A contract for the assessment of nearly thirty monuments in the State of Iowa was awarded to McKay Lodge Inc. in January 2002. Most of the monuments are located on the grounds of the State Capitol in Des Moines; others…
In an effort to become adept in the treatment of outdoor lead sculpture it was apparent that new skills were needed for structurally repairing and cosmetically correcting typical problems encountered when faced with lead sculptures which have been outdoors for…
In October 2000, McKay Lodge, Inc. completed the conservation treatment on the bronze and stone monuments at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. The work was performed under the direction of Nancy Kurtz, Monuments Survey Administrator for the Maryland Historical Trust and…
We will be providing the maintenance and maintenance repairs to twenty-six monuments for the State of Maryland located throughout the state during the Spring of 2002. This contract is monitored by the Maryland Military Monuments Commission, a division of the…
The National Park Service (NPS) of the Department of the Interior awarded the contract for performing maintenance of monuments at Vicksburg Mississippi at the Vicksburg National Military Park to McKay Lodge Art Conservation, Inc. Twelve of the larger stone and bronze…
https://vimeo.com/140776044 A video in our MASTERS SERIES SOUND: Headphones or speakers are highly recommended. In 2009, we were contracted to remove an exterior Louisiana mosaic and the brick wall to which it was bonded to save the mosaic just ahead…
From Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York to Boston, Massachusetts, 56 small monuments mark the 56 days of Colonel Henry Knox’s heroic journey in the snowy winter of 1775 transporting artillery down to George Washington to force the British…
PRESS RELEASE Can you name a great champion of human rights who was born on February 12th? A man far ahead of his time, who hated slavery and advocated for its permanent abolition from America? A man described "as pure…
THE OHIO CONSERVATION CENTER: The Lewis County Civil War Monument was erected in 1883. By 1980 the seven foot wide hollow base was caving in and the 30 foot tall monument was starting to lean. By 1998 the problem was…
The Westinghouse Memorial is a monument located in Schenley Park, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It commemorates George Westinghouse (1846 – 1914) a world renowned engineer and inventor. Daniel Chester French was the sculptor for the statue and the main panel, and…