Town of Breck­en­ridge, Col­orado — Case Study

When the south branch library in the town of Breck­en­ridge, Col­orado, out­grew its loca­tion, the coun­ty and the town decid­ed it was time to reha­bil­i­tate a his­tor­i­cal high school build­ing built in 1909 and expand it to be a com­mu­ni­ty cen­ter for the ben­e­fit of every­one in the town.

Lat­i­tude began work­ing with the archi­tect on the project in the fall of 2013, devel­op­ing the sign program.

Updat­ing a His­tor­i­cal Build­ing with Signage

Because of the his­tor­i­cal her­itage of the build­ing, we decid­ed that using slate and wood would offer the most clas­sic look­ing mate­ri­als that blend­ed with the sur­round­ings of the inte­ri­or fin­ish­es, even though find­ing large enough pieces of antique slate is a large chal­lenge, and drilling/​cutting antique slate is very difficult.

The com­bi­na­tion of antique slate, slate lam­i­nates, pine wood, acrylic and stand­offs helped main­tain a his­toric look while still offer­ing high-end cus­tom sig­nage and not clash­ing with oth­er sign types/​sur­round­ings, such as the wide vari­ety of donor recog­ni­tion sig­nage we had to work with as the project was main­ly fund­ed by donors.

Ulti­mate­ly, our qual­i­ty wood work and expe­ri­ence man­u­fac­tur­ing and han­dling antique slate helped com­pli­ment the build­ing with a high end touch while main­tain­ing ADA com­pli­ant sig­nage through­out the his­toric building.

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