Happy New Year!
The new year always brings new ideas, new resolutions, and new beginnings; and with the start of this New Year we are implementing a new system to better communicate preservation news, resources, and information. Every other month we will send a condensed electronic newsletter, and on the opposite months we'll send out a more in-depth printed newsletter. If you would like to make sure you're on the printed newsletter list, email us and we'll make sure you don't miss out on it.
Our newsletters will have new features and contents, but the one we're most excited about is our "Preservation Spotlight" feature, where we'll turn the spotlight on someone from the preservation community. This month we're spotlighting Michael Bovie from Lancaster Stained Glass Design, who is currently working side-by-side with us on the Schmucker Hall project in Gettysburg. Please let us know of any product, supplier, artisan, organization, publication, etc. that you would like to see featured (even yourself!).
As always, if you have any questions, feedback, or need additional information let me know.
All the best,
Danielle Groshong-Keperling
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A DAY IN THE LIFE: Historic Restorations
Fox43 visited Historic Restorations for this "A Day in the Life" segment and interviewed Joseph Wagner, a finish carpenter at Historic Restorations.
"Wagner says his work challenges his problem solving and math skills. His work also gives him a new and unique experience each day he shows up to work. Wagner says what makes it the most interesting, is the historic significance of many of their projects."
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 EVENTS Rare & Used Book Auction
Friday, February 10th at 6:30 pm
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
Victorian Valentine Dinner
Saturday, February 11th at 6:00 pm
Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum
Greater Philadelphia
Historic Home Show
March 9th to March 11th
Greater Philadelphia Expo Center,
Oaks, PA
Paint a Pennsylvania
German Box Class
Saturday, March 10th at 9:00am
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
Fraktur Class
Saturday, March 17th at 9:00am
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
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 Stained glass has been around for thousands of years. Stained glass, as most of us think of it, has been around for hundreds of years. Stained glass artist Michael Bovie has been around much less, but he is undoubtedly making his mark on this ancient art.
One of the craftsmen currently working on the Schmucker Hall restoration project alongside Historic Restorations, Lancaster Stained Glass Designs was contracted to restore an eight foot fanlight and two sidelights at the entrance door in the main foyer.
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PRESERVATION EDUCATION
Tradespeople and craftspeople often seem like they are speaking a foreign language, with the strange architectural terms that show up in their sentences. Here are a few you may hear and what they refer to:
 Foil: An architectural foil refers to the arcs between projection points of a circle.
Quoin or Coyn: A quoin is a corner of a masonry building, constructed of alternating long and short pieces.
Joggle Joint: A type of fitting where a notch is created in each the two pieces being fitted together, so that the end result is a joint that looks like a zig-zag, or notched.
Lamb's Tongue: The end of a handrail that is turned out or down from the rail and curved to resemble a tongue.
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Lancaster Press Building
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lancaster County is not normally the place one thinks of when considering social experimentation.
Yet that is exactly what The Drogaris Group and Garden Spot Village are doing with the Lancaster Press Building that sits on the corner of Prince and Lemon Streets.
To honor the building's history and the architectural features that give the Lancaster Press Building its character, Historic Restorations is working with the Drogaris Group to restore window sashes, windows, door jambs, a custom-built Sapele transom, and a 4' wide by 7.5' high, wood door using insulated glass and traditional joinery to showcase the building's potential in a model living space.
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National Institutes of Health
Building #3, Bethesda, Maryland
Working on the restoration of a historic building is always awe-inspiring, but working to restore a historic building that once housed the laboratories and research of brilliant medical scientists, inspires a particular awe.
In 1938, when The National Institutes of Health broke ground on their new campus, Building #3 was constructed to house intramural laboratories. In the 1950's, Building #3 was home to ground-breaking biochemists and other scientists. In 2011, after being abandoned and left to sit vacant, Building #3 is making a come-back in an adaptive re-use project designed to restore and renovate the stately brick building for office and administrative space for the Intramural Research Program.
Historic Restoration's master craftsmen are currently working on restoring and preserving eight-piece cornices.
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Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, we serve the Mid-Atlantic region. Specializing in older buildings, our custom mill shop creates one of a kind details to accent any project. In addition to our manufacturing abilities, we also work on-site to install what we manufacture - creating a one stop solution.
License Numbers
PAOAGHIC4958, New Jersey Public Works 660072, New Jersey Home Improvement 13VH04864400, Delaware 2007223157, New York City 1280754, City of Philadelphia 37119
Designations
NAIC: 236118, 238350, 321911, 321918, 337212 ● SIC: 1512, 1751, 2431, 2434 ● FSC: 5520
PSC: Z30 ● Self-Certified Small Disadvantaged Business
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