GRUNLEY CONSTRUCTION TO RENOVATE AND RESTORE NATIONAL SPORTING ART MUSEUM
The National Sporting Library (NSL), Middleburg, VA, a National Center for Sporting Art and Literature dedicated to preserve and to share the art, literature, and history of the horse and field sports has awarded Grunley Construction a $4.4 million contract to fully restore and build the new National Sporting Art Museum (NSAM) at Vine Hill, an historic 1804 Federal building on the campus of the NSL. Additionally, Grunley will construct a new wing on the southwest side of the original 19th century mansion.
At project completion (opening slated for the Spring of 2011) NSAM will house eleven galleries for the exhibition of its permanent collection and for regularly scheduled specialty and traveling exhibits. The new museum will provide one of the largest and most comprehensive venues of fine sporting art in America.
In addition to fully modernizing the mechanical, electrical, life safety, and security systems within the existing building and its expansion, other notable project features include ornamental metal fabrications and replications, custom-fabricated copper clad wood windows, and beautiful herringbone-patterned wood floors. Also grand staircases and numerous steel, stone and masonry details will be installed, maintaining the building’s historic tradition.
Grunley Construction is listed among the Engineering News Record’s Top 400 and Top Green Contractors. Ground breaking ceremonies are scheduled for September 19th, 2009 and construction will soon be in full swing with a forecast for completion in late 2010.
Date Posted: September 14, 2009