Governor's Mansion Renovation All Records
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Note ID: | MS328 | Weather Conditions: | | Report Author: | Mary Harding Sadler | Report Date: | 6/24/1999 | Location: | Mansion - First Floor - Dining Room (E/R) | Work Type: | Floor Conservation | Notes: | In the Dining Room's wide, cased entry, the conservators from Tidewater Preservation are repairing the oak parquet flooring. Their challenge is being able to use the oak flooring salvaged from the Stairhall to patch this area. The size and configuration of the Dining Room flooring material is different from the other parquetry. |
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Note ID: | MS329 | Weather Conditions: | | Report Author: | Mary Harding Sadler | Report Date: | 6/24/1999 | Location: | Mansion - First Floor - Old Governor's Office (E/R) | Work Type: | Miscellaneous | Notes: | Wainscot and chairrail have been removed in order to install utility lines. Pieces of removed trim are bundled with the wainscot and stored for reinstallation. The wainscot has dovetailed sections which were let into the brick walls in order to secure the wainscot to the bearing walls. |
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Note ID: | MS330 | Weather Conditions: | | Report Author: | Mary Harding Sadler | Report Date: | 6/24/1999 | Location: | Mansion - First Floor - Old Governor's Office (E/R) | Work Type: | Demolition | Notes: | Where drywall has been completely removed from the walls flanking the chimney breast in the Old Governor's Office it is possible to see the historic cornice which was retained in place when the doorways were walled over with drywall. A new plaster cornice was added over the original cornice when drywall was installed over the two doorways. |
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Note ID: | MS331 | Weather Conditions: | | Report Author: | Mary Harding Sadler | Report Date: | 6/24/1999 | Location: | Mansion - Second Floor - Above Ballrooms | Work Type: | Framing | Notes: | All flooring and subflooring has been removed from the area over the North and South Ballrooms. The floor joists are uneven, as a result of numerous modifications, including the construction of several bathrooms, and the relocation of a number of partitions. The framing contractors are "sistering" new 2x's at the top of the historic framing in order to provide a level framing platform on which to install a subfloor and new flooring. The joists are being leveled with the old hearth on the north end (west wall of the space). |
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Note ID: | MS333 | Weather Conditions: | | Report Author: | Mary Harding Sadler | Report Date: | 6/24/1999 | Location: | Mansion - Second Floor - Above Ballrooms | Work Type: | Miscellaneous | Notes: | The mechanical subcontractor is puzzling over how to duct conditioned air into the Ballroom across/through the thick brick of the Mansion's original rear wall and into the space between the floor joists over the Ballroom. |
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Note ID: | MS334 | Weather Conditions: | | Report Author: | Mary Harding Sadler | Report Date: | 6/24/1999 | Location: | Mansion - Second Floor - Above Ballrooms | Work Type: | Framing | Notes: | All flooring has been removed east of the 2nd floor Stairhall. Plywood panels laid in the space provide a temporary platform for equipment or for visitors to the site. |
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Note ID: | MS332 | Weather Conditions: | | Report Author: | Mary Harding Sadler | Report Date: | 6/24/1999 | Location: | Mansion - Second Floor - Private Dining Room, Bathroom, and Powder Room (E) / Bedroom and Bathroom #3 (R) | Work Type: | Framing | Notes: | The area near the southeast corner of the 2nd floor of the original Mansion has beveled joists where ceramic tile was laid in a "mud bed" for two bathrooms. |
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Note ID: | JL148 | Weather Conditions: | Partly cloudy, mid 80s | Report Author: | Joseph D. Lahendro | Report Date: | 6/25/1999 | Location: | Mansion - North Elevation | Work Type: | New Concrete Construction | Notes: | Video and digital photos of new concrete stepped footings for the new addition. Of special interest is the exposed bottom of the existing 1906 addition's north brick wall which shows a stepped brick footing (no concrete footing). |
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Note ID: | JL149 | Weather Conditions: | Partly cloudy, mid 80s | Report Author: | Joseph D. Lahendro | Report Date: | 6/25/1999 | Location: | Mansion - North Elevation | Work Type: | On-site paint removal | Notes: | Video and digital photos of existing north portico showing east corner column's base and lower shaft where paint removal methods are being tested. Observable is the typical damage to these columns--large wood cracks, sections of deteriorated moldings falling out, rusting fasteners, and interior wood deterioration. |
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Note ID: | JL144 | Weather Conditions: | Partly cloudy, mid 80s | Report Author: | Joseph D. Lahendro | Report Date: | 6/25/1999 | Location: | Mansion - Second Floor - Above Ballrooms | Work Type: | Framing | Notes: | Video and digital photos of original floor joists following removal of all flooring. In center hall area the original joists have been sistered with new glu-lam beams for added strength. Above both the north and south ballrooms, the original joists have been sistered along their top edges with new 2X6's to raise the new floor level to meet the existing raised floor level in the west side. |
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