HISTORIC FINISHES GRANT FROM NATIONAL TRUST AWARDED

McCoy Collaborative Preservation Architecture with Artifex and Texas A&M University’s Center for Heritage Conservation/College of Architecture have been awarded a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund for Historic Interiors for the Haynes Engineering Building (originally the Veterinary Hospital building) on the university’s College Station campus. This is the second award to this team for one of the 1930s buildings originally designed with highly decorative architectural finishes by architect Samuel Charles Phelps Vosper. Nancy McCoy, FAIA, FAPT, David Woodcock, FAIA, FSA, FAPT, and Carolyn Brown, photographer, co-wrote a recently published book on these buildings entitled Architecture that Speaks: S.C.P. Vosper and Ten Remarkable Buildings at Texas A&M. The grant will enable an in-depth study of the decorative finishes that have been hidden from view in the lobby, corridors and lecture room since the 1980s when drywall was installed to cover them. The results of the historic finishes analysis will be presented in a lecture on campus and will be utilized to restore these spaces within the building. The firm has just begun this extensive project.