"I spend just about every weekend there, and more if I can," said Mr. Noyelle, 52, a former United Nations field worker who lives in lower Manhattan and now works in building restoration and construction.
Women pound through the piazzas like stern librarians; workmen zip around myriad restoration and construction sites.
Financing for the restoration and construction of exhibits is coming from various sources, including a $200,000 federal grant.
So far he has spent more than $6 million of his own money on restoration, new construction and acquisitions of antiques.
"For private sites on the state registry, funding for rehabilitation, restoration and construction is not available through the New Jersey Historic Trust," said Elaine Makatura, spokeswoman for the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office.
Nevertheless, the yards and builders presented in "From Shore to Shore" remain active, having substituted repairs and restoration for construction work.
Vilma Rodríguez Tápanes, the government official in charge of restoration and construction at cultural sites, said the values of Mr. Garatti's design would be respected.
"There is going to be so much manpower required, and we are already spread so thin," said Bill O'Connell, president of Elite Public Adjusters, which runs both an insurance adjustment company and a restoration and construction business in North Wildwood, N.J.
Today, cracking has become an important barrier preventing broader acceptance of Roman cement as a material by the restoration and construction sector.
His father, who is retired, was a project manager at Classic Restorations, a construction company in Lexington, Mass.
