Roofing Services in Bronzeville, Chicago

Bronzeville carries an architecturally significant stock of greystone two-flats and three-flats, rowhouses, and substantial boulevard buildings from the 1890s through the 1920s, much of it within designated historic districts. Roofs are low-slope behind masonry parapets, frequently with elaborate cornices and decorative stonework at the roofline. There is also a growing volume of rehabilitation and new infill construction, and vacant or long-deferred buildings undergoing restoration where the roof is often the first thing that has to be addressed.

Restoration work is a large share of what we do here, and on a long-deferred building the roof and the masonry parapet usually need to be addressed together - a coping joint that has been open for years has let water into the wall, not just the building. Decorative cornice-to-roof terminations require careful detailing. Historic district designation affects visible material choices at the roofline.