Historic Restoration 3 • house & garden

We have worked on many national register houses.

A typical job might require dismantling a center chimney that is decrepit from years of neglect and settling.

Often fireplaces have been removed or bricked up to create furnace flues etc. We rebuild the stonework in the basement, creating a proper boiler flue and cleanout. Where walls must be removed to get at the chimney we will replaster over the original wood lathe using lime plaster.

We rebuild or recreate period fireplaces, install terracotta flue liners and dampers , reflash at the roof and finish with a period chimney that meets modern codes that looks original, and is safe for many more generations .