Historical Plaster Division
We are committed with a true love and passion to preserve our architectural historical heritage to the absolute highest standards. We keep our personnel abreast of the most current research, education, training, planning, and resources to achieve the highest level of preservation. We provide research, specifications, site studies and skilled labor to correctly restore structures in a historically correct procedure. Matthew Henson Sr., head of the Historical Division, has 30 plus years in the preservation field.
Headed up by Matt Henson Sr., Professio’s plaster division is a team of selected skilled artisans with over 80 years of combined historical plaster expertise unmatched in our industry. Trained with old world skills and craftsmanship and maintaining modern conservation standards and procedures we have the skills to tackle even the most challenging restoration project. Our craftsmen take tremendous personal pride restoring the original beauty and integrity of each building while insuring their long term durability.
We have extensive knowledge concerning various materials historically used from clay plasters, traditional lime plaster, gypsum plasters, to the more modern Portland cement plasters. We strive to understand both the material and the ways in which they perform on historic structures. We keep abreast of all the current best standards of historic restoration from the U.S. Dept. of Interiors standards of procedures, to current research information. The team has worked on projects ranging from the U.S Capital building, to an 1780 Spanish consulate building in Roma Texas, to ornate theaters in Pittsville Massachusetts, Erie Pennsylvania and California, to the Iowa state capital, to simple historic frontier ranch homes.
