Willard House and Clock Museum at Grafton in Massachusetts, has selected O’LYN Roofing, a roofing expert in England, for cedar shake roof installation to prevent valuable clocks of the colonial era from water damage.
The Willard House & Clock Museum
The museum houses more than 80 ancient Willard clocks, which were created by the famous clockmaker Simon Willard and his family. The priceless clocks, produced by Simon, are housed at the Old Supreme Court Chamber in Washington, DC, the Old State House in Boston and even at the Oval Office of the White House.
The cedar shake roofs of the museum started leaking due to the damage caused over time and due to a winter storm in 2011. The leakage posed a critical threat to the valuable clocks.
Earlier, the trustees decided to renovate the ancient building and they were very keen on retaining the original look of the building and chose Ron Votta of Atlantic Construction Management to take care of the renovation.
Patrick Keenan, the Director of the museum, said that both he and Ron Votta noticed the water leakage during the visit of Ludvig Oechslin, Director, Musée International d’Horlogerie of Switzerland to the museum. They inferred that immediate action must be taken in order to preserve the ancient timepieces.
Ron Votta called O’LYN Roofing to renovate the cedar shake roof. After thorough inspection of the conventional cedar wood roofing, it was decided to change the wood roofing and high-quality composite cedar shake shingles will be used instead of cedar wood.
Presently, renovation work of the museum is on process and the clocks have been stored in a safe place. The cedar wood roof replacement work will begin from March 26, 2012.
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