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Laurel Mill House
Restoration and Preservation
Laurel, Maryland
Construction Cost: $308,000
Completion Date: August 1996


Laurel Mill House was built by Horace Capron in the early 1800s to house his mill workers. It is Laurel's oldest existing home and is now a museum.

To restore and preserve a house of this age, our research was extensive and our construction drawings highly detailed. We followed stringent historic preservation guidelines throughout. For instance, any millwork in good condition was repaired and reinstalled, and we represented any removed partitions by floor color changes and by using partial walls.

We converted the existing rooms into exhibit, library, archival, office, and conference rooms. To bring the house to museum standards, we added handicapped accessibility as well as a climate-controlled environment virtually invisible to the museum visitor.