Project Category: Engage

Brimfield Town Hall

Working with the Town of Brimfield and their Owner’s Project Manager, Terva Corp, ICON Architecture developed plans to revitalize Brimfield’s historic Town Hall. The building is in the Brimfield Center Historic District and is vacant. Built in 1878, the Town Hall is a rare example of civic Stick-style architecture. It was designed by Springfield architect […]

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Main Street Theater Restoration

Reviving a Historic Landmark Located in downtown Fitchburg, the Theater Block includes a two-story commercial building and a historic 1,751-seat theater. Originally opened on February 7, 1929, the theater served as a movie house and live performance venue—often hosting Vaudeville acts—and featured a Wurlitzer Style 190 pipe organ. It closed in the early 1980s and […]

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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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