Alexander’s Inn exterior

Alexander’s  restaurant at the Catoctin inn was built in 1890. On this project we had to remoc the loose flaking paint from the brick structure, wood trim and original wood shutters.  Because the historic brick and sand based mortar was so soft due to age, we could not pressure was the home, so we hand […]

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Firestones Frederick

Firestone’s restaurant, Frederick, MD interior and exterior painting and wallcovering This was a tough project, the restaurants open six days a week, so we had only Monday’s to work on the interior and we completed all the work over four consecutive Monday’s. In order to paint the historic tin ceiling, we would need to apply […]

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Junior fire company #2 exterior painting

  This is the second time APC has painted the exterior of Junior fire company #2 on Market St, the first time was 2005.   Asking 10 years from a job is quite a bit considering the location of this historic structure. Market St gets thousands of cars a day and the exhaust and other airborne […]

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Prospect Hall mansion

  In May 2015 we were contacted by a general contractor to take over the exterior renovation of the historic Prospect hall mansion off of butterfly lane in Frederick.The mansion was originally built around 1787 and was known as “Red Hill” the highest elevation in Frederick, Maryland.   The construction was completed in 1810 and is a […]

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