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Job included repairing the doors by patching holes, rebuilding (and in some cases fabricating new) hardware, making new custom bronze door pulls and rosettes, making a new cast bronze grill to match the original, and refinishing.
Original grill
Replicated cast bronze grill
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‘Before’ picture of the plaque
‘After’ picture of the restored plaque
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During WWII, the skylights in the NYS Capitol were painted black for safety reasons. These areas were eventually converted to office space. During a major roof renovation in the 2010 timeframe this skylight & laylight were revealed and brought back to their grandeur and flooding the stairway with natural light.
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The original torchieres, which were natural gas powered, were melted down for the war effort. Since none existed to take patterns from, we reproduced them from historic photos and extremely detailed architects’ drawings from John G Waite and Associates.
Each torchiere is 14’ tall and is comprised of 70 components. Several processes were used in fabrication such as casting, metal spinning, lathe turning, machining, water jetting, welding, brazing, polishing, etc. We hand-carved approximately 20 different patterns and molds for both lost wax and sand cast components. The globes were custom made. All fixtures are UL approved.
Hand carved hub pattern (at mid point in the torchiere)
Hand carved leaf cross arm pattern
Hand carved pattern for octagon base shaft
Closeup of hand carved base shaft pattern
Closeup of octagon base shaft
The existing elevator call button (on the left) was too small to house the modern electrical components. We hand carved a new pattern to match the original design except making it larger.
