The Alaux Tomb was a technical challenge for many reasons. We worked around scores of tourists in the famous St. Louis 1 Cemetery during this full tomb restoration. The roof of the stepped tomb had caved in, so we began the project by carefully sorting the historic bricks for reuse. We then repaired the brick vault structure, reusing the historic keystones and lime-based mortar. Once the vaulted structure was repaired, we rebuilt the stepped masonry profile. We re-plastered the tomb with hydraulic lime and then used a vivid, blue limepaint as the final coating. This blue limepaint matched the color of the historic coating, and is historically appropriate for the Catholic cemetery and the Alauxs, who were Flemish artists.