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Project History
In 1972, Boston’s South End neighborhood was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as the largest Victorian brick row house district in existence in the United States. 1 Union Park, built in 1859, with an architectural style of French Second Empire was one of those houses. It was purchased in 1861 by its original owner, doctor John S. Flint, M.D. By 2005, the building was suffering from severe scaling and delamination, as deep as two inches in areas. Master Building Associates, hired to restore the structure, chiseled the remaining outcropping of moulding flush to the building, using light hammer blows to prevent fracturing. Once a firm substrate was reached, little remained of the building’s original detail. Matrix repair mortar,a wider neck.

David Laʻamea Kamanakapuʻu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua became the last reigning King of Hawaii in 1874. The King was called the Merrie Monarch for being an enthusiastic patron of all things joyful. He reintroduced the previously banned hula, surfing, and was an ardent supporter of an adaptation the natives had made of a four-stringed instrument brought to the islands by Portuguese laborers. The new instruments were made of local koa wood in imitation of the “machete”, a high-pitched sub-guitar. Madeiran cabinet makers Manuel Nunes, José do Espírito Santo, and Augusto Dias, are credited as the first ukulele makers. They came to Hawaii in 1879 and entertained people with street concerts. King Kalākaua added ukulele performances to royal gatherings. The word ukulele means “jumping flea”, after the