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Project History
The Cathy Green Building is located at 111 North
Main Street in the small town of Plainwell, Michigan.
Once home to the town bank, it is now filled with local shops,
including building owner Cathy Green’s Bridge Street Gallery.
During restorations in the 1970s a wooden roof structure
was added to the building. In 2009, the decision was made
to remove the wooden structure and restore the building
to its original state. Many components of the building were
completely destroyed during the erection of the wooden
structure. To accomplish the restoration, cast stone pieces
were made to replace pieces that had been destroyed.
While erecting the wooden structure, the original terracotta
walls were drilled through for anchoring purposes. All of
those walls were “broken” and were rebuilt using Matrix.
Matrix is a repair mortar made specifically to match the
appearance and physical characteristics of terracotta.
M3P was applied to the newly rebuilt areas to match
the rest of the building’s original terracotta.

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Contractor
Building
Restoration, Inc.,
Kalamazoo, MI

Distributor
Sto-EX,
Grand Rapids, MI