Phase 1
COMPLETION OF PHASE 1 REPAIRS!
On July 2nd, First Friday, the Loudoun Museum will re-open after months of repairs to the museum building. Join the staff, volunteers, and board of trustees and celebrate! The beautiful new maple floor and a fresh coat of paint are only the most visible evidence of the hard work done to stabilize, repair the floor joists and moisture-damaged walls, and eliminate the dampness emanating from the basement. The Front Gallery is now literally on a firm foundation, its wide open space an ideal setting for objects, exhibits, and our visitors.
Join us on Friday, July 2nd and see the new exhibit in the Front Gallery!
The Loudoun Museum staff and Board of Trustees wish to thank the Town of Leesburg and Madigan Construction Company for their commitment to the building and the museum's mission.
January, 2010
New floor and a fresh coat of paint: what a difference!
Phase One Repairs Completed!
Jack Stewart, volunteer, painting the front gallery.
Pam putting on a coat of Townhall Tan.
Greg Friedmann, volunteer, cutting in around the handrail
with the new color.
Tom Finnegan, volunteer, prepping the ceiling.
Tom Finnegan protecting his head from dripping paint.
Ron Little, volunteer, prepping the front gallery walls.
Beth Little, volunteer, working on the front gallery walls.
John Detrich, volunteer, painting the door and trim in the front gallery.
Front gallery, Loudoun Street main entrance.
Front gallery newly installed floor.
December 29, 2009
Museum's Middle Gallery, filled with shrouded exhibition cases.
December 18, 2009
Getting ready for the repairs on the North wall.
Plastic sheeting protects CDR.
December 17, 2009
Beginning to protect the stair case.
December 22, 2009
Maple hardwood floors installed!
December 3, 2009
New wall board on Loudoun Street wall.
New wall board on East wall.
Floor repair, Pam vacuuming layers of dust.
Floor repair, Beth cleaning staircase.
Floor repair, Madigan Construction Co. team.
December 2, 2009
Floor repair, new flooring delivered.
Floor repair, subfloor completed.
Floor repair, subfloor completed.
Floor repair, subfloor completed.
December 1, 2009
Front gallery, cutting wall board.
Front gallery, East wall, after repair and insullation added.
Front gallery, treating moisture problems on Wirt Street wall.
November 30, 2009
Floor repair, gravel layer beneath textile case,
November 30, 2009.
November 23, 2009
Floor repair, laying subfloor, November 23, 2009.
Floor repair, laying subfloor, November 23, 2009.
November 18, 2009
After all layers of original flooring and 20th century
floor boards removed, November 18, 2009.
JC Penney's advertisement for ladies' garments,
including "step-ins" such as the one on view
in the Museum's Middle Gallery (see below).
In center, silk "step-in" or cami-knickers, made about
1920 by Mary Katherine Cook Derring.
November 17, 2009
Floor repair, Floor boards removed.
Floor repair, opening to basement.
Automobile advertisement from newspapers from
the '20s and'30's discovered under floorboards.
November 16, 2009
Front Gallery floor removal.
Floor, early reinforcement.
Floor, front door repair.
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