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Article: Restoring a historic Iowa landmark: contractor faced numerous challenges while working on the 73-year-old Salisbury House. (restoration).
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- Masonry Construction
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Every restoration project that a contractor encounters is a unique, highly complex undertaking that requires limitless technical, artistic, and problem-solving skills. A recent revitalization project on the Salisbury House--a well-recognized historical landmark in Des Moines, Iowa--tested every ounce of a restoration crew's competence and flexibility and was unlike any other job that it had ever faced.
The Salisbury House is a paramount work of art unique to the Midwest that took more than 5 years to create and cost nearly $3 million to build and furnish. The structure consists of both aged and antique materials and is a re-creation of an English manor in ...