The New York State Capitol was designed by a succession of architects, including H.H. Richardson and Leopold Eidlitz. Constructed in stages between 1870 and 1900, the building features Second Empire and Richardsonian Romanesque elements. Sporadic...
The San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building and adjacent Opera House are aesthetically-similar, Beaux-Arts structures commemorating U.S. veterans of World War I. The Veterans Building provides office and meeting space for veterans...
The Eliot Memorial Bridge, a stone arch pedestrian bridge, was constructed circa 1904 in the Blue Hills Reservation. The bridge carries the popular Skyline Trail over a ravine. In certain areas where the mortar had deteriorated, outer face stones...
Completed in 1929, the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building is part of the Capitol Extension Group listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a California Historical Landmark. The building suffered from aging building systems,...
The east and west sides of 300 East Randolph are clad with a combination of glass curtain wall and granite panels. During a routine facade inspection, the inspector identified granite panels on the fifty-seven-story tower that needed to be...
On 4 July 1795, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and William Scollay led the procession from the old Massachusetts State House to the site of the new State House to lay the granite cornerstone. In the excavated soil below the cornerstone, they...
The prospective owner of 343 Sansome Street, a prime commercial property in downtown San Francisco, wanted a detailed due diligence survey. The building, consisting of a series of additions, was built on fill once part of the San Francisco Bay...
Designed by McKim, Mead & White, Symphony Hall opened in 1900. The auditorium, a National Historic Landmark, is home to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). The BSO hired SGH to investigate the condition of the building enclosure and design...
Mount Greylock, the highest point in Massachusetts, is home to two historic structures: the Veterans War Memorial Tower, built in 1932, and Bascom Lodge, completed in 1937. Both structures are on the National Register of Historic Places as part...
The granite-clad Medical Center building, built in the 1970s, is nine stories tall. The building houses the university teaching hospital, the medical school, and clinical research laboratories. SGH led an investigation of the stone...
Design of dimensional stone veneer is a straightforward process when the stone sizes are similar, utilize the same material and are connected to an appropriately framed structural backup. However, if stone panels of different sizes and shapes are...