
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



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
Designing Buildings Open To—Not Hiding From—Baltimore's Streets »
Fast Co. Design 07/2015
Sugar House to Receive Award »
Baltimore Sun 06/2007
History Repeating »
Urbanite 11/2006
The Driving Forces Behind Maritime Park »
The Washington Post 10/2006
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