ICON Architecture

he downtown Fitchburg Theater Block consists of a 2-story commercial building and a 1,751-seat performance/movie theater. The theater opened on February 7, 1929 as a movie house with live (often Vaudeville) performances and a Wurlitzer Style 190-pipe organ. The last time the theater was used was the early-1980’s, and it has seriously deteriorated since then. Thirty years […]

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 […]

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. […]

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. […]