PATINA January 11, 2026 Meeting—Historic Restoration featuring Stephen Ortado
The January 2026 in-person CLUB meeting in McLean VA, will be SUNDAY January 11. Start time is 9:00am.
At the beginning of this meeting we will hold an election to fill currently open Board positions. We currently have open positions for Club President and Vice President. Any club member who is interested may run.
Long-time club member Dave Murphy has expressed interest in the office of President.
If you are interested in becoming a club officer for either of these 2 positions, please let a club officer know, or you also may declare your interest at the January meeting.
The President’s first responsibility is to delegate and oversee the auction segment of our March Damascus Show. That person also has key input in almost all other club activities.
The Vice President’s position, along with also having key input with all other club activities, is to arrange speakers and activities for the bi-monthly meeting.
We will also hold a raffle for new and existing members who have paid their annual 2026 dues. The winner will receive a $100 gift card to Woodcraft.
Our Guest Speaker will be Stephen Ortado.
Stephen has been a woodworker since college. For ten years he ran a boat yard, building and restoring wooden boats on the Chesapeake Bay. He came to DC in 1986 and started working for a general contractor in historic preservation before starting his own business. His company, Historic Structures, is now 39 years old! Some of his projects have been restorations of The Lincoln Cottage, Blair House, Pierce Mill, Custis Lee Mansion (Arlington House), The Old Stone House and many churches and private residences. Almost all of them involved restoring the windows as part of the work.
Stephen has started a regular schedule of woodworking classes and seminars to bring back skill training and renew next generation carpenters. Feel free to come to the PATINA meeting and discuss the class with Stephen as he explains the fundamentals of window repair & restoration.
A salvaged, cased double-hung window unit will be set up for discussion of what the component parts are and how to remove the sash from the jamb. Stephen will review common problems and best tools for every phase of the restoration process.
Once that is discussed, he will go through the process of removal, re-stringing and reinstalling the sash.
If time permits, he will go through glazing putty removal and replacing broken glass.
As always, we will use the upper lot only for tailgating. Please park in the lower lot if you are not planning to set up a table. Start time: 9:00am for tailgating. If there are enough consignments to have a mini-auction, it would take place after tailgating, approximately 11am.