"LENOX - Five years ago, as the multi-generational Allegrone family prepared to mark the 100th anniversary of their construction company's opening in Pittsfield, they had good reason to pop the cork on a favorite Italian red wine. The National Park Service had just awarded the Allegrone Cos. a $40 million, two-phase, five-year contract to shore up the massive granite Fort Wood Walls structure built in 1807 to defend New York Harbor."
"Just in time for celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence signing, the five-year mega project has been completed on schedule and on budget, according to Michael Mucci, Allegrone's director of masonry, during a presentation at their Berkshire Design Center headquarters on Pittsfield Road. "The goal was 'giving Lady Liberty the justice of what she deserves, a proper lifelong fix,'" he said."
The Allegrone family completed a $40 million, two-phase, five-year contract to shore up the granite Fort Wood Walls that form the Statue of Liberty pedestal base. The restoration project was finished on schedule and on budget just before celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence signing. The company pursued National Park Service work after successful historic restorations, including Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site and the Robert Gould Shaw 54th Regiment War Memorial. The project leveraged Allegrone's masonry skills and historic restoration reputation and aimed to provide a long-term, proper fix for Lady Liberty.
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