NCPTT

The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) in partnership with Save Our Cemeteries, Inc. (SOC) will be holding a Limewash Workshop on June 13, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Limewash is enjoying renewed interest as a protectant for historic structures, thanks in part to research undertaken by NCPTT and its partners.

This six minute video explains how to prepare and apply limewash.

Sarah Jackson and Andy Ferrell visited the Magnolia unit of Cane River Creole National Historic Park to investigate possibly using the slave/tenant farmer cabins at Magnolia Plantation for a limewash training workshop and video production.

This report is an executive summary of testing undertaken by NCPTT in partnership with the Cane River Creole National Historical Park (CARI) and Quality Finish.

The study tested a variety of limewash recipes for possible use on historic structures located in the Cane River Creole National Historical Park, located in central Louisiana.

As a result of NCPTT’s limewash study, Sarah Jackson has been in demand to present her research as well as hands-on demonstrations using traditional limewash.

NCPTT’s Sarah Jackson along with colleagues Mary Striegel and Tye Botting were awarded the Oliver Torrey Fuller Award for their article, “Durability of Traditional and Modified Limewash.”

Sarah Jackson of NCPTT presented “Limewash: the Other White ‘Paint’” at the 2007 International Preservation Trades Workshop in Frederick, Maryland.

NCPTT’s Sarah Jackson was featured in the Spring 2007 issue of Traditional Masonry Magazine (Volume 2, Issue 2).

Sarah Jackson represented NCPTT at the Casey Farms workshop, a Preservation Trades Network regional workshop.

A report on NCPTT’s research, entitled “Durability of Traditional and Modified Limewashes,” by Sarah M. Jackson and Mary F. Striegel, has been accepted by the APT Bulletin for publication in its Summer 2007 issue.

NCPTT’s Architecture and Engineering program took part in the recent International Preservation Trades Workshops in New Orleans.

NCPTT materials research staff Dr. Tye Botting and Sarah Jackson presented research at the annual APTI conference on Sept. 15, 2006, in Atlanta.

Results are available on the durability of traditional and modified limewashes tested by NCPTT.

NCPTT’s Sarah Jackson was featured in the November 2006 issue of Preservation in Print for a recent limewash demonstration.