Three projects · 2021–2024

Projects

A National Historic Site, a municipal heritage permit and a community landmark. Each was taken down before it went back up.

National Historic Site

Little Dutch Church

Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church National Historic Site

An ironstone slate wall bordering the burial grounds, collapsing and leaning into the street, recorded and rebuilt in two phases for Parks Canada and St. George's Anglican Church.

Halifax, NS2022–2023Ironstone slate220 ft (68 m)

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The rebuilt dry stone wall running along the sidewalk beside the white clapboard Little Dutch Church and its red steeple.

Municipal heritage permit

Kingston Frontenac Public Library

Kingston Frontenac Public Library, Pittsburgh Branch

A c1860 farm wall on a designated heritage property, recorded metre by metre, dismantled into labelled pallet bags for a bridge project, and rebuilt at 70 degrees to its original line.

Kingston, ON2021–2023Limestone16 m (55 ft)Relocated at 70°

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Four wallers in hard hats and hi-vis at the finished corner of the rebuilt Kingston wall, the large shaped corner stone and its cope beside them.

Community landmark

Amherst Island Solar Alignment Pillar

Solar Alignment Legacy Site, Amherst Island

A sinking pillar on a community landmark, dismantled to diagnose a bedrock shelf nobody had identified, then rebuilt on solid bearing with quarried stone chosen over scarce island stone.

Amherst Island, ON2024Dolomitic limestoneOne pillar, 79 inRebuilt to bedrock

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Four wallers standing around the rebuilt coursed pillar at the Amherst Island solar alignment site, its capstone level with their shoulders.

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