A lot of history is interpreted by the Strawbery Banke Museum. The neighborhood that the museum campus occupies, known as Puddle Dock, has seen indigenous Abenaki use as a seasonal hunting area, development during the colonial era, and eventually becoming one of the busiest ports in North America. After the neighborhood's industrial peak, the museum preserved original historic buildings from destruction during a period of urban renewal. Now a new challenges threatens the buildings which have stood on the site for so long - rising sea levels and intensifying storms.
Horsley Witten Group, in collaboration with the Strawbery Banke Museum and Portsmouth-based architecture firm Placework, developed a stormwater management plan to address the challenges posed by rising waters. In this episode of HW Currents we're joined by Rodney Rowland, Director of Facilities and Environmental Sustainability at Strawbery Banke Museum, Brian Murphy, Principal Architect with Placework, and Brian Kuchar, Principal at Horlsey Witten to discuss the threats facing the museum campus and efforts to address those problems. The plan aims to alleviate stormwater impacts while maintaining alignment with the museum's mission to preserve historic buildings and cultural landscapes for future generations.
You can read the Stormwater Management Plan for Strawbery Banke here:
https://issuu.com/placework/docs/21-013_sbm_stormwater_management_plan_report_23063
You can learn more about Strawbery Banke Museum at their website:
https://www.strawberybanke.org/
And more information about Placework here:
Our website is horsleywitten.com