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MCC ANNOUNCES RELOCATION TO PHILADELPHIA
Milner + Carr Conservation is pleased to announce that we will be moving into Philadelphia. Our offices, conservation lab, and studios will be relocating to the recently restored Stable at the Crane Arts Building on Cadwallader Street. The three story building was constructed in 1906 and served as a stable and carriage house for the Crane Plumbing Co. The new facility will include studio spaces equipped to work on both delicate and larger scale objects and artifacts.
MCC CONSERVATOR PRESENTATION AT 2008 AIC CONFERENCE, DENVER, CO
MCC conservator Adam Jenkins was selected to present with Andrew Lins, Neubauer Family Chair of Conservation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Sara Creange, Metals Conservator, Reichsmuseum, Amsterdam at the American Institute of Conservation for Historic & Artistic Works 36th Annual Meeting In April 2008. The their paper is entitled "Addressing Crevice Corrosion in COR-TEN Steel Outdoor Sculpture" and focuses on the recently completed work conserving "Atmosphere and Environment XII" by Louise Nevelson (1970)
MCC CONSERVATOR PRESENTATION AT THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL PAINT RESEARCH CONFERENCE, NEW YORK, NY
MCC conservator Andrew Fearon recently presented at the Third International Architectural Paint Research Conference at Columbia University in New York. His paper is entitled "Copal Resin and the Practice of Oil-Varnishing in the Second Half of Nineteenth-Century America".
SECOND BANK PROJECT WINS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE AWARD
Independence National Historical Park, along with MCC and the Architectural Conservation Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, are 2007 Grand Jury Award Recipients for the Treatment of Incipient Spalling at the Second Bank Building of the U.S., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The award will be presented at the 14th Annual Preservation Achievement Awards Luncheon on May, 2, 2007.
