Once one of the defining characteristics of Downtown Orlando, the 1927 courthouse building was "out-of-order." When the building was to be renovated into a historical museum, the interiors had to be reconstructed while preserving the building's historical significance.
To accomplish this goal, KHS&S crewmembers researched and selected products that closely matched the building's original finish of Indiana limestone as well as devised a method of restoring walls that were missing chunks of two to three-feet of plaster. Designing a customized jig, crewmembers were able to trace existing moldings and use the drawings to cut pieces of new material to substitute for the missing pieces. To complete the project, craftsmen employed the lost art of hand plastering to integrate the old and new into one seamless finish.
The building is now a landmark building included on the national register. The project also won KHS&S a national AWCI Excellence in Construction Award.
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