DMAC - 1229 Emerson by DMAC Architecture

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PREFACE

We Design Everything That Matters

We are an architectural firm but, more than that, we are storytellers. Our designs

Founded in 1995 by Dwayne MacEwen, DMAC Architecture relies on the diverse

express the epics that bring together a series of buildings into a collective

experiences of its staff and expert consultants to craft each project. We love to teach,

experience where the master plan is the anecdote that informs and weaves

but most importantly we love to learn. Teach us what you want to do, and we will

together the details of an entire building. We design everything that matters:

weave your stories into reality. We strive to invent, test ideas, challenge ourselves,

from the words - the brick, the mortar, the container; to the punctuation - the

and sometimes know that the best ideas come from looking at things “sdrawkcab”.

remarkable moments; to the swear words - the pieces that remind us of our humanity; to the spaces between the words that make an environment truly poignant. We know that each project is different, each project has a history; a past, a present, and we know, when crafting its future, we accept each element.

DWAYNE MACEWEN DMAC ARCHITECTURE.P.C. PRINCIPAL

DMAC @ 1229 EMERSON Located at a complex intersection in Evanston, just north of Chicago, the former Mount Moriah Masonic Temple Lodge 28 building is steeped in social, racial and cultural history dating back to its opening in 1929.

The two-story 8,400 square-foot

brick structure was designed by Walter T. Bailey, the first licensed African American architect in Illinois, and financed solely by African American patrons.

Eighty-six years later and in need of substantial updating, DMAC Architecture made it our home with the idea of adapting it for our office space on the second floor with open gallery space for community events on the ground floor. Taking advantage of the two-sided nature of the site, we wanted to activate the back of the building into a “second facade” – something more casual and engaging, contrasting the formal front.

BAILEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DESIGN The two-story, 8,400 square-foot brick building has a formal front. The facade is classically designed with a limestone base and central arched doorway. The frieze is engraved with the Templeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name and symbol, while the second-story is faced with a yellow-brick herringbone pattern. Interior reinforced concrete beams span the width of the meeting hall on the second floor for a column-free space. A beautiful original herringbone hardwood parquet floor covers the expanse of the hall and matches the rotated yellow brick pattern on the front facade.

With its

southern exposure, large windows on the front facade allow natural light to filter into the interior space.

REAL ESTATE LISTING Date: Circa - 1972 Source: Evanston History Center

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KEWANEE, IL

1882 - BORN 1904 - WORKED for Henry Eckland

CHICAGO, IL

1924 - MOVED OFFICE (Overton Hygenic Building in Bronzeville) 1928 - RELOCATED OFFICE (Knights of Pythias building on State St.) 1941 - DIED

MEMPHIS. TN

1916 - OPENED own practice TUSKEGEE, AL

CHAMPAIGN, IL

1900-04 - GRADUATED from U of I; B.Sc. in Arch. Eng. 1905 - WORKED for Spencer & Temple 1910 - HONORARY MASTERS in Architecture from U of I

1905 - HEADED Mechanical Industries Dept. at Tuskeegee Institute (lead by Booker T. Washington)

WALTER T BAILEY (1882-1941) was born in Kewanee, Illinois, nearly 150 miles from Chicago where his career would ultimately take him. Before then, he attended the University of Illinois at Champaign, graduated in 1904 and within the year Bailey married, began working as an architect, designed his first building, and was invited by Booker T. Washington to head the Department of Mechanical Industries at Tuskeegee Institute (now Tuskeegee Univeristy) in Alabama. For the next ten years, Bailey taught and would become the architect of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, known as the “Brick-A-Day Church” for the building bricks donated by its members. The church would later become an important center of the civil rights movement notable for the stand off between Freedom Riders with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and an angry white mob. In 1916, Bailey left Alabama to open his own office in Memphis, where he built several churches that lead to his largest commission to design the National Knights of Pythias in Chicago. In 1924, Bailey moved his office to Chicago to work on the building and, while there, was commissioned to build Mount Moriah Masonic Temple for Lodge 28 in Evanston.

B A I L E Y ’ S . B I O G R A P H Y

1924 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Nashville, TN

1922 MOSAIC STATE TEMPLE 9th & Broadway Little Rock, AR

1924 (demolished) FRATERNAL SAVINGS AND TRUST BANK Beale Street at Church Park Memphis, TN

1923 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS BATH HOUSE AND SANITARIUM 358 Beale Avenue Hot Springs, AR

1923|24 WOODMEN OF UNION BATH HOUSE AND SANITARIUM 1948 TO 1983 - NATIONAL BAPTIST HOTEL 501 Malvern Ave Hot Springs, AR

1906 ALABAMA AGRICULTURAL FAIR NEGRO BUILIDNG Fairgrounds Montgomery, AL

1908 (1910-1915 construction) FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MONTGOMERY 347 N. Ripley St Montgomery, AL

In the 1950s and 1960s, it was an important gathering place for activities related to the Civil Rights Movement, and became associated with the Montgomery bus boycott and the Freedom Rides of May 1961. The church was listed by the Alabama Historical Commission on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on May 5, 2000.

1905 COLONEL WOLFE SCHOOL 4th & Healy Champaign, IL

1924 (conceptualized in 1922) NATIONAL PYTHIAN TEMPLE 3737 S. State Street, Chicago, IL

Lost ownership at some point; Converted to multi-family housing as part of WPA; Abandoned in 1970; Demolished in 1980.

1926 (demolished in 1990) PENN RESIDENCE (DR. RUDOLPH.A) 2026, Brown Avenue Evanston, IL

Later Penn donated to become Butler Memorial Hospital. Known as the “Penn House” renovated to accommodate doctor’s offices and nurse training.

1928 (plans only) MOMENCE COUNTRY CLUB E Country Club Dr Momence Township Along Kankakee River, IL

1929* MT. MORIAH MASONIC TEMPLE, LODGE 28 CURRENTLY, THE DMAC OFFICE 1229 Emerson St Evanston, IL 1939 (alterations) FIRST CHURCH OF DELIVERANCE First Church of Deliverance 4315 S. Wabash Chicago, IL

Bailey designed significant alterations for sermons to be broadcast. Modified in 1945 after a fire. Landmark status 1994.

1940 (demolished) IDA B. WELLS HOMES 38th St. & Rhodes Ave Chicago, IL

1941 (alterations) OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH 3101 S. King Jr. Drive Chicago, IL

B A I L E Y ’ S . P O R T F O L I O

THE CLIENT The Mount Moriah Masonic Temple Lodge 28 is an African American branch of Free and Accepted Masons (Freemasons), first established in 1878 in Evanston, Illinois, under the Prince Hall Grand Lodge. Their mission was to elevate the black community by investing in their cultural, social, political, and economic development. The Mount Moriah Masonic Temple was born out of the prevailing realities of segregation. In 1924, Lodge 28 commissioned Bailey to design the Mount Moriah Masonic Temple while he was working on the National Knights of Pythias building in Chicago.

Lodge 28 moved out of

the Evanston building ten years after it was built. The circumstances of the move are unknown.

42 Annual Session, Eureka Grand Chapter O.E.S. (Order of Eastern Star), IL Date : Aug 11, 12, 13 - 1931, MASONIC TEMPLE Source: Shorefront Legacy Center

1931

1939

W.E.B.DUBOIS SPOKE AT A CAMPAIGN RALLY FOR EDWIN B. JOURDAIN AT MMMT/ EMERSON

SOLD TO LOUIS R WATKINS (OWNER) JODY’S SHOE REPAIR SHOP LAUNDERETTE COFFEE SHOP BEAUTY SHOP OFFICES SPEAK EASY/ PRIVATE CLUB CEDA NEIGHBORS AT WORK

KNOWN TENANTS

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MT. MORIAH MASONIC TEMPLE LODGE 28 BUILT

VOTING RIGHTS ACT

FAIR HOUSING ACT

RESTAURANTS, HOTELS AND CLUBS START TO SERVE ALCOHOL LEGALLY; NO BARS OR LIQUOR STORES IN EVANSTON

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CIVIL RIGHTS ACT

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SIEGE, MONTGOMERY, AL BAILEY HAD DEISGNED THE CHURCH IN 1908

EVANSTON WAS DECLARED ‘DRY’; MANDATED BY NU FOR 4 MILE RADIUS

1964 1965

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1229 EMERSON MILESTONES MOMENTS IN HISTORY

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2015

J B PRITZKER CAMPAIGN RALLY U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SOLD TO DMAC 1229 LLC

1984

LIQUOR STORES LEGALIZED

couldn’t afford to go anywhere else in

CURRENT

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1977

HAROLD WASHINGTON CAMPAIGN RALLY WHILE RUNNING FOR THE OFFICE OF MAYOR

EDA NEIGHBORS AT WORK EVANSTON SENTINEL NEWSPAPER EVANSTON BRANCH OF NAACP PRINTER PRIVATE CLUB

SOLD TO JAMES FULLER (LANDLORD) KNOWN TENANTS

1974

was a positive in the sense that you could have banquets,

“For the older people who grew up here, it [the building]

even though they talked about integration. You also Evanston.”

- Hecky Powell Owner of Hecky’ Barbecue Fomer Executive Director Neighbors at work

T I M E L I N E

REVIVED AND REIMAGINED Vacant and in disrepair, DMAC envisioned our office space on the second floor and an open gallery space for community events on the first floor. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;bonesâ&#x20AC;? of the building were still in good condition and, remarkably, the original herringbone parquet flooring of the meeting room was intact. With some physical and mechanical updating, the building could be revived and reimagined for contemporary use.

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DESIGN CONCEPT The concept for the building was to open up the second floor for our design studio. Its column-free space and fourteen-foot ceilings would support our collaborative process and the original herringbone parquet floor would become the feature element of the design. Personal desk space would line the east and west brick walls, while a long table in the center would draw attention to the spaciousness of the open floor.

To gain more natural light, we maximized openings, replacing divided windows with full glass on the south stone facade and creating new openings on the north brick facade. Where we took out bricks to make room for a large glass window, we reused them in a brick weave to help activate the north elevation into a â&#x20AC;&#x153;second front facadeâ&#x20AC;?.

The first floor was heavily partitioned for office space but we knew behind those walls was the potential for another large open space. Being connected to the street, we wanted to offer something engaging for the public. With six bays of open space front to back, the floor is designed to host private events and pop-up art shows. At the back of the property is a triangular lot with a mix of landscape and hardscape to extend the space outside and engage the neighborhood.

P R O P O S E D . E L E V A T I O N S

EVEL 02

exit stair storage

37â&#x20AC;&#x2122; wide clear span conducive to flexibility in spatial configuration

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exit stair storage

kitchen

exit stair

studio lounge

studio

community hall

storage

corridor restrooms

restrooms

admin

lobby stair

storage coat closet

NAACP

printer

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reception

conference room

copy room

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material library

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DEMO

DEMO FINDINGS During demolition, there were many pleasant surprises revealed that were previously concealed in the layers of the building. FRAME - Cast in-situ concrete beams and columns form the bare bones of the building. CORE - Distressed metal stair SHELL - 3 wythe thick loadbearing brick walls ROOF - 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122;-14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; h Concrete waffle slab ceilings were revealed when about six layers of plaster ceilings were peeled back during demo. FLOOR - The original herringbone wood floor on level 02 was found intact and was refinished for the new studio space. Polished and stained concrete floors can be found throughout the rest of the building. FENESTRATIONS - Painted wood frame windows were in dire need of replacement. MILLWORK - A speakeasy was found in the basement had to be demolished to make room for the material library and model shop. MEP - The services in the building were in great disrepair and in need of an upgrade.

FRAME

FRAME At the time of construction in 1929, both steel and concrete framing were commonly used for long span structures, like that needed for the Freemason’s meeting space on the second floor. We can only guess Bailey chose concrete framing because it was more economical than steel for the 2-story structure. Concrete also had the advantage of being fireproof, a requirement Chicagoan’s were keenly aware of having lived through the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The building’s frame is cast-in-place reinforced concrete columns and beams in a one-way joist slab system. Demolition of the plastered ceiling revealed the beautiful frame with a grand 14-foot ceiling height and 2-foot beams that span the 37-foot meeting space on the second floor.

Demolition of the first

floor revealed 3x6 slightly irregular bays of interior concrete columns and spacious 12-foot ceiling height.

CORE

CORE The original metal staircase at the entrance to the building was revealed during demolition. The wrapping L-shaped staircase has a steel frame with concrete treads that show several layers of colored finish worn and exposed. Staying true to the original material palette, DMAC designed the staircase with metal railings and enclosure. Hot rolled steel panels spanning the height of three floors form the backdrop that follows and frames the staircase.

SHELL

SHELL The buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s envelope is a common brick shell three wythes thick. The blonde brick visible on three sides complements the patterned yellow face brick on the front limestone facade. On the interior, the common brick is exposed for its rich color and textures.

FACADE

FACADE Most of the original window openings were replaced with new insulated glass windows in the renovation design. However, to bring in more natural light to both floors, some modifications were made to the south and north facades.

On the front facade,

the two doors flanking the central entrance were removed and knee walls lowered to create a sill for large insulated glass windows on both sides.

At the back of the building, we repurposed a large piece of insulated glassâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;purchased but unused for another projectâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;for a large window on the second floor. The bricks removed for the new window were reclaimed in a weave pattern over the other openings in the same north wall, filtering light into the interior space. This dynamic play of textures adds interest and creates a new facade toward Green Bay Road.

FORMER FRONT FACADE

CURRENT FRONT FACADE

FORMER NORTH FACADE

CURRENT NORTH FACADE

The “SECOND FRONT FACADE”

FLOOR

FLOOR Everywhere in the building, the floors are concrete except in the main studio space on the second floor. Remarkably, the wall-to-wall herringbone wood floor survived years of use with little damage. As we stripped away the stain and began refinishing, we were struck by the metamerism effect where the herringbone pattern felt three dimensional depending your vantage point. It was the crown jewel of the building. To highlight the beautiful textured floor, we repolished the concrete floors on both sides.

“METAMERISM EFFECT”

MILLWORK

MILLWORK The modular furnishings for the studio space were selected for their materialityâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;structure, color and finish. Blonde wood desks with hot-rolled steel legs tie into the color of the existing brick and wood floor. Grey storage units have blonde highlights. Custom cabinetry was designed for the open kitchen on the second floor where light wood and white veneers soften the hard concrete floor surface.

Featured in the center of the studio is a custom 28-foot long table. It is veneered with reclaimed dark hakwood to contrast and pop against the light wood floor.

MEP

MEP Over the years, many of the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems were modified and updated for tenant needs. By 2015, the building had been unoccupied for a few years and was in disrepair. All of the MEP systems were modernized and some relocated for accessibility.

IMPRINTS

IMPRINTS FROM THE PAST Demolition revealed memories of the past ghosted throughout the building. At the top of the staircase a section of the concrete floor was tinted red where a hallway once existed. Near a perimeter brick wall, tiny paw prints are embossed in the concrete floor.

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