Selected Articles
With 37 years of experience in projects in the greater Charleston area, Evans & Schmidt Architects has solutions for all of your project requirements. Here are a few highlights of recent projects. Please click on the link after each excerpt to continue reading each article in its entirety.
Post and Courier
City Hall - "The approach by Evans and Schmidt Architects — and overseen by the State Historic Preservation Office — responded to the building's complexity. The approach was to save what was there if it still functioned well..." Published on 06/11/07
Dock Street Theatre- "It also stands on the site of the nation's oldest theater, built around 1736, long before Dock Street was renamed Queen Street..." Published on 03/13/10
Charleston Gateway Center- "The building, to be located just north of the Gateway Center, would replace an existing building, which the BAR has approved for demolition..." Published on 09/02/04
Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation
City Hall- "“This wonderful building has been through man-made and natural disasters and trends in style and design,” said Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr..." Published during March of 2008
Charleston Area Visitors and Convention Center
Spa at Wentworth Mansion- "'The design philosophy was to create a uniquely distinct and mellow environment by incorporating and enhancing the simplicity and the honesty of the original materials whenever possible,' says Joe Schmidt, of Evans and Schmidt, who served as the architect for the project and who also handled the restoration of the Wentworth Mansion..." Published during October of 2004
Selected Awards
- Charleston Preservation Society Carolopolis Awards
- Charleston Historic Society Honor 2010
- South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office Preservation 2008 Honor Award for City Hall
- 2008 Archeological Steward Award by the Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation
Fodor's Choice Gold Awards 2010
Wentworth Mansion- "Fulfilling aspirations of an elegant life of leisure comes easily at the Wentworth, a mansion built in 1886..." Published during 2010
Southern Living
Wentworth Mansion- "Welcome to the ultimate money-is-no-object residence. This 21-room manse, built in 1886 by a wealthy cotton merchant for his 13 children, has guestrooms large enough to play full-court basketball..." Published during March of 2010
Small Luxury Hotels of the World
Wentworth Mansion- "Built as an opulent 19th-century private residence in historic central Charleston, Wentworth Mansion combines period grandeur with professional and attentive service." article
Geo Outlook
Charleston's City Hall- "The problem solving technology of ground source heat pumps came to the rescue for Charleston City Hall..." Published by the Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium; vol. 2, no. 2, 2005
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