10/06/2026
Alumni Feature 🌟 James Jisa, ACBA grad with a focus in plaster. Take a look at his extensive plaster repair work at Ingleside Plantation, built in 1817 in Iron Station, North Carolina.
Once the baseboards came off, the true cause of the cracking showed up—and James knew what needed to happen next.
“ACBA did not just teach me how to put plaster on a wall. The history and material-science classes are why I could read that house. Modern pipe and wire had been cut through 1817 brick with nothing put back to carry the load. A three-coat lime repair over that would have cracked again. School trained me to find the structure under the finish and to use lime where lime belongs, not a modern substitute because it is easier.”
