We are a small, but not too small architectural and historic restoration and preservation contractor based out of Kingston, MA. We are small enough to provide unparalleled customer service, craftsmanship and attention to detail, all without big company prices. Operating as a collective of indepentent craftspeople, we have the capibility to and expertise to do just about anything and everything in house. Some of the services we offer are eco-friendly coatings removal, on and offsite sawmilling, the largest inventory of antique builder's hardware in the country, antique hardware repair and restorantion services, inhouse design and architectural services, architectural metalwork fabrication, architectural and structural epoxy repair, post and beam repair and construction, copper smithing and installation, and slate roof installation and repair, to name a few.

We are New England's premier coating removal specialists. Using the most advanced non-toxic and environmentally friendly methods available. These include mechanical, chemical, and pneumatic non-abrasive methods. This is accomplished with the latest hydrogen peroxide based chemical strippers, a portable 50HP non-abrasive blasting rig, and a full compliment of abrasive coating removal equipment with 98% efficiency dust collection.

With the aid of expert sawyer, Jeff Mitchell and his Super Hydraulic quiet CAT diesel powered portable mill and veteran cutter, Greg Fairbanks, we can harvest native timber on your property and fashion it into historically appropriate architectural components for your existing home or addition.

Using both modern vibratory burnishing equipment as well as time tested metal refinishing techniques we can restore your antique builders hardware to NOS (new old stock) condition.

Inhouse design services are provided by Jill Spires, M. Arch., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. Jill has worked on numerous historical and architecturally significant homes thorughout Massachusetts. Her clients include numerous New England business and civic leaders as well as historical conservationists and impassioned home owners. Whether you seek a period appropriate addition, a post and beam 'train station' inspired pool house or a complete renovation of an existing structure, you could not be better served.

We house a shop equipped to fabricate ornate architectural metal work, copper flashings, chimney caps, hand made bronze hardware, and structural components. We stock copper sheet goods, copper alloys (brass, bronze, etc.), hot and cold rolled steel, and stainless steel.

Few firms have more experience utilizing epoxies in architectural and historic restoration than we do. We inventory over a dozen application specific epoxies and have demonstrated expertise in their singular and co-application. Such applications include architecural and structural repair, advanced wood substrate coating practices, and antique window, door and trim repair.

We stock reclaimed slate roof shigles for repair and total replacement and are part of the largest slate restoration, repair and recycling collaborative in the country. We have access to hundreds of thousands of reclaimed slates.

We've never moved mountaints, but we've moved barns.