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Restoration Gallery
Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art (now known as Museum Of Contemporary Art)
LOCATION: Downtown Jacksonville, Florida
PROJECT OVERVIEW: This 1930’s terra cotta building had the decorative entrances removed during prior renovations and was in need of repair work (cracking) on the upper levels of the building. Our scope of work for the Haskell Company (General Contractor) under the guidance of their historical consultant, Architect Hershell Shepard, was to restore the original entrances and missing plinth blocks using the 1930’s rendering of the building. Extensive patching and crack repairs were also necessary of the remaining terra cotta. Once the pieces were in place, a color matched terra cotta coating was added by faux painter, Joan Reynolds to blend the new pieces in with the old and our crews applied a black terra cotta coating to the plinth block to finish off the restoration. In the interior, a suspended stairway system and new atrium steps were also produced and installed.
