The credit union entrance in 2019, brick columns and a copper fascia beside a fieldstone wall
Case File 115

Matching an Added Column on a Mishawaka Credit Union

An exterior column added to the entrance of this branch went up in a brick nobody could match. The business that owns the building paid to have the new column color corrected instead. It was photographed again nineteen years later and certified then.

Case No. 115
Structure Single-story credit union
Location Mishawaka, Indiana
Stained 2000
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 19 years, Gold level

2000

  1. The entrance in 2000, the newly added brick column pale against the dark brown wall on either side of it Before, 2000 View this photo larger
  2. Close view of the added column in 2000, its brick light pink and cream beside the grey fieldstone wall Before, 2000 View this photo larger

What was wrong

An exterior column was added to the front of this branch and its brick did not agree with the building it was built onto. The file puts it in eleven words: they added an exterior column that did not match the bank.

Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The file says they could not find a brick that was close in color, so the branch was left with a pale column at its front door. The credit union paid for the correction itself.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, unit by unit, on the added column and nothing else. The phrase in the file is color corrected the column to create a closer match.

2019, nineteen years on

  1. The entrance bay in 2019, its brick columns a red brown under a copper fascia with the fieldstone wall at the right 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The branch from the front lawn in 2019, the entrance bay and the fieldstone wall under a low copper roofline 19 Years After View this photo larger
  3. The covered entrance walk in 2019, a brick column running from the paving to the copper fascia 2019 View this photo larger
  4. The branch sign at the kerb in 2019, the brick and fieldstone building standing behind it 2019 View this photo larger

What nineteen years prove

Same column, same entrance, and the stain is still doing the job it was mixed to do. On the certification scale that is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over. As of 2026 the work is twenty-six years old, and the 2019 certification is the most recent record on it.

The signed file

Every certified job gets the same form, signed on the day someone goes back to the building. This is the one for case 115, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

Scan of the case study form for case 115, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
TCU (2000)
Level
Gold. The scale runs Bronze at seven to nine years, Silver at ten and over, Gold at fifteen and over, Platinum at twenty and over.
Hired by
A business or corporation
Reason for project
Addition or makeover
Issue
"They added an exterior column that did not match the bank."
What was corrected
"We color corrected the column to create a closer match."
Storyline
"They could not find a brick that was close in color. After the brick were up, the credit union hired us to make the added column less noticable, especially at the entrance."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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