Facts and Figures
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The following are facts regarding the major restoration of 2000
- With Bishop Boland and Monsignor O'Neill, Conrad Schmitt Studios researched the Cathedral's early decoration and developed the restored decorative scheme based on a composite of the 1873 and 1900 schemes
- Painstakingly conserved each of the 24 murals by Christopher Murphy, preserving the original artists' work beneath a reversible protective varnish while still allowing the full beauty to be restored.
- Throughout the extensive body of stained glass windows, replaced detiorated lead came with restoration quality leading; replicated severly damaged quality leading; replicated severely damaged pieces of hand-painted, kiln-fired glass.
- Restored the Cathedral's previously whitewashed Stations of the Cross as they were originally fabricated, with a skim coat of plaster over the wood and a rich polychromy that brings the Way of the Cross to life.
