Guardian Stone Care Guardian Stone CarePreserving America's Stories in Stone

Services

On-site work in central Maine. Training, consulting and grant support anywhere.

In Central Maine

Condition Assessments

Stone-by-stone assessment of individual markers or entire burying grounds: material, condition on the 1–5 scale, what is safe to do, and what should be left to a conservator.

Mapping & Documentation

GPS-verified cemetery mapping, stone-by-stone condition surveys, and the written and photographic record grant programs and town committees need.

Anywhere

Workshops & Training

For historical societies, town cemetery committees, DAR and SAR chapters, and volunteers who would rather learn it properly.

Consulting

Assessment of a cemetery before a restoration project, scope and sequence, realistic budgets, and honest advice about what is worth doing first.

Grant-Funded Projects

Working with non-profit and municipal partners on America 250 and other grant-funded preservation work, including the documentation those programs require.

Get In Touch

Tell us where the cemetery is, roughly how many stones, and what shape they are in. Photographs help enormously — and running them through the free assessment first gives us both a head start.

jim@guardianstonecare.com

Vassalboro, Maine. We answer email far better than we answer the phone.