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How do you move an 1800's stone castle from Ohio to Texas?

Architectural & Building Character, Colonial Architecture, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

You hire Reserections. If you want to have any hope of actually moving the castle a thousand miles (without the post office, the moving company, and the airlines losing a few packages and offering you a complimentary Starbucks to say “Sorry!”). Based in Ohio, Reserections specializes in documenting, marketing, and disassembling architecturally unique historical homes. …

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Repurposing the Press Building in Lancaster

Maintaining Historic Buildings, Projects, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

Garden Spot Village is developing the Lancaster Press Building as a site for urban retirement units. As part of their repurposing plan to turn the former tobacco building into retirement units, Historic Restorations helped restore windows and doors in the model unit toured in this video.

Preservation in Progress: NIH Building #3, Bethesda, MD

Maintaining Historic Buildings, Preservation in Progress, Projects, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

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 who advanced our medical knowledge by leaps and bounds over the last 75 years inspires a particular awe. Cornice restoration work by Historic Restorations in progress …

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Applyling Vinyl or Other Synthetic Materials

Maintaining Historic Buildings, Materials, Products & Materials, Products Materials and Methods, Resources, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

There is even more great content here and it’s all available for members! Sign up for a membership to the Keperling Preservation Hub℠ and you’ll get instant access to: One on one consultation call Coffee Breaks: twice-a-month web meetings where we answer questions YOU and other members submit How-to Videos, Training Videos, and Coffee Break …

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Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

10 Common Mistakes People Make While Working on their Historic Building. 1. Repointing Bricks with Modern Mortar Masonry is one of the most durable historic building materials, however it is also very susceptible to damage as a result of improper maintenance or repair. Mortar is used to bond together masonry units. The interaction between mortar …

Your House is a Money Pit..

Other Stuff, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

Your house is a money pit, you know it, I know it and there is no way to get around the fact. So what do you do, when you discover that your largest single investment requires you to constantly tend to it with your time and money. A quote from my childhood, “a stitch in …

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May is Preservation Month

Other Stuff, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

May is preservation month the theme of this year is, “Old is the New Green!”. With most people looking for ways to minimize their impact on the environment in their corner of the world it is important to not do anything to a historic building that will damage the historic fabric of the structure. Historic …

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So Easy A Caveman Can Do It – WHAT!!

Preservation Education, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

While catching up on my newspaper reading the other evening I came across an article by Amy Hoak of Marketwatch, the title of her piece is “When It’s Best to Go With a Pro”, needless to say it caught my attention. Amy notes that our current economic “situation” has prompted more homeowners to DIY with …

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Trick or Treat

Other Stuff, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

This time of year people become a little more curious about supernatural happenings – going on in strange and normal places, looking for a sign or some kind of message , that to this point may have gone unnoticed as we live in our own worlds. It seems appropriate that on Monday of this week …

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"Time will prove the wisdom of building well"

Materials, Other Stuff, Preservation Education, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

Sometimes I find gems buried in the piles of papers on my desk. This is from the Winter 2008-2009, HARBnews, published by the Historic Architectural Board of Review of the City of Lancaster. The speech was given on December 22, 1905 at the opening of the Stevens High School (corner of North Charlotte and West …

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