The historic buildings housing our nation’s treasured artworks, cultural heritage, and religious icons are sometimes the least able to sustain the costs of preservation and maintenance, and therefore can be exposed to the most serious deterioration. As treasured landmarks, these structures often exhibit exceptional old methods of craftsmanship that, without proper attention, could be lost to decay.
M&A is especially proud to have been a part of preserving these important structures, from executing multi-million-dollar renovations in the nation’s capital to saving historic bell wheels and windows in New England churches, and museum-level conservation of our most precious landmarks. When funding sources are limited, we are able to make decisions to concentrate our work in areas of greatest need, and to work with the design team to point out construction efficiencies in defining the scope of repairs. In the process of executing the renovations, we can identify areas of lesser or greater priority so as to maximize use of the available funding. Our projects in cultural heritage buildings include:
- The National Portrait Gallery – window paneling, doors and millwork restoration and replacement
- Harvard Art Museums – de-installation and re-installation of the Naumburg Apartment
- FDR Presidential Library – restoration and replication of windows and shutters
- Symphony Hall, Boston – restoration and replication of clerestory windows
- Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum – restoration of wood window walls
- Mary Baker Eddy House, Brookline – wood window restoration
- The Old State House Museum – restoration of tower, balustrades, windows, and interior conservation
- New Bedford Whaling Museum – restoration of monumental windows and cupola
- The Old Manse, Concord – museum-level conservation of etched glass and windows
- The Vilna Shul, Boston – skylight, roof and cornice restoration
- St. John the Evangelist, Boston – replication of the 23’ central window
- First Baptist Church of Lowell – Exterior rehabilitation of tower, windows, clapboards and bell wheel
- First Baptist Church of Concord – Bell wheel restoration
- Old Cambridge Baptist Church – window restoration
