Our mission is to restore, preserve, and protect historically and culturally significant resources. Using time-honored practices and specialized skills, our master carpenters carefully restore architectural features such as windows, doors, railings, and banisters—returning them to their original character and function. Their expertise helps ensure that the public resources entrusted to our care retain their historical integrity and continue to inspire visitors for generations to come.
Learn How the Historic Preservation Center Protects the Past
We bring history to life by restoring and preserving the assets, craftsmanship, and architectural details that help tell a fuller American story. Our work gives visitors the opportunity to experience the beauty, care, and character of a time before mass production changed the way people built, repaired, and created.
Our master carpenters are skilled artisans whose work honors the craftsmanship of earlier generations. Supported by dedicated workspace and specialized equipment, they bring exceptional care, experience, and attention to detail to every preservation project.
We work closely with the National Park Service, US Forest Service and State Historic Preservation departments to preserve and rehabilitate historic buildings, ensuring our projects meet rigorous historic preservation standards.
Historic places can be vulnerable to time, use, and changing conditions. Through careful preservation, we help protect these irreplaceable resources from being lost.
The Historic Preservation Center is owned and operated by Aramark Destinations.
Meet Shaun Quedou, Historic Preservation Manager
Shaun Quedou is the Manager of the Historic Preservation Center at Asilomar. A lifelong resident of the Monterey Peninsula, where his family has lived since the 1800s, Shaun joined the Carpenters Union at 26 and began his career in the Bay Area, helping build the new Stanford Hospital. He then spent six years with a local contractor, rising from apprentice to superintendent while working on projects ranging from structural underpinning to the restoration of historic buildings in Carmel. Shaun developed his specialty in historic window and door restoration while restoring his own over-century-old home, a former inn built in the same era as Asilomar's historic buildings. His first project at Asilomar, the full rebuild of a historic deck, introduced him to the property he now serves. Shaun leads the Center's work restoring Asilomar's hundreds of historic windows, doors, and original interiors, with a focus on craftsmanship that matches the original construction.
