ARG Conservation Services (ARG/CS) was contracted by the Elks Club BPOE No.#3 , to provide a proposal for conservation treatment of the third floor ballroom ceiling in their lodge located at 450 Post Street, San Francisco. The Elks Club ballroom ceiling is chamfered and ornately decorated. Painted to give the
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Designed by architects Frederick H. Meyer and Albin R. Johnson, the Elks Lodge #3 was completed in 1924. The terra cotta clad Spanish-Gothic style building contained a swimming pool, ballroom, pool hall, and multiple floors of rooms for visiting Elks and unmarried male members. Due to the eventual deterioration of
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Occupying the same lot as the 1855 Lodge building it is modeled on, the Columbia Masonic Hall is an authentic reproduction of the Gold Rush era structure used by Columbia [Masonic] Lodge No. 28. The original building was torn down in 1890 after miners had depleted the town’s nearby gold
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The Coit Tower murals are located in the iconic Coit Tower that sits atop Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Shortly after the tower’s construction in 1933, the murals were added to decorate the interior as part of the Work Progress Administration. In 1934 a team of twenty-five muralists, four women
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A gift from the Sullivan family, construction of the Carmel Monastery of Our Lady and Saint Therese was completed in 1931. The large monastic structure consists of four, multi-story wings; the north, east and west are rectangular in plan, and the south is ell shaped. The chapel is contained in
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ARG Conservation Services (ARG/CS) was retained by Stanford University in the spring of 2014 to assess conditions and execute treatments for the ten mosaics that decorate the exterior east elevation of the Cantor Arts Center. The mosaics are constructed of glass tesserae embedded in a cement mortar. Work was planned so
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ARG Conservation Services (ARG/CS) was contracted by the Senate Facilities of the State of California, to perform a conditions assessment and conduct conservation repairs on the interior woodwork of the California State Senate Chamber. The California State Senate Chamber seats its forty members in a large chamber room decorated in
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When Boisset Family Estates purchased the Buena Vista Winery in 2011, they took responsibility for a major landmark in American viticulture and California history. Built in 1857 by the renaissance man and self-styled “Count” Agosthon Haraszthy, the Buena Vista Winery is a state and national landmark, and a premier stop
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The “Brotherhood of Man” by Anthony Stellon, was a gift from May Joseph Alioto to the City of San Francisco and was originally installed at the Martin Luther King Jr. swimming pool in the Bayview Hunters Point District. The mosaic was removed during pool renovations in 1996. The entire was
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The Bok Kai Temple in Marysville was built in 1880 to serve the city’s sizable Chinese population. The temple has been in continuous use as a religious and social anchor for the local population and has minimal alterations. It retains many original materials and features, including the brick masonry wall,
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The Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theater was the main structure of a Masonic Lodge complex designed in 1888 by the German architect Henry Geilfuss, known for developing the distinctive Victorian architectural profile of San Francisco. The city’s oldest theater, the Opera House served as the center of cultural
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In 2003, ARG Conservation Services performed conservation work on the carved, incised, and written poems on the walls of the Detention Barracks and Hospital buildings at the Angel Island Immigration Station. These writings, dating from 1910 to 1940, represent a significant part of the Asian-American immigration experience. The conservation work included
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