Goodwin Hotel
Façade and Roof Restoration
Hartford, CT   

The Queen Anne-style Goodwin Hotel in downtown Hartford was built in the late 1800s and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The 124-room luxury hotel boasts highly detailed facades with ornamental brickwork and terra cotta, which began to exhibit symptoms of distress and failure. After detailed probes revealed the extent of the damage, Hoffmann Architects developed designs for an exterior rehabilitation program that simultaneously created a watertight building envelope, and maintained the aesthetic/historic features of the hotel, consistent with state historic commission guidelines. Work included stabilization of the deteriorated backup, replacement of damaged face brick, repointing, slate roofing replacement and restoration of ornamental metalwork and cladding at dormers. Grout-injected sock anchors were specified to improve the stability of ornamental terra cotta. Phased construction ensured that at least 80 percent of the Hotel’s guest rooms remained unaffected at any given time.