Associated Builders and Contractors Annual Awards Dinner

After receiving the ABC 2010 Award for Excellence for the plasterwork in the renovation of Baltimore’s First and Franklin Street Presbyterian Church, Hayles and Howe were pleased to receive an additional award for Sub-Contract Project of the Year for the same project. Both awards were presented at the Associated Builders and Contractors annual awards dinner on April 28.

Yet another “green” project!

Hayles and Howe Ornamental Plasterers are increasing their “green” resume entries, this time with repair work to the interior lime plaster on the main classroom building at Friends Community School in College Park, MD. The 27,000 sf building is the largest straw bale building in the United States, and Hayles and Howe is pleased to bring our plastering skills to this project.

Workshop Tour

On Friday, February 25, 2011, the artisans in the Hayles and Howe workshop hosted the yearly shop tour/educational session for the graduate historic preservation class in the University of Maryland College Park School of Architecture. Professor Stephen Mallory and his students experienced an insider, hands-on look at the plastering trade as presented by workshop manager James Meade. Hayles and Howe is always pleased to have the opportunity to demonstrate the ancient trade of plastering, and the University of Maryland College Park students are wonderfully receptive participants.

HAYLES AND HOWE USA TO RESTORE PLASTERWORK THROUGHOUT CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM

Lillie Carroll Jackson Museum historical marker erected by the City of Baltimore

Appropriate for African-American History month, celebrated annually each February in the United States, the Hayles and Howe US artisans have commenced work on the 1890 Lillie Carroll Jackson house museum in Baltimore, Maryland’s historic Reservoir Hill neighborhood. Born in 1889, Lillie Carroll Jackson began working for civil rights in the late 1920’sand achieved extraordinary success in securing equal rights for African-Americans in Baltimore and Maryland. President of the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP from 1935 to 1969, Mrs. Jackson expanded it into the largest chapter in the nation by 1946. Under her leadership and with the help of the NAACP’s Legal Redress Committee, the chapter de-segregated the city’s private and public facilities, worked for equal employment opportunities, secured the election of African-Americans to public office, and removed country-wide the local segregation mandates known as Jim Crow laws. The NAACP chapter also equalized teachers’ salaries throughout Maryland, and in a series of cases from 1935 to 1950, opened the University of Maryland to African-Americans. Mrs. Jackson desired to join races in a single, unified community. As she said, “You can’t have freedom and equality without brotherhood, and you can’t have brotherhood without freedom and equality.”


Lillie Carroll Jackson died in 1975, and in her will declared the house in which she lived for 22 years a civil rights museum. The museum was open to the public until 1990 by which time it had fallen into disrepair. The house museum stood unused until the late 1990s when Morgan State University became owner of the property. Since then plans and funding have been put in place for renovating the house so that it can be re-opened to the public. Hayles and Howe are pleased to be restoring the house’s three floors of historic traditional flat plaster as well as decorative plaster cornice. Rich with history, Mrs. Jackson’s former home will once again be a most significant repository for artifacts and memorabilia from the American civil rights movement.

20th Anniversary

On October 15th, 2010, Hayles and Howe Inc. kicked off the celebration of our 20th anniversary with a cocktail party at our shop. Ben Hyman, a representative of the Baltimore city council presented Graham Banks and David Hayles with an official resolution from the city of Baltimore. Baltimore's Mayor Stephanie Rollins Blake also sent Hayles and Howe a certificate of recognition for preserving and celebrating traditional craftsmanship in a contemporary world. We were joined by David Harrison and Jenny Harrison of Hayles and Howe, LTD. (Hayles and Howe Inc.’s associated company based in Bristol, UK). It was wonderful of them to make the trip all the way over the Atlantic for the celebration.

The Hayles and Howe family is looking forward to the next 20 years of exciting projects as well as building relationships with new clients and and preserving relationships with our long-standing clients. It has been a great 20 years of growth!

Thank you for your patronage.