For over 70 years, Blackburn Building Conservation LLC has helped museums, churches, institutions, contractors and homeowners maintain and preserve their historic structures. We are a small firm offering comprehensive, museum quality architectural conservation services to our clients and strive to implement careful, efficient and practical solutions to the problems involved in preserving our built heritage.

All of our work is based on extensive research and practical knowledge of the methods, materials, and techniques of period artisans and craftsmen. This enables us to conserve and restore unique design components without sacrificing their historic character. Our architectural conservators utilize minimally invasive treatments to preserve decorative paint and wood finishes, faux finishes as well as gilding and gold leaf. In addition we provide restoration and conservation services for interior and exterior historic millwork, wood windows, doors, decorative moldings and trim. We also offer metal conservation services for chandeliers, lighting fixtures and ornamental metalwork including cleaning, patination and the application of protective coatings.

Partners Ted and Walter Eayrs and their staff draw on their extensive academic background in art and architectural history as well as their years of practical experience in building conservation, to implement successful preservation projects at some of the nations’ premier historic sites. These include, the Breakers in Newport RI, the Old South Meeting House in Boston, MA and Tudor Place House and Garden in Washington, DC.