How were the needs of preservation incorporated?
With careful preservation efforts to uphold the original beauty instilled with its creation, the restoration team delivered an aesthetic masterpiece. Highly renowned among the nation’s top preservationists, the Ferry Building is recognized as one of the most dramatic efforts to restore “an institutional property,” while creating an environment that would also become a successful business venture. This careful attention to aesthetics focused on rehabilitating such historic details of the Ferry Building as the Grand Nave, marble cornices, gabled skylights, mosaic floors, exposed historic wrought-iron trusses, a 245-foot-tall clock tower, 11-foot-high arched Bayside windows, and marble and wood finishes throughout.
