Recycling the Past- Architectural Salvage for Home and Garden. Barnegat, NJ

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Source of News:  Newark Star Ledger
Author:  BY KEVIN C. DILWORTH
Date Posted:  8/15/2006

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Saving grace Barnegat Township salvage yard recycles architectural wonders Source of News: Atlantic City Press Author: By TIMOTHY PUKO Staff Writer Date Posted: 7/11/2006
Published: Tuesday, July 4, 2006 Updated: Tuesday, July 4, 2006 BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP — There is a masonry and landscaping shop on Route 9 here with pristine fountains and statues placed neatly along the road. Farther north, there are flower markets with plants sitting in straight rows and an antique shop with an orderly Independence Day display — a long cloth of stars and stripes carefully draped over a wooden chair all next to an old-fashioned sewing machine — sitting in the storefront window. The White family brings a measure of organized chaos to the neighborhood. Their art salvage yard, Recycling the Past, is a kind of avant-garde cemetery for modern architectural ruins. There is a lush garden path winding through waist-high grass with a rusty cast-iron butterfly and alligator along the way. Next to the butterfly is a winged gargoyle made... Read the whole article

Not Junk, but Treasure Source of News: The New York Times Author: by Marc Ferris Date Posted: 7/11/2006
10/20/2002 WHEN an investor bought the Hillbrook Estate in Harrison two years ago, the cost of fixing the roof alone ran into seven figures, so he decided to demolish the 1916 mansion and build four new buildings on the property. In the short time before the wrecking ball moved in, Recycling the Past, an architectural salvage company in New Jersey, invited buyers to the site and picked the house's carcass clean, carting away an oak staircase with wainscoting and carved panels, a 70-foot limestone balustrade, mantlepieces, marble columns and even door hinges. Architectural salvage, which once evoked images of the television show "Sanford and Son," where junk was hauled around in a beat-up pickup truck, is becoming the province of antiques mavens, interior decorators and upscale remodelers. One indication of this newfound cachet -- and of the blurring of the line between salvage and traditional antiques -- is the growing use of the... Read the whole article

Salvaged Materials: Reclaiming the Past Source of News: Smart Home Owner Magazine Author: Judith Stock Date Posted: 7/11/2006
Salvaged Materials: Reclaiming the Past Page 1 of 1 Judith Stock You never know what you’ll find when you dig around an architectural salvage yard The adage “everything old is new again” could not be truer today. More and more homeowners are outfitting their houses with reclaimed architectural, building and finish materials, due to the environmental benefits of recycling these materials, as well as their quality and rich heritage. Another benefit is that salvaged items usually cost a fraction of what hardware superstores charge for a similar new item. To get an idea of what’s available to homeowners, I jumped in my car and made a trip to a salvage yard in North Hollywood, Calif. There, I came face to face with an impressive array of doors, windows, bathroom and lighting fixtures, reclaimed wood flooring, cobblestones, bricks, wrought iron, and one scruffy junkyard dog named Mik... Read the whole article

PAST PERFECT Barnegat salvage center turns yesterday's goods into today's treasures Source of News: Asbury Park Press Author: By SHANNON MULLEN Date Posted: 7/11/2006
PAST PERFECT Barnegat salvage center turns yesterday's goods into today's treasures Home News Tribune Online 06/24/06 By SHANNON MULLEN GANNETT NEW JERSEY All sorts of interesting items fill the salvage yard at Recycling the Past in Barnegat, but there's something specific a first-time visitor is eager to see. "Show me the urinals," I say. It's not what you think. Matt White, 34, who runs the Route 9 business with his brother, Josh, 31, and father, Stephen, 66, has piqued my interest talking about a recent salvage job at the old Atlantic City High School, which dates to the early 1900s. Among the items it yielded were two old-fashioned floor urinals from the boys bathroom. One was sold to the owner of... Read the whole article

Practices what he preaches – Architectural Salvage pioneer brings it on home. Recycled Treasures Source of News: PR Works, (781) 582-1061, sdubin@prworkzone.com Author: Steven Dubin Date Posted: 7/12/2005
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“Stone Is Hot” Recycling The Past Offers Tips on Incorporating Stone into Landscape Source of News: Steven Dubin, PR Works, (781) 582-1061, sdubin@prworkzone.com Author: Steven Dubin Date Posted: 7/12/2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Steven Dubin, PR Works, (781) 582-1061, sdubin@prworkzone.com “Stone Is Hot” Recycling The Past Offers Tips on Incorporating Stone... Read the whole article

Local Sites Source of News: TriCityNews Author: Jason Thomson Date Posted: 1/25/2005
This is a great website I came across when Recycling The Past took out an ad in triCityNews. The address is www.recyclingthepast.com and its an example of architectural salvage at it’s finest. Their goal is simple; to meet the needs of everyone from the do-it-yourself inclined, to contractors, renovators, designers, daydream believers and homecoming queens. Read the whole article

One man’s ‘JUNK’ - He finds treasures in your trash Source of News: BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP Author: STEVEN V. CRONIN - Staff Writer (609) 272-7240 Date Posted: 5/10/2004
BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP - The trick is knowing what to take. When the wrecking ball is ready to swing, it's easy to try to save anything that looks like it might have value. That would be a mistake, according to Matt White, owner of Recycling the Past, an architectural salvage company based in a 140-year-old Victorian building in the heart of this small Ocean County municipality. For seven years the 30-year-old businessman has earned his living by saving hardware, decorative items and plumbing fixtures that would otherwise end up in the rubble pile and selling them to a growing cadre of customers. In that time, White has learned some hard truths about the limits of display... Read the whole article

The Kitchen Sink, etc. Source of News: Author: KATHLEEN LYNN Date Posted: 5/10/2004
A dirt path winds past flower beds, ornamental grasses, and a gurgling fountain behind Matthew White's Victorian house in Barnegat. But this is no ordinary garden. Concrete cherubs stand in rows like schoolchildren. Antique doors lean against each other. And a cluster of bathroom sinks looks like a back-yard farmer's unlikely porcelain crop. This is Recycling the Past, a six-year-old, $250,000-a-year business that salvages and resells architectural treasures from old churches, houses, and schools headed for demolition. "I love the quality, the craftsmanship, the uniqueness - and the hunt," said White, 30, who owns the company with his father, Stephen White, and travels around the country and to Europe to find his wares.... Read the whole article

RECLAIMING THE PAST / CASTLE DOORS? WINDOWS FROM ESTATES? Source of News: The Press of Atlantic City Author: DEREK HARPER - Staff Writer - (609) 978-2015 Date Posted: 5/10/2004
If you're looking for Matt White, just look for the church steeple by the side of the road in Barnegat. He and his family run the architectural salvage shop in town. They can get you anything you need, from hulking castle doors to shiny art deco lamps. Take, for instance, the church steeple. He got a great deal on it in Barnesville, Md. The church was being taken down, and the steeple had to go. So, he hired a crane, but he wasn't around when the steeple came off. His buddy volunteered to put it on his trailer, instead. White went to Maryland, but now he had a problem. His friend had a somewhat decrepit trailer loaded down with this 15-foot tall, rather singular architectural gem. White wanted it on his trailer, but his friend said it couldn't be done. Impossible, he said. It weighs too much. He bet... Read the whole article

INSIDE BUSINESS Source of News: Asbury Park Press - Small Business Strategies Author: DAVID P. WILLIS - Business Writer Date Posted: 5/10/2004
It was a great find for Matthew S. White, who owns a Barnegat business that sells architectural antiques; about 100 pieces from Asbury Park's historic Mayfair Theatre, which was demolished about 25 years ago. "That theater was just packed," said White, a co-owner of Recycling the Past. He purchased the contents last September from someone who had the items in storage. Almost everything was sold to a dealer a month later. White praised the "uniqueness of the items, the fact that someone cared to save them." The pieces included iron railings, lighting fixtures, large plaster finials and even an old drinking fountain. Read the whole article

TREASURE TROVE GETS LARGER Source of News: Author: Date Posted: 5/10/2004
DATELINE: BARNEGAT, NJ; ISSUED JUNE 19, 2002...More room for a mantle from an old Victorian, French doors from an old estate, gargoyles, and classic bar glass from the kind of neighborhood bar we all miss. Recycling the Past, the region’s leading architectural salvage company has recently doubled their space to accommodate increased inventory in their fast-growing salvage business. Located on the New Jersey shore at Read the whole article

Salvaged Materials: Reclaiming the Past

Judith Stock

Home News Tribune Online 06/24/06

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