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For the Bicentennial celebration in 1976, an ambitious project was undertaken to restore the Dover State
House in Dover Delaware, the first State and thusly, the first State House in the U.S. Harmonson was
charged with the restoration of the stairs which were missing from the empty historical building. Upon
inspection of the site, the only hint of what the original stairs may have looked like were well preserved
impressions in the plaster walls where the stairs once stood. It was from these impressions that stair
Engineer and consultant David Allen and Master Carpenter Joseph Lamping Sr. of the Harmonson organization
were able to head-up the effort to replicate virtually every detail of the original stairs. Click here to go to the Library of Congress which shows many details of that project.