July 2021

The Granary has received a grant and endorsement from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This seal of approval comes from this national organization, established 70 years ago, that has protected other monuments like the Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple in Oak Park, IL, the Amana Heritage Museum in Amana, Iowa, the Waikiki War Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Cape Henry Lighthouse among many, many other places across our country. 'The National Trust is very supportive of this worthwhile preservation initiative.'

March 2021

ARCHITECT magazine’s 2021 Progressive Architecture Award has been given to the LA DALLMAN design for the the renovation of the Door County Granary.

Read the article in ARCHITECT
Read the news at LA DALLMAN

January 2021

The Sturgeon Bay Historical Society Foundation (SBHSF) has engaged Beth Renstrom as acting executive director to lead its efforts to convert the 1901 Teweles and Brandeis granary to a three-season event space as part of the City of Sturgeon Bay’s West Waterfront redevelopment plan.

Read the article in the Door County Pulse

July 2020

The structural engineers (Paul and others at GEI) are working on permits for foundations. The architects (James and Grace) are working with the engineer (Jeff) on near-final designs. The State Historical Society has reviewed. Smet Construction Services (the builders) are working on cost estimates. Tom German, Executive Secretary of the Wisconsin Board of Commissioners of Public Lands (and one of our heroes) and the DNR are working to get a land lease to the City so that the City can get a sublease to us – and we can all be aligned with the State Constitution!

The City Council approved a refinement of West Waterfront plans which further solidifies the granary’s presence.

Technology makes preservation more exact:

Paul of GEI donated the use of the laser, which precisely measured our building and the main stored parts. They also scanned the beans and were able to locate each back to its original location and orientation. Thank you GEI! This is amazing!

Aimilios Davlantis Lo of LA DALLMAN Architects took the 6 million data points taken of the existing structure and stored materials, and put all the building parts back together into these working drawings. This helped not only to document the historic building, but to place each beam exactly where it was originally located.

The foundation plan by Jeff Beane of Silman Engineering can now continue to be tweaked to the exact structure above it.