Let's Begin a Conversation
Share your project or question with us.
Let us guide you in the right direction.
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
Let's Begin a Conversation
Experience Spanning Centuries
Resources & News
Blogs, Featured Properties, Resources, Uncategorized
Opening a Business in a Historic Building
Owner Ajay Patel, Montgomery County Executive Marc Erlich and Lead Architect Ward Bucher at the grand opening of Clarksburg Beer ...
READ MORE 
Blogs, Resources
Design vs. Draft: Unraveling What Exactly an Architect Does
Sometimes we get a call for work, and the potential client says, “I need someone to draft some plans”. We ...
READ MORE 
Blogs, Featured Properties, Resource Links, Resources
Seven Tips for Writing Historic Grant Applications for the Maryland Heritage Areas Program
Joe Wojciechowski, AIA, Encore Sustainable Architects (2023 MHAA grant reviewer) This past year, Encore Architect Joe Wojciechowski had the privilege ...
READ MORE Historic Preservation Affiliations & Partnerships
