Restoration, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction

"....the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones nor its gold. Its glory is in its Age."
  John Ruskin
The Seven Lamps of Architecture 1849
 

In our restorations we strive to authentically recover the form and details of a building and its grounds as it appeared in a particular period in time. This may involve the careful removal of later work or the replacement of missing earlier work PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION
 
Restoration, Greek Revival Shaker Tavern
circa 1869

PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION Rehabilitating a building or property returns it to a state of utility by means of repair or alteration which makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those sections or features which are significant to its historical, architectural and cultural values.
Rehabilitation, Gothic Dairy Barn
circa 1908
 


Reconstruction is actually a type of new construction in which we can reproduce the exact form and detail of a vanished building, structure or object ( or a part thereof), as it appeared at a specific period of time.
PRESERVATION ANDRESTORATION
 
Reconstruction, Walnut Entrance Doors
circa 1875


Preservation Trades, Inc. P.O. Box 1102, Wayne IL.
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