Outlook Magazine - Fall 2018

Remove and replace stone Replicate Original 24,000 BRICKS The art of replacing

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East Elevation: Bowman Hall No Scale

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owman Hall, built in 1897 as Stout Manual Training School, needs approxinately 24,000 new bricks — a

The $8.95 million state-funded project has other aspects. Workers are grinding out mortar joints and tuck pointing the entire building; replacing damaged stone; putting a new roof on the Clock Tower (requiring the copper weathervane to come down temporarily in 2019); installing new, historically accurate windows throughout the building; installing new entrance and tower doors; upgrading areas inside the tower; and exposing original features in the annex on the south side. The clock mechanism in the tower also will be fixed, a separate small project. When the project wraps up in November 2019, the hope is that Bowman Hall and the Clock Tower will be good for at least another 100 years. Bowman is one of three 2018-2019 renovation projects totaling more than $38 million. The other two are student fee-funded. At North Hall, a 371-bed residence facility built in 1967, a $21.74 million project is adding 14,000 square feet for an accessible entrance along with a complete renovation — remodeled student rooms, more lounge and kitchen space and expanded bathrooms and showers. Closure of the building for the 2018-19 academic year has necessitated the reopening of Jeter-Tainter-Callahan Halls on north campus. At Price Commons, also opened in 1967, a $7.57 million project includes remodeling about 19,000 square feet of first- floor offices and meeting areas while also rebuilding the patio on Broadway Street. The second floor, which includes the main campus dining hall, was renovated in 2009.

small fraction of what’s in the four-story building yet no small problem. A substance applied in 1994 to waterproof the exterior ended up trapping moisture behind some brick, causing dam- age, according to Mike Bowman, project manager in Facilities Management (and no relation to the building’s namesake, Clyde Bowman). Preservation architect Laura Davis, of Madison, thoroughly researched the locally made red brick. She worked with Building Restoration Corp., which found a company to reproduce it exactly. Replacing the bricks one-by-one began in July, after masons received special training on campus. Other bricks won’t be removed but flipped around.

Workers from Building Restoration Corporation remove mortar between bricks on the south side of Bowman Hall

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