Kronenberger & Sons Restoration, Inc.

The Old Town Hall is a 1905 Beaux Arts style building. Built as a reinforced concrete structure, the building served a double purpose: as a Town Hall and as a fireproof repository for all of the Town's documents after a fire destroyed the previous Town hall.

Vacant for the last 20 years, the City, working with a community developer, is restoring the exterior, and interior, while adding a small addition to accommodate modernized elements including an elevator and new fire stair. This addition also provides room for mechanical risers allowing minimal changes to the interior's grand 3-story stair hall. The renovated building will have a complete sprinkler system along with other modern infrastructure upgrades such as air conditioning. Spaces will be leased to office tenants and at the street level to retail establishments. The grand rooms at the front of the building will be restored as a historical museum with room for community meeting space.

Fairfield Hall was, until recently, WestConn's only all-female residence hall. Built in 1917, the hall then accommodated 84 students; in 1957 the faculty was renovated and 46 units were added and for the next 50 years stayed virtually unchanged. In 2007 Kronenberger & Sons Restoration, Inc. was contracted by the State of Connecticut to do a full interior renovation of the 34,000 square foot Fairfield Hall turning the modernized dormitory into a coeducational residence hall, housing several lounges and study areas.  This work had to be completed in order for the students to move in prior to the beginning of the school year September 2008. This project started with a complete removal of all asbestos (not in Kronenberger & Sons contract).  Once all asbestos was removed and Kronenberger & Son started selective demolition, there were immediate structural concerns that caused a number of scope changes.  Once uncovered, it was found that the removal and replacement of the majority of concrete sub-floors in the building was necessary as well as the replacement of the majority of steel floor joists that had disintegrated over the years.  There were also a number of issues, once uncovered, with the extensive HVAC package designed to integrate with the existing steam generator plant on site. These problems, along with the normal pitfalls and hidden setbacks associated with this type of work made for quite a few extremely long days and short weekends in order to finish in time for the students' arrival.  Once these problems were solved the project moved along quite well through finishes.  With the help of the State of Connecticut DPW, The University, the Construction Administrator and a host of excellent subcontractors we did meet all of our due dates and the students moved in as scheduled.

Kronenberger & Sons Restoration, Inc. is a three-generation firm specializing in the restoration, preservation and adaptive re-use of historic structures. We serve the industry as general contractors, project managers and historic consultants. The company is comprised of craftspeople with the knowledge, skills and experience to return usability to older structures, while helping them meet the requirements of the 21st century.  Past clients have included museums, municipalities, architects, historical societies and homeowners.  Our projects have included barns, carriage houses, churches, town halls and a vast array of period homes and buildings.

The Florence Griswold Museum Restoration was a special project that melded state of the art construction materials and techniques with the historic fabric of a house built in circa 1818 that housed priceless impressionist artwork. Much of the artifacts were removed from the house but not all could be.  The famous "Fox Chase" painting remained on the fireplace throughout the project as well as numerous items left in the storage room in the basement.  The three goals of the project were to structurally stabilize the roof structure, restore the building envelope as well as the building interior, and to locate all mechanical and electrical systems out of the house into an attached addition that would house a state of the art geothermal system that would maintain a museum quality environment within the house.  Life safety alarms were installed as well as museum grade light dimming systems.  All this, while maintaining the appearance of the house as it was renovated for Miss Florence in circa 1910.

Kronenberger & Sons Restoration, Inc. is a three-generation firm specializing in the restoration, preservation and adaptive re-use of historic structures. We serve the industry as general contractors, project managers and historic consultants. The company is comprised of craftspeople with the knowledge, skills and experience to return usability to older structures, while helping them meet the requirements of the 21st century.  Past clients have included museums, municipalities, architects, historical societies and homeowners.  Our projects have included barns, carriage houses, churches, town halls and a vast array of period homes and buildings.