Often at CCAHA, our work with a client is fairly straightforward—they bring us an object that is damaged, we assess its condition, and one of our conservators treats it. Other times, a project can be multifaceted, requiring the attention of many staff members and unfolding over a period of years...
About two decades after the American Civil War, President Grover Cleveland appointed a board to evaluate the state of the country's coastal defenses. That body, led by Cleveland's Secretary of War William Crowninshield Endicott, was known as the Endicott Board, and it eventually issued a report that...
We are so thankful for the support of a dedicated community of people who understand and value our work—people who intuitively grasp how extraordinarily fragile our material heritage is. It’s not just time and chemical deterioration that affects the preservation of cultural heritage; we must also be...
