Award of Merit Renovation: The Lodge at St. Edward Park
Built in 1931, the historic St. Edward Seminary in Kenmore, Wash., has been reimagined as a hotel and public amenity for visitors to St. Edward State Park.
The 75,000-sq-ft seminary is on the National Register of Historic Places, and the project team carefully refurbished and restored its Romanesque Revival exterior architecture and Art Deco interiors. Design of the seminary’s adaptive reuse found creative ways to reflect the building’s original purposes. Former classrooms are now conference and meeting spaces, the dining hall is an open-kitchen restaurant and former dormitories now provide 84 guest rooms.