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In 2010, the historic Provo Tabernacle experience a catastrophic fire. A few months after the fire, the LDS Church decided to restore and reconstruct the building, turning it into Provo’s second LDS Temple. The project was 100% repoint with NHL 2 and included masonry reconstruction for several gables, entry ways, and top of walls.
For more information, please visit: http://www.provo-utah.us/provo-city-center-temple.html
San Francisco’s Monadnock Building, designed by Frederick H. Meyer, is famous for surviving both the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire in 1906 when it was partially constructed, and two separate attempts by the U.S. Army to destroy it with dynamite. Today, this historic building is undergoing restorative repointing using NHL 3.5.
Saint Astier® Natural Hydraulic Lime mortars are being used for the restoration of Canada’s historic Parliament Buildings. This is one of Canada’s largest restoration projects. Construction first started in 1860, and now consists of several buildings. The restoration project first started in 2002 and is now focused on the three core historic buildings, the West Block, Centre Block, and East Block. Saint Astier® Natural Hydraulic Lime mortar can guarantee that the building will continue to live a healthy life and allow the masonry to behave as it should.
{Source: By Saffron Blaze (Own work) (CC-BY-SA-3.0), via Wikimedia Commons}
St. Patrick’s Cathedral is a well-known New York City landmark that is undergoing a large restoration effort. The Cathedral was completed in 1878. Restoration work includes cleaning and repointing all exterior stonework and repairing the stained glass windows. Limeworks.us is supplying all of the lime mortar using their Ecologic Mortar (SCG) F, which is made from Saint Astier® natural hydraulic lime and sand.
All images are courtesy Limeworks.us.
NHL 3.5 was used for repointing the brickwork on Fire Station #44 in San Francisco, California.
Repointing Work and photos by Thameside Masonry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870. The Restoration of the Fifth Avenue façade presented many challenges in balancing modern intervention with traditional restoration procedures. The selection, testing and ultimate adoption of Saint Astier® Natural Hydraulic Lime mortars was based on ASTM, British Standards and European Norms. The masonry had suffered significant damage from the use of high-strength cement based mortar.
The Restoration of the Fifth Avenue Facades of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (pdf) by Timothy Allanbrook and Kyle C. Normandin, APT International Bulletin, Vol. XXXVIIII, No. 4.
