While it takes three years for Poree’s apprentices to learn basic “flat” plastering, it takes an additional 10 years to learn decorative plaster: detailed crown molding, ceiling roses and medallions, ...

Sometimes, on a nice afternoon, Jeff Poree drives by the Peristyle in City Park, where he and his workers spent three months in 2012, resurfacing every bit of the century-old ceiling and ionic columns ...