From the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, December 15, 1997

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Best restoration

Whig Hall and its companion Clio received 1997 N.J. Golden Trowel Masonry Awards for "Best in Restoration." The buildings, constructed in 1893, were restored by Ford Farewell Mills and Gatsch, Architects in "a complex technological feat that involved suspending the facade of each building on specially designed shoring.

Once the weight of the building was lifted off six massive marble columns, the deteriorated bases of the columns were removed and replaced with new bases and plinths fabricated in Germany from marble quarried in Vermont to match the original. The project also included cleaning and repairing the columns and capitals."

The Golden Trowel awards are sponsored by the International Masonry Institute, in cooperation with the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, N.J. Locals 4 and 5 and the Masonry Contractors of New Jersey, N.J. Chapter I.C.E.

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