Bio
Joshua Adamo grew up in historic Wheeling, WV living his early years in a beautiful 18 room, Italianate Mansion overlooking the Ohio River and National Road. This very possibly had a profound impact on his creative eye and love of texture and craft. He knew early on that the arts were going to be the direction needing to be taken. He graduated from Shepherd University in 1999 with a Sclupture degree concentrating in furniture and a painting minor. During that journey he worked and apprenticed with designers and craftspeople that blew open possibilities that seemed to be a clear path to historic preservation. Eventually working and journeying under David Gibney (Historic Preservation Specialists) in Hagerstown, MD. Along the way, Joshua assisted and lead workshops and crews at preservation conferences and historic sites in the Washington DC area.
He left Shepherdstown in 2003 and began his business in the Greenbrier Valley of West Virginia. He started Old Willow Workshop concentrating in custom high-end built-in furniture until the shift back to preservation was to loud to ignore. Beginning as a single man operation, things began to grow. Now Adamo Building Arts comprises of multiple contractors providing design build commercial and residential structures centered around historic preservation. It has been the blend of new and old that has kept things exciting and the rise of a new population willing to invest in these limited and unique buildings.
After 20 years of self-employment, he decided to purchase his own historic structure in Lewisburg, WV and run a fine art gallery and further develop his creative design studio. Recently tapped to participate in BEST- & Hands-Off preservation training sessions through Preservation Maryland, it has been a welcomed transition into the next phase of Joshua’s career. He is excited to be returning to IPTW and connecting with kindred spirits and further fanning the flames of preservation in this beautiful historic town of Savannah, GA.
