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A
hard-working team of AiP volunteers
completely restored 32 windows at the
massive Bellanca Air Hangar and still
had plenty of time to experience all
that historic New Castle has to offer.
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out more>>>
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AiP
volunteers tackled interior
conservation issues at a massive stone
tower house in old town Gjirokastra, a
World Heritage site. A partnership
with Cultural Heritage without
Borders, the goal of the project is to
provide conservation jobs skills
training for local residents and
encourage preservation of more of the
city’s distinctive architectural
heritage.
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AiP
volunteers tackled interior
conservation issues at a massive stone
tower house in old town Gjirokastra, a
World Heritage site. A partnership
with Cultural Heritage without
Borders, the goal of the project is to
provide conservation jobs skills
training for local residents and
encourage preservation of more of the
city’s distinctive architectural
heritage.
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out more>>>
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The focus
of our project in Brecljevo, Slovenia,
was masonry conservation and
correcting mistakes made during past
repair work. AiP volunteers discovered
secrets of the past both in the
cottage and while touring historic
sites and towns in this beautiful
land.
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out more>>>
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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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out more>>>
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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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out more>>>
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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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out more>>>
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AiP
volunteers learned the traditional art
of galleting while repairing masonry
walkways at the Bartow-Pell Mansion
Museum. AiP volunteers returned in
2010 to finsih restoring the Terrace
Garden to its original Delano &
Aldrich design.
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more>>>
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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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out more>>>
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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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out more>>>
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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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out more>>>
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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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out more>>>
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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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out more>>>
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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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AiP
volunteers and community members
brought the Francis Mill from a state
of near-collapse back to a working
mill over a three-year period. The
mill now provides an education
experience for local students and
visitors from around the U.S.
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more>>>
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