Professional Alliance Directory

Determining the best professional to bring in on a project with can be difficult. Partners’ Professional Alliance helps congregations find reliable, professionals – from architects to stained glass artists – who specialize in historic religious properties. For more information about Professional Alliance membership contact Tuomi Forrest at 215-567-3234, x13 or complete this form and return.

Professional Alliance Patrons

Levine & Company, Inc.
PO Box 628
Ardmore, PA 19003
(610) 642-4081
jlevine@levineco.net
www.levineco.net

Full service roof and building envelope consulting firm specializing in historic steep-slope and low-slope roofing (including slate, copper, tile, and asphalt shingles), masonry restoration, and architectural woodwork. Services include condition assessments, leak investigations, hands-on surveys and test probes, specifications and drawings, construction administration, and maintenance planning.

From the National Slate Association comes Slate Roofs: Design and Installation Manual, an update to the definitive reference manual that was written in 1926. Six years in the making, this book serves as a guide to designing, detailing, and installing slate roofs, and will become a valuable resource to those who work with slate. To purchase a copy, visit http://slateassociation.org/.

 

Professional Alliance Members

Accessibility

Clayton Acoustics Group is a consulting firm specializing in projects for houses of worship, including new construction, renovation and historic preservation/restoration. We offer a full scope of architectural acoustics services: room design, sound isolation, noise & vibration control, sound reinforcement system design and pipe organ acoustics. Projects include Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah, GA; Congregation Shearith Israel, New York, NY; and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, Washington, DC.

Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, LLC is an award-winning architectural firm, founded in 1974. Based in Princeton, NJ, the firm has built a national practice over its 34-year history and is recognized for both new design and historic preservation expertise.

  • Levy Associates Architects, Inc.
    11002 Ashcroft Drive
    Houston, TX 77096-6024
    (713) 528-2912
    levyarch@swbell.net

General practice featuring architecture for religion, recreation, retail, and renovation with award-winning design of facilities for Jewish institutions in the Houston area, including six synagogues… Conservative, Orthodox, and Sephardic. Public lectures and AI Continuing Education presentations on “Synagogue Architecture – Art Objects and Sacred Spaces.”

Volz & Associates, Inc. offers a full range of architectural and interior design services for the preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of historic churches and religious properties. Project types include master planning, feasibility studies, historic finishes analysis, cost estimating, lighting and acoustic design, liturgical design, construction documents, and construction administration.

Acoustics Consulting

Clayton Acoustics Group is a consulting firm specializing in projects for houses of worship, including new construction, renovation and historic preservation/restoration. We offer a full scope of architectural acoustics services: room design, sound isolation, noise & vibration control, sound reinforcement system design and pipe organ acoustics. Projects include Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah, GA; Congregation Shearith Israel, New York, NY; and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, Washington, DC.

Architectural Sheet Metal

  • Renaissance Roofing, Inc.
    2231 Hawkey Drive
    Belvidere, IL 61008
    P.O. Box 5024
    Rockford, IL 61125
    (815) 547-1725
    (800) 699-5695
    Fax: (815) 547-1425
    www.claytileroof.com

Renaissance Roofing has been in business since 1992, providing solutions to clients with historical roofing systems. We have the knowledge and expertise to solve complex roofing problems at an excellent value. Having completed work in over 20 states, our broad experience provides us with unique knowledge and application experience in almost every environment.

Architecture

AltusWorks is a full service architectural firm that applies a high level of expertise and creative problem solving to the challenges of maintaining, restoring and rehabilitating historic structures. AltusWorks provides facility analyses, envelope repair solutions, accessibility assessments and consulting services to assist owners in preserving their historic buildings.

Alvin Holm AIA Architects is a full service practice specializing in traditional design and consultation for new construction and restoration; for additions, interiors, site planning and landscape; and for residential, ecclesiastical, institutional, and commercial clients throughout the country. Mr. Holm also lectures and writes on design in the western classical tradition, from a background of forty years of teaching.

Atkin Olshin Schade Architects is an architecture, planning, and interior design firm with offices in Philadelphia, PA, and Santa Fe, NM. The firm works with religious, academic, and cultural institutions that want to balance a need for growth with a commitment to the preservation of their historic character.

Jay Bright Architect provides historic building architectural services, addressing issues such as technical analysis of chronic problems, historical research, and adaptive reuse. I collaborate with a network of contractors, peers, and consultants who support specialized work on historic buildings. This support allows me to tackle arcane challenges and my independent practice allows me to innovate and tailor services to each client.

Creating prayer halls and religious schools is our joy. We eagerly work with Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or other belief communities. Fostering spirituality and selflessness is a happy task. We know well the architectural traditions of faith. We will make sure that this universal heritage serves you.

CMA provides complete architectural, planning, and interior design services. We believe that a church needs a partner that believes in their mission and has experience to evaluate and provide excellence in design for a facility that will reflect the church’s vision for the present and future.

Architect/musician/churchman offers advisory consulting including program development/analysis, architect selection, and continuing services throughout project. Broad knowledge of field.

Our firm provides complete architectural services for new construction, additions, renovations, and historic building rehabilitations and assessments. Please review our website at www.davidegall.com

For nearly five decades, Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford has delivered superior architectural design, facility assessment, and master planning services for faith-based clients who demand innovative, enduring facilities. While every project is unique, each involves a collaborative process that ensures the solution is on time, on budget, and functionally on target.

Harboe Architects is a small, award-winning architecture firm specializing in the preservation of historic structures. Current projects: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple (Oak Park, IL), Mies van der Rohe’s Robert F. Carr Chapel (Chicago, IL), Louis Sullivan’s Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Store (Chicago, IL), Holabird and Roche’s Marquette Building (Chicago, IL), Holabird and Root’s Lafayette Building (Washington, DC), and Mies van der Rohe’s 860-880 LSD (Chicago, IL).

Jaeger, Nickola & Associates Architects (JNA) specializes in religious architecture and has completed over 370 church projects in 5 states as the architects for Master Plans, construction feasibility studies, and worship, education, and administration buildings of all scales, including new construction, renovations, historic restorations and adaptive re-use projects.

The firm’s expertise includes preparation of master planning surveys and recommendations as well as documentation for rehabilitation, restoration, and new construction for historic religious properties. Projects span the building periods from the late 17th century through the 20th century and reflect a wide range of denominations and building styles.

JMA is an award-winning architectural/cultural resources firm dedicated to preserving historic buildings and landscapes and adapting them for changing needs. We offer one-stop historic preservation services, understanding of traditional building methods and materials, excellence in design and project management, and our commitment to a sustainable environment.

We do architectural planning, design, accessibility consulting, and draw review services. We are two seasoned architects and registered accessibility specialists (RAS) in the state of Texas.

  • Kelly/Maiello Inc., Architects & Planners
    1420 Walnut Street, 15th Floor
    Philadelphia, PA 19102-4015
    (215) 546-0800
    www.kmarchitects.com

Kelly/Maiello brings to owners of religious properties in the Mid-Atlantic area a highly skilled staff with the technical expertise to evaluate historic buildings and provide sensitive design for restoration, modernization, and adaptive resuse. Kelly/Maiello specializes in developing a work plan adapted to meet each client’s fund raising schedule.

  • Kimmel Bogrette Architecture & Site
    151 E. 10th Avenue, Suite 300
    Conshohocken, PA 19428
    (610) 834-7805
    www.kimmel-bogrette.com
  • Levy Associates Architects, Inc.
    11002 Ashcroft Drive
    Houston, TX 77096-6024
    (713) 528-2912
    levyarch@swbell.net

General practice featuring architecture for religion, recreation, retail, and renovation with award-winning design of facilities for Jewish institutions in the Houston area, including six synagogues… Conservative, Orthodox, and Sephardic. Public lectures and AI Continuing Education presentations on “Synagogue Architecture – Art Objects and Sacred Spaces.”

  • Lichten Craig Architects, L.L.P.
    6 West 18th Street, 9th Floor
    New York, NY 10011
    (212) 229-0200
    lichten@lichtencraig.com

Lichten Craig Architects’ practice is limited to residential and institutional design, both with an emphasis on historic structures. Institutional work is oriented to collaboration with committees. Clients include Trinity Church Wall Street, New York City; Christ Church, Poughkeepsie; New Dorp Moravian Church, Staten Island; and Grace Church, Middletown, New York.

MacDonald & Mack Architects specializes in the preservation, restoration, and adaptive reuse of historic properties. We recognize that the intangible spirit of a building – the combination of design, community, place, and history – is especially important for worship spaces, and we take care to ensure that our work honors and enhances that spirit.

Architecture, planning, historic preservation, interior design services. Congregation consensus building for scopes ranging from phased deferred maintenance to construction of new worship, ministry and support space.

Clients: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC; 19th Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia; First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia; Woodland Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; Highway Tabernacle Church, Philadelphia; St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Glassboro, NJ.

Full-service architectural firm also specializing in historic preservation, restoration design, historical research, master planning, historic structures reports and conditions assessments.

  • Menders, Torrey & Spencer
    123 No. Washington Street
    Boston, MA 02114
    (617) 227-1477
    Fax: (617) 227-2654
    www.mendersarchitects.com

Menders, Torrey & Spencer, Inc. is a full-service architecture firm with a practice emphasis on historic preservation, public, commercial, and residential projects. We are experienced in planning, renovation, rehabilitation, new construction, and building studies.

  • Metcalfe Architecture & Design
    211 N. 13th Street, Suite 503
    Philadelphia, PA 19107
    (215) 557-9200
    Fax: (215) 557-8383
    www.metarchdesign.com

Metcalfe Architecture & Design is a firm of architects, exhibit and graphic designers, planners, and administrative staff that focuses on non-profit, education, and cultural institutions; retial and food service, and residential architecture. The firm, founded in 2001, creates playful, family-friendly learning environments, intimate living areas, and inviting commercial spaces.

Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, LLC is an award-winning architectural firm, founded in 1974. Based in Princeton, NJ, the firm has built a national practice over its 34-year history and is recognized for both new design and historic preservation expertise.

Craig Morrison provides architectural and consulting services to historic buildings nationwide. Specialties include comprehensive restoration, master planning, and long-term phased projects.

Rene Robert Mueller Architects/Planner is a full service architectural firm, founded in 1988, with major focus on expertise historical rehabilitation. Projects include St. Mary’s Church & Chapel, Wappinger Falls, NY; Church of St. John the Evangelist, Mahopcac, NY; St. Andrew’s Church, Bridgeport, CT; and Cathedral St. Peter, Zurich, Switzerland.

  • Joseph K. Oppermann – Architect, P.A.
    539 N. Trade Street
    Winston – Salem, NC 27101
    (336) 721-1711
    Fax (336) 721-1712
    office@jkoa.net
    www.jkoa.net

Joseph K. Oppermann, Architect, P.A. is an architectural firm specializing in the research, documentation, analysis, conservation,restoration, and adaptation of historic buildings and sites. The firm promotes time-tested, traditional building technologies, at the same time using the most advanced technologies available in its investigation and assessment efforts. We provide the full range of planning and design services.

  • Selzer Associates
    4514 Travis Street, Suite 235
    Dallas, TX 75205
    (214) 528-4499
    Fax.: (214) 528-7375
    www.selzerarch.com

Selzer Associates was established as an architecture/interior design firm in 1964. We have thirty-six awards for meeting clients’ needs with design excellence We worked Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. Selzer Associates designed the sanctuary restoration at Highland Park United Methodist Church and other Texas Historic Commission-listed properties.

SAAarchitect offers a full range of architectural services with expertise in the area of restoration, modernization and adaptive re-use of historic structures. Clients include Emmanuel UCC of Hanover, PA; Emmanuel Christian Fellowship of York, PA; St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church of Middletown, PA.

  • TranSystems/DPK&A Architects, LLP
    421 Chestnut Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19106-2416
    (215) 627-2700
    Fax: (215) 627-9113
    cdoebley@dpka.com
    www.dpka.com

TranSystems/DPK&A Architects, LLP is a firm of architects, restoration specialists, and planners. TranSystems/DPK&A has developed a distinctive style of working with historic and older buildings. We offer a range of approaches that include the restoration of historic buildings, the adaptive reuse of older buildings, renovations to existing buildings, sympathetic additions, and design for repair. TranSystems/DPK&A also undertakes forensic architectural studies that are designed to determine cause of, and cure for, building failures. Our projects are not region specific; we travel nationwide.

Voith & Mactavish Architects is an architecture, preservation, planning, landscape, and interiors firm specializing in design for religious and educational institutions. With award winning expertise in historic preservation and adaptive reuse, we bring to our clients the ability to work within significant architectural contexts in a knowledgeable and sympathetic manner.

Volz & Associates, Inc. offers a full range of architectural and interior design services for the preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of historic churches and religious properties. Project types include master planning, feasibility studies, historic finishes analysis, cost estimating, lighting and acoustic design, liturgical design, construction documents, and construction administration.

Award-winning architectural firm dedicated to sustainable preservation. Deeply engaged in the formation and dissemination of innovations in technology, philosophy, codes, and guidelines relating to the marriage of sustainability and heritage buildings. No matter the size or complexity, projects goals integrate community & culture, education & training, regionalism & local economy, artisanship & authenticity.

Bells

We design, install, and maintain cast bronze bell instruments; specializing in bell-ringing structures/bellframes and equipment that minimize dynamic and static loading on a tower. This specialization is particularly useful in our renovation and automation of existing bells in older structures.

  • The Verdin Company
    444 Reading Road
    Cincinnati, OH 45202
    (800) 543-0488
    www.verdin.com

The Verdin Company, family owned since 1842, is the premier manufacture of bells, chimes, and carillons, with over 50,000 installations worldwide. Verdin offers new and historic cast bronze bells, bell ringing equipment, bell towers, and digital carillons. Verdin is the only company offering complete bell restoration. Now celebrating 170 years!

Building Conservation and Preservation Consulting

AltusWorks is a full service architectural firm that applies a high level of expertise and creative problem solving to the challenges of maintaining, restoring and rehabilitating historic structures. AltusWorks provides facility analyses, envelope repair solutions, accessibility assessments and consulting services to assist owners in preserving their historic buildings.

Jay Bright Architect provides historic building architectural services, addressing issues such as technical analysis of chronic problems, historical research, and adaptive reuse. I collaborate with a network of contractors, peers, and consultants who support specialized work on historic buildings. This support allows me to tackle arcane challenges and my independent practice allows me to innovate and tailor services to each client

Chicago Project Management provides project management services to assure success in church renovation projects by assisting with architect and contractor selections, bidding, and obtaining required permits. We organize projects, budgets, and schedules, and coordinate field work as your Owners Representative/Project Manager. At the conclusion of work, we establish a web-based Work Management System for your on-going corrective and preventive work.

Church Restoration Group is a nationally acclaimed consulting and restoration firm offering expertise in restoration, renovation and construction services for buildings of architectural, historic and religious significance. We bring experts in pre-construction, design, estimating and project management plus talented artisans, craftsmen and laborers. We have worked on hundreds of buildings across the United States that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Architect/musician/churchman offers advisory consulting including program development/analysis, architect selection, and continuing services throughout project. Broad knowledge of field.

Felix Chavez, Inc. is dedicated to the interior restoration and preservation of architecturally significant buildings including public, private and religious institutions. Our specialties are decorative paint finishes and stenciling, surface modulation, and restoration on a variety of materials. We have close to three decades of experience working mostly throughout the New York region.

Our firm provides complete architectural services for new construction, additions, renovations, and historic building rehabilitations and assessments. Please review our website at www.davidegall.com

Serving Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Maryland since 1996, Golon Masonry Restoration provides expert masonry, historic preservation, and restoration services, including masonry/stone/concrete restoration; brick/stone/lintel replacement; repointing; chemical cleaning; caulking/joint sealant; speciality coatings/waterproofing; brick and stone patching; chimney repair; and preservation consulting work.

For nearly five decades, Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford has delivered superior architectural design, facility assessment, and master planning services for faith-based clients who demand innovative, enduring facilities. While every project is unique, each involves a collaborative process that ensures the solution is on time, on budget, and functionally on target.

Harboe Architects is a small, award-winning architecture firm specializing in the preservation of historic structures. Current projects: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple (Oak Park, IL), Mies van der Rohe’s Robert F. Carr Chapel (Chicago, IL), Louis Sullivan’s Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Store (Chicago, IL), Holabird and Roche’s Marquette Building (Chicago, IL), Holabird and Root’s Lafayette Building (Washington, DC), and Mies van der Rohe’s 860-880 LSD (Chicago, IL).

  • Hanson General Contracting, Inc.
    214 Kalos Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19128
    (215) 483-8338
    Fax: (215) 483-2088
    www.hgcinc.biz

Hanson General Contracting, Inc. is a 25-year-old full-service general contracting company specializing in historic preservation and sustainable building practices in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs. We also have a small-projects division.

National awarded studio specializing in the restoration of decorative finishes and ornamental plastering. The studio has an exceptional staff of artisans and conservators dedicated to the creation of murals and conservation of fine art. Our church decorators are students of ecclesiastical decoration and are proficient at all finishes. We are a multi-generation family business with a passion and reverence for sacred design.

The firm’s expertise includes preparation of master planning surveys and recommendations as well as documentation for rehabilitation, restoration, and new construction for historic religious properties. Projects span the building periods from the late 17th century through the 20th century and reflect a wide range of denominations and building styles.

JMA is an award-winning architectural/cultural resources firm dedicated to preserving historic buildings and landscapes and adapting them for changing needs. We offer one-stop historic preservation services, understanding of traditional building methods and materials, excellence in design and project management, and our commitment to a sustainable environment.

Provides project administration, direction and planning. Services range from conditions assessment and site management to the development and administration of full master plans.

  • Kelly/Maiello Inc., Architects & Planners
    1420 Walnut Street, 15th Floor
    Philadelphia, PA 19102-4015
    (215) 546-0800
    www.kmarchitects.com

Kelly/Maiello brings to owners of religious properties in the Mid-Atlantic area a highly skilled staff with the technical expertise to evaluate historic buildings and provide sensitive design for restoration, modernization, and adaptive resuse. Kelly/Maiello specializes in developing a work plan adapted to meet each client’s fund raising schedule.

  • Kimmel Bogrette Architecture & Site
    151 E. 10th Avenue, Suite 300
    Conshohocken, PA 19428
    (610) 834-7805
    www.kimmel-bogrette.com

Full service roof and building envelope consulting firm specializing in historic steep-slope and low-slope roofing (including slate, copper, tile, and asphalt shingles), masonry restoration, and architectural woodwork. Services include condition assessments, leak investigations, hands-on surveys and test probes, specifications and drawings, construction administration, and maintenance planning.

  • LimeWorks
    P.O. Box 151
    Milford Square, PA 18935
    (215) 536-6706
    Fax: (215) 536-2281
    www.limeworks.us

We are a specialty vendor helping vintage building owners, architects, and craftspeople throughout the US to decide and select appropriate lime-based materials and finishes needed for compatible masonry repointing and building repair. Free initial advice upon receiving a mortar sample sent to us. We generate Mortar Analysis Reports for documenting into an archival record. We create mock-up samples to simulate historic masonry fabric for property committees and for your conservator’s or architect’s review.

MacDonald & Mack Architects specializes in the preservation, restoration, and adaptive reuse of historic properties. We recognize that the intangible spirit of a building – the combination of design, community, place, and history – is especially important for worship spaces, and we take care to ensure that our work honors and enhances that spirit.

Description of services: Architecture, planning, historic preservation, interior design services. Congregation consensus building for scopes ranging from phased deferred maintenance to construction of new worship, ministry and support space.

Clients: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC; 19thStreet Baptist Church, Philadelphia; First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia; Woodland Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; Highway Tabernacle Church, Philadelphia; St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Glassboro, NJ.

  • Menders, Torrey & Spencer
    123 No. Washington Street
    Boston, MA 02114
    (617) 227-1477
    Fax: (617) 227-2654
    www.mendersarchitects.com

Menders, Torrey & Spencer, Inc. is a full-service architecture firm with a practice emphasis on historic preservation, public, commercial, and residential projects. We are experienced in planning, renovation, rehabilitation, new construction, and building studies.

  • Metcalfe Architecture & Design
    211 N. 13th Street, Suite 503
    Philadelphia, PA 19107
    (215) 557-9200
    Fax: (215) 557-8383
    www.metarchdesign.com

Metcalfe Architecture & Design is a firm of architects, exhibit and graphic designers, planners, and administrative staff that focuses on non-profit, education, and cultural institutions; retial and food service, and residential architecture. The firm, founded in 2001, creates playful, family-friendly learning environments, intimate living areas, and inviting commercial spaces.

Milner + Carr Conservation, LLC is an affiliate of John Milner Architects, Inc., providing a wide range of conservation services including documentation, analysis, condition diagnosis, testing, monitoring and treatments. Our priority is to design and implement conservation programs to meet the specific needs of a wide variety of historic buildings, monuments and sites. The company was founded on the concept that no two conservation strategies are identical; each must respond to the particular challenges of location, material, condition and environment. Our staff has first-hand working knowledge of a diverse spectrum of materials, computer software, traditional building techniques, and project management.

Craig Morrison provides architectural and consulting services to historic buildings nationwide. Specialties include comprehensive restoration, master planning, and long-term phased projects.

  • Joseph K. Oppermann – Architect, P.A.
    539 N. Trade Street
    Winston – Salem, NC 27101
    (336) 721-1711
    Fax: (336) 721-1712
    office@jkoa.net
    www.jkoa.net

Joseph K. Oppermann, Architect, P.A. is an architectural firm specializing in the research, documentation, analysis, conservation, restoration, and adaptation of historic buildings and sites. The firm promotes time-tested, traditional building technologies, at the same time using the most advanced technologies available in its investigation and assessment efforts. We provide the full range of planning and design services.

  • Selzer Associates
    4514 Travis Street, Suite 235
    Dallas, TX 75205
    (214) 528-4499
    Fax.: (214) 528-7375
    www.selzerarch.com

Selzer Associates was established as an architecture/interior design firm in 1964. We have thirty-six awards for meeting clients’ needs with design excellence We worked Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. Selzer Associates designed the sanctuary restoration at Highland Park United Methodist Church and other Texas Historic Commission-listed properties.

SAAarchitect offers a full range of architectural services with expertise in the area of restoration, modernization and adaptive re-use of historic structures. Clients include Emmanuel UCC of Hanover, PA; Emmanuel Christian Fellowship of York, PA; St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church of Middletown, PA.

William Stivale is a noted professional Building Restoration Project/Program Planner & Director specializing in leading the development and administration of projects focused on unique historic structures and materials for religious institutions and other nonprofit organizations since 1984. WSBC has developed unique technical and management solutions that have resulted in significant cost savings to his clients, while often winning awards and other recognition for the high quality of the finished work.

  • TranSystems/DPK&A Architects, LLP
    421 Chestnut Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19106-2416
    (215) 627-2700
    Fax: 215-627-9113
    cdoebley@dpka.com
    www.dpka.com

TranSystems/DPK&A Architects, LLP is a firm of architects, restoration specialists, and planners. TranSystems/DPK&A has developed a distinctive style of working with historic and older buildings. We offer a range of approaches that include the restoration of historic buildings, the adaptive reuse of older buildings, renovations to existing buildings, sympathetic additions, and design for repair. TranSystems/DPK&A also undertakes forensic architectural studies that are designed to determine cause of, and cure for, building failures. Our projects are not region specific; we travel nationwide.

Vertical Access provides specialized inspection and testing services in extreme locations by employing efficient and lightweight rigging systems. Expert use of these systems allows for the quick access to all types of structures without expensive swing stages or scaffolds. Vertical Access has completed condition assessments of varied historic building fabrics, including stone, brick, concrete, cast iron, stained glass and tile. Recent religious structure projects include St. Thomas Church in New York, Princeton University Chapel, Riverside Church in New York, St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York and Marble Collegiate Church in New York.

Volz & Associates, Inc. offers a full range of architectural and interior design services for the preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of historic churches and religious properties. Project types include master planning, feasibility studies, historic finishes analysis, cost estimating, lighting and acoustic design, liturgical design, construction documents, and construction administration.

Award-winning architectural firm dedicated to sustainable preservation. Deeply engaged in the formation and dissemination of innovations in technology, philosophy, codes, and guidelines relating to the marriage of sustainability and heritage buildings. No matter the size or complexity, projects goals integrate community & culture, education & training, regionalism & local economy, artisanship & authenticity.

Cemetery and Gravestone Preservation

Milner + Carr Conservation, LLC is an affiliate of John Milner Architects, Inc., providing a wide range of conservation services including documentation, analysis, condition diagnosis, testing, monitoring and treatments. Our priority is to design and implement conservation programs to meet the specific needs of a wide variety of historic buildings, monuments and sites. The company was founded on the concept that no two conservation strategies are identical; each must respond to the particular challenges of location, material, condition and environment. Our staff has first-hand working knowledge of a diverse spectrum of materials, computer software, traditional building techniques, and project management.

Mosko Cemetery Monument Services specializes in conservation, preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of historical cemeteries. We deal with all aspects of cemetery care, repair, and maintenance: locating, mapping, maintenance, repair, education, and volunteer workshops and seminars. We identify the cause of the problem, select and execute the least aggressive, most appropriate solution, and complete our work so that it appears as inconspicuous as possible. We address both environmental as well as administrative causes of a cemetery’s condition. Full-scale reports and comprehensive treatment plans are submitted with all surveys. Projects are phased out to conform to any available budget.

Congregational and Community Renewal

  • Episcopal Church Foundation
    815 Second Avenue
    New York, NY 10017
    (800) 697-2858
    ecf@episcopalfoundation.org
    www.episcopalfoundation.org

    The Episcopal Church Foundation responds to the needs of the Church in practical, innovative, and spiritually grounded ways. ECF helps faith communities raise financial resources and develop effective leadership.

    Programs include: capital campaigns; planned giving, stewardship, and endowment management; ECF Vital Practices (www.ecfvp.org), which provides financial support for emerging leaders; and various workshops.

Creator of “Asset Mapping” and author of The Power of Asset Mapping; offers a wide range of consulting services for community ministry, congregational renewal, stewardship, youth and more.

Congregational Leadership Development

  • Episcopal Church Foundation
    815 Second Avenue
    New York, NY 10017
    (800) 697-2858
    ecf@episcopalfoundation.org
    www.episcopalfoundation.org

    The Episcopal Church Foundation responds to the needs of the Church in practical, innovative, and spiritually grounded ways. ECF helps faith communities raise financial resources and develop effective leadership.

    Programs include: capital campaigns; planned giving, stewardship, and endowment management; ECF Vital Practices (www.ecfvp.org), which provides financial support for emerging leaders; and various workshops.

Contractors

Church Restoration Group is a nationally acclaimed consulting and restoration firm offering expertise in restoration, renovation and construction services for buildings of architectural, historic and religious significance. We bring experts in pre-construction, design, estimating and project management plus talented artisans, craftsmen and laborers. We have worked on hundreds of buildings across the United States that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Flagpoles repaired and installed, aerial safety inspections, repairs, restoration and preservation; masonry restoration on steeples, bell towers, cornices, and chimney; traditional painting of exterior buildings and wooden segments; carpentry repairs, steel fabrication, waterproofing, specialty roofing; gold-leaf gilding and lightning rod protection.

  • Hanson General Contracting, Inc.
    214 Kalos Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19128
    (215) 483-8338
    Fax: (215) 483-2088
    www.hgcinc.biz

Hanson General Contracting, Inc. is a 25-year-old full-service general contracting company specializing in historic preservation and sustainable building practices in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs. We also have a small-projects division.

  • Masonry Preservation Group, Inc.
    706 West Maple Avenue
    Merchantville, NJ 08109
    (856) 663-4158
    Fax: (856) 663-9264
    eott@mpgnj.com
    www.mpgnj.com

Masonry Preservation Group, Inc. has been an award-winning restoration contractor in the Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Delaware region since 1985. MPG’s list of services includes: masonry and concrete restoration, specialty general contracting, pointing, caulking, brick and stone wall patching and repair, historic building restoration and waterproofing.

Raynal Studios is a fully accredited, full service stained glass studio. The primary focus of Raynal Studios is the professional restoration of historically significant stained glass windows and their settings. Window setting includes wooded frames and sills, stone or masonry frames and sills, interior plaster and trim, and exterior masonry or siding.

Mosko Cemetery Monument Services specializes in conservation, preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of historical cemeteries. We deal with all aspects of cemetery care, repair, and maintenance: locating, mapping, maintenance, repair, education, and volunteer workshops and seminars. We identify the cause of the problem, select and execute the least aggressive, most appropriate solution, and complete our work so that it appears as inconspicuous as possible. We address both environmental as well as administrative causes of a cemetery’s condition. Full-scale reports and comprehensive treatment plans are submitted with all surveys. Projects are phased out to conform to any available budget.

  • Unkefer Brothers Construction
    1816 Callowhill Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19130
    (215) 563-3615

Unkefer Brothers Construction Company has been in the commercial general construction business since 1922. Almost all of our work is for institutional clients, religious organizations and schools.

  • W.S. Cumby, Inc.
    938 Lincoln Avenue
    Springfield, PA 19064
    (610) 328-5353
    Fax: (610) 328-5129
    www.cumby.com

W.S. Cumby, founded in 1981, is highly regarded for its integrity, solid expertise, and partnership approach in professional construction management and general contracting services – with proven experience in the institutional, educational, commercial, and green building market sectors. W.S. Cumby provides services designed to streamline a building’s progression from concept through construction. Regardless of the type of services chosen, clients can be assured of the expertise and professionalism of W.S. Cumby staff and its ability to bring value to the process.

Decorative Finishes / Interior Furnishings

Alvin Holm AIA Architects is a full service practice specializing in traditional design and consultation for new construction and restoration; for additions, interiors, site planning and landscape; and for residential, ecclesiastical, institutional, and commercial clients throughout the country. Mr. Holm also lectures and writes on design in the western classical tradition, from a background of forty years of teaching.

Nestled in the Susquehanna River valley of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg Carpet is the industry leader in “American-made” woven carpets, committed to the time-honored technique of carpet weaving; quality made, environmentally preferred, and crafted by American carpet weavers. Bloomsburg Carpets are historically appropriate for the restoration of America’s sacred places.

Since 1889, Conrad Schmitt Studios has created and restored interiors and stained glass for churches, cathedrals, basilicas, temples and shrines. The Studio provides all decorative techniques as well as investigations into original decorative schemes. CSS also creates and conserves murals, mosaics, stained glass, statuary, and sculpture.

  • Conservation of Sculpture & Objects Studio, Inc.
    900 S. Des Plaines Avenue
    Forest Park, IL 60130
    (773) 594-1451
    www.csosinc.com 

Conservation and restoration of sculpture and monuments, architectural elements, structures, paintings conservation, gilding.

Felix Chavez, Inc. is dedicated to the interior restoration and preservation of architecturally significant buildings including public, private and religious institutions. Our specialties are decorative paint finishes and stenciling, surface modulation, and restoration on a variety of materials. We have close to three decades of experience working mostly throughout the New York region.

Jaeger, Nickola & Associates Architects (JNA) specializes in religious architecture and has completed over 370 church projects in 5 states as the architects for Master Plans, construction feasibility studies, and worship, education, and administration buildings of all scales, including new construction, renovations, historic restorations and adaptive re-use projects.

National awarded studio specializing in the restoration of decorative finishes and ornamental plastering. The studio has an exceptional staff of artisans and conservators dedicated to the creation of murals and conservation of fine art. Our church decorators are students of ecclesiastical decoration and are proficient at all finishes. We are a multi-generation family business with a passion and reverence for sacred design.

Rambusch manufactures custom and engineered lighting for public spaces: churches, museums, state capitols, industry. They are also conservation and replication specialists of lighting fixtures. Rambusch studios are involved in the conservation and preservation of church and public interiors, working in the grades of stained glass, metal, stone, wood, mosaics, and statuary.

Designers and builders of the finest liturgical articles and furnishings for all Sacred Spaces, specializing in marble, woodwork, mosaic, and artistic painting and decorating.

The conservation and restoration of paintings.

  • Sumberac Plastering and Painting
    130 Hazelton Street
    Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660
    (201) 883-0899
    Fax: (201) 229-0890
    www.sumberacplastering.com

Plaster restoration (plain – ornamental); traditional and veneer plastering; Scagliola plaster restoration; hand-crafted historical plaster finishes – Venetian lime plastering-Marmorino; Stucco Veneziano, fresco plaster, metallic pigmented plaster – painting and decorative painting – European plastering.

Disaster Planning & Emergency Response

Church Restoration Group is a nationally acclaimed consulting and restoration firm offering expertise in restoration, renovation and construction services for buildings of architectural, historic and religious significance. We bring experts in pre-construction,design, estimating and project management plus talented artisans, craftsmen and laborers. We have worked on hundreds of buildings across the United States that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Engineering

Jay Bright Architect provides historic building architectural services, addressing issues such as technical analysis of chronic problems, historical research, and adaptive reuse. I collaborate with a network of contractors, peers, and consultants who support specialized work on historic buildings. This support allows me to tackle arcane challenges and my independent practice allows me to innovate and tailor services to each client.

Our firm provides complete architectural services for new construction, additions, renovations, and historic building rehabilitations and assessments. Please review our website at www.davidegall.com

Larsen & Landis provides consulting structural engineering services including historic preservation, truss repair, and facade consultation.

Flooring

Nestled in the Susquehanna River valley of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg Carpet is the industry leader in “American-made” woven carpets, committed to the time-honored technique of carpet weaving; quality made, environmentally preferred, and crafted by American carpet weavers. Bloomsburg Carpets are historically appropriate for the restoration of America’s sacred places.

Fundraising Consultation

  • Adventfunds
    35 West Chelten Avenue
    Philadelphia, PA 19144
    (215) 527-8770
    Fax: (215) 844-8141
    nmuth@aol.com

For more than twenty years, Nancy Muth has been helping congregations of all sizes raise money for capital improvements and for annual ministry and mission. Every congregation is different and she will work with leadership to design a program that will succeed in your situation, all at an affordable price.

AltusWorks is a full service architectural firm that applies a high level of expertise and creative problem solving to the challenges of maintaining, restoring and rehabilitating historic structures. AltusWorks provides facility analyses, envelope repair solutions, accessibility assessments and consulting services to assist owners in preserving their historic buildings.

  • Bloom Metz Consulting
    2812 Landon Drive
    Wilmington, DE 19810
    (302) 584-1592
    Fax: (302) 478-1699
    www.BloomMetz.com

At Bloom Metz Consulting, we don’t just advise our clients, we get involved. Bloom Metz Consulting associates are specialists in the “art and science” of non-profit fundraising, strategic planning, marketing, and leadership development dedicated to helping non-profit organizations achieve their goals.

The Breton Group serves the needs of Michigan churches – assisting them with facility/funding needs to allow them to welcome new members as well as expand and enhance their ministries. Our emphasis on information, prayer and commitment provides the means to raise money within a spiritual context, while enhancing stewardship education.

We design, install, and maintain cast bronze bell instruments; specializing in bell-ringing structures/bellframes and equipment that minimize dynamic and static loading on a tower. This specialization is particularly useful in our renovation and automation of existing bells in older structures.

  • Episcopal Church Foundation
    815 Second Avenue
    New York, NY 10017
    (800) 697-2858
    ecf@episcopalfoundation.org
    www.episcopalfoundation.org

    The Episcopal Church Foundation responds to the needs of the Church in practical, innovative, and spiritually grounded ways. ECF helps faith communities raise financial resources and develop effective leadership.

    Programs include: capital campaigns; planned giving, stewardship, and endowment management; ECF Vital Practices (www.ecfvp.org), which provides financial support for emerging leaders; and various workshops.

Paul Jolly has over 20 years of fund raising experience, with a focus on major gifts, mostly for small, quirky organizations. He has conducted capital campaigns for three organizations, none of which had ever done a campaign before. He offers board workshops, coaching, capital campaign oversight, and pre-campaign assessment/guidance.

Provides pre-campaign planning and guidance plus campaign management for congregations and religious organizations.

  • The Verdin Company
    444 Reading Road
    Cincinnati, OH 45202
    (800) 543-0488
    www.verdin.com

The Verdin Company, family owned since 1842, is the premier manufacture of bells, chimes, and carillons, with over 50,000 installations worldwide. Verdin offers new and historic cast bronze bells, bell ringing equipment, bell towers, and digital carillons. Verdin is the only company offering complete bell restoration. Now celebrating 170 years!

General Facilities Consulting

We provide a variety of consulting services to churches including vendor selection and oversight, licensing and inspections, energy conservation, reduction of operating costs, safety, and preventative maintenance programs. Our primary concern is to have pastors receive the best quality work for a fair price. Contact us for a free consultation.

Green Building/Design

CMA provides complete architectural, planning, and interior design services. We believe that a church needs a partner that believes in their mission and has experience to evaluate and provide excellence in design for a facility that will reflect the church’s vision for the present and future.

  • TranSystems/DPK&A Architects, LLP
    421 Chestnut Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19106-2416
    (215) 627-2700
    Fax: 215-627-9113
    cdoebley@dpka.com
    www.dpka.com

TranSystems/DPK&A Architects, LLP is a firm of architects, restoration specialists, and planners. TranSystems/DPK&A has developed a distinctive style of working with historic and older buildings. We offer a range of approaches that include the restoration of historic buildings, the adaptive reuse of older buildings, renovations to existing buildings, sympathetic additions, and design for repair. TranSystems/DPK&A also undertakes forensic architectural studies that are designed to determine cause of, and cure for, building failures. Our projects are not region specific; we travel nationwide.

  • Hanson General Contracting, Inc.
    214 Kalos Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19128
    (215) 483-8338
    Fax: (215) 483-2088
    www.hgcinc.biz

Hanson General Contracting, Inc. is a 25-year-old full-service general contracting company specializing in historic preservation and sustainable building practices in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs. We also have a small-projects division.

An award-winning design firm, Kimmel Bogrette Architecture + Site has partnered with nearly 100 mission-driven institutions to help them meet their current facilities needs and plan for the future. Services include innovative renovation, historic preservation, planning and new building design.

  • LimeWorks
    P.O. Box 151
    Milford Square, PA 18935
    (215) 536-6706
    Fax: (215) 536-2281
    www.limeworks.us

We are a specialty vendor helping vintage building owners, architects, and craftspeople throughout the US to decide and select appropriate lime-based materials and finishes needed for compatible masonry repointing and building repair. Free initial advice upon receiving a mortar sample sent to us. We generate Mortar Analysis Reports for documenting into an archival record. We create mock-up samples to simulate historic masonry fabric for property committees and for your conservator’s or architect’s review.

  • Metcalfe Architecture & Design
    211 N. 13th Street, Suite 503
    Philadelphia, PA 19107
    (215) 557-9200
    Fax: (215) 557-8383
    www.metarchdesign.com

Metcalfe Architecture & Design is a firm of architects, exhibit and graphic designers, planners, and administrative staff that focuses on non-profit, education, and cultural institutions; retial and food service, and residential architecture. The firm, founded in 2001, creates playful, family-friendly learning environments, intimate living areas, and inviting commercial spaces.

Award-winning architectural firm dedicated to sustainable preservation. Deeply engaged in the formation and dissemination of innovations in technology, philosophy, codes, and guidelines relating to the marriage of sustainability and heritage buildings. No matter the size or complexity, projects goals integrate community & culture, education & training, regionalism & local economy, artisanship & authenticity.

Voith & Mactavish Architects is an architecture, preservation, planning, landscape, and interiors firm specializing in design for religious and educational institutions. With award winning expertise in historic preservation and adaptive reuse, we bring to our clients the ability to work within significant architectural contexts in a knowledgeable and sympathetic manner.

  • W.S. Cumby, Inc.
    938 Lincoln Avenue
    Springfield, PA 19064
    (610) 328-5353
    Fax: (610) 328-5129
    www.cumby.com

W.S. Cumby, founded in 1981, is highly regarded for its integrity, solid expertise, and partnership approach in professional construction management and general contracting services – with proven experience in the institutional, educational, commercial, and green building market sectors. W.S. Cumby provides services designed to streamline a building’s progression from concept through construction. Regardless of the type of services chosen, clients can be assured of the expertise and professionalism of W.S. Cumby staff and its ability to bring value to the process.

Heating and Cooling Systems

  • UNICO, INC.
    Heating and Cooling Systems
    7401 Alabama Ave.
    Saint Louis MO 63111-9906
    (314) 481-9000
    www.unicosystem.com

All across the country, homeowners, business owners and commercial operations are enjoying the high performance and superior comfort of the Unico System. No matter when your home or building was built, or what its physical configuration, installing the Unico System is always a possibility – without compromising design or architectural integrity.

Landscape Architecture

Alvin Holm AIA Architects is a full service practice specializing in traditional design and consultation for new construction and restoration; for additions, interiors, site planning and landscape; and for residential, ecclesiastical, institutional, and commercial clients throughout the country. Mr. Holm also lectures and writes on design in the western classical tradition, from a background of forty years of teaching.

Leadership Training/Strategic Planning

  • Bloom Metz Consulting
    2812 Landon Drive
    Wilmington, DE 19810
    (302) 584-1592
    Fax: (302) 478-1699
    www.BloomMetz.com

Bloom Metz Consulting is a firm dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations achieve their goals – financial, strategic, marketing, and leadership. As the “go-to” firm for the nonprofit community, chances are if we can’t provide the service we can point you in the right direction. Bloom Metz will assess your situation and provide positive, pragmatic solutions to your needs, enabling you to attend to the services and people that depend on you. Bloom Metz Consulting associates are specialists in nonprofit fundraising, strategic planning, marketing and leadership development.

Lighting Design / Lighting Restoration

Established in 1978, Crowell Lighting Design is a consulting firm specializing in architectural lighting design. With over 25 years of experience, our firm has the proven capability to incorporate technical expertise and a sensitivity to design aesthetics. We provide a professional service that fulfills the special requirements of each project.

Lumenelle designs and manufactures custom lighting products in styles ranging from historic to contemporary. Lumenelle also restores and recreates historic lighting fixtures to original appearance using either original incandescent lamping or conversion to energy efficient technologies such as fluorescent, metal halide, induction, or LED where desired and possible.

Rambusch manufactures custom and engineered lighting for public spaces: churches, museums, state capitols, industry. They are also conservation and replication specialists of lighting fixtures. Rambusch studios are involved in the conservation and preservation of church and public interiors, working in the grades of stained glass, metal, stone, wood, mosaics, and statuary.

Liturgical Arts

Conrad Schmitt Studios has been active in the creation and conservation of stained glass for churches, cathedrals, basilicas, temples and shrines in the U.S. for a century. The studio assists in pioneering the techniques and procedures used in these evolving fields. More than 6,000 square feet of glass, including work by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, are conserved or restored by CSS each year.

Jaeger, Nickola & Associates Architects (JNA) specializes in religious architecture and has completed over 370 church projects in 5 states as the architects for Master Plans, construction feasibility studies, and worship, education, and administration buildings of all scales, including new construction, renovations, historic restorations and adaptive re-use projects.

Rambusch manufactures custom and engineered lighting for public spaces: churches, museums, state capitols, industry. They are also conservation and replication specialists of lighting fixtures. Rambusch studios are involved in the conservation and preservation of church and public interiors, working in the grades of stained glass, metal, stone, wood, mosaics, and statuary.

Designers and builders of the finest liturgical articles and furnishings for all Sacred Spaces, specializing in marble, woodwork, mosaic, and artistic painting and decorating.

Maintenance Management Programs

Chicago Project Management provides project management services to assure success in church renovation projects by assisting with architect and contractor selection and bidding as well as obtaining required permits. We organize projects, budgets and schedules and the coordination of field work while acting as your Owners Representative. We also establish a Maintenance Program for your on-going work.

Masonry Restoration

Flagpoles repaired and installed, aerial safety inspections, repairs, restoration and preservation; masonry restoration on steeples, bell towers, cornices, and chimney; traditional painting of exterior buildings and wooden segments; carpentry repairs, steel fabrication, waterproofing, specialty roofing; gold-leaf gilding and lightning rod protection.

Serving Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Maryland since 1996, Golon Masonry Restoration provides expert masonry, historic preservation, and restoration services, including masonry/stone/concrete restoration; brick/stone/lintel replacement; repointing; chemical cleaning; caulking/joint sealant; speciality coatings/waterproofing; brick and stone patching; chimney repair; and preservation consulting work.

Preservation and restoration since 1960.

  • Kelly/Maiello Inc., Architects & Planners
    1420 Walnut Street, 15th Floor
    Philadelphia, PA 19102-4015
    (215) 546-0800
    www.kmarchitects.com

Kelly/Maiello brings to owners of religious properties in the Mid-Atlantic area a highly skilled staff with the technical expertise to evaluate historic buildings and provide sensitive design for restoration, modernization, and adaptive resuse. Kelly/Maiello specializes in developing a work plan adapted to meet each client’s fund raising schedule.

Complete masonry restoration services including: chemical cleaning, repointing, caulking, brick/stone replacement/rebuilding, stone patching, waterproofing sealers/coatings, steeple repair, terra cotta repair/replacements, coping and chimney repair, steel lentil replacement, epoxy injection, bird control. We service a six-state area: PA, MD, VA, WV, OH, NY, and DC.

Specializing in masonry restoration with a conscientious emphasis on preserving our nation’s historic treasures, Knapp Masonry is an award-winning and reputable firm, offering 30 years of expertise in teh masonry restoration field. Please visit or ecclesiastical page: www.knappmasonry.com/ecclesiastical.html

Full service roof and building envelope consulting firm specializing in historic steep-slope and low-slope roofing (including slate, copper, tile, and asphalt shingles), masonry restoration, and architectural woodwork. Services include condition assessments, leak investigations, hands-on surveys and test probes, specifications and drawings, construction administration, and maintenance planning.

  • LimeWorks
    P.O. Box 151
    Milford Square, PA 18935
    (215) 536-6706
    Fax: (215) 536-2281
    www.limeworks.us

We are a specialty vendor helping vintage building owners, architects, and craftspeople throughout the US to decide and select appropriate lime-based materials and finishes needed for compatible masonry repointing and building repair. Free initial advice upon receiving a mortar sample sent to us. We generate Mortar Analysis Reports for documenting into an archival record. We create mock-up samples to simulate historic masonry fabric for property committees and for your conservator’s or architect’s review.

MacDonald & Mack Architects specializes in the preservation, restoration, and adaptive reuse of historic properties. We recognize that the intangible spirit of a building – the combination of design, community, place, and history – is especially important for worship spaces, and we take care to ensure that our work honors and enhances that spirit.

  • Masonry Preservation Group, Inc.
    706 West Maple Avenue
    Merchantville, NJ 08109
    (856) 663-4158
    Fax: (856) 663-9264
    eott@mpgnj.com
    www.mpgnj.com

Masonry Preservation Group, Inc. has been an award-winning restoration contractor in the Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Delaware region since 1985. MPG’s list of services includes: masonry and concrete restoration, specialty general contracting, pointing, caulking, brick and stone wall patching and repair, historic building restoration and waterproofing.

Milner + Carr Conservation, LLC is an affiliate of John Milner Architects, Inc. providing a wide range of conservation services including documentation, analysis, condition diagnosis, testing, monitoring and treatments. Our priority is to design and implement conservation programs to meet the specific needs of a wide variety of historic buildings, monuments and sites. The company was founded on the concept that no two conservation strategies are identical; each must respond to the particular challenges of location, material, condition and environment. Our staff has first-hand working knowledge of a diverse spectrum of materials, computer software, traditional building techniques, and project management.

Mosko Cemetery Monument Services specializes in conservation, preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of historical cemeteries. We deal with all aspects of cemetery care, repair, and maintenance: locating, mapping, maintenance, repair, education, and volunteer workshops and seminars. We identify the cause of the problem, select and execute the least aggressive, most appropriate solution, and complete our work so that it appears as inconspicuous as possible. We address both environmental as well as administrative causes of a cemetery’s condition. Full-scale reports and comprehensive treatment plans are submitted with all surveys. Projects are phased out to conform to any available budget.

Raynal Studios is a fully accredited, full service stained glass studio. The primary focus of Raynal Studios is the professional restoration of historically significant stained glass windows and their settings. Window setting includes wooded frames and sills, stone or masonry frames and sills, interior plaster and trim, and exterior masonry or siding.

Master Planning

CMA provides complete architectural, planning, and interior design services. We believe that a church needs a partner that believes in their mission and has experience to evaluate and provide excellence in design for a facility that will reflect the church’s vision for the present and future.

  • David E. Gall, Architect, P.A.
    David E. Gall, AIA
    938 W. 5th Street
    Winston-Salem, NC 27101
    (336) 773-1213
    Fax: (336) 773-1298
    daviddegarc@bellsouth.net

Architectural service for rehabilitational and new construction; existing conditional assessments; code studies; programming; master planning.

For nearly five decades, Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford has delivered superior architectural design, facility assessment, and master planning services for faith-based clients who demand innovative, enduring facilities. While every project is unique, each involves a collaborative process that ensures the solution is on time, on budget, and functionally on target.

  • Joseph K. Oppermann – Architect, P.A.
    539 N. Trade Street
    Winston – Salem, NC 27101
    (336) 721-1711
    Fax: (336) 721-1712
    office@jkoa.net
    www.jkoa.net

Joseph K. Oppermann, Architect, P.A. is an architectural firm specializing in the research, documentation, analysis, conservation, restoration, and adaptation of historic buildings and sites. The firm promotes time-tested, traditional building technologies, at the same time using the most advanced technologies available in its investigation and assessment efforts. We provide the full range of planning and design services.

  • Levy Associates Architects, Inc.
    11002 Ashcroft Drive
    Suite 220
    Houston, TX 77096-6024
    (713) 528-2912
    levyarch@swbell.net

General practice featuring architecture for religion, recreation, retail, and renovation with award-winning design of facilities for Jewish institutions in the Houston area, including six synagogues… Conservative, Orthodox, and Sephardic. Public lectures and AI Continuing Education presentations on “Synagogue Architecture – Art Objects and Sacred Spaces.”

Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, LLC is an award-winning architectural firm, founded in 1974. Based in Princeton, NJ, the firm has built a national practice over its 34-year history and is recognized for both new design and historic preservation expertise.

The firm’s expertise includes preparation of master planning surveys and recommendations as well as documentation for rehabilitation, restoration, and new construction for historic religious properties. Projects span the building periods from the late 17th century through the 20th century and reflect a wide range of denominations and building styles.

JMA is an award-winning architectural/cultural resources firm dedicated to preserving historic buildings and landscapes and adapting them for changing needs. We offer one-stop historic preservation services, understanding of traditional building methods and materials, excellence in design and project management, and our commitment to a sustainable environment.

  • Menders, Torrey & Spencer
    123 No. Washington Street
    Boston, MA 02114
    (617) 227-1477
    Fax: (617) 227-2654
    www.mendersarchitects.com

Menders, Torrey & Spencer, Inc. is a full-service architecture firm with a practice emphasis on historic preservation, public, commercial, and residential projects. We are experienced in planning, renovation, rehabilitation, new construction, and building studies.

Craig Morrison provides architectural and consulting services to historic buildings nationwide. Specialties include comprehensive restoration, master planning, and long-term phased projects.

  • Selzer Associates
    4514 Travis Street, Suite 235
    Dallas, TX 75205
    (214) 528-4499
    Fax.: (214) 528-7375
    www.selzerarch.com

Selzer Associates was established as an architecture/interior design firm in 1964. We have thirty-six awards for meeting clients’ needs with design excellence We worked Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. Selzer Associates designed the sanctuary restoration at Highland Park United Methodist Church and other Texas Historic Commission-listed properties.

Voith & Mactavish Architects is an architecture, preservation, planning, landscape, and interiors firm specializing in design for religious and educational institutions. With award winning expertise in historic preservation and adaptive reuse, we bring to our clients the ability to work within significant architectural contexts in a knowledgeable and sympathetic manner.

William Stivale is a noted professional Building Restoration Project/Program Planner & Director specializing in leading the development and administration of projects focused on unique historic structures and materials for religious institutions and other nonprofit organizations since 1984. WSBC has developed unique technical and management solutions that have resulted in significant cost savings to his clients, while often winning awards and other recognition for the high quality of the finished work.

Organ Restoration

Construction and design for new pipe organs; historic restoration of older instruments, electric or mechanical, maintenance, tuning, additions, console upgrades, MIDI, consultation for existing instruments.

Plastering and Plaster Restoration

  • Sumberac Plastering and Painting
    130 Hazelton Street
    Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660
    (201) 883-0899
    Fax: (201) 229-0890
    www.sumberacplastering.com

Plaster restoration (plain – ornamental); traditional and veneer plastering; Scagliola plaster restoration; hand-crafted historical plaster finishes – Venetian lime plastering-Marmorino; Stucco Veneziano, fresco plaster, metallic pigmented plaster – painting and decorative painting – European plastering.

Renovation Project Management

Chicago Project Management provides project management services to assure success in church renovation projects by assisting with architect and contractor selections, bidding, and obtaining required permits. We organize projects, budgets, and schedules, and coordinate field work as your Owners Representative/Project Manager. At the conclusion of work, we establish a web-based Work Management System for your on-going corrective and preventive work.

Restoration Project Planner

William Stivale is a noted professional Building Restoration Project/Program Planner & Director specializing in leading the development and administration of projects focused on unique historic structures and materials for religious institutions and other nonprofit organizations since 1984. WSBC has developed unique technical and management solutions that have resulted in significant cost savings to his clients, while often winning awards and other recognition for the high quality of the finished work.

Roofing Contractors / Consulting

Preservation and restoration since 1960.

Full service roof and building envelope consulting firm specializing in historic steep-slope and low-slope roofing – including slate, copper, tile, and asphalt shingles – masonry restoration, and architectural woodwork. Services include condition assessments, leak investigations, hands-on surveys and test probes, specifications and drawings, construction administration, and maintenance planning.

  • Renaissance Roofing, Inc.
    2231 Hawkey Drive
    Belvidere, IL 61008
    P.O. Box 5024
    Rockford, IL 61125
    (815) 547-1725
    (800) 699-5695
    Fax: (815) 547-1425
    www.claytileroof.com

Renaissance Roofing has been in business since 1992, providing solutions to clients with historical roofing systems. We have the knowledge and expertise to solve complex roofing problems at an excellent value. Having completed work in over 20 states, our broad experience provides us with unique knowledge and application experience in almost every environment.

Stained Glass Restoration / Consultation

Providing consultation, appraisal services and educational opportunities to America’s churches and the stained glass industry for over 20 years.

Conservator and restorer of stained glass: public, historic and religious properties; painted/fired glass replication; epoxy repairs; paint consolidation; protective storm glazing systems.

Conrad Schmitt Studios has been active in the creation and conservation of stained glass for churches, cathedrals, basilicas, temples and shrines in the U.S. for a century. The studio assists in pioneering the techniques and procedures used in these evolving fields. More than 6,000 square feet of glass, including work by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, are conserved or restored by CSS each year.

Superior Craftsmanship in Architectural Glass. Free estimates and window evaluations. Design, commission, repair and restoration. Protective covering systems and artificial lighting solutions. Wood and steel window framing restoration. Contact Gartner Stained Glass to find out how we can assist with your next project.

Glass Heritage specializes in stained glass restoration, and the design and fabrication of custom glasswork that beautifully accents your church’s environment. Whether it is stained glass, painted glass, etched glass, or glass mosaic, we create extraordinary works of glass. Service and quality are our benchmarks.

As the oldest continuously operating stained glass studio in the US, Lamb Studio has been at the forefront of glass art and restoration throughout the world. We specialize in restoring LaFarge, Lamb, Tiffany, Meyer, and Armstrong windows. We supply and install wood, aluminum, steel, and bronze frames, along with vented laminated protective covering.

  • Pike Stained Glass Studio, Inc.
    180 Saint Paul Street
    Rochester, NY 14604
    (585) 546-7570
    Fax: (585) 546-7581
    vohara@frontiernet.net

Original design and restoration of stained glass windows; consultation.

Raynal Studios is a fully accredited, full service stained glass studio. The primary focus of Raynal Studios is the professional restoration of historically significant stained glass windows and their settings. Window setting includes wooded frames and sills, stone or masonry frames and sills, interior plaster and trim, and exterior masonry or siding.

Complete stained glass restoration services (Tiffany, LaFarge, Mayer of Munich). Wood frame replication, steel frame retrofitting, vented protective glazing systems.

William Stivale is a noted professional Building Restoration Project/Program Planner & Director specializing in leading the development and administration of projects focused on unique historic structures and materials for religious institutions and other nonprofit organizations since 1984. WSBC has developed unique technical and management solutions that have resulted in significant cost savings to his clients, while often winning awards and other recognition for the high quality of the finished work.

Julie L. Sloan pioneered the field of stained-glass consulting in 1984 and authored Conservation of Stained Glass in America, the only text on the subject. We provide stained-glass condition studies, prioritization, recommendations, estimates, specifications, bidding, and project management. Not affiliated with contractors or studios, we represent owners.

  • Willet Hauser Architectural Glass, Inc.
    1685 Wilkie Drive
    Winona, MN 55987
    (800) 533-3960
    (507) 457-350010 East Moreland Avenue
    Philadelphia, PA 19118
    (877) 709-4106
    (215) 247-5721
    info@willethauser.com
    www.willethauser.com

With two studio locations and more than 70 employees, Hauser/Willet is one of the largest stained glass organizations in the world. Each year our highly skilled restoration specialists have restored windows created by American and European masters such as Tiffany, LaFarge, D’Ascenzo, Connick, Mayer, and Zettler.

Steeple Repair

Flagpoles repaired and installed, aerial safety inspections, repairs, restoration and preservation; masonry restoration on steeples, bell towers, cornices, and chimney; traditional painting of exterior buildings and wooden segments; carpentry repairs, steel fabrication, waterproofing, specialty roofing; gold-leaf gilding and lightning rod protection.

Serving Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Maryland since 1996, Golon Masonry Restoration provides expert masonry, historic preservation, and restoration services, including masonry/stone/concrete restoration; brick/stone/lintel replacement; repointing; chemical cleaning; caulking/joint sealant; speciality coatings/waterproofing; brick and stone patching; chimney repair; and preservation consulting work.

Preservation and restoration since 1960.

Complete masonry restoration services including: chemical cleaning, repointing, caulking, brick/stone replacement/rebuilding, stone patching, waterproofing sealers/coatings, steeple repair, terra cotta repair/replacements, epoxy injection, bird control. We service a six-state area: PA, MD, VA, WV, OH, and NY.

  • Renaissance Roofing, Inc.
    2231 Hawkey Drive
    Belvidere, IL 61008
    P.O. Box 5024
    Rockford, IL 61125
    (815) 547-1725
    (800) 699-5695
    Fax: (815) 547-1425
    www.claytileroof.com

Renaissance Roofing has bee in business since 1992, providing solutions to clients with historical roofing systems. We have the knowledge and expertise to solve complex roofing problems at an excellent value. Having completed work in over 20 states, our broad experience provides us with unique knowledge and application experience in almost every environment.

Strategic Planning, Marketing, and Development

  • Bloom Metz Consulting
    2812 Landon Drive
    Wilmington, DE 19810
    (302) 584-1592
    Fax: (302) 478-1699
    www.BloomMetz.com

At Bloom Metz Consulting, we don’t just advise our clients, we get involved. Bloom Metz Consulting associates are specialists in the “art and science” of non-profit fundraising, strategic planning, marketing, and leadership development dedicated to helping non-profit organizations achieve their goals.

Tower Clocks / Bell Towers

We design, install, and maintain cast bronze bell instruments; specializing in bell-ringing structures/bellframes and equipment that minimize dynamic and static loading on a tower. This specialization is particularly useful in our renovation and automation of existing bells in older structures.

  • The Verdin Company
    444 Reading Road
    Cincinnati, OH 45202
    (800) 543-0488
    www.verdin.com

The Verdin Company, family owned since 1842, is the premier manufacture of bells, chimes, and carillons, with over 50,000 installations worldwide. Verdin offers new and historic cast bronze bells, bell ringing equipment, bell towers, and digital carillons. Verdin is the only company offering complete bell restoration. Now celebrating 170 years!

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