Archive for the ‘Restoration’ Category
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Palette
Like our paint colors? They are all Benjamin Moore (BM) colors formulated in ICI paints. That’s the paint company specified by RPD. A special thank you to Kristie White for creating this custom paint palette for the Conservatory.
Main body of building exterior: Narragansett green, BM HC-157; Window sash: River Rock–BM 2139-10
Trim: Livingston Gold–BM, HC 16 + Tate Olive, BM, HC 112 Metal Elements: BM Bronzetone 60
Interior of Building is a clear stain on the salvaged old-growth redwood from
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Finial
Soon after the Friends organized, neighbor Roger Pacheco told us he had been given the old finial for safe keeping some twenty years ago when the Conservatory underwent a much smaller set of stabilization repairs. He had been using it as a doorstop in his garage. We were able to have the old finial replicated in new wood and covered in copper. A brave man scaled the exterior and gently set the new finial in place in October 2009.
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Architectural Gems
We are grateful to Andrew Maloney, project architect, for his care in preserving (and recovering) the architectural gems of the Conservatory building: daylighting the original skylights that had been covered over, highlighting the original bentwood trusses, sourcing salvaged old-growth redwood to trim out the interior and then staining it in a clear varnish to feature its beauty, designing a floor that echoed the old interior planting beds of the Conservatory, and working with the Friends to find the right exterior palette to do… Read More
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Audio Tour
One of our projects for 2012–a downloadable MP3 file to enjoy a self-guided audio tour of the Conservatory garden, history, and building.
Featured Post Photo: Dano on Flickr via Creative Commons License.
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Timeline
Here’s a digital version of the historical interpretive board that greets visitors as they pass through the Conservatory’s porte-cochere.
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