SACRED

are a celebration of man’s relationship with the divine.

They share very much in common; religion reveals a unity of truth and art renders this truth imaginable. Each gives life to the other.

Religion without art could be beyond man’s grasp and art without religion would have no place in man’s heart.

RELIGION & ART

Dedication Plaque, Birks Chapel / McGill University

this pageCathedral of the Immaculate Conception | Wichita | 1912 | Masqueray

on the coverSt. Francis Xavier | New York | 1882 | Patrick Keely

EverGreene has provided liturgical artistry and restoration for sacred spaces for more than three decades. Restoration, renewal and new design efforts are a collaboration with the client and design team to produce a harmonious, inspiring integration of art and architecture. We value the practical needs of a project, offering value-engineering options and delivering projects on time and on budget.

EverGreene’s artists, craftspeople and professionally trained conservators are among the most talented in the country. Our solutions are informed by a cross-disciplinary approach integrating conservation science, restoration craftsmanship, advanced technology, art history, architecture, engineering, and construction. Clients also benefit from single-source responsibility, high standards of artistry and craftsmanship, and a unified artistic vision. EverGreene has been described as “a modern-day Renaissance studio” by The New York Times.

About Us

Your company has provided excellent services in plaster restoration and decorative painting to meet our budget, schedule, and expectations of quality. We’ve found your staff to be very helpful in guiding us to technical and artistic solutions, and highly responsive in addressing the needs of our project.”

Services

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• The Baltimore Basilica• Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament,

Sacramento• Church of the Ascension, New York• Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles• Eldridge Street Synagogue, New York• St. Mark’s Church, San Francisco• Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis • Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland• Plum Street Temple, Cincinnati• St. Francis Xavier, New York• St. Peter’s Church, San Francisco • Temple Emanu-El, New York• Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception,

Albany• Tabernacle of the Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City

Diane Rathjen, Director of FacilitiesThe Brooklyn Tabernacle (NY)

Award-winning Projects

Preconstruction, Planning & DesignOrnamental & Flat PlasterDecorative Paint, Gilding & FinishesNew Art & Mural DesignMural Restoration & ConservationLiturgical FurnishingsSpecialty ConstructionStone, Metal & Wood Treatments

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Design&Planning

PlanningEverGreene can assist you in the planning, design & budget development. Preconstruction is an essential element of any well designed project. This phase often begins with research and analysis of historic finishes. A color rendering is the culmination of the preconstruction phase; it is an excellent way to communicate your vision and can be an outstanding fundraising tool.

Cathedral of the Blessed SacramentSacramento | 1889 | Bryan J. Klinch

Over the course of a century, the cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament’s interior had lost its artistic harmony. EverGreene conducted a historic finishes investigation, the findings of which guided a decorative and mural program based on the 1890s campaign. EverGreene developed budgets, assisted the architects and church with specifications, and created renderings, design documents, and a mock up prior to implementation of plaster repairs, straight painting, decorative finishes and new didactic murals.

Murals add meaning and beauty. EverGreene’s design team is fluent in the iconography of varied styles and traditions. We understand the impact of sacred art and architecture on worship and work collaboratively to develop designs appropriate to the building (historic or new), community and budget.

Prince of Peace ChurchKearney, NE | 2011 | RDG Planning & Design

The architecture of Prince of Peace is clean, modern and simple. Murals effectively convey to all who enter that this is a sacred place, designated for meditation and encounter with Christ. He is present in on the 22’ high reredos in the Beuronese style. Angels, which appear on pillars throughout the church, were designed with the Beuronese principles of sacred geometry, but aesthetically harken to Nebraska’s Native American roots.

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

Historic research and a collaborative design processwith the Cathedral committee, architect and liturgical consultant led to the creation of a decorative scheme inspired by historic photos, and new murals that reflect the values and mission of the parish.

Wichita | 1912 | Emmanuel Masqueray

Photographs by Whitney Cox

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Murals

St. Joseph’s Co-CathedralBrooklyn | 1912 | Francis J. Berlenbach Jr.

Before After

When St. Joseph’s parish church was elevated to Cathedral status murals, decoration, and liturgical furnishings signaled the transformation from a building in service of local community to the icon of a diocese that celebrates Mass in 42 languages. 22 murals of the Blessed Mother, patroness of communities well-represented in the diocese were commissioned along with over 100 decorative murals and a new American Saints mural. Our scope included restoration of deteriorating plaster, painted finishes and severely damaged scagliola; conservation of historic murals; and design of new liturgical furnishings.

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St. Aloysius Catholic ChurchBowling Green, OH | 1923 | Felix Lieftucher (Muralist)

EverGreene conservators, after gently dissolving areas of post-historic paint, found the original mural could be uncovered and restored. Historic images and microscopic analysis determined the original color palette. Conservators carefully removed layers of latex and oil paint and inpainted the mural to rejuvenate its historic palette.

Restored murals. Historic Overpainted

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St. Paul the ApostleWesterville, OH | 2011 | David Meleca

EverGreene designed, painted, gilded, and installed this timeless set of murals for the sanctuary of this new, traditional style church. The theme, developed with the architect, liturgical consultant and church committee, envisions the worship space as a representation the Heavenly City. The triumphal arch over the sanctuary depicts a Heavenly Crucifixion; and the Blessed Sacrament Chapel below, the Heavenly Garden.

DecorativePainting

Artfully decorated sacred spaces can raise the spirits of all who enter. Creating and restoring traditional decorative paint schemes requires artistry, skill, and a broad and deep understanding of historic materials, finishes and techniques. For more than 35 years, EverGreene has maintained mastery in the field of decorative painting.

Watercolor rendering of proposed chancel redecoration, with tromp l’oeil Evangelists, columns and tracery; faux marble and decorative painting.

Cathedral Parish of St. PatrickHarrisburg, PA | 1907 | George Lovatt, Sr.

For this Cathedral, EverGreene provided a combination of conservation, restoration and new design sympathetic to the original and updated for current sensibilities and liturgical norms. New sanctuary elements, including the reredos, apse niche traceries and furnishings inspired by the lost originals were created in plaster and painted as marble. New evangelist murals recall statues that were part of the original design.

Spring Lake, NJ | 1902 | Horace Trumbauer

St. Catharine’s Church

EverGreene was commissioned to plan and perform the conservation of notable turn of the century murals, as well as restoration of historic plaster, finishes and decorative painting. The church’s murals, which had sustained damage and deterioration, are primarily the work of the renowned Italian artist and decorator, Gonippo Raggi. EverGreene reinstated The 1928 decorative scheme.

Basilica of St. Louis, KingSt. Louis | 1835 | Laveille & Morton

Research and investigation detected five significant decorative campaigns and a plaster survey revealed considerable deterioration. EverGreene restored and reinstated the 1890s decorative scheme using hand painting and fine art giclée reproductions on canvas.

Photograph by Jeff Bradley

Rendering Before

Plaster

EverGreene’s plaster artisans are trained in traditional techniques of sculpture and experienced in the practical requirements of flat and ornamental plaster. Our plaster expertise extends to glass fiber reinforced gypsum (GFRG) and cast stone. State-of-the-art conservation techniques are combined with traditional craftsmanship to inform restoration, replication or new plaster design, creation and installation.

Our Lady of the Most Holy TrinitySanta Paula, CA | 2009 | Duncan G. Stroik

At the newly constructed St. Thomas Aquinas College chapel, EverGreene designed and fabricated monumental plaster ornament, including Corinthian column capitals, entablature, and entry pediment. Cast elements were painted to match true marble. We provided decorative painting and liturgical artwork, including the tympanum bas-relief of the Coronation of Mary, pendentive murals of the evangelists, framed paintings of saints and statuary depicting Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, and attending angels.

RestorationConservation&

The preservation, conservation and restoration of historic interiors is at the core of EverGreene’s services. Our formally trained conservators and skilled restoration craftspeople assist clients in understanding their historic interiors and preservation options with consideration of the practical needs of the project. Specializing in plaster, decorative painting and conservation, EverGreene brings a fundamental insight to the integral relationship between these materials and their durability as a system.

During RestorationAfter Restoration

Eldridge Street SynagogueNew York | 1887 | Herter Brothers

EverGreene first performed research and paint studies for the Synagogue 19 years before the project came to fruition. The guiding philosophy of the work, developed with the architect and client, was to preserve a ‘patina of age’ for the National Historic Landmark. Work included overpaint removal, plaster consolidation, decorative paint conservation and the replication of lost stenciling, faux-wood graining, marbleizing, gilding, and wood finishing.

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Washington, DC | 1893 | C. Grant LaFarge

St. Matthew’s Cathedral

Conservation of murals by master muralist Edwin H. Blashfield is one of several efforts by EverGreene to preserve Blashfield’s work. EverGreene completed a phased restoration of the plaster, murals, mosaics, decorative painting and marble for the 1893 Cathedral designed by C. Grant Lafarge. The Cathedral remained occupied throughout the restoration, with minimal disruption to day-to-day operations.

Photograph by Matthew Roth

Before and after conservation

Los Angeles | 1929 | A.M Edelman

Wilshire Boulevard Temple

The Byzantine revival style dome had been damaged by water that caused severe deterioration of the paint and delamination of the plaster. Loose plaster was consolidated and replacement ornament was cast from extant elements on site. Accumulated dust and salts were cleaned, and the 10,000 sq ft dome interior was restored using a variety of techniques including glazing, Keim painting, flashing, and gilding.

Photograph by Tom Bonner

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Brooklyn | 1848 | Richard Upjohn

Grace Church

EverGreene’s historic finishes investigation uncovered original designs that once adorned the walls and ceiling of Grace Church. Comparative analysis from various historic decorative campaigns unveiled that Gothic ornament in A.W. Pugin’s “Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament,” (1844) served as inspiration for Grace Church’s 1866 decorative scheme.

EverGreene’s studio artists sought to find a balance incorporating historical elements harmonizing with the church’s architecture and current mission.

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Photograph by Whitney Cox

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Planning & Design Ornamental & Flat PlasterDecorative Paint & FinishesGildingLiturgical FurnishingsNew Art & Mural DesignRestoration & ConservationSpecialty ConstructionStone, Metal & Wood

Venetian Plaster, Christ the Light Cathedral, Oakland, CA