LCA Associates is a consulting partnership founded in 1982 to offer historic design and restoration services to major corporations, governmental agencies, museums, and historic sites from its offices in Philadelphia and Maine. It has also helped develop product lines such as historic paint colors (Sherwin-Williams Company), authentic wallpapers (Imperial Wall Coverings), and 19th-century lighting fixtures (Progress Lighting). LCA Associates has regularly provided historic furnishing plans for clients ranging from the House and Senate Chambers of the United States Capitol, the Capitol of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia City Hall, and the Superintendent’s House at the United States Naval Academy. LCA Associates specializes in the accurate recreation of historic interiors for clients including the capitol of the commonwealth of Virginia, the home of President and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes (Fremont, OH), the Summer White House of Abraham Lincoln (Washington, DC), and the Arts & Crafts interiors of Villa Louis, a prope1ty of the Wisconsin State Historical Society (Prairie du Chien, WI).

The partners of LCA Associates, Gail Caskey Winkler, Ph.D., FASID and Roger W. Moss, Ph.D., taught in the graduate program in historic preservation at the University of Pennsylvania for twenty-five years. They have written several books used in the field including Victorian Interior Decoration, Victorian Exterior Decoration, Lighting for Historic Buildings, Floor Coverings for Historic Building, as well as books on authentic window treatments and landmark buildings in Philadelphia. For more details, see our website www.winklerandmoss.com.