Leonard Masonry Receives National Craftsmanship Awards
ST. LOUIS, February 12, 2003 - Leonard Masonry, Inc. has received a Project of the Year Award and an Honor Award from Masonry Construction magazine, a national trade publication serving the masonry industry. The projects, a private residence in Ladue, Mo., and The Hallmark of Creve Coeur, are featured in the February issue of the publication.
“These awards demonstrate Bricklayer’s Local No. 1 and Leonard Masonry’s unrelenting commitment to excellence,” said Jeff Leonard, president. “We’ve always felt that St. Louis is fortunate to have architects working here who understand the beauty and benefits of stone and masonry and some of the country’s best artisans, who know how to take that architect or owner’s dream and make it reality. It’s gratifying to see their work receive this type of national recognition.”
Leonard Masonry achieved the highest honor – a Project of the Year Award – in the residential category of Masonry Construction’s annual awards. Leonard Masonry worked closely with the architect and owner of this private residence in Ladue to select masonry materials that would achieve the look of a 100-year-old Country French cottage. At the owner’s request, Leonard Masonry installed Belden brick on the exterior and meticulously blended Eden, Landon and Chilton veneer stone in three colors for both the exterior and stone fireplaces on the interior. Leonard Masonry also installed uniquely shaped bricks, including a bullnose shape for the wainscoat and arches over the windows using a jack arch brick. Other features include a brick rowlock around the house, a driveway edged in cobblestone and a natural stone patio.
Masonry Construction also is recognizing Leonard Masonry with an Honor Award in the multi-family housing category for The Hallmark of Creve Coeur. Consisting of six levels and a garage, the 317,700-square-foot masonry veneer retirement community uses masonry to evoke a sense of permanence and stability. Horizontal bands of masonry, consisting of a limestone concrete split-face block base with a deep wine-colored brick in the middle, topped by limestone-colored brick at the roofline, stretch around the building. In bay areas, Leonard Masonry pulled the limestone-colored brick down into the wine-colored brick to further convey a residential feel. Leonard Masonry also installed natural limestone bands, windowsills and detailed masonry around the porte cachere. In addition, craftsmen installed granite countertops on the interior and completed precast pavers on the grand terrace patio.
Last fall, as part of its annual Design Awards program, the AIA/CPC in St. Louis gave Leonard Masonry an Honor Award, its highest honor for craftsmanship. The 129,500-square-foot Laboratory Sciences Building at Washington University was designed with the massing, detailing and materials indicative of collegiate Gothic architecture. Constructed of reinforced concrete with a granite and limestone exterior, the four-level building includes approximately 26,000 square feet of Missouri red granite and 13,000 cubic feet of carved limestone, the university’s standard mix design.
Founded in 1959, Leonard Masonry, Inc. has grown to be the largest masonry contractor in St. Louis and is recognized for its fine craftsmanship and on-time work delivery within budget. Ranked as the sixth largest masonry contractor in the United States by Engineering News-Record (ENR), Leonard Masonry is a four-generation, family-owned business. It has been the masonry contractor on many of St. Louis' landmark structures, including the Missouri Temple for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Anheuser-Busch Hall at the Washington University School of Law, Shaw Park Plaza and the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse.