preservation-projects

Preservation Projects

Cultural Heritage

Bloomsburg Carpet Inc. has made the protection of the planet’s most valuable resources, including our cultural achievements, a top priority in each decision. We believe that worldwide historical and environmental posterity is more important than a dollar or all of the flooring products in the world combined.

That is why the consideration of both the creative and natural legacy we leave to all following generations is our largest asset as a carpet manufacturing company and species. We strive to improve this balance each day, and appreciate your help in joining us in this conscious effort to improve our environment. Because we all must constantly remind each other where home base is.

The Inn at Turkey Hill, Bloomsburg PA

Projects

United States Capitol – Senate Chamber
United States Capitol – House Chamber
United States Supreme Court
United Nations Security Council
National Gallery of Art
California State Capitol
Iowa State Capitol
New Jersey State Capitol
Minnesota State Capitol
New York State Capitol
Pennsylvania State Capitol
Texas State Capitol
South Dakota State Capitol
Rockefeller Center Rainbow Room
Carnegie Hall
Count Basie Theatre
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Chicago Lyric Opera House
Radio City Music Hall
South Bend Palace Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House
Mormon Tabernacle
5th Avenue Presbyterian Church
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Our Lady of Lebanon
The Breakers Palm Beach Hotel
The Greenbrier Hotel
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Georgetown University
West Point Military Academy
Pennsylvania State University
Mormon Tabernacle
5th Avenue Presbyterian Church
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Our Lady of Lebanon
The Breakers Palm Beach Hotel
The Greenbrier Hotel
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Georgetown University
West Point Military Academy
Pennsylvania State University

Historical Preservation

The town of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania has a very unique textile heritage related to woven carpets in the United States. Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania is the oldest, continuous manufacturing center of woven carpets in America with an unbroken manufacturing heritage of over 150 years. Known for woven carpet constructions and designs, Bloomsburg Carpet’s archive of historic carpet patterns complements their company’s commitment to historic preservation. Even more important, Bloomsburg Carpet is the only woven carpet manufacturer in the United States that operates all three woven carpet construction types, Velvet, Wilton, and Axminster, within a single manufacturing operation. With over 50 carpet looms in continuous operation, the ability to reproduce historically appropriate carpet patterns is unlimited.

Bloomsburg Carpet’s preservation goal is straightforward.
Manufacture quality historically appropriate carpets for the
preservation of our nation’s architectural heritage.

The use of carpet in American buildings varies with the end use purpose of the building. Woven carpeting significantly contributed to the overall defining features in theaters, hotels, government buildings, temples and churches constructed in the United States prior to 1960. Historical accuracy in pattern, color, construction techniques and materials is crucial in retaining the historical intent of a structure within the preservation process. Bloomsburg’s woven carpets can uniquely assist in complying with the intent of the Secretary of the Interior Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties (37 CFR 68). “Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature will match the old in design, color, texture, and, where possible, materials.”

In addition to the Secretary’s Standards, woven carpets manufactured in the United States can assist in the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives program – section 2124 of the Tax Reform Act of 1976, 90 Stat. 1918, EO 11593, 3 CFR part 75 (1971) as well as the Buy America Act (41 U.S.C. Sec. 10a – American materials required for public use) (1933) and the 2009 American Recover and Reinvestment Act (Pub.L. 111-5) – Subpart 25.602.

The looms of Bloomsburg Carpets, with the craftsmanship of its weavers, have an impressive history of providing woven carpets used in the preservation of historic American landmark buildings across the country. From “America’s Showplace for the Nation,” Radio City Music Hall, through the Senate and House Chambers of the United States Capitol to the Court Chamber of the United States Supreme Court, Bloomsburg Carpet is the woven carpet standard for America’s historic landmarks and architectural treasures.

Lyric Theatre, Manhattan NY

Environmental Preservation

The preservation of existing structures is without question, the ultimate in sustainability. Buildings constructed from the 19th and early 20th century were designed with many considerations for the natural environment, and so have inherent sustainable features. One of the many sustainable features was the carpeting.

WOVEN CARPETS BY BLOOMSBURG CARPET INDUSTRIES, INC.
ARE THE MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY AND HISTORICALLY PREFERRED CARPET
PRODUCTS IN THE FLOORING INDUSTRY & WE HAVE MADE IT OUR MISSION
TO SEE THEY REMAIN SO.

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Carpeting used in these historic structures was always woven. Woven carpets using wool, cotton, and jute are historically accurate for buildings built in the United States prior to 1960. Bloomsburg Carpet’s woven carpets use the same rapidly renewable materials today that were the standards for the carpet industry prior to the invention of tufted carpet and petroleum based nylon, polyester, and polypropylene carpet yarns.

The looms of Bloomsburg Carpets, with the craftsmanship of its weavers, have an impressive history of providing woven carpets used in the preservation of historic American landmark buildings across the country. From “America’s Showplace for the Nation,” Radio City Music Hall, through the Senate and House Chambers of the United States Capitol to the Court Chamber of the United States Supreme Court, Bloomsburg Carpet is the woven carpet standard for America’s historic landmarks and architectural treasures.

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