The Salubria manor house was built in 1757 in Stevensburg, Virginia for the Reverend John Thompson, rector of Little Fork Church. Now owned by the Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, the Georgian-style manor was listed on the Virginia Historic Landmarks Register in 1969 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
As part of the Foundation’s effort to create an Historic Structure Report (HSR) for Salubria, our team was brought in to fully scan the main building. In addition to scanning, high-resolution color photography using both drone-based and handheld methods captured the exterior in great detail. All data was collected during a single day on site. The scan data was then combined with photogrammetry to produce a dense, highly accurate point cloud of the entire exterior, merging the precision of laser scanning with the high resolution and color fidelity of HDR photography.
Direct Dimensions delivered a registered point cloud for the staff to create plans (Autodesk Recap), a full-color, online model of the building for easy viewing (Sketchfab), and 2D orthographic images of the roof and elevations derived from the collected data. These images, with a pixel for every 2mm of wall surface, provided preservationists detailed documents to annotate condition assessment and repair recommendations, helping ensure that this 18th-century historic structure can be preserved for generations to come.
