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:John Canning Studios

{{Short description|American architecture company}}

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| founders = John Canning

| city = Headquarters in Cheshire, Connecticut

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| founded = {{Start date|1976|df=y}}

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| website = https://johncanningco.com/

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John Canning & Co., formerly John Canning Studios, is a historic building restoration, conservation and preservation company located in Cheshire, Connecticut. It is led by David Riccio,{{cite web |title=Traditional Building Conference Series Speaker |url=https://www.traditionalbuildingshow.com/page/david-riccio}} Dorothea Hennessey, and John Canning.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/04/nyregion/a-tradesman-shuns-fancy-titles.html | title=A TRADESMAN SHUNS FANCY TITLES | work=The New York Times | date=April 1982 | last1=Rozhan | first1=Tracie }}

John Canning & Co. has worked on historic, landmark, and other buildings across the United States, such as the restoration of decorative finishes at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium,{{cite web |date=May 2024 |title=Renewing an Icon Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium GSA Video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn06a0Psi2Q |website=YouTube}} the restoration of the ceiling mural at Grand Central Terminal, {{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-grand-centralconnectic/139956484/ | title=Grand Central Connecticut firm puts new face on a national landmark | newspaper=Hartford Courant | date=March 1997 | page=1 }} the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe,[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703701004575113632447750128?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines Leigh, Catesby. "A Return to Grace."], Wall Street Journal (March 18, 2010) a new church in La Crosse, Wisconsin designed by Duncan Stroik,[http://www.traditional-building.com/Previous-Issues-08/DecemberProject08OLG.html "Classical Shrine."], Traditional Building (December 2008) and Hulihe'e Palace on the Big Island, involving restoration of lime plaster.{{Cite news |date=2008-07-17 |title=Facelift for Hulihe'e Palace is under way |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hawaii-tribune-herald-facelift-for-hulih/139961009/ |access-date=2024-01-31 |work=Hawaii Tribune-Herald |pages=9}}

History

The company's founder, John Canning,{{cite web | url=https://www.traditionalbuilding.com/features/25-leaders-whos-who-in-traditional-building | title=25 Leaders – Who's Who in Traditional Building | date=14 September 2023 }} is an expert on traditional decorative painting techniques and materials and historic color palettes. Canning, a master artisan,{{cite web | url=https://www.traditionalbuilding.com/features/john-canning-profile | title=Master Artisan John Canning | date=7 December 2021 }}{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/04/nyregion/a-tradesman-shuns-fancy-titles.html | title=A TRADESMAN SHUNS FANCY TITLES | work=The New York Times | date=April 1982 | last1=Rozhan | first1=Tracie }} has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects, which has appointed him as an honorary AIA member.{{cite web | url=https://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek09/0206/0206n_hon.htm | title=Eleven Tapped for Honorary AIA Membership | date=February 2009 }} He is also a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works (AIC).https://www.culturalheritage.org/

He studied at the Scottish Decorative Trade Institute, Stow College, and the Glasgow School of Art while serving a five-year apprenticeship as a church decorator in Glasgow, replicating old-world techniques and materials. After his apprenticeship, he opened a studio in Glasgow as a member of the London City & Guilds. Canning emigrated from Scotland to the United States in the early 1970s and opened a studio in Connecticut.

Significant Projects

= Theatres & Entertainment Spaces =

  • Academy of Music – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Completed 2009){{cite web | url=https://www.structuremag.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/F-Ballroom-Doukakis-Nov111.pdf | title=Structure Magazine The Academy of Music and it's Ballroom Restoration | date= November 2011}}
  • Radio City Music Hall - New York, New York (Completed 1999)
  • Warner Theatre - Erie, Pennsylvania (Completed 2002)
  • Stadium Theatre - Woonsocket, Rhode Island (Completed 2001)
  • War Memorial Opera House - San Francisco, California (Completed 1997)
  • Mellon Auditorium - Washington, DC (Completed 2023){{ cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn06a0Psi2Q| title = Renewing an Icon Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium GSA Video | website = YouTube | date=May 2024 }}
  • Medinah Country Club - Medinah, Illinois (Completed 1997)

= Museums =

  • National Building Museum - Washington, DC (Completed 2000){{cite web | url=https://savingplaces.org/stories/a-job-well-done-artisans-who-are-redefining-the-historic-trades?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=weekly&utm_content=20181108#.Xih-i8hKhhH | title=A Job Well Done: Artisans Who Are Redefining the Historic Trades | National Trust for Historic Preservation }}
  • The Mark Twain House & Museum - Hartford, Connecticut (Completed 2016){{cite web | url=https://ctoldhouse.com/Perfecting-Preservation-at-the-Mark-Twain-House.html | title=CT Old House, your online source for your old home, period design, antiques and folk art }}
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Boston, Massachusetts
  • Hulihe'e Palace - Kailua-Kona, Hawaii (Completed 2008){{cite web | url=https://hawaii247.com/2009/09/24/hulihee-palace-plans-grand-reopening-sept-30/ | title=Hulihee Palace plans grand reopening Sept. 30 | date=24 September 2009 }}
  • Lockwood-Mathew Mansion Museum -Norwalk, Connecticut (Completed 1989; 2008){{cite news | url=https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Looking-up-at-Lockwood-Mathews-Mansion-8092873.php | title=Looking up at Lockwood Mathews Mansion | newspaper=Norwalk Hour | date=28 December 2014 | last1=Kleydorff | first1=Alex von }}
  • Taft Museum of Art - Cincinnati, Ohio (Completed 2003){{Cite news |date=2004-05-09 |title=Making Over A Masterpiece |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-making-over-a-ma/139958762/ |access-date=2024-01-31 |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |pages=122}}

= Universities & Colleges =

  • Sterling Memorial Library - Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut (Completed 2014){{cite web | url=https://www.traditionalbuilding.com/projects/yale-sterling-memorial-library?utm_campaign=Traditional%20Building%20%26%20Period%20Homes&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=93469092&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9esS14RJSoaeVG0ElPd7o9-rhYwV0SLQIqN3GnbnZaedzCNLrVcXQtMMNH2zbKeqA3Im6ICOm | title=The Restoration of Yale's Sterling Memorial Library's Ceiling | date=12 November 2020 }}
  • Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut (Completed 1980){{cite web | url=https://www.bridgeportdiocese.org/restoring-battell-chapel/ | title=Restoring Battell Chapel | date=7 August 2023 }}
  • Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan (Completed 2004)
  • The Culinary Institute of America - Hyde Park, New York (Completed 2003)
  • Building 10 M.I.T. – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Completed 2010; 2013){{cite web | url=https://www.architects.org/events/322691/2021/07/08/historic-resources-infinitely-better-renovation-and-restoration-of-mit-building-10-interiors | title=Historic Resources: Infinitely Better—Renovation and Restoration of… }}
  • Kansas State University, Hale Library - Manhattan, Kansas (Completed 2019){{cite web | url=https://www.kstatecollegian.com/2020/12/03/we-are-the-dream-mural-undergoes-restoration-hangs-again-in-hale-library/ | title='We Are the Dream' mural undergoes restoration, hangs again in Hale Library | date=3 December 2020 | access-date=7 December 2023 | archive-date=7 December 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207182042/https://www.kstatecollegian.com/2020/12/03/we-are-the-dream-mural-undergoes-restoration-hangs-again-in-hale-library/ | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url=https://www.kstatecollegian.com/2020/09/30/mural-restoration-brings-hales-great-room-back-to-life/ | title=Mural restoration brings Hale's Great Room back to life | date=October 2020 | access-date=2023-12-07 | archive-date=2023-12-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207181021/https://www.kstatecollegian.com/2020/09/30/mural-restoration-brings-hales-great-room-back-to-life/ | url-status=dead }}

= Civic =

{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/record-journal-when-detail-man-finishes/139956969/| title=When detail man finishes job, old buildings' glories restored | newspaper=Record-Journal | date= November 1992 | page=13 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.ctexplored.org/from-modest-materials-a-grand-effect/ | title= From Modest Materials, A Grand Effect | date=23 February 2022 }}{{cite web | url=http://npshistory.com/publications/preservation/reading-list/painting-hist-bldgs.pdf | title=National Park Service Painting Historic Buildings: Materials and Techniques | date=1993 }}

  • Michigan State Capitol - East Lansing, Michigan (Completed 1992;2017){{cite web | url=https://capitol.michigan.gov/Content/Files/RenewingMichiganCapitol.pdf | title=Michigan State Capitol Commission Renewing Michigan's Capitol 2014-2016 Booklet| date=November 2016 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.msccdomerestoration2023.com/| title=Michigan State Capitol 2023 Dome Restoration}}{{cite web | url=https://app.frame.io/reviews/436f082c-489d-4049-8378-78b0cd194616/| title=Michigan State Capitol Rotunda Restoration}}
  • Pennsylvania State Capitol - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Completed 1998-2004)
  • Rhode Island State Capitol - Providence, Rhode Island (Completed 1998;1999;2016)
  • San Francisco City Hall – San Francisco, California (Completed 1998)
  • Massachusetts State House, Hall of Flags - Boston, Massachusetts
  • US Treasury Building - Washington, DC (Completed 2001;2004;2006)
  • United States Capitol - Washington, DC (Completed 2010;2013; 2021)
  • Fulton County Court House - Wauseon, Ohio (Completed 2019; 2020){{cite web | url=https://www.toledoblade.com/local/courts/2019/09/13/Grandeur-returned-Restoration-renovation-of-fulton-county-courthouse-nearly-complete/stories/20190913133 | title=Restoration, renovation of Fulton County Courthouse nearly complete }}
  • Connecticut Old State House - Hartford, Connecticut (Completed 1994;1995)https://oldstatehouse1.weebly.com/
  • Luzerne County Courthouse - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (Completed 2018; 2020){{cite web|last=Learn-Andes|first=Jennifer|title=An up-close view of Luzerne County Courthouse restoration|date=27 January 2018|url=https://www.timesleader.com/news/local/690619/an-up-close-view-of-luzerne-county-courthouse-restoration|publisher=timesleader.com|accessdate=2018-03-16}}{{cite web | url=https://savingplaces.org/stories/inside-the-detailed-conservation-of-a-1909-courthouse#.Xiix38hKhhF | title=Inside the Detailed Conservation of a 1909 Courthouse | National Trust for Historic Preservation }}

= Other Historic & Landmark Buildings =

  • Grand Central Terminal - New York, New York (Completed 1997){{cite web | url=https://www.history.com/news/grand-central-terminal-secrets-myths | title=8 Secret Features of Grand Central Terminal | date=June 2023 }}
  • Boston Public Library - McKim Building, Boston, Massachusetts (Completed 1994;1998;2004;2024)https://www.culturalheritage.org/docs/default-source/publications/periodicals/newsletter/04_mar_aicnews.pdf?sfvrsn=8ca603c2_11
  • Washington Union Station - Washington, DC (Completed 2020;2022){{cite web | url=https://www.greatamericanstations.com/washington-union-station-statues-restored/ | title=Washington Union Station Statues Restored – Great American Stations }}{{cite web | url= https://www.usrcdc.com/projects/completed/main-hall-granite-masonry-restoration-project/ | title=Main Hall Granite Masonry Restoration Project- Union Station Redevelopment Corporations }}
  • Steinway Hall, (now the new 111 West 57th Street) -New York, New York (Completed 2020){{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/reginacole/2020/04/09/new-yorks-landmarked-steinway-hall-now-connected-to-the-western-hemispheres-second-tallest-residential-building-has-three-extraordinary-condos-coming-on-the-market/?sh=611259e55506 | title=New York's Landmarked Steinway Hall Has Three Extraordinary Condos Coming on the Market | website=Forbes }}{{cite web | url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-rotunda-at-manhattans-historic-steinway-hall-shines-again | title=The Rotunda at Manhattan's Historic Steinway Hall Shines Again | date=5 June 2020 }}
  • Cosmos Club - Washington, DC (Completed 2012;2016) {{cite web | url=https://www.cosmosclub.org/warne-ballroom/ | title=The COSMOS CLUB Restoration of the Ballroom| date=March 2012 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.homeanddesign.com/2018/02/16/gilded-age/ | title=Gilded Age - Home & Design Magazine }}
  • Lenox Library - Lenox, Massachusetts(Completed 2003){{Cite news |last=Cohen |first=Stephanie |date=2003-07-05 |title=Hidden library ceiling restored |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-berkshire-eagle-hidden-library-ceili/139961498/ |access-date=2024-01-31 |work=The Berkshire Eagle |pages=B1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-berkshire-eagle-hidden-library-ceili/139961591/ B7]}}

= Sacred =

  • The First Church of Christ, Scientist, The Mother Church - Boston, Massachusetts (Completed 2018){{cite web | url=https://savingplaces.org/stories/pretty-in-pink-landmark-boston-church-gets-a-refresh#.Yz79dnbMI64 | title=Pretty in Pink: Landmark Boston Church Gets a Refresh | National Trust for Historic Preservation }}
  • Saint Mary's Church ~ Blessed Michael McGivney Parish - New Haven, Connecticut (Completed 2020){{cite web | url=https://aleteia.org/2020/10/26/to-celebrate-fr-mcgivneys-beatification-his-old-parish-is-pulling-out-all-the-stops/ | title=To celebrate Fr. McGivney's beatification, his old parish is pulling out all the stops | date=26 October 2020 }}{{cite web | url=https://catholicmagazines.org/magazine-archive/catholic-transcript/hart1220 | title=Catholic Transcript | December 2020 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.ncregister.com/features/a-visit-to-st-mary-church-first-parish-of-blessed-michael-mcgivney?fbclid=IwAR3025tjxwi08JJXF87H-PkYA-lfJ6XvQkWovkT8gL-6-_kgK6t_fVqRmqo | title=A Visit to St. Mary Church, First Parish of Blessed Michael McGivney | date=7 November 2020 }}
  • Trinity Church, Copley Square - Boston, Massachusetts (Completed 2006;2017;2019){{cite web | url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/new-film-master-artisans-share-their-passions-labors-love-180970474/?no-cache | title=In a New Film, Master Artisans Share Their Passion for the Labors They Love }}
  • Basilica of St. John the Evangelist - Stamford, Connecticut (Completed 2012){{cite news | url=https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/St-John-s-marks-end-of-interior-restoration-3462672.php | title=St. John's marks end of interior restoration | newspaper=Stamford Advocate | date=6 April 2012 | last1=Cassidy | first1=Martin B. }}
  • Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe – La Crosse, Wisconsin (Completed 2008)

Awards

  • 2021 Preservation Connecticut Janet Jainschigg Award – Honoring Longtime and dedicated preservation professionals{{cite web | url=https://preservationct.org/janet-jainschigg-award-john-canning| title=2021 Janet Jainschigg Award | date= May 2021 }}
  • 2023 ICAA Bulfinch Award - Historic Preservation, St. Mary-St. Catherine of Siena Parish2023 Bulfinch Award for Historic Preservation, ICAA New England Region
  • 2023 Preservation Connecticut Award of Merit, New London City Hall2023 Preservation Connecticut Award of Merit
  • 2022 ICAA McKim, Mead, & White Award, San Joselito's Chapel{{cite web | url=https://www.classicist.org/articles/2022-mckim-mead-white-awards/ | title=The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Celebrates the 2022 McKim, Mead & White Awards }}
  • 2020 Palladio Award, Mark Twain House & Museum -Mahogany Suite{{cite web | url=https://www.traditionalbuilding.com/palladio-awards/2020-palladio-award-winners | title=2020 Palladio Award Winners | date=13 May 2020 }}
  • 2019 Palladio Award, Luzerne County Courthouse{{cite web | url=https://www.traditionalbuilding.com/palladio-awards/palladio-awards-2019 | title=Palladio Awards 2019 }}
  • 2020 Bulfinch Award - Craftsmanship/Artisanship, Mark Twain House & Museum{{cite web | url=https://www.period-homes.com/features/2020-bulfinch-award-winners | title=2020 Bulfinch Award Winners | date=17 March 2020 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.nshoremag.com/arts-culture/icaa-new-england-announces-10th-annual-bulfinch-award-winners/ | title=ICAA New England Announces 10th Annual Bulfinch Award Winners | date=23 March 2020 }}
  • 2020 Build Connecticut Award - Specialty Interiors, St. Thomas More{{cite web | url=https://www.stmdarienct.org/construction | title=Church Renovations Update }}
  • 2018 Trumbauer Award given by the Philadelphia ICAA Chapter, Luzerne County Courthouse{{cite web | url=https://classicist-phila.org/2018-trumbauer-awards/ | title=2018 Trumbauer Award Winners | date=15 November 2018 }}
  • 2008 White House Recognition, Secretary of War Suite Eisenhower Executive Office Building
  • 2004 Arthur Ross Award for Excellence & Leadership in the Art of Preservation & Conservation, The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art{{cite web | url=https://www.classicist.org/honors/arthur-ross-awards/ | title=Arthur Ross Awards - Institute of Classical Architecture & Art }} {{cite web | url= https://www.classicist.org/workspace/pdf/Arthur-Ross-Awards-Winners-by-Year.pdf/ | title=Arthur Ross Awards, 1982-2011}}
  • 1992 National Preservation Honor Award, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Michigan State Capitol Restoration https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Publications/MichiganStateCapitol.pdf

References

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External links

  • {{official website|http://www.johncanningco.com}}

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Category:People from Cheshire, Connecticut

Category:21st-century American architects

Category:American designers

Category:Design companies of the United States

Category:Conservation and restoration organizations

Category:New Classical architects

Category:Design companies established in 1976

Category:Companies based in Connecticut