Strollway Centre – Columbia, Missouri

Received the Historic Commercial Revitalization Award for Missouri – 2001

The original façade of this building had been destroyed in the 1950’s, by breaking all terra cotta projections and cladding the building with a metal skin. In order for the owners to obtain their historic tax credits, it was necessary that the exterior façade be restored to historic standards. This required the replacement of the entire upper terra cotta cornice and associated decorative pieces. We removed all masonry infills that had been constructed in the 50’s, and returned the windows to their oariginal state.

On this project, we were unable to obtain a close match of the glazed faced brick, and as a result we removed brick from an alley elevation and used them in the highly visible areas. We were able to replace the brick in the alley with a dissimilar brick and tuckpointed the entire building.