Don’t miss the dramatic before & after pictures at the bottom of the page! The Franklin Street Train Station in Reading, PA was originally built in the 1920’s as a station along the Reading Railroad shipping and passenger “Main Line” between Pottsville/Shanokin and Philadelphia. The station served rail and bus service for decades. In 1972 …
Built in 1849 by a German tailor, this plain red brick, three-story (and basement), Federal Style townhouse is unassuming and easily overlooked. Located across the street from Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., the Peterson House would fatefully be propelled into iconic status when President Abraham Lincoln was rushed inside after being shot by John Wilkes-Booth …
AMERICA’S SMALLEST NATIONAL PARK Thomas Jefferson once called Thaddeus Kosciusko “as pure a son of liberty as I have ever met” – quite the compliment from revolutionary Thomas Jefferson. It is for that spirit, as well as his efforts engineering forts and defense tactics up and down the East Coast during the Revolutionary War, that …
160yr old “Old Main” is a 160ft high administration building at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. Build in 1853 in the Gothic Revival style, the stately brick building sits on the highest point in Lancaster. For this project, we restored thirty-one original windows, rebuilt the four-level stair tower, replaced the bell tower louvers, …
For this project, we rebuilt a Victorian wraparound porch based on a picture taken of the Inn in the early 1900’s.
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