{"id":9889,"date":"2018-06-28T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.consigli.com\/?p=9889"},"modified":"2020-12-09T11:05:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:05:32","slug":"marthas-vineyard-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.consigli.com\/marthas-vineyard-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha’s Vineyard Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
Now that it\u2019s (finally!) time for day trips to the beach, a relaxing ferry ride across Vineyard Sound to Martha\u2019s Vineyard offers up a quintessential New England coastal experience.<\/span><\/p>\n For some at Consigli, however, a trip to the Vineyard is not about getting R&R. Instead, it\u2019s about working hard to preserve the island\u2019s history through the restoration and adaptive reuse of the historic 1895 U.S. Marine Hospital into the Martha\u2019s Vineyard Museum.<\/span><\/p>\n Long beloved by the local community, the wood-framed building has been carefully preserved\u00a0to create exhibition spaces, collections storage and administrative offices. Original features such\u00a0as fireplaces and chimneys, heavy wood doors, and vertical-grain fir flooring have been carefully refinished to preserve the building\u2019s original character. Consigli is currently finishing a two-story addition, seamlessly integrated into the original structure which overlooks Vineyard Haven Harbor.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This renovation would be complex on the mainland, ensuring labor and materials arrive on-time for complex scopes of work. Add a ferry ride over seven miles of ocean and unrelenting Cape Cod traffic, and you have a true logistical challenge! Superintendent, Jerry Dorval\u2014a Maine native who has spent weekdays on the island for the duration of the project\u2014 attributes effective planning as the key to success.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBecause ridership on the ferries picks up in the warmer months, we\u2019ve brought over the materials needed for summertime well in advance and stored them on-site,\u201d says Dorval.<\/span><\/p>\n Project Manager, Jason Maurer, who commutes daily on the ferry, says \u201cLocal island subcontractors and materials are being utilized as much as possible, but more than half of the labor force is traveling from off-island. When you experience four nor\u2019easters in three weeks, you must make the best of it and keep the project on track.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n And that, they have. The project team has hosted site tours for project stakeholders and the curious public almost every other week. Maurer says \u201cEveryone we bring on a tour has a personal story or connection to the building. There is a lot of interest in this project and\u00a0a large community rooting for its success.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Despite the many challenges this project presented, locals and island visitors will be able to enjoy the new Martha\u2019s Vineyard Museum by the end of the year\u2014 ahead of schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now that it\u2019s (finally!) time for day trips to the beach, a relaxing ferry ride across Vineyard Sound to Martha\u2019s Vineyard offers up a quintessential New England coastal experience. For some at Consigli, however, a trip to the Vineyard is not about getting R&R. Instead, it\u2019s about working hard to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,280],"tags":[94,116,184,185,155,182,183],"class_list":["post-9889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-video","tag-construction","tag-historic","tag-island","tag-marthas-vineyard","tag-marthas-vineyard-museum","tag-preservation","tag-summer"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n