Restoration Gallery

Green-Wood staff meticulously documents the restoration and preservation processes for monuments around the Cemetery. This Restoration Gallery contains projects before, during and after restoration.

Restoration can be as simple as cleaning an existing monument, uncovering a lost monument from the ground or full restoration and fabrication of broken or missing monument pieces.

Restoration Projects in 2009

Green-Wood’s Manager of Preservation and Restoration Frank Morelli, and his team members Bogdan Kubiszewski and Felix Hernandez, chose to restore selected stone and bronze pieces over the course of 2009 as a challenge to Green-Wood’s   restoration... More>

Restoration Projects: Before and after

The Green-Wood Restoration and Preservation staff work on a wide range of projects, some as simple cleaning of monuments and others as complex as recreating sculptural and structural items of the monuments from scratch. This is an gallery of before and after images of... More>