![]() The museum then contracted the Staten Island firm Simply Built to remove the original ceiling and put up a new one that was finished to EverGreene’s specifications to restore the mural. In 2021, the Noble Maritime Collection contracted our team to return and document the mural, which included a full photogrammetric digital scan and a historic paint analysis, so that one day it could be restored. The existing ceiling framing was no longer sound and also needed to be replaced. Our conservators determined that deterioration of the plaster and failure of plaster keys among other factors lead to the collapse of the ceiling that was built in the 1840s. With a generous emergency grant from the New York Landmarks Conservancy, the museum engaged EverGreene Architectural Arts to assess the condition of the ceiling. Unfortunately, in July 2020 during a thunderstorm, a portion of the ceiling collapsed. Phase I: Conservation Conditions Assessment, Survey, & Documentation It depicted a glasshouse roof suggesting the South Seas, where many of the resident mariners had sailed. The mural was originally commissioned by Sailors’ Snug Harbor around 1883 in celebration of the retirement home’s 50th anniversary. While restoring the room, the Noble Crew discovered, under decades of paint layers and plaster patches, a Victorian trompe l’oeil ceiling mural, and its restoration was a crowning achievement of the rehabilitation of Building D. The Writing Room is an original feature of the building-a large, sunlit common area on the first floor, just next to the front entrance, where sailors once gathered to write correspondence. ![]() The Noble Maritime Collection is known for the grassroots adaptive reuse project led by the volunteer Noble Crew during the 1990s, which rehabilitated the National Historic Landmark Building D, a former Sailors’ Snug Harbor dormitory from 1844, and turned it into the museum’s new home.
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