A Philadelphia staple, the LOVE sculpture is now back where it belongs, ready to become the backdrop to countless tourists’ and locals’ selfies. The aluminum sculpture was taken down after 41 years last February, so the colors could be painted back to their original and corroded metal restored. The sculpture was fixed by Materials Conservation, LLC, and Iron Studio, Inc.

Originally, the sculpture featured purple instead of blue, but likely years of weather conditions and spray from the close fountain eroded away the purple hues. Costing around $55,000, the project was started as soon as the city was made aware of the color mistake by the creator’s, Robert Indiana, representative. There are many LOVE sculptures around the world, but Philadelphia’s is the only one featuring purple.

With the exception of the new welcome center, the renovated LOVE park will officially reopen May 30th, after the two year, expensive process. With the newly restored LOVE sculpture in Philadelphia creating excitement after its year-long hiatus, we thought we’d take a look into our own charitable work.

We had the honor of helping the Telford VFW Post 5308 about 7 years ago, with their new memorial garden. This new addition included a 3-inch U.S. Navy deck gun and anchor chain that, while technically on loan from the Navy, are not expected to be asked back because they weren’t being used.