Montpelier Visitors Center

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Client: The Montpelier Foundation

Location:
Montpelier Station, VA

Services:
SP&E, surveying, SUE, environmental

Team With:
Glave & Holmes

As part of the overall restoration of the Montpelier mansion, the home of James Madison, the Montpelier Foundation is planning to build a new Visitor Center Complex. Draper Aden Associates, as part of an architectural and engineering team, is designing a one-story Visitors Center of approximately 9000 s.f., a one story exhibition building "the William duPont Gallery" of approximately 6000 s.f., and modifications and additions to the existing parking lot to provide parking for 120 cars and six buses. The project also includes the design and installation of a new, exterior fire supression system covering both the Visitors Center Complex and the Mansion. This system will include a new 150,000-gallon storage tank and pumping station. In addition to the architectural design services are structural, mechanical, electrical, fire protection, plumbing, civil engineering, landscaping, exhibit design, theater and acoustic design services.

William duPont Gallery - The Visitors Center will have a gallery with a great room inspired by the formal rooms added to the mansion by William duPont, Sr. in the early 1900s, an interpretive exhibit space focused on the duPont family history at Montpelier, and a recreation of the mansion's "Red Room" which was Marion duPont Scott's Art Deco room that showcased her horseracing memorabilia.