Braselton Town Hall

Originally built as the home of the founder of the city, this historic structure was converted into the Town Hall and serves as the offices of the mayor, city manager and other officials. Over the decades, it had gotten old and needed substantial work to reverse the ravages of time. The city came to Peachtree Construction Services (PCS) to help them identify the problems, propose solutions and submit a proposal to undertake the work.

The original pressed tin roof had been covered over with several layers of asphalt shingles and little thought had gone into it, just covering up the problem rather than addressing it. As a result, there was extensive rotting of the underlying system which had begun to seriously affect the structure of the building itself with there being several visible rotted eaves, siding and corner boards. Complicating matters, the repairs would have to be completed while the building remained in daily use.

PCS worked to carefully remove small sections of the roof one at a time and replace the roofing system with one designed to duplicate the original. The manufacturer of the pressed tin shingles used on the roof was located and they still had the capacity to fabricate new shingles using the original moulds. Also, all the flashing around all the chimneys and crickets was peeled away and replaced with heavy-gauge material. The roof system utilized a built-in gutter and this was removed in sections and new gutter fabricated in the shop of the subcontractor was installed piece by piece.

After the roof replacement was completed, all of the rotted wood around the perimeter of the building was carefully removed and replaced with new material custom-milled to match the original. Some sections had rotted through the subwall and those areas were removed as required and replaced with new material.

At the completion of the repair work, the painters moved in and undertook extensive scraping, cleaning, filling, patching and caulking before proceeding to paint the building in the original colors.

As part of the project, the stairs were extensively rebuilt and new cast iron railings were custom fabricated and installed to create a handrail system for handicapped access.

After the Town Hall was finished, PCS moved on to the smoke house behind the building and extensively reworked the foundation, piers and structural framing to stabilize the structure and enable it to continue to be used as a storage facility

45 Sloan Street, Roswell

Built in 1839, this building is thought to be oldest apartment building in the country and served briefly as a hospital for Union troops in the Civil War and has seen many uses over its lifetime including a stint as the library for the City of Roswell. Having fallen into extreme disrepair for quite some time, it was purchased by a developer for conversion into townhomes. The construction management firm overseeing the project contracted with Peachtree Construction Services to handle the portions of the project that related to the original building. As the building was built of very soft handmade brick, all repair work utilized a hybrid mortar mix specially formulated by PCS to allow the walls to expand and contract with the seasons. Basically, PCS’s scope of work was as follows: extensive repair work was undertaken on the rear face of the building to repair damaged brick and mortar, some existing openings were filled in and other openings were cut including large areas at each end of the building to accommodate new stairs and an elevator. PCS designed and installed a custom steel framework to support the structure which was then encased in brick becoming invisible. Prior to that, PCS worked with the project structural engineer to design a new concrete retaining wall system to support the building as the existing foundation was solely of loose stone. The retaining wall had to be had to be hand excavated and poured one section at a time in a very delicate and careful manner. On the interior, the floors were gutted and replaced on one end by an elaborate wood truss system and the other end was replaced with concrete; on the interior, some existing openings were bricked in and other places, new openings were cut, steel lintels installed and the rough opening rebricked; all eight original fireplaces were refinished with new lintels and brickwork; all existing doors and windows were removed and new custom casings and frames installed.



467 Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta

This turn of the century building originally housed a feed and seed store, later becoming one of Atlanta’s first department stores and finally abandoned and in bad disrepair. The current owners, Ivan and Amy Reyes, engaged the services of Peachtree Construction Services to help them restore the interior of the building to increase its marketability as a lease space. The original interiors were gutted on the first floor revealing a large mural on what was the exterior wall of the building next door which was demolished almost fifty years earlier. The mural was carefully cleaned and left in its original condition; the modern dropped acoustic tile ceiling and fluorescent fixtures were replaced with a drywall ceiling with recessed can fixtures; a complete new HVAC system was installed with spiral ductwork; the windows and doors were replaced with matching units that are energy efficient and light absorbing; a new stairwell to the unfinished basement was fabricated and installed; electrical wiring and outlets were replaced to bring the building up to modern standards; the first floor was left unfinished to allow a future tenant to select the finish of their choice; the second floor was recarpeted; finally, the exterior was carefully cleaned and all trim was repainted in a more period appropriate color. The finished result was a carefully and aesthetically appealing historic structure located in an economically emerging area in the shadows of downtown Atlanta.

Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Atlanta, Georgia

Callanwolde Fine Arts Center is located in the former home of the son of the founder of Coca-Cola and is a county-owned facility that offers an extensive range of arts and crafts activities ranging from ballet to classical guitar to pottery, painting and photography. The facility is also used for weddings and as a backdrop for commercials and movies.

In May of 2005, during a heavy thunderstorm, a 200-year-old towering oak tree toppled over onto the house causing extensive damage. The county engaged the services of Peachtree Construction Services to restore the facility to its original condition. The restoration entailed exactly matching the hand-made clay roof tiles and fabricating from scratch the massive and ornate four-layer deep scroll work to exactly match the one totally destroyed in the storm. Virtually all the trim was custom milled using rot-resistant cypress wood. In addition, many pieces of the limestone façade and porch were replaced with exact duplicates hand-carved out of matching limestone.

The finished result is a building that you can not tell was once heavily damaged and restored. Peachtree Construction Services not only met the county’s expectations but exceeded them.

Main Street Bank
Covington, Georgia

Having outgrown their main office and needing more space, this rapidly-expanding bank acquired a turn-of-the-century mansion down the street from the main office. The house had been used for a number of different purposes through the years (boarding house, apartment building, office space) and was in a somewhat rundown condition. Extensive renovation and remodeling were called for both to the exterior as well as the interior in order to transform it into the headquarters of the bank holding company.

Peachtree Construction Services was hired to provide complete design-build services and, over the course of nine months, turned this aging structure into a showplace for the bank’s executive officers. Upon completion, the mansion was as stunning as it had been a century earlier.

Masonic Lodge, Chickamauga

The Farmers Bank
Forsyth, Georgia

This prosperous small town bank had a problem. Their main office was cramped and the lobby was too small. Some offices were hard to get to effectively cutting off the bank’s officers and lenders from their customers. That is when they turned to Peachtree Construction Services to help solve their dilemma and give the old building a new lease on life. PCS came up with a design that eliminated a main load bearing wall in the lobby and replaced it with a steel beam on heavy supports thus opening up the lobby and connecting it to the offices behind it. Extensive renovation work was also undertaken in the newly enlarged lobby.

The project took over eight months to complete (new restrooms were added as well). All construction was undertaken at night and on weekends and holidays keeping the lobby open and functioning during the entire process.

The end result is a smoothly functioning and spacious lobby with the bank’s officers and lenders in offices conveniently located where they are connected to the customers.

T-Mobile
Gwinnett Place Mall
Duluth, Georgia

Peachtree Construction Services was brought in to very rapidly transform a vacant tenant space in an Atlanta-area mall for a franchisee of telecommunication giant T-Mobile. In two and a half weeks, the store was gutted and rebuilt according to very strict guidelines both by the mall and the tenant. All work was completed at night as to not interfere with the normal operation of the mall. The finished space is a real jewel and completely satisfied the tenant and the mall.

H&R Block
Various locations – metro Atlanta area

When this Fortune 500 company was looking to renovate and remodel four spaces it had acquired just prior to the start of the tax season, Peachtree Construction Services was given the job of very rapidly transforming these spaces in a tightly compressed timeframe. All four spaces opened on schedule. On time and on budget.

Nice Financial Services
Jonesboro, Georgia

This rapidly expanding financial services provider acquired a shuttered former Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant located at a strategic intersection on a main highway and engaged Peachtree Construction Services to design-build the space transforming it into new dual-purpose facility. PCS completely gutted the building leaving only a bare shell and then built it back as almost a new building. The client was so pleased that it hired PCS to complete follow-on projects and looks to PCS for all their construction needs.