Vermont Restoration Directory

Adam Grimes Window Restoration specializes in restoring and weatherizing wooden windows. We welcome small and large restoration jobs: clients may simply want to make a window operational again, which can be done onsite in a day, or they may want all of their windows glazed, painted, and weatherstripped. We focus on maintaining the aesthetic and historical integrity of historic buildings while maximizing energy efficiency and ease of use. Instagram: @ag.restoration

Since 1978, Black River Design Architects has been finding creative ways to restore life to Vermont’s historic buildings while resolving building code, preservation, funding, and energy efficiency requirements. Notable projects include addition/renovations, adaptive reuse, and deep energy retrofits for historic buildings such as the Wooslon Block in Springfield, Munroe Hall at Middlebury College, Brantview at St. Johnsbury Academy, the French Block in Montpelier, the Vermont History Center in Barre, and many more.

Specializing in the structural repair and restoration of timber structures, specifically barns. Whether it’s jacking and foundation replacements or major roof system repairs, Building Heritage will be able to help you restore. Our repairs ensure your barn is not only structurally sound but a work of art as well.

For the past 30 years, CPAI has provided high quality environmental consulting services to a diverse clientele requiring asbestos, lead-based paint, indoor air quality (including mold), industrial hygiene, and hazardous materials management services. We provide professional inspection, project design, project management, and project monitoring services. CPAI is a Vermont corporation.

• Conditions Assessments
• Code Review
• Project Management
• Construction Engineering

Connor Restoration strives to provide customers with personal service and a high level of detailed professionalism. Connor Restoration has garnered a strong reputation for restoring historic barns and outbuildings to a working life, renovating and refitting historic homes for modern living, as well as restoring church steeples. Working in partnership with the Preservation Trust of Vermont, they work to implement new technologies and procedures while remaining true to historic preservation practices.

Deep Roots Craftsmen is a historic preservation contractor handling the full gamut of projects from timber framed barns, building envelope, and interior restoration work, to windows and doors.

Freeman French Freeman’s expertise in historic preservation spans many decades and includes a wide range of building types. We take pride in our ability to integrate modern systems, meet current codes, improve functionality, and respect the unique character of the historic buildings under our care. Recent projects include the Flynn Theater, Hotel Saranac, the Waterbury State Office Complex, and the Tenth Cavalry Apartments at historic Fort Ethan Allen.

For over 30 years Green Dolphin LLC has provided comprehensive Project Management Services for historic preservation and new construction. Working with our clients, staff, and the best professionals, suppliers, tradespersons, and artisans in the region, we manage building and renovation projects from concept to completion. Excellent relationships with local municipal planning authorities streamlines the approval process. We also help clients secure federal and state tax credits and grants for historic rehabilitation and facilitated their administration through independent financial institutions. Notable projects include St. Albans House, City Hall, and The Courthouse in St. Albans, and the Quincy Hotel and Perley Block in Enosburg Falls.

Hunger Valley Construction is a full service general contractor that specializes in preservation in Northern Vermont. From woodworking, tile, framing, windows, and plaster, we are ready to tackle any restoration project. We are happy to do condition assessments, energy efficiency consulting, construction management, or project review for conservation work around Vermont.

Residential, Civic & Commercial Design in the Upper Valley of Vermont & New Hampshire

JA Saccoccio Architectural Workshop is committed to the preservation of Vermont’s historic buildings through thoughtful and forward-thinking restoration. We enjoy projects that create a sense of place, engage the community, and contribute to the shared passion of strengthening Vermont’s historic fabric.

Our focus:
- Comprehensive rehabilitations
- Selective restorations
- Housing, Commercial, and Community Centers
- Integrating historic architecture with modern sustainability and resilience

Notable projects:
- Renovation of the Bradley House in Brattleboro
- Adaptive reuse of Brattleboro’s Municipal Center
- Modernization of Guilford’s Broad Brook Community Center

Jay White has specialized in historic preservation for over 40 years in Vermont, New Hampshire, Czech Republic and USVI.

Architectural services include:
• Historic Tax Credit Applications and Certified Rehabilitations
• Wood and Masonry Structural Analysis
• Adaptive Reuse for Apartments and Offices
• Sensitive ADA Accessibility Interventions
• Municipal Offices and Visitor Centers
• Inns and Restaurants

Lyssa Papazian holds an MS in Historic Preservation, meets the National Park Service’s qualification standards, and is on regional pre-qualified lists of historic preservation consultants. Her firm specializes in preservation planning, funding, regulation, documentation, and architectural history. She has been working professionally in the field for the past 30 years and has served municipal, non-profit, institutional, and private clients in VT and NH since 1998. She has listed 25 properties on the National Register; secured historic tax credits for 37 properties; stewarded dozens of projects through the state and federal regulatory process, and led community development projects using preservation for revitalization.

Mary Jo Llewellyn holds M.S. degree in Historic Preservation from the University of Vermont and has worked professionally in Vermont for over 30 years. Her work includes survey and inventory of historic resources, review of the impact of federal and state-funded projects on historic resources, Historic Structures Reports, Reinvestment Income Tax Credit applications, Photographic Documentations/Historic Resource Documentation Packages, National Register nominations, historic paint analysis and color consultation. She meets the National Park Service’s qualification standards and is included on several State of Vermont listings of pre-qualified historic preservation consultants.

Merrimack Design Architects has been providing comprehensive architectural services for residential, institutional, and commercial clients throughout the northeast since 2007.

We listen carefully to our clients to de- sign contextual and harmonious architecture, responsive to program needs and budget.

We specialize in preservation and adaptive reuse of historic buildings, retaining distinctive architectural features, and embodied energy, while seamlessly integrating old and new.

Our work is grounded in architectural history, traditional design composition and proportion, technology, and craftsmanship.

We advocate for environmental sustainability and social equity through community action, smart growth, and new urbanism.

With craftsmanship, respect, and admiration. We’re committed to preserving the past to help conserve our future. Services: Pre-Construction, Construction Management, Design-Build. Our skills in historic preservation go beyond restoration. We welcome every opportunity to develop treasured structures for new uses and tenants, while maintaining the charm and character of the original design. We combine our background in period materials, craftsmanship, and techniques with our knowledge of technical innovations to add new chapters to buildings with storied pasts.

Suki Fredericks is a Vermont-based paintings conservator who has worked in museums and the private sector since 1976. Her studio serves museums, non-profit organizations, and individuals such as the Shelburne Museum, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NPS, and Curtains Without Borders. Collaborations include ArtCareMIA/NYC, WASHI, and SLM Conservation Studios. Suki is graduate school and museum trained, with an M.A. in Art History and a Certificate in Conservation from The Institute of Fine Arts at NYU. She is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC).

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R. Edwards and Company is an East Calais-based full-service architecture practice founded by architect and sixth-generation Vermonter, Ryan Edwards, AIA. The practice is dedicated to creating contextual and creative craft-focused architecture, as well as thoughtfully and collaboratively rehabilitating and preserving historic buildings throughout Vermont.

Ryan Biggs | Clark Davis is a consulting firm specializing in structural engineering, repair and restoration, construction support/inspection/testing, and surveying. The firm provides services to architects, engineers, developers, private and public owners, and historic agencies. We maintain a staff of 40, including 20 licensed engineers. With two offices in Upstate NY, we are professionally licensed in over 25 states, including Vermont.

Stained glass window restoration studio in Portsmouth, NH, specializing in large-scale restorations of sacred, commercial, and municipal windows throughout New England.

Studio capabilities: museum-quality leaded window restorations, partial restorations, glass painting, new window design, new window fabrication, antique glass repair, glass slumping, wooden sash repair, historical window expertise

References available upon request. Check our site for recent projects.

We find elegance in necessity, elevating the core principles of each unique site and building project to reflect our clients’ aspirations. Through collaboration, care, craft, and discovery, we reveal architecture’s inherent optimism, contributing to our local community and to the global stewardship of natural and built environments.

Our practice is focused on the sustainable renovation, repair, and adaptation of existing -- often historic -- buildings and sites for contemporary use; conserving embodied energy, habitat, material, and cultural resources. We employ a collaborative approach to programming and design, engaging clients, project team members, and the community to explore and test new ideas.

Stevens & Associates and its sister company, M&S Development, is an integrated, award-winning team that offers architecture, structural and civil engineering, landscape architecture and development services. We are passionate about projects that embrace the historic fabric of our New England communities through adaptive reuse of old buildings, sensitive design of new buildings, and the creation of pedestrian-friendly downtowns.

Accurate stained glass restoration services, from small simple leaded panels to large structures such cathedral windows, ceiling, domes, and partition wall. We provide all phases of a stained glass restoration project as well as consultations, surveys, evaluation, project schedule, repairs, relocation, and re adaptation. We are a family run business with 60 years of international experience.

TBD or Tom Bursey Designs PLLC is a full-service Vermont architecture firm with two areas of focus: growing a body of architectural design work that betters the community in which we all live; and consulting for other architecture firms, engineers and developers, with technical expertise like code assistance, spec writing and assessing building conditions.

VTHT specializes in all aspects of timber frame restoration and preservation with a focus on timber trusses, specifically covered bridges and truss roof buildings such as churches and meeting houses. We have worked on projects as diverse as the restoration of the roof system of Notre Dame, windmills in Estonia, and some of the largest wooden clear span structures in the world. However, we delight most in the preservation of vernacular timber frame structures. We have a deep breadth of experience enacting traditional repairs and working to the standards of the Sec. of the Interior. We plan and work holistically, and are skilled in jacking and moving buildings, steeple repair, hand hewing, millwrighting, and new timber framing.

VHB’s Vermont Cultural Resources Group of four preservation planners is the largest cultural resources management team entirely based in Vermont. The team works on a wide range of projects including NR nominations, SR/NR eligibility determinations, documentation reports, historic tax credit applications, building histories, oral histories, and Section 106, Section 248, Section 4(f ), and Act 250 reviews. Clients include municipalities, state and federal government agencies, academic institutions, developers, non-profit organizations, and utility companies. VHB’s Vermont offices are home to 80+ engineering, planning, and environmental professionals who work to improve mobility and enhance communities while embracing environmental stewardship.

Located in Burlington, Wanamaker Restoration continues to work with local businesses, state institutions, museums and private owners throughout Vermont to preserve and render historically accurate reconstructions and restorations of buildings, furnishings and art objects. With a full window restoration shop they provide services and education to local homeowners looking to maintain the integrity of their historic homes.

From simple tune-ups to full overhauls, we work with homeowners, municipalities, churches and historic landmarks to preserve the integrity and character of historic windows and doors. Our restoration process increases the durability and energy efficiency of windows and doors so that they last for generations to come. We also have an extensive collection of antique and historic pieces for the home: window sashes, doors, hardware, bathtubs, barn board and more. Lead certified and insured.