Selected Project · 2024
A 1882 brick foundry in [Your City]'s historic district, brought back to use as a community arts building. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, 2025.
c. 1898
[ARCHIVE] [Your City] Historical Society
2024
[PHOTOGRAPHER] · [Photographer Name]
Studio
Haldane is a small studio. We work on historic homes, mills, schoolhouses, churches, and civic buildings — the buildings that gave a town its first character and that, with care, can give it its next chapter, too.
We are not in the business of replication. We're in the business of repair. When a sash window can be saved, we save it. When a beam can be sistered, we sister it. Replacement is the last resort, not the first quote.
Forty-seven projects across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast since 1996. Twelve listed on the National Register. Every one of them in continuous use today.
Selected Works
2024 · Adaptive Reuse
[Your City], MD · 12,000 sq ft · NRHP 2025
2023 · Residential
Charleston, SC · 4,800 sq ft · 1849
2023 · Civic
Hudson Valley, NY · 1873
2022 · Residential
Bucks County, PA · 1798
2022 · Adaptive Reuse
Lancaster, PA · 1881 · now a library
2021 · Adaptive Reuse
Lancaster County, PA · 1810 · now an inn
Materials & Methods
Preservation is craft before it is design. Each material has its own grammar — what it asks of us, and what it permits. A small library of the techniques we return to most often.
Heart pine
Saved when sound, sistered when split, milled to match when missing. Never replaced wholesale.
Lime mortar
Soft enough to give. Hand-mixed by trade to match the original color, hardness, and aggregate.
Leaded glass
Releaded when the cames have failed. Re-stabilized when the panel is whole. Always documented before disassembly.
Original hardware
Catalogued, removed for safekeeping, restored, returned. Replacement only when integrity is lost.
Three-coat plaster
Lath, scratch, brown, finish. Applied by hand to retain the slight irregularity that drywall can never quite match.
Milk paint
Mixed in batch from casein and pigment. Forgiving, breathable, and faithful to the period palette.
Slate & copper
A century-and-a-half roofing system, mended by trade. Worth every dollar more than asphalt for what it returns.
Sash windows
Restored, weather-stripped, and (where appropriate) discreetly storm-glazed. Almost always more energy-efficient than they're given credit for.
On the Register
Listings on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and selected state and local registers, by year of designation.
Notes
On windows · 7 min read
A century-old sash, well-tuned, performs better than its reputation — and lasts longer than most replacements.
On masonry · 5 min read
A short note on the chemistry of repointing, and the case for matching mortar to the building, not to the home center.
On reuse · 9 min read
A meditation on embodied carbon, useful life, and the second (or third) chapter we owe these structures.
Inquiries
We take a small number of new commissions each year. The more you can share at first — age, condition, register status — the better we can know whether we're right for the work.
Studio
214 Front Street, 2nd Floor
[Your City], MD 00000
By appointment
Monday–Thursday
Phone
(555) 010-7100
studio@haldanepreservation.com