The Fall/Winter 2013 issue of The Barn Door, the News Letter of the National Barn Alliance tells the story of a two-hundred year old barn the craftsman of Centennial Preservation helped to save and preserve for future generations.
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Matt Wolf took to heart the advice his grandfather gave him: never give up,
do your best, and get an education. "He said you need a little bit of
stubbornness to make it in this life," he recalled. Wolf is proof of that.
In July 2009, he was laid off from his job at a commercial concrete company
due to the recession. A month later, he founded Centennial Preservation Group,
a historic restoration and preservation firm based in Columbus. "I knew with
his work ethic and determination, it would be successful," said Matt’s wife,
Tina Wolf. Successful, indeed. Centennial Preservation Group is currently
working on a prestigious project: restoration of the Rotunda at the
University of Virginia, a UNESCO World Heritage building...
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"We can’t just hire any company to fix the roof," said Joelle Folian,
Kappa Kappa Gamma’s director of business operations, of the two buildings
on the National Register of Historic Places. "Anything done has to keep
the historic integrity." The past three years, that task has fallen to
Centennial Preservation Group, a contractor based at 600 N. Cassady Ave.
that works on historic buildings using time-tested materials and craftsmanship...
One of the many buildings Centennial Preservation has been entrusted with restoring is Thomas Jefferson't Rotunda at the University of Virginia. The Rotunda, along with the surrounding Academical Village, and Monticello combine to form one of only three modern man-made sites in the United States to be internationally protected and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The other two modern US sites are the Statue of Liberty and Independence Hall. In this video, one of our suppliers interviews our Principal, Matt Wolf. Matt discusses the importance of preservation and our philosophy in caring for historic buildings.
The Centennial Preservation Group, just a three and a half year old company, headquartered in Columbus,
is restoring a UNESCO World Heritage Building. Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda at the University of Virginia
is the focal point of Jefferson's Academical Village. In 1973 the American Institute of Architects
named the entire Village the most significant achievement of American architecture in the past two
hundred years. In 1987 the University Grounds were named a World Heritage Site on UNESCO's prestigious
World Heritage list, which includes the Taj Mahal, Versailles, and the Great Wall of China. Centennial
founder Matt Wolf notes, In seventeen years in the industry, I have never been involved with a more
important building, and certainly not one designed by a more significant person.