Design &Built And Various Specialty Work of the deGruchy Masonry Company
This is a solid stone archway with a wrought iron gate. It was designed and built by deGruchy Masonry. The stone is local Granite with the Argillaceous Voussoir stones placed on the intrados for contrast. The cap is cast-in-place concrete.
This is an "Oeil-de-boeuf" window with a stained glass lense which operates. The window was designed and installed by deGruchy Masonry along with the surrounding stonework. The operating oval woodwork frame and glass was built by one craftsman named Matt Markle of West Chester, PA.
	Owners had a beautiful view of a babbling brook outside their otherwise dark interior room of an old farmhouse
	DeGruchy Masonry installed the "I-Max" window and now the theatre is always playing the Nature show for these NY city residents at their get-away Stewartsville, NJ home.
	Andy deGruchy placing the Brass Cross with a Copper Open Bible (The name of the church) at it’s foot, back on the steeple after a complete church facelift. A light shines up from between the bible and the cross. Andy deGruchy designed the arrangement of cross, Bible and light. Andy Wasik made this ornate metal object with fixture and custom fitted cap to go over the peak of the steeple. The bible has an individual copper page partially opened within the copper book.
This is a Seascape Mural designed and installed by deGruchy Masonry in a wrap-around screened porch. We embedded all types of sea shells, hand made tiles and terra cotta bugs, cattails, dragonflies,squids that Andy and his wife and children made and had glazed and fired before installation.
Cast concrete sun was placed on one wall, concrete moon on adjacent wall. The beach area meanders through the center using white beach sand exposed in a white stucco.The balance of the wall is an exposed aggregate"pebble-dash" plaster. Real grape vines were drug out of the woods soaked in a pond and wound around the ceiling the entire length of the porch to hide imitation birds, butterflies, nests, and small lights for stars. Kids love finding the rubber frogs, crawfish, snakes and flies coming out of the stucco.
Other custom tiles of sea turtles, leaves, fish,frogs were also included. Who said masons aren't fun!
Some people get so upset about knocking down historic structures that they just pick them up and move them to another location. This project was in Delaware...last I checked. Whole house movers relocated the buyer and deGruchy Masonry stabalized the old brick wythes with some epoxied-in-place anchors. We also did brickwork and do anticipate the historic brick front as a future restoration project.
BEFORE                                                                        AFTER
deGruchy Masonry often subcontracts extensive woodwork, roofing and metal work to qualified professionals
Letters that deGruchy Masonry inscribed into a stone placed in a ruin
PROFESSIONAL   REFERENCES
| Close |