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Stone & Lime Historic Restoration Services has been selected by the National Park Service to oversee the restoration of the iconic Cape Lookout Lighthouse in Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina. The multi-year preservation project includes structural repairs, historic masonry restoration, metal restoration, and repainting the 1859 lighthouse to protect one of America’s most recognizable maritime landmarks for future generations.

Stone & Lime Historic Restoration Services received the 2025 Frederick Law Olmsted Award from Preservation Massachusetts for its restoration of the Great House at Crane Estate in Ipswich, MA. The nationally recognized project highlights the firm’s expertise in historic masonry restoration, structural rehabilitation, and the preservation of significant historic landmarks.

Stone & Lime Historic Restoration Services and Victoria Mansion have been recognized with a 2026 Maine Preservation Honor Award for the restoration of the mansion’s historic Front Bay in Portland, Maine. The award-winning preservation project combined traditional craftsmanship with advanced technologies, including 3D scanning and hand-carved Portland Brownstone, to restore one of the nation’s finest examples of Italianate architecture and a National Historic Landmark.

Stone & Lime Historic Restoration Services has completed the multi-year restoration of the historic Easton Building in downtown Boston for the National Park Service. The award-worthy preservation project included historic masonry restoration, granite façade repairs, structural steel rehabilitation, window restoration, and the installation of an innovative cathodic protection system to preserve one of Boston’s earliest steel-framed skyscrapers.

BUXTON, N.C. — The black and white paint of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse can be seen from miles on land and sea but not right now. The structure has been stripped of its paint and is surrounded by scaffolding, all part of an almost $20 million multi-year restoration project that began in September 2023.

We were thrilled to once again see our project at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse profiled in the media, with a fantastic report from National Parks Traveler magazine.

Did you know Stone & Lime is overseeing a significant masonry restoration at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Springfield?

See our project profiled on MassLive.com.

Six months into an extensive restoration project, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse already looks like a different structure, thanks to a tower of scaffolding that was erected around the lighthouse in the spring.

Stone & Lime Imports work on The Second Bank of the United States (Philadelphia, PA) has been selected to receive a Grand Jury Award at this year’s Preservation Achievement Awards ceremony. The Preservation Achievement Awards will be presented on Wednesday, June 5 in Philadelphia.

Stone & Lime’s scope of work on this project included the replacement of the copper roof assembly, repair of associated framing/sheathing, replace 40-foot section of roof beam with steel beam, repair, repointing and rehabilitation of the marble walls, replacement of wood window sashes and trim, replacement of wood doors, install heat trace cable system, install lightning protection system, and restore select interior plaster locations.

In addition to Stone & Lime, the project’s team members include Building Conservation Associates; Independence National Historical Park; National Park Service Denver Service Center; GWWO; Simpson Gumpertz & Heger; Henry Adams, LLC; APSI Construction Management; WMG Historic Restoration; and Metal Alliance.

By: Joy Crist

The multi-year project to restore the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and surrounding grounds is about to enter a new and highly active phase.