Critical Restoration – Oakland Cemetery

Jewish Hill Hardscape Restoration is Complete

May 13, 2019
Critical Restoration, HOF News, Preservation

Thanks to a generous grant from The Rich Foundation, Historic Oakland Foundation's PRO team was able to wrap up the final phase of restoration efforts on Jewish Hill earlier this year. The grant was broken down into three annual installments,…

PRO Team Mission Critical: Nissen Headstone Restoration

July 5, 2018
Critical Restoration, Preservation

Historic Oakland Foundation’s Preservation, Restoration, and Operations (PRO) Team is an integral part of realizing the Foundation’s mission to preserve, restore, enhance, and share historic Oakland Cemetery. The goal of critical restoration is to identify fragile, dangerous, or visually intrusive monuments and walls…

PRO Team Field Notes: Mission Critical

January 31, 2018
Critical Restoration, Preservation

In January the Preservation, Restoration, and Operations (PRO) Team completed the first wave of 2018’s critical restoration. Critical restoration’s goal is to identify fragile, dangerous, or visually intrusive monuments and walls and mitigate the problem before they cause harm or…

PRO Team Field Notes: Restoring the McKinley Lot

November 16, 2017
Critical Restoration, Preservation

The headstone belonging to Jacob McKinley is located in Phase 1 of the African American Grounds restoration project. It is a pedestal-style monument, composed of multiple units of marble “freely” stacked, one on top of another, without any pins or…

Let’s talk critical…

September 23, 2013
Critical Restoration, Preservation

We have talked about our phased restoration and described what activities we do as we continue with our master plan. Situations arise when damage to a plot, or a marker, or a wall is in critical condition. Critical restoration is outside…