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Add History to Design to Create the Perfectly Curated Space
We combine historic nuance, depth & style to create a destination experience for your retail, restaurant or lodging location in Baltimore, Washington DC and the Mid Atlantic.
We work one-on-one to help our clients navigate historic preservation requirements for approvals that drive funding and budgets, timelines, uses, and historic material treatments. Then we leverage that knowledge to create the perfect design and build it -on time- for your grand opening.
- Historic Materials and Detail Specialist
- Historic and Sustainability Funding
- Concept Design through Construction
- Historic Contractors
- Historic Regulations
- More Expertise, Less Hierarchy
Nelson Coleman Jewelers’ 2nd Location moved from concept to completion in three months.
Six Phases of the Design/Build Process for Custom Build Outs of Historic Buildings
- Help client create the program, including historic and sustainability goals
- Survey the historic building’s condition
- ID necessary repairs & adaptations
- Research historic & building code regulations
- Recommend historic or sustainability funding
- Research historic documentation
- Provide spatial design options
- Test fit proposed uses
- Assess and address any historic challenges
- Review opportunities with client
- Discuss costs
- Analyze & price exterior and interior materials including roofing, flooring, light fixtures, site design, signage
- Utilize 3D modelling or renderings to visualize choices
- Update cost estimates
- Produce plans and specifications
- Assist in selection and sourcing of contractors
- Guide and monitor building permit process
- Apply for historic approvals & tax credits
- Respond to bidder’s Requests for Information
- Monitor the schedule
- Perform quality control
- Coordinate plans, change orders and disputes
- Approve requisitions
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Experience Spanning Centuries
Resources & News
Blogs, Resource Links, Resources
Pointing & Repointing in Historic Restoration
No matter what the age, size or style of a building, masonry work can be essential to proper restoration. These ...
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Blogs, Resource Links, Resources
What is a Measured Drawing? Why Does it Matter?
The Dictionary of Building Preservation, written by our own Ward Bucher, defines them as a set of drawings that accurately ...
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The Baltimore Paint Job
At the Preservation Maryland Phoenix Rising event, my guest Rick Brown asked me if I had considered writing an Appendix ...
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