DESIGN ASSOCIATES TO RESTORE NICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM HISTORIC ENTRY PORTICO
The George B. Henderson Foundation grants $30.000 to the Nichols House Museum to restore the museum’s historic entry portico.
CAMBRIDGE, MA. JULY 14TH 2016 - Design Associates congratulates the Nichols House Museum on its receipt of a $30,000 grant from the George B. Henderson Foundation to restore the museum’s historic entry portico. Design Associates prepared the plans and specifications for the successful grant application and will be working with the museum through the completion of construction this autumn.
About Design Associates
Design Associates has been providing comprehensive architectural services for restoration, renovation and new construction projects throughout New England since 1979. Long considered the preeminent architectural firm on Nantucket Island, in 1983 Design Associates established a second office in Cambridge, Massachusetts and began exporting its refined expertise beyond Nantucket.
Whether historic restoration, renovation/adaptive reuse or new construction, Design Associates’ approach frees each client and project from dogmatic formulas.
Design Associates’ portfolio includes hundreds of well-designed, custom single-family homes, as well as hospitality, commercial, and mixed-use projects; all with the firm’s distinctive, classic, New England style – a signature that deftly balances history, architecture, and modern living.
About the Nichols House Museum
The Nichols House Museum's mission is: To preserve and interpret the 1804 townhouse that was from 1885 until 1960 the home of Rose Standish Nichols, landscape gardener, suffragist and pacifist. The house was built by Jonathan Mason and is attributed to Charles Bulfinch. The museum educates visitors by providing a unique glimpse into the domestic life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on Boston's historic Beacon Hill.
About the George B. Henderson Foundation
The George B. Henderson foundation is solely devoted to the enhancement of the physical appearance of the city of Boston and immensely contributes to an effort of preserving the local cultural and historic values