Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary
Medicine
Agnes Varis Campus Center
Grafton, Massachusetts
Bowdoin recently completed the adaptive reuse of a former Grafton State
Hospital nurse’s housing facility into a new multi-use Campus Center for
Tufts University in Grafton, MA. The existing 16,000 s.f. four-story
structure was built in 1913 and had been vacant and abandoned for the past
thirty years. The project, designed by Finegold Alexander + Associates,
involved building envelope renovations including the replacement of all
windows, repair of the slate roof, repair and repointing of all masonry,
and new stone steps. Interior work included demolition, shoring and
removal of bearing walls, fitout of a new commercial kitchen and dining
facilities, student/faculty gathering spaces, book store, fitness center,
men’s and women’s locker rooms with showers, a four-stop elevator,
handicapped lift, and all new MEP/FP systems and finishes.
