Museums, theaters, and other facilities for the enrichment, education, and enjoyment of patrons and visitors constitute one of JPA’s largest markets. These projects often require a particularly sensitive balance of form and function. Many involve the historic preservation or adaptive reuse of existing important structures and require the careful integration of the MEP systems into the original building fabric.
Featured Work
Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens
Ford Orientation Center/Reynolds Museum & Education Center
Mount Vernon, VA
Two new facilities totaling 71,200-SF added 23 galleries and five theaters to the historic family home of our nation’s first president. Mount Vernon is the country’s oldest historic preservation project and receives more visitors than any other historical residence in the United States.
Living Classrooms Foundation
Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park & Museum
Baltimore, MD
This waterfront park and museum with education center commemorates the famous abolitionist who fled from slavery in the same historic Baltimore neighborhood of Fells Point, as well as the nation’s first African-American shipyard owner who worked nearby. It is the first multi-cultural heritage tourism and education site on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
Adams County Historical Society
Schmucker Hall
Gettysburg, PA
Schmucker Hall, built in 1832, was the first building at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, which is the oldest and most historic of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s seminaries. The 25,000-SF building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, originally housed lecture rooms, a library, an assembly room, and a dormitory.
Everyman Theatre
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore’s second largest professional theatre company is to have a new permanent home. They are relocating to the historic Town Theatre as part of the city’s “west side renaissance”. The 1910 building, originally constructed as the Empire Theatre for vaudeville, is being renovated as a performing arts venue with two theaters.
William C. Smith & Co.
Tremont Grand
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore’s historic Masonic Temple, originally built in 1866, was sensitively transformed into a full-service banquet and conference facility. The refurbished facility, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, now serves the 37-story Tremont Plaza Hotel with 19 separate rooms for meetings and special events and is connected to the hotel by a pedestrian skybridge.