87 Summer Street in Boston
Boston – Abbot Building Restoration recently completed a major masonry restoration project on a 6-story commercial building at 87 Summer Street, located at the corner of Summer and Kingston Streets in downtown Boston.
The project consisted of repairs and preventive maintenance to the mansard roof located on the top floor of the building and to the marble building façade.
As the building recently began to show evidence of water damage, the owner retained the architectural engineering firm of Desman Associates (Boston, MA) to perform an investigation of the mansard, and found that the detailed metal around all the dormer windows had deteriorated causing water penetration into the interior of building.
To restore the mansard roof, Abbot was contracted to replace all of the metal and install new fabricated metal to match original shapes of the dormers, coat the metal to match the original color, and repair and waterproof the gutter system around the perimeter of top floor.
Abbot also partially repointed the marble facade on the entire building, and repaired cracks to the marble as specified on the project plans.
