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Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park and Museum

The Park and Museum is the new flagship campus for Living Classrooms Foundation, a non-profit organization that has spent the past two decades using maritime settings to provide hands-on educational and job training programs for Baltimore’s disadvantaged youth. Drawing on the unique history of the site which sits adjacent to the original location of the first African-American owned shipyard in the country, the facility embraces past, present, and future, combining a variety of active hands-on learning opportunities with a museum of African-American Maritime History.

Client

Living Classroms Foundation

Location

Baltimore, MD

Size

29,000 sf

Completed

2006

Desert Dunes
Desert Dunes

The project includes the historic restoration of the oldest standing industrial warehouse on Baltimore’s waterfront, the construction of a dynamic new adjoining building, a working historic marine railway, large community gathering space, a reconstructed pier, and the continuation of Baltimore’s celebrated Waterfront Promenade. The design features classrooms, a woodshop, a café, meeting spaces, offices, interactive museum exhibitions, and program space for the expansion of the client’s educational and workforce development programs.

Design Team

Steve Ziger

Joe Cellucci

Craig Carbrey

Glenn Shrum

Wayne Norbeck

Consultants

Civil Engineer – STV, Inc.

Code Consultant – Hughes Associates, Inc.

MEP Engineer – James Posey Associates

Structural Engineer – Morabito Consulting Engineers

Landscape Architect – Michael Vergason Landscape Architects

Hardware – Fallows Assoc.

Geotechnical Engineer – D.W. Kozera

Photography

Alain Jaramillo

Sam Friedman

Awards

2007 Excellence on the Waterfront Award, Historic Preservation & Adaptive Reuse – The Waterfront Center

2007 Education Design Excellence Award – National AIA Committee on Architecture for Education

2007 Honor Award – AIA Maryland

2007 Historic Preservation Award – Baltimore Heritage

2007 Brick in Architecture Award, Best in Class – Brick Industry Association

2006 Honor Award – AIA Baltimore

2006 Design Award – Masonry Institute of Maryland

Publications

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Education Design Excellence Award, National AIA Committee on Architecture for Education, 2007

Honor Award, AIA Maryland, 2007

Historic Preservation Award, Baltimore Heritage, 2007

Brick in Architecture Award, Best in Class, Brick Industry Association, 2007

Excellence on the Waterfront Award, Historic Preservation & Adaptive Reuse, The Waterfront Center, 2007

Design Award, Masonry Institute of Maryland, 2006

Honor Award, AIA Baltimore, 2006

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