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Treating Artwork with Laser Focus

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…

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Art Conservation Cleveland Public Art

About the Limestone Thin Sections

Limestone Thin Sections: Illustration No. 1 (Sample CM-3) is a photograph of a highly thinned piece of limestone viewed under the magnification of a polarizing microscope. The small sample of stone was thinned by grinding and polishing after having been…

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Art Conservation Cleveland Public Art

The Confederate Monument Preservation Assessment

The State of Alabama contracted with McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, Inc. through the Alabama Historical Commission to undertake a condition study of their Confederate Monument that was built over many years beginning in 1886. The tall limestone monument stands just outside the north…

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Ooids and Oolites

A Few Words About Ooids and Oolites

OOIDS are a distinctive type of sand that usually form on the sea floor. After they have been buried under additional sediment, such sand grains can be fused into a solid mass of sedimentary rock known as an OOLITE. The…

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Art Conservation Cleveland Public Art

State of Iowa Monuments Survey, Spring 2002

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…

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bronze and stone monument conservation

Maintenance at Fort McHenry

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…

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Maryland Military Monuments outdoor sculpture conservation

Maintenance: Maryland Military Monuments

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…

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Art Conservation Cleveland Public Art

Conservation of the Monuments at Vicksburg Mississippi

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…

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Knox Trail Marker

Conservation of the New York State Knox Trail Markers

   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…

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