BUILDING FACTS

Location: Waterbury, CT
Built: 1928
Original Architect: Maginnis & Walsh
Style: Renaissance Revival / Italian Renaissance

SCOPE

• Fresco Conservation
• Mosaic Conservation
• Stone Conservation
• Marble Conservation
• Fine Art Conservation
• Metal Conservation

The Basilica engaged CLA for conservation and cleaning of fourteen Stations of the Cross, it's marble side shrines devoted to St. Mary and St. Joseph, and statues elsewhere of Saints Paul and St. Patrick.

A latex suspended poultice was applied to the intricately carved statuary. Still flexible when dry, the latex coating was peeled off taking with it years of dirt and grime. CLA conservators worked on the carved wood frames and the painted Stations of the Cross to clean, consolidate, conserve, and inpaint as needed.

Church was modeled from the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome