When Brian Egdahl moved to Boston’s West End a few years ago three faded signs on the brick building next door caught his eye.
Egdahl searched online for the companies behind the signs. One of them, a lumber manufacturer called Holt & Bugbee, was still in business.
He didn’t want the signs to remain faded. He began working with the company’s owners and the West End Museum to commission two artists from out of town to restore them to their former glory…