Mesta Mansion

01/04/2026

Finished the surround as well!

12/30/2025

Made some progress that looks noticeably different than some of the other ceilings!

08/24/2025

More decor…I guess Ineed to finish the walls in ceilings in here so I can start hanging, but still thinking through some water lines and drains.
However, the scrap piles of drywall have disappeared and cement went to the corner floor which you can barely see. Odd when days of work go toward unseen progress and efforts.

08/24/2025

08/24/2025

Also did the bathroom!

08/24/2025

Library ceiling also started going in as did the laundry room. Cement work and maintenance happened as well!

08/24/2025

Ceilings went up this year in the main hall!

08/24/2025

I promise work has been happening!
The front roof is finally on! (Last year, we did the left side.)

01/20/2025

Thank you to Kathy Jacobson-Voytko for letting me know that this aired!

The widow of a steel magnate, socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., in the 1940s and '50s, becoming known as "The Hostess with the Mostes' on the Ball" (after Irving Berlin celebrated her in the musical, "Call Me Madam"). Mesta became one of the...

09/25/2024

À few more pieces of drywall went up and more roofing went down!

09/07/2024

Working on framing stations of the cross for the chapel