Newport, RI – Ann Beha Architects and a multi-disciplinary team recently completed a schematic master plan to guide the future stabilization and interpretation of historic Fort Adams for the Fort Adams Trust in Newport.
The result will be unrestricted public access to this endangered national historic landmark for the first time since the site was transferred to the State in 1965.
Fort Adams is the largest and most complete 19th century coastal fortification in the United States. Constructed between 1824 and 1857, the 125-acre installation uniquely illustrates American military engineering and technology, as well as the strategic importance of Narragansett Bay to East Coast defenses.
Today, it offers not only the chance to discover an important chapter in the county’s history, but a unique visitor experience, from sweeping views of the open ocean and the Bay to dark and narrow underground listening tunnels.
Other master plan team members include Robert Silman Associates, structural engineer; Carol R. Johnson Associates, landscape architect; object|IDEA, interpretive planner; ConsultEcon Inc., business planner; AHA consulting engineers, MEP/FP engineer; Nitsch Engineering, civil engineer and Davis Langdon, cost estimator.
Fort Adams Master Plan Completed – – Ann Beha Architects
Newport, RI – Ann Beha Architects and a multi-disciplinary team recently completed a schematic master plan to guide the future stabilization and interpretation of historic Fort Adams for the Fort Adams Trust in Newport