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AiP volunteers joined a coalition of community organizations and began restoration of historic shotgun-style houses for use as affordable housing. After 3 months, students and community volunteers had largely completed one house; work on the second shotgun house begins in 2010.
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Four low-income youth, interested in masonry conservation as a career, worked and learned under the tutelage of Andy deGruchy to repoint the masonry façade of The Speaker’s House. One trainee was hired immediately following the workshop!
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Volunteers from five countries scoured Gjirokastra's twisting streets and paths to document an intriguing blend of Ottoman, Orthodox, and secular inscriptions on the houses and shops of the city’s historic neighborhoods. This type of historic detailing is being lost as buildings are remodeled; the city now has critical documentation of its historic past.
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AiP’s intrepid team completed documentation and assessment of a16th century vineyard cottage in preparation for its restoration as a museum that will preserve and present the art of wine making – the heart and soul of this region.
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AiP volunteers learned the traditional art of galleting while repairing masonry walkways at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum. AiP will return in 2010 to continue restoring the Terrace Garden to its original Delano & Aldrich design.
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AiP worked with Preservation Volunteers of New York City and REMPART to bring volunteers from France and the U.S. to learn the art of interior mud plastering. Applying the mud plaster by literally throwing it at the wall – and at each other – is said to increase the bonding, for both plaster and participants.
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This historic mining town has some outstanding examples of high-style finishes rarely seen on the hastily built structures of the Old West. Volunteers prepared and restored historic interior and exterior finish materials, including lime-based coatings, paints, varnishes and decorative treatments, providing a valuable boost to preservation efforts in the National Historic Landmark District.
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AiP volunteers worked with Univ. of Georgia (U.S.) students to rebuild a collapsed stone wall of the community center in Ablekuma, in a project led by local designer and builder, George Tetteh. The group then completed a condition assessment on a colonial building in Accra in preparation for its conversion to a B&B with culinary school.
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Community members worked with AiP participants to learn wood preservation techniques while restoring the porch structure and detailing and making other vital repairs to this Queen Anne-style house, which along with the Kornthal Church forms the last physical remnants of the German-speaking community that settled the area
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Alma Ortolan, a leading Italian art and fresco conservator, welcomed AiP participants to her hometown to initiate a scientifically-based assessment of the cloister’s 17th century wall paintings and columns. One participant claimed that Alma was both an expert and a natural Italian wonder; and her mom's Italian cooking was the best.
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AiP participants and local volunteers took on the daunting task of stabilizing the badly deteriorated James Brown House, located along a segment of the epic Cherokee Trail of Tears. Their emergency stabilization efforts saved a valuable piece of American history from imminent collapse.
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An amazing project took place near Quakertown at which Andy deGruchy led an inspired group of AiP volunteers to completely restore a masonry bridge in two weeks. Work involved diverting the stream, digging out large tree roots, stabilizing and repointing. Participants called the experience “empowering” and credited Andy’s “can do “approach.
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AiP volunteers succeeded in uncovering the original 1613 paint scheme of an elaborate stucco ceiling in the Baroque chapel of a Manor house, now used as a community center. Local residents were so inspired by the volunteers’ enthusiasm that they continued the project, completing restoration of the chapel in 2008.
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