Saving Grace: An endangered timbrel-vault basilica by Rafael Guastavino is the focus of fund-raising

The Basilica of Saint Lawrence in Asheville, North Carolina, is the only building in the United States that the elder Guastavino designed from the ground up. (Read more...by Logan Ward, Preservation Magazine, Summer 2020)

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A number of technicians will rappel down the bell towers and exterior walls of the Basilica using laser technology to look for leaks and other structural issues over the entire facility.

"My head starts to hurt when I follow the geometry and try to figure out how he [Guastavino] built this! It is spectacular."

05/07/2018: Joseph K. Oppermann Architects P.A. to lead this project . . .

Progress Report - 05/21/2018