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RBVA Receives SEED Grant Award for Second Year In a Row.

Restoration Builders of Virginia was a recipient for the second year in a row on the SEED (Supporting East End Development) grant for East End businesses who are improving the neighborhood. 

We will be using the money to help outfit our new shop that is currently being built with the equipment to expand our operation and continue to help breath new life into old buildings in the East End and all of Richmond.

David C Cooley: Co-Founder and Godfather of RBVA Inc. He started this whole thing way back in 1984. 

All of the SEED award recipients. Co-Founder and Owner of RBVA, Jessica Jordan is in the front! Leading the pack ,as always.

Thank you to Bon Secours (the SEED Grant sponsor) and LISC for once again honoring us with this grant.

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Our Lead Carpenter featured in CHPN "The year in photos"

Our Lead Carpenter, Sydney Jordan-Cooley was recently featured on the Church Hill People's News blog's "The Year In Photos" feature. The fifth picture down is Sydney next to a "My Little Free Library" box that she volunteered to custom build for part of the Church Hill neighborhood.

Little Free Library is a system where neighborhoods can have boxes of various sizes with books that people are free to take, return, and add to.

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Happy New Year from Restoration Builders of Virginia! Since we have been working on the White House of The Confederacy porch, we decide to repose an old photo of some Union soldiers.

And of course, we took a much less stern photo.

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Our work on the White House of the Confederacy is featured on the blog of the Museum of The Confederacy!

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Restoration Builders of VA Project Recieves AIA Award of Merit

Restoration Builders of VA Project Recieves AIA Award of Merit

Our Castlewood Project has won the AIA DC Chapter Award of Merit. For the past year we have taken the early 1817 Neo-Palladian style Castlewood plantation house in Chesterfield, Virginia from this:

Before

to this:

After

  We are glad to partner with Davis Buckley Architects to accomplish the restoration of this beautiful piece of property.

Thank you, AIA for the honor!

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One month ago, RBVa broke ground to its new warehouse in Churchill and we couldn't be more excited! Thanks to everyone who has supported us through so many years.... 

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Come Join Our Ground Breaking Ceremony!

Come Join Our Ground Breaking Ceremony! 

Location: 2926 P. Street, Richmond, VA 23223

Date: Friday, May 23rd 2014

Time: 4:30 pm

Event: Ground-Breaking

We will be offering light refreshments.

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Bon Secours awards $50,000 to local businesses for third year

Bon Secours awards $50,000 to "RBVa" (local businesses) for third year

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The hardest decision to make

At least once a week someone will ask me what has been the hardest part of this process. The decision to downsize and the steps to get there have been challenging at times but as for the building p...

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David Cooley meeting with Virginia’s Governor to reminisce about the Governor’s Mansion Restoration

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Future home of RBVa

Future home of RBVa

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Lohmann: In Church Hill, one for the books

The two shelves of the Little Free Library on Church Hill were packed tight Wednesday morning: fiction and non-fiction, paperbacks and hardbacks. Ken Kesey, Rebecca Wells, Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Nov. 12, 2012

David,

Thanks for the response. As usual, I'll grumble at the expense, mainly because it seems the price never comes down (always goes the other way). I recognize that when you get into a project there are unknowns, and agree with you that a description of services would help in explaining what is and isn't covered. 

Having said all this, I told Syd last week that we're impressed with the work you guys are doing, from the way you've set-up   sheeting in the rooms and on the floor, to the friendliness of the folks working in the house, to the quality of craftsmanship. 

Regards,

-(Confidential)

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Contractors like Alan Hart-McArthur, a division manager at Versatile Wood Products in Portland, believe that for older structures' original windows, preservation sometimes is a better choice than replacement.

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2100 East Broad St. 

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Before & After: Churchill People's News

Before and after on M Street

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Jun. 15, 2011

We first used RBVa's skilled services in the 80's, when we lived in an 1889 townhouse on Church Hill. Their reputation for skilled and sensitive treatment of old homes was already solid. When we moved to our architect-designed mid-century modern in 1998, we saw no need to look for anyone else. First, in 2001, they rebuilt our cantilevered balcony, a tricky proposition that involved inserting beams well into the center of the house. A few years later, when Hurricane Isabelle took a corner off the house, they restored it, and worked with the insurance company to do it within their budget and to our standards. And most recently, they rebuilt an arbor attached to the house after another contractor had botched it. Their meticulous reconstruction, built to the original architect's plans, is beautiful - far superior to that made by the previous owners during their renovation. All three of these jobs required not only skilled carpentry, but creative engineering solutions to unique problems. RBVa is not just for Victorian-era homes - their craftsmanship is for any period. It doesn't hurt that RBVa is also dependable, courteous, and in every way professional - icing on the cake.

-Ellen & Ken ‎