Saints Joseph and Michael Church

Construction of Saints Joseph and Michael Catholic Church on Central Avenue was completed in 1875. The building is a state and national historic place. On March 4, 2017, a fire started in an adjacent apartment building and quickly spread to the church.

The church was badly damaged from the 2017 fire and underwent a major restoration project. John Tiedemann Inc./HPCS USA was called in to assess the plaster ceilings and ribs that support the ceilings. Both were suffering from serious deterioration, some systemic and some caused by the fire. JTI/HPCS USA successfully stabilized 12,000 square feet of the plaster-on-wood-lath ceiling using the HPCS three-step treatment system featuring HPCS consolidation products. The ribs were stabilized with HPCS RE Aramid Gel, an acrylic resin reinforced with DuPont™ KEVLAR®.