Project Portfolio
Historic Preservation
Celebrating 15 years in 2024!
William FOX
Elementary RVA ~2024
Omni Homestead Hotel ~ 2023
Beginning in 2022 a $150 million investment began and ran on schedule with the detailed assistance of Gepetto Craftsmen coming to completion in fall 2023. Specifically providing services that could not be found from any other contractor in the Shenandoa region!
Babcock Building 2020-2023
The Babcock Building is the cornerstone of the Bull Street historic district renovation. Gepetto Provided historic replica windows, and the rebuilt cupola.
- Cupola Restoration
- Historic Replica Windows
The projectd was developed by Clachan Properties who have a long history of renovating historic buildings across the southeast. Foss and Company provided historic tax credit verification.
Located right in the middle of the largest development project in Columbia history, the building was built in 1885 and will be transformed into 208 luxury apartments with amenities.
Hampstead
New KEnt ~ 2023
Hampstead was built in 1825 one of the Commonwealth’s most ambitious Greek Revival residences. The grand dwelling features many elements adapted from Asher Benjamin’s American Builder’s Companion (1806), an important book containing meticulous etchings of Greek Revival architectural details used by architects and builders throughout the new nation. Hampstead was listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and began renovation by the Tidewater Big Bend Foundation in 2021
VCU SCOTT HOUSE ~ 2019
Built in 1911 and acquired by Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 2001 the 18,000-square-foot mansion rehabilitation was orchestrated by long time specifiers of Gepetto Millworks – Glavé & Holmes Architecture. The modernization design was to provide a historically-sensitive rehabilitation to allow the building to serve as meeting and event space. The building’s historic fabric was restored in accordance with the Secretaty of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation and the University’s preservation philosophy for historic buildings. Kjellstrom and Lee handled general contracting in concert with VCU maintenance and operations staff
Caldwell Hall ~ 2019
Built in 1889 and 130 years later in 2019 another restoration began calling on Gepetto to custom fabricate new doors to match the historic profile. In addition to the time tested original joinery, we designed in our shop drawings a ‘stave core’ door that intelligently balanced the weather beating functions of three elements:
Sauers Historic Offices ~ 2019
In 2018 + 2019 Sauers Spices made the development to move back into their historic offices at 2000 West Broad St capstoning the redevelopment of the Braod St Corridore. Not shown are the historically trimmed offices restored to their early 1900’s glory of mahogany framed glass privacy offices.
Detailed Trimwork
728 E. Main St.
Richmond ~ 2019
Virginia’s Central Business District, the Stumpf Flats on Main is currently undergoing a $5 million redevelopment, having previously served as the century old Stumpf Hotel. Renovation of the seven-story structure converted it into 24 one-bedroom apartments. Drucker + Falk the Washington, D.C.-based developer, is one of the most dominant and successful real estate developers in the Mid-Atlantic, controlling over 9 million square feet in the Washington Metro market with an additional downtown Richmond office and presence.
Montgomery Building ~ 2018
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Additinoal ProjectS:
- Centenary Methodist Chruch Richmond
- Baker School Richmond
- Catholic University Caldwell Hall Washington DC
- Meadow Farm Museum Henrico
- Carter’s Grove Williamsburg
- Elizabeth City North Carolina Water Station
- Printworks North Carolina
- Mount Airy Tapahannock
- Virginia Science Museum Traincars
- Black History Museum Washington DC
- Ben Dover Estate Goochland
- George Washington Carver’s House
- Grove Plantation HOuse
- Robert E Lee Highschool
- Womens prison – historic Lorton condos
- Cumberland – new kent
- Manchester Train Station – hull st
- Goshen Foundry
- Carriage doors Arlington Cemetary
- Maymont Carriage Houses Windows, Doors, and Gates
- Old Church – hampstead
- Robinson Theater Church Hill
Black History Museum
Richmond ~2016
Receiving a state grant in 2011, the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia announced plans to repurpose the Leigh Street Armory as their new home. The armory had suffered severe damage from fire, neglect, exposure to the elements, and vandalism. Under a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Save America’s Treasures Program. SGH Architecdts developed a building enclosure rehabilitation and structural stabilization program in conformity with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.
George Wythe Replica Home ~2015
Receiving a state grant in 2011, the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia announced plans to repurpose the Leigh Street Armory as their new home. The armory had suffered severe damage from fire, neglect, exposure to the elements, and vandalism. Under a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Save America’s Treasures Program. SGH Architecdts developed a building enclosure rehabilitation and structural stabilization program in conformity with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.
Hewicks plantation
Hewick is a historic home located near Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia. It was constructed in 1678 by Christopher Robinson, whose progeny held considerable power in the colony before the American Revolution, during which some members became loyalists. It was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Lady Byrd Hat Factory 2008
Originally built to house the Virginia Paper Company, the building became the home of the Lady Byrd Hat Factory in 1965. The building is located near the Turning Basin of Richmond’s newly constructed Canal Walk and is the only historic building on the Canal. McPherson Design Group assisted with the design for the conversion of this building to a mixed-use facility, including residential units, offices, restaurants, retail spaces and entertainment venues. Many of the historic structural elements were recycled and featured in the new building.
