This month’s issue of The Architect’s Newspaper features the Dunham Tavern Museum Master Plan.

“To aid Dunham in the repositioning of its campus into a school trip-popular historic site and inclusive community asset, the museum tapped Merritt Chase, a landscape architecture and urban design practice based in Indianapolis and Pittsburgh, and LAND studio, a Cleveland-based nonprofit developer of urban parks and public art. Together, Merritt Chase and LAND studio worked with the museum to develop a campus master plan that serves as a ‘framework to facilitate practical day-to-day decisions as well as communicate Dunham’s vision for the future’ as an ‘inspiring, welcoming 21st-century public space.’ Informed by workshops, presentations, and listening and learning sessions attended by community stakeholders and Hough residents over an 18-month period, the recently completed master plan is centered around five key objectives: History, Education, Nature, and Community. It also proposes a range of interventions that preserve and enhance existing elements while creating new spaces that ‘allow Dunham to build upon its cultural significance and community presence.’”

Read the full article here.