Historic Building Restoration Projects

Historic Building Restoration Projects

Minneapolis Municipal Building

Minneapolis Municipal Building

Long and Kees Architects, 1887

  • October 2020
  • Custom KEIM coating to match the pattern and appearance of existing granite.
Chicago Gulf Club

(Photo courtesy of GolfProperty.com)

Chicago Golf Club

Jarvis Hunt, 1894

 

  • January 2016
  • Aggregate and color matching for Custom Type N Mortar.

Promontory Apartments

The Promontory Apartments

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1949

 

  • September 2020
  • Custom blended concrete designed for form and pour patching on the facade of the building.

SC JOHNSON

SC Johnson Headquarters

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1936

  • July 2020
  • Color match using Jahn M120 marble repair mortar.
  • Wet sanding technique used to hone the stone to the finish of the original.

SOUTH HALL, UC BERKELEY

South Hall at University of California, Berkeley

Farquharson & Kenitzer, 1873

  • July 2020 
  • Repair mortar (JAHN M70) custom matched to green sandstone.
  • Natural speckling added using Keim Design-Lasur coating.
Pacific Building on Market Street in San Francisco

(Photo courtesy of NoeHill in San Francisco)

Pacific Building

Charles Whittlesey, 1907

  • July 2020
  • Match to the entirety of the terracotta masonry units.
  • Keim coating to imitate various shades of green found on cladding as well as white highlights.
  • M100 repair mortar match to the clay component of the masonry.
THE HUNTER DULIN BUILDING

Hunter-Dulin Building

Schultze & Weaver, 1925

  • June 2020
  • Prepared Keim silicate matches to various terra cotta and glazed brick samples using a custom application method.
  • Developed an M100 color match representative of both the color of the clay as well as the background color of the glaze.
Merchandise Mart Closeup

Merchandise Mart

Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, 1928

  • April 2020
  • Custom-matched patching material using Jahn M70 repair mortar.
Tribune Tower In Chicago Illinois,

The Tribune Tower

Howells & Hood, 1925

  • August 2018
  • ASTM C1324 Testing and Analysis
The Glass House

The Glass House

Philip Johnson, 1949

  • January 2018
  • Custom blended ceiling plaster.
Chicago's Museum Of Science And Industry

The Museum of Science and Industry

D.H Burnham & Co., 1893

  • August 2017
  • Custom blended KEIM coating with mica inclusions to match original terracotta.
THE GAGE BUILDING

The Gage Building

Louis Sullivan, 1898

  • March 2017
  • Custom blended KEIM coating with mica inclusions to match original terracotta
friable masonry lime putty

The Frederick C. Robie House

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1909

  • 2016-2019
  • Custom blended lime putty plaster & custom-blended magnesite flooring
The Rotunda, Michigan State Capitol

Michigan State Capitol

Elijah E. Myers, 1878

 

UIC University hall building

(Photo by Eric Allix Rogers, courtesy of OpenHouse Chicago)

UIC University Hall

Walter Netsche, 1963-1965

  • March 2016
  • Custom designed concrete facade repair material poured onsite from our mobile mix truck fleet
Unity,Temple,,Oak,City

Unity Temple

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1908

 

  • January 2016
  • Custom plaster sand & custom – concrete floor repair material.