The Vizcaya Mansion Grotto
Last May I was lucky enough to be included in a team, along with Courtney Magill and led by Frank Matero, to travel down to the Vizcaya Mansion in Miami, Florida to have a discussion of the conservation of the grotto there, the ceiling of which was the canvas for one of Robert Chanler’s few […]
Environmental Diagnostics at Fort Union National Monument, Part 3: Pilot Monitoring Methodology
Since my last visit to Fort Union National Monument, I was tasked with devising a long term monitoring methodology to record critical data on, around, and within the adobe ruins. No small task. Select walls had been pre-selected in previous conservation plans, particular from the early ’90s, as well as from our last visit and […]
Environmental Diagnostics at Fort Union National Monument, Part 2
In June, the Penn Architectural Conservation Lab, under the direction of Frank Matero, assembled a team to revisit Fort Union National Monument. Each member of the team, comprised of current graduate students as well post-graduate fellows (myself included), had a specific focus. Topics ranged from surveying and analyzing the current structural bracing present on the […]