Silverlake Conservation

05/15/2026

Happy 25th anniversary to us! Silverlake Conservation was founded on May 15, 2001 and has grown into a flourishing business with wonderful clients. Here are photos of our full-time staff and a sample of some of our most interesting projects. Favorites include the Griffith Observatory renovation, Wilshire Blvd. Temple renovation, Doheny Fountain, Manhattan Beach Library Tile Mural, Santa Ana Federal Building “Wisdom”, Santa Monica High School “Viking”, “Grover”, Herald Examiner Building Lobby, Dodger Stadium “Japanese Lantern”, Santa Monica High School Senior Bench, Egyptian Theater renovation, Santa Barbara Public Library Tympanum, Lotusland Delft Tile Fountain, and Altadena Batchelder Tile Fireplaces.

03/24/2025

Salvage experts are rushing to save handmade tiles from fireplaces that survived the Eaton fire before they are demolished.

03/21/2025

Amy Green, founding partner of Silverlake Conservation, was interviewed for this article in the LA Times! She has been spending quite a bit of time in Altadena working on the tile recovery effort. If you have a decorative tile fireplace that survived the Altadena fire or know someone who does, Save the Tiles will removed it and box it for you for free with professional masons. There are no strings attached - just a mission to save as many historic tile fireplaces as possible. Please contact them before the Army Corp of Engineers bulldozes your house.

Meet the volunteers who are scrambling to save vintage tiles from homes in the Altadena burn zone before the bulldozers arrive.

11/15/2024

Proud to show off our recently completed project at the Santa Barbara Public Library! We worked on the the Tympanum, a painted decorative wooden tableau above the original entry door. Installed in 1924, the Tympanum features Plato (pointing up) and Aristotle surrounded by shields from important European libraries and the City of Santa Barbara’s Coat of Arms above. The design is based on Raphael's famous fresco "The School of Athens." The first photo is the finished Tympanum. Images 2-9 are before and after photos. And the last 3 are fun pictures of our crew at work.

04/22/2021

Project of the Month: The Electric Fountain in Beverly Hills. We cleaned and applied biocide to the famous fountain at the intersection of Wilshire Blvd. and Santa Monica Blvd. What a big difference!

03/19/2021

World War I Memorial at the Ebell Club of Los Angeles. We cleaned and waxed the bronze sculpture and the surrounding plaques. We love working with torches!

06/27/2020

Silverlake Conservation cleaned and hot waxed this larger than life size sculpture of Lucky Baldwin located in Arcadia, CA this week. Lucky Baldwin was the founder and first mayor of Arcadia. He was also a pioneer, entrepreneur, and thoroughbred horse racing enthusiast. The sculpture is owned by the City of Arcadia and is located at the intersection of Huntington Dr. and Holly Ave., right across the street from Santa Anita Park racetrack.

06/09/2020

Silverlake Conservation recently completed work on the Hugo Reid Family sculpture by Preston L. Prescott located at the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage in Arcadia, CA. This life-size cast stone sculpture depicts Hugo Reid, his wife Victoria, their children Maria and Felipe, and the family dog. The Reids were granted the Rancho Santa Anita, a 13,000 acre land grant in the present day San Gabriel Valley, in 1845 by Pio Pico. The project involved cleaning the sculpture, reducing the heavy biological growth on its north side, and applying a biocide to deter future biological growth. We also patched and toned some of the losses in the piece.

10/16/2019

The sculpture of Col. Griffith at the entrance of Griffith Park had its annual maintenance visit yesterday. Someone had thrown a sandwich at the colonel which tumbled down his chin and shirt. We cleaned him up and applied a fresh coat of wax.

09/01/2016

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05/16/2016

Silverlake Conservation celebrated its 15th anniversary yesterday! Here is our major project of the past 2 months: the 1890's tile floor in the foyer of Castle Green is Pasadena.