Architecture Features Conservation, Gilding and Frames Conservation: Every project faces challenges, but a recent trip to complete a conservation treatment of plaster, metal and stone relief sculptures in Albany, New York this January had more than its share: hauling scaffolding…
Sometimes, the best solution for a problem is to shoot it with lasers. For over thirty years, historic preservationist and art conservators have been doing just that - preserving architecture and works of art with the use of lasers. While…
Architectural Conservation: A team of our architectural materials conservation professionals employees recently completed an Architectural Conservation project at the The Sidney R. Yates Federal Building located at 201 14th Street, SW Washington, DC 20250, next to the National Mall. For…
McKay Lodge, Inc. finished year two of stabilization work on the masonry walls of the historic Central Heating and Refrigeration Plant (CHRP). The Phase II work commenced with a budget of $985,000.00. CHRP is located at 13th and C Streets,…
In 2014, the McKay Lodge company completed its work restoring the interior walls of what will be the new White House Visitor’s Center. The company was under a total $233,947.00 initial contract and change order with Answer Construction Management Services…
THE OHIO CONSERVATION CENTER: Survey, Design and Training for the Stabilization of WWII Historic Ferro-Concrete Structures (also Objects and Monuments) on Wake Atoll (Wake Island) The abridged survey Report with images can be found here: WAKE ISLAND REPORT On December…
McKay Lodge won the contract from a wide field of conservators to restore the Tiffany-designed Veteran's Room in the Park Avenue Armory in New York, one of the few surviving interiors by Louis C. Tiffany & Co.. Conservator Jim Gwinner cleaned and…