restoration
Restoring The Cemeteries of New Orleans
According to Czech website, Radio.cz, a team of 3 Czech cemetery restorers will be working with the US non-profit, Save Our Cemeteries to assess the damages of New Orlean’s cemeteries caused by Hurricane Katrina.
An Interview with Scott Kreilick on Architectural Restoration, Conservation, and Preservation (Part 3)
Continued from part 2.
Stoneangels: What are some of the larger projects you’re involved in?
Kreilick: I’ve been asked to establish a conservation plan by the Hollywood Cemetery, in Richmond, Va. They’ve got some fabulous monuments–a wonderful pyramid to the Confederate dead–the Confederate soldiers who died at Gettysburg were re-interred there, two American presidents are [...]
An Interview with Scott Kreilick on Architectural Restoration, Conservation, and Preservation (Part 2)
Continued from part 1.
Stoneangels: You can’t use nails as a dating tool, can you?
Kreilick: That’s right for a variety of reasons.
Stoneangels: My father used to sell antique furniture he built using a bucket of actual antique cut nails he found somewhere…!
Kreilick: Case in point! The Manassas house was to be [...]
An Interview with Scott Kreilick on Architectural Restoration, Conservation, and Preservation (Part 1)
Scott Kreilick is CEO and president of Kreilick Conservation, LLC, of Oreland, PA, a company that specializes in architectural restoration, conservation, and preservation of architecture, sculpture, and other objects. I’ve known Scott for years, but hadn’t seen him in a while. I was in the office at Philadelphia ’s Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery a [...]
