Baltimore, Maryland

Bought in the 1850s by the First Presbyterian Church as a designated place of worship for black members of its congregation, it has since then gone through several conversions and is today a 13-condo residential building after being redesigned by PFA. Its name "The Revels" is commemorative of one of its early pastors, Hiram Rhodes Revels, who also went on after the Civil War to become the first African American senator in the United States. In addition to adding residential units on the roof of the existing structure, PFA has succeeded in preserving some of the original first floor decor such as ornamental plaster and ceiling details, though many of the original aesthetic elements had been destroyed prior to this conversion.

CLIENT: Tower Hill Development
PROJECT TYPE: Multifamily, Historic Conversion
COMPLETION DATE: 2005
SCOPE OF SERVICES: Full Architectural