Fabricated a custom kitchen to match the Victorian style of the house.

• John Maddox Denn House built in 1725.  Complete historic restoration transforming the house back to 1725 correcting the alterations from previous remodels.

• Great Conewago Presbyterian Church built in 1787, remodeled in 1870.  Used as a field hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg.  Restored the antique heart pine flooring during the restoration in 2002.

• Iron Horse Inn/Strasburg Hotel rebuilt a Victorian wraparound porch from a picture taken in the early 1900’s.

• Saint John’s Episcopal Church, Havre de Grace, Maryland, built in 1809.  Restored double doors and surround; stripping paint, repairing mouldings, and repainting.  Coordinated restoration of 1840’s antique hardware.

• Circa 1850 stone bank barn converted into single family residence with new timber frame addition on original tobacco barn foundation.

• Columbia Market House built in 1869.  Restored double hung windows, frames and sills, and installed invisible exterior storm windows.

• George William Curtis House, Staten Island, New York, Fabricated 19th century porch architectural details, installed columns, built stairs, replaced ears on window sills, replaced brackets under the eave, fabricated true divided light windows to replace modern replacement windows, and fabricated solid wood louvered shutters.

• Second Empire Revival House built circa 1860 in Pennsauken, New Jersey.  Replacement of cornice to match original, rebuild of internal gutter system, flashing and roofing, repair of wood siding (replacement of rotten pieces), reinforcement of water damaged framing.

• Hancock House built in 1737 in Salem County, New Jersey.  Owned by the State of New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection.  Fabricated and installed a replica 18th century door using existing hardware.

• Victorian store-front for Nine West in Soho, New York City.  Manufactured of nine foot high doors (Spanish cedar with riot glass) and Victorian store-front.  Delivered assembled and ready for installation.

• Elizabethtown Train Station built in 1915 by the Pennsylvania Railroad to serve the Masonic Home and the citizens of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.  Restored twenty-nine sash frames for the original leaded glass.  

• Old Main, Gothic Revival style building, built in 1856 at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  Restored thirty-one windows, rebuilt the four level stair tower, replaced the bell tower louvers, and built a door to replace the modern replacement door to match the original doors in the two flanking buildings.

• Log Restoration in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Insect and water damaged logs were repaired using a consolidant and epoxy system. Daubing was replaced with a historically accurate lime-based daubing.  

• Petersen House (the house President Lincoln died in across the street from Ford’s Theater) 19th century, federal style row house.  Repair and replication of interior and exterior woodwork, including structural repairs, during the 2011 rehabilitation and repair project for the National Park Service.

• National Institute of Health Building #3, Bethesda, Maryland.  Repair and replacement of seven piece cornice.

• Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Exterior woodwork repairs using solid wood and epoxy systems including: window frames and sash, doors, and shutters.  Also, included: exterior painting, masonry repairs, and replacement of cedar shake roof.

• Franklin Street Station, Reading, Pennsylvania.  Built in 1929, ababonded since 1972.  Restoration includes: rebuild of interior and exterior doors, jambs, sidelights and transoms, restoration of wood windows, and rebuild of coffered ceiling.

These are a sample of the different types of projects we have been involved in; more examples of the work we have completed can be provided upon request.