The William McKinley Monument is a bronze statue atop a granite base located in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park. The Monument has been subject to recurring graffiti vandalism of multiple media types. The existing anti-graffiti coating was thick and milky-white in appearance, obscuring the color and texture of the
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The Garfield Monument, erected in 1884, dignifies a prominent knoll at the east entrance of Golden Gate Park adjacent to the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers. The base of the structure is composed of monolithic granite stones supporting a central polished granite shaft surmounted by a life-size statue of President
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The Spanish Colonial Music Building is located on the campus of Mills College in Oakland, California. The lobby ceiling of the Music Building is composed of cast plaster decoratively painted dark brown to imitate wood. The ceiling exhibited variations in matte to semi-gloss surfaces which could be intentional to enhance
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The Taoist temple in Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park located in Weaverville, California displays historic objects used for worship and historic inscriptions on wooden signs and paper attached to the interior walls. ARG Conservation Services was contracted to provide documentation and translations of the Chinese writings on the interior walls
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Untitled (1990-1995) by Ann Hamilton and Ann Chamberlain is a mural comprising 3”x5” recycled card catalogue cards. The cards cover the wall dividing the closed stacks and circulating collection on the third floor of the San Francisco Public Library. A section of the wall (11 cards high and 5 cards wide,
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ARG Conservation Services was retained by Stanford University to restore the masonry elements of Memorial Court and its surrounding arcades on Stanford’s campus. This was a multi-phase project that addresses several elements of the historic Memorial Court. Foremost among the repairs is replacement-in-kind of the damaged cast stone pavers. This
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The de la Montanya Monument was constructed in 1909 to house the family’s remains. The monument is an ornate, elaborate structure carved from soft Colusa sandstone. Subjected to multiple earthquakes and years of deferred maintenance, the structure had become unsafe and the monument was temporarily shored and enclosed with scaffolding. Functioning
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In the 1790s, John Young built a two-story house in the rain shadow of two volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii. He had been given his home site by King Kamehameha the Great, for whom he served as a “War Advisor.” Years of extreme weather conditions led to the
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Recognized as a National Historic Landmark, the Hanna House was Frank Lloyd Wright’s first work in the San Francisco region, and his first work with non-rectangular structures. The home was the first example of Wright’s “honeycomb” design and was based on 120-degree angles, with an open floor plan and rooms
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