A condition assessment, repair details, and peer review of additional new structural work were provided for the historic residence.
The Call-Collins House is a two-story Greek Revival home with a partially below-grade basement constructed around 1830. The property gained a spot on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Designed and built by Richard Keith Call, an aide to General Andrew Jackson, the house served as the residence to a number of important Floridians, including Governor LeRoy Collins (inaugurated 1955) who used it as the official Florida Governor’s mansion for a brief time.
The structure is composed of multi-wythe brick masonry walls with wood floor and roof framing. A two-story addition over a crawlspace was added to the rear of the building in the 1950s.
As part of the process to restore and renovate the building for use as a historic house museum, Keast & Hood provided a condition assessment and repair details for deteriorated and cracked masonry walls and deteriorated wood window headers. New foundation underpinning was designed to allow the insertion of a new elevator directly adjacent to the existing basement and exterior wall foundations within the rear addition. In addition, Keast & Hood performed an overall peer review of the new structural work for the elevator and evaluated an existing brick vault structure proposed for use as an irrigation cistern.
A condition assessment, repair details, and peer review of additional new structural work were provided for the historic residence.
The Call-Collins House is a two-story Greek Revival home with a partially below-grade basement constructed around 1830. The property gained a spot on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Designed and built by Richard Keith Call, an aide to General Andrew Jackson, the house served as the residence to a number of important Floridians, including Governor LeRoy Collins (inaugurated 1955) who used it as the official Florida Governor’s mansion for a brief time.
The structure is composed of multi-wythe brick masonry walls with wood floor and roof framing. A two-story addition over a crawlspace was added to the rear of the building in the 1950s.
As part of the process to restore and renovate the building for use as a historic house museum, Keast & Hood provided a condition assessment and repair details for deteriorated and cracked masonry walls and deteriorated wood window headers. New foundation underpinning was designed to allow the insertion of a new elevator directly adjacent to the existing basement and exterior wall foundations within the rear addition. In addition, Keast & Hood performed an overall peer review of the new structural work for the elevator and evaluated an existing brick vault structure proposed for use as an irrigation cistern.
CLIENT: MLD Architects | State of Florida
LOCATION: Tallahassee, FL
TYPE: Cultural, Historic, SERVICES: Condition Assessment, Historic Preservation, Renovation, Restoration, MATERIALS: Masonry, Wood, SUSTAINABILITY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Completed project photography © Michael B. Johnston Photography
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