St. Anthony’s of Padua Catholic Church

Name: InSite Consulting Architects
Price range: $

Project Background

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church was designed and built in 1929 - at the time of the stock market crash that started the Great Depression. Limestone details were substituted with cast concrete stone that simply failed by the late 1990’s despite efforts to repair. ICA has worked with the Parish to replace failing cast stone with new limestone as was originally intended. In all hundreds of pieces of precast concrete, some as large as 2,000 lbs, have been replaced.

Project Type: Preservation & Restoration

Markets Served: Liturgical , Technical

Scope

• Preliminary condition assessment • Failure investigation • Measured baseline drawings • Critical façade examination • Rehabilitation design documentation • Bidder prequalification • Bidding phase services • Structural analysis and monitoring • Cast Stone restoration/replacement drawings and specifications • Construction phase services - comprehensive

Solution

• Researched and reviewed archival documentation

• Developed baseline drawings of the exterior

• Evaluated the structural systems of the walls and monitored for movement

• Performed additional studies including the evaluation of several areas of structual steel to determine the long-term effectiveness of proposed solutions, the evaluation and field testing of cleaning techniques for the lannon stone cladding; field studies of new pointing mortar

• Prepared drawings and specifications for the exterior stone restoration

• Provided continuous on-site documentation and observation of the work, including cleaning all exterior limestone, stone masonry repairs, and the adjacent roof membrane and flashing systems and field studies of new pointing mortar

• Cast stone (1929) repair and
replacement matching

• Marble, Stained glass, gold
foil historic interior details

• Prepared drawings and specifications for the exterior slate roof restoration

• Provided continuous on-site documentation and observation of the work

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