C. Erickson & Sons, Inc. (CM) Ken Socie, PE, Project Executive
Philadelphia, PA
2016
tbs Services, Inc. assisted in the renovation of the exterior components of the Liberti/First Baptist Church at 17th and Sansom Streets in Center City Philadelphia. To date, we have prepared an exterior assessment of findings and preliminary recommendations of all of the church’s masonry walls and roofing systems.
TBS has also worked with the end user, the CM, and the interior architect to produce working drawings for the ongoing remedial work.
First Baptist Church was constructed in 1899 with a stone, steel and wood frame and is clad primarily with fieldstone and cast terra cotta. The front entrance rises approximately 40-50 feet and has a both pitched and low-sloped roofs behind the gable end parapet. To each side of the main structure is a tower that rises above the main roof to form a turret with a pyramid shaped roof. The “dome” superstructure consists of a 12-sided conical shape “spire dome” supported by a 12-sided stone tholobate, or drum structure, which connects to the lower roofs. Each side of the dome is buttressed by a stone pinnacle with a dormer roof connecting back to the dome roof.
TBS’s scope for the project included providing construction documentation and construction administration to ensure that the contractor properly replaced all roofs and made all necessary wall repairs within the allotted budget.
The church serves as home to two congregations, and numerous support groups which include a homeless ministry and a counseling service.
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