Project Category: State + Municipal

City Hall Campus

The two-story Italianate Fitchburg City Hall was built in 1853. The building featured brick walls on a granite foundation with brick pilasters, brownstone and terracotta details, granite lintels, and a slate roof. There were offices on the first floor and a large public meeting room on the second floor. In 1879, a stage house was […]

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Orleans Community Building

The Orleans Fire Department was officially organized in 1922. A new fire house was constructed in 1926 on Main Street near the village center. The wood-frame hip-roof building housed a double apparatus bay with a single room at the back. The addition of an ambulance bay and dispatch office was completed in 1947. Subsequent additions/renovations […]

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Game Studio + Idea Lab

FSU’s Game Design major is the first of its kind in a public institution in the Northeast. The Game Design Studio & Idea Lab are part of a multiphase redevelopment of the historic Main Street Theater block. Located in downtown Fitchburg, the theater block includes a two-story commercial building and a 1,200-seat performing arts venue. […]

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UML 110 Canal

110 Canal Street is an existing five-story 1930s industrial building that underwent an extensive shell and core renovation in recent years. Construction consists of a cast-in-place concrete frame with new historically accurate thermally broken metal windows and a modern utility infrastructure. Innovation Hub + M2D2 Labs: Floors 3 + 4 of the 110 Canal building. […]

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