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Saugus Iron Works
The fist successful integrated iron making plant in colonial America that operated from 1646-1668.
Lumus completed renovations on the museam to commemorate America%u2019s earliest large-scale iron making plant on 07/27/2007. -
Meriam's House
Meriam's house, also known as Meriam's corner, marks the site where Colonials launched a guerilla offensive against the British soldiers retreating from their defeat at North Bridge just a short while before. The House (built in 1692) on this corner dates even older than the battle itself.Lumus worked to restore the Meriam's House on this spot in in Concord, MA on 10.1.2001 -
Whittemore House
The Whittemore House, also known as the Butterfield-Whittemore House, was built in 1695 by Johnathan Butterfield, proving to be the the oldest surviving structure in Arlington. The second half of the house's name comes from the man who purchased it from Butterfield in 1749, Samuel Whittemore III, son of the 1775 Revolutionary War hero.
Lumus finished renovations on this house on 06/12/06. -
Boston Light House
The Boston Light hHouse was the first light station established on the North American continent, and the last in the United States to be automated. It's also the only U.S. light station that still retains an official keeper. The light house was lit for the first time on September 14, 1716.
Lumus was hired for work on this structure in 2003. -
Fort Stanwix
This fort in Rome, NY was built by British General John Stanwiz in 1758. It was known as "the fort that never surrendered".
The national monument for Fort Stanwix was renovated by Lumus on 10/29/2007. -
North Bridge
North Bridge in Concord, MA stands as the site of the first American victory in the Revolutionary War against the British. On 02.07.2001 Lumus completed the construction of a visitor center to commemorate this crucial battle in United States History. Then, on 07.15.2005 Lumus completed renovations on the bridge itself. -
Buttrick Carriage House
The Buttrick House was home to Colonel John Buttrick, battle of North Bridge Hero in 1775 who gave the famous command "Fire, fellow soldiers, for God's sake, fire!"
Lumus worked to renovate the carriage house oh Joh Buttricks property and finished on 10.09.2003. 09/10/2003 -
Bunker Hill
The Bunker Hill Monument stands on the spot of the first major battle of the American Revolution on June 17, 1775. The Bunker Hill Monument is not on Bunker Hill but instead on Breed's Hill, where most of the fighting in the misnamed Battle of Bunker Hill actually took place. What is mildly funny about this monument is that it is an Egyptian style structure, located in an Irish town in Boston, on the wrong hill, to commemorate a battle that the Colonials lost.
Renovations completed 06/14/2007. -
Morven Park Mansion
The mansion on this estate, evolved from a fieldstone farmhouse in 1781. It is mostly widely known as once home to two Governors--Thomas Swann, Jr., Governor of Maryland, and Westmoreland Davis, Governor of Virginia. Thirteen years after the death of Westmoreland Davis in 1942, Mrs. Davis established the Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation as a memorial to her husband. The estate was opened to the public in 1967.
Lumus was hired for the installation of a mist system for this park in 2007. -
Hamilton Grange Memorial
The Alexander Grange Memorial in New York, NY stands to commemorate the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. George Washington appointed this position to Hamilton September 11, 1789.
Lumus is currently working to relocate this house. -
Springfield Armory
The Springfield Armory in Springfield, MA was established in 1794 and operated until 1968 manufacturing military shoulder arms that were used in every U.S. conflict during that period.
Lumus completed restorations on the now historical site on 02.24.2003. -
U.S.S. Constitution
The U.S.S. Constitution, built in 1797 after the approval of the Naval Act of 1794, is the oldest commissioned ship afloat in the world. Lumus performed work on the Constitutuion Museum Building and Visitor Center which pay tribute to the Revolutionary era ship, and also many other projects in the Charlestown Navy Yard where this ship is preserved. These works were completed on 07/01/2001 and 10/24/2007. -
Adams House
John Adams, two-time Vice President under George Washington, became the second President of the United States in 1797. The Adams house in Quincy, MA was inhabited by the Adams family during this time.
Lumus completed renovation on the carriage house on the Adams House property on 07.22.2002. -
Commandants House
This house in Boston, MA has served as the residence of the U.S. Navy commanders since 1805. It is the oldest structure in the Charlestown Navy Yard.
Work on this house was completed by Lumus Inc. on 03/05/2006. -
Alexander House
The Alexander House in Springfield, MA was built by Simon Sanborn in 1811. It is one of the oldest surviving structures in Springfield, Massachusetts. The house was moved for the first time in 1874 by former Springfield mayor Henry Alexander Jr., and then for the second time to accommodate the erection of a Federal Courthouse.
Lumus facilitated the second moving of the house in July of 2004. -
Marine Barracks
Built in 1811, the Boston Marrine Barracks is nation's oldest surviving U.S. Marine barracks building still used to accomodate the U.S. Marine Corps. established in 1798.
Lumus completed construction on this building on
03/05/2006. -
Abiel Smith School
The Abiel Smith School in Boston MA is famous as being the first African American schoolhouse. Preserved still as a museam to commemorate such a historical landmark, Lumus completed renovations on this school on 5.1.1999 -
Hamilton Canal
The Lowell Canals in Massachusetts were begun in 1792 when a group of Irish laborers from Charlestown made their way up to Chelmsford, MA on the Merrimack River. in 1836 the Hamilton Canal was completed in Lowell, the same year the Alamo battle is fought.
Lumus completed work on the canal gate in 2005. -
Longfellow House
The Longfellow House was named after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the renowned American poet, occupied the house from 1837 to 1882. Prior to his purchase of the house though, The Longfellow House also served as George Washington's headquarters during the siege of Boston in 1775-1776.
Lumus worked on the restoration of this house in CAmbridge, MA and the carriage house on the property in 06.22.2002 and 06.23.2004 -
Martin Van Buren House
This is the former home of Martin Van Buren, elected eighth president of the United States in 1837. Martin Van Buren was the first president to be born an American citizen since all of his predecessors were born before the American Revolution.
Lumus worked on this Kinderhook, NY house and finished on 06/03/2005. -
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
The town of Harpers Ferry in West Virginia witnessed the first successful application of interchangeable manufacture, the arrival of the first successful American railroad, John Brown's famous attack on slavery in 1859, the largest surrender of Federal troops during the Civil War, and the education of former slaves in one of the earliest integrated schools in the United States.
Lumus performed numerous jobs for the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. -
Olana House
This house constructed in 1860 was home to Frederic Church, one of America's most important landscape artists. Church is most known for his famous painting called Heart of the Andes which he presented to the public 1859. This painting soon sold for $10,000 (at that time the highest price ever paid for a work by a living American artist).
Renovations on Olana were completed on 11/03/2006. -
Gibson House
Constructed in 1860, The Gibson house is one of the first houses built on Beacon Street in Boston, MA. It was originally owned by widow Catherince Hammond Gibson.
Lumus finished renovations on this house on 04/21/2008. -
Penniman House
This Cape Cod House was built for the prominent whaling captain Edward Penniman in 1867. Lumus finished renovations on this house on 08/13/2002. -
B&M Railroad
The Boston and Maine Railroad was previously the dominant railroad of Northern New England. This Historic structure belonging to the B&M Railroad lines in Lowell, MA was built in 1876
and was restored and reconstructed by Lumus from old photographs. Completed 05/01/2004 -
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Estate
The Marsh-Billings Esate was first home to George Perkins Marsh, author of Man and Nature and one of the nation's first global environmental thinkers, and then purchased by Frederick Billings, president of the Northern Pacific Railway, in 1869. Later, the estate was purchased byMary French Rockefeller & Laurance Spelman Rockefeller.
Lumus completed renovating this Woodstock, Vermont estate on 12.15.2002. 1869 -
Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
The Sandy Hook Proving Ground was the United States Army's first proving ground for the testing of ordnance and materiel. It was formally established by the Secretary of War on August 7, 1874. The narrow coastal strip of land in New Jersey served as proving grounds until 1919.
Lumus worked on these grounds. -
Frederick Law Olmstead House
02/24/2003
Home of the renowned landscape designer Frederick Law Olmstead who in 1877 transformed the marsh Back Bay area in Boston into what it is today. Other famous works of his include Central Park in NY, and the landscape surrounding the White House.
Lumus finished renovating his house in Brookline, MA on 06.17.2003 -
Blow Me Down Bridge
A man named James Tasker built this bridge in Cornish, NH in 1877.
Lumus completed renovations on this bridge on 09/01/2008. -
Weir Farm
In June of 1882, painter J. Alden Weir to this modest farm among the hills of Branchville, CT. Three artists, American Impressionist Julian Alden Weir, sculptor Mahonri Young and painter Sperry Andrews, made the farm their home from 1882 to 2005.
Now a National Historical Landmark, Lumus was hired in 2004 to perform work on this house. -
Saint-Gaudens Aspet House
This house was home to one of the most famous sculptors of the 20th century, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who purchased it in 1891. Augusts' works include the sherman Monument at the entrance of New York's Central Park and the Shaw Memorial.
Lumus finished work on this house in Cornish, NH on 05.15.2005. -
Vanderbilt Mansion
Vanderbilt Mansion, in Hyde Park, NY, was purchased by Frederick Vanderbilt in 1895. Frederick Vanderbilt is the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt and son of William Henry Vanderbilt; the two richest men in America in the 1880's.
Lumus completed work on the masion on 04.01.2004. -
St. Joseph's Polish Club
This club along with many other establishments in Salem, MA was created for the Polish immigrants of the early 1900s trying to adapt to the United States.
Lumus worked on this structure in 2003 and 2004 to strengthen and reinforce the three story brick structure to withstand potential seismic activity. -
Providence Federal Courthouse
The Providence Federal Courthouse, built in 1908 by the local architectural firm of Clarke & Howe, has been in use for 100 years. In its day, it was considered one of the finest dederal buildings outside of Washington DC.
In 2006, Lumus renovated the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors of the building. -
Acadia National Park
In 1919, Lafayette National Park was made the first national park east of the Mississippi thanks to George Dorr who, in 1901, was concerned with the growing development of the Bar Harbor area in Maine. In 1929 the park name changed to Acadia. Deep shell heaps in the park indicate Indian encampments dating back 6000 years in Acadia National Park.
Lumus was hired by Acadia National Park in 2002. -
FDR Library
The Franklin D. Roosevelt library and museam was named after Franklin D. Roosevelt who became the 32nd president of the United States on March 4th, 1933.
Lumus performed various renovations on this New York library. -
Otis Airforce Base
Otis Air National Guard Base is named for pilot, flight surgeon, and eminent Boston City Hospital surgeon, Lt. Frank "Jesse" Otis, who was killed during WWII on Jan. 11, 1937 when his Douglas O-46A crashed while on a cross-country training mission. Until 1973, it was the largest Aerospace Defense Command base in the world and is the only base named for a doctor.
Lumus Construction has a 15 yr. contract to aid the needs of the base. -
Philip Johnson Glass House
Renowned architect Philip Johnson built his Glass House in 1949 on his 47-acre estate in New Canaan, Connecticut. He lived it until his death, after which it was declared a national historic landmark. It is now open to the public as being one of the most famous structures of modern architecture and home to the famous and talented Philip Johnson.
Lumus was hired in 2005 to upgrade the house's electrical and heating systems. -
FEMA Bunker
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) regional operations center for New England is housed in this underground bunker in Maynard, MA. It was built in the 1950's for concern of nuclear attacks. The bunker has an operations room for organizing emergency relief teams throughout the six New England states, and a variety of communications antennas on the roof of the building.
Lumus worked on this bunker in 2008 -
Lumus Construction Inc. Established
In 1998, Sumul Shah took over his father's Shah Construction Company and transformed it into his own Lumus Construction Inc., a business dedicated to customer satisfaction and quality work. -
Williams Building
The last major feat of Shah Construction Company in 2004 was the seizure of management of the Williams Building in Boston, MA. -
Democratic National Convention Secret Service
In 2004, the DNC was hosted in Boston, MA. The is the convention in which John Kerry was nominated. Lumus Construction provided all of the critical wiring necessary for the secret service at this event.
