Projects

Since 2022, House Museum has worked on ten historic sites in California, Pennsylvania and Ukraine. Some have opened to the public; some have been documented or reconstructed digitally; some began as design studies for sites still waiting for their next chapter.

 

Project Chimney, 2025 – ongoing

Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. Public Art. Preservation of six chimneys salvaged from the 2025 Palisades Fire, now being stabilized for a public memorial. Includes Site-Based Art Learning, a conservation internship and the annual Palisades Fire Anniversary gathering.

     

John Rowland Mansion, 2024 – ongoing

City of Industry, Los Angeles. Landmark exhibition. Reopened an 1855 National Register landmark after four years of closure, with 11 site-specific artworks, in partnership with the La Puente Valley Historical Society. Home of The Giving Trees, an annual poetry program.

Jesse A. Tilge House, 2023

221 W. Upsal St. Mount Airy, Philadelphia. Landmark exhibition. An exhibition in which 12 artists responded to an 1887 Queen Anne home designated by the Philadelphia Historical Commission in 2022.

 

Henry O. Tanner House, 2023

Philadelphia, PA. Design study. A proposal, submitted to Friends of the Tanner House, to turn the National Register home of painter Henry Ossawa Tanner into a cultural center for youth.

Kuindzhi Art Museum, 2023

Mariupol, Ukraine. Digital reconstruction. With Ukrainian designer Dmytro Kifuliak, a digital memorial to the museum destroyed in a March 2022 airstrike, released on the first anniversary and covered by more than 20 outlets in Ukraine and Europe.

 

122 Elfreth's Alley, 2022

Old City, Philadelphia. Digital reconstruction. A photogrammetric 3D model of an original 18th-century brick oven and hearth on Elfreth's Alley, a National Historic Landmark street.

 

Blue World Gallery, 2022–2023

Online. Digital reconstruction. A virtual gallery built with art historian Kaja Silverman, giving her writing on photography a space where works can be installed and viewed together.

 

 

Panoramic View Playground, 2022

Sharswood, North Philadelphia. Design study. A proposed climbable sculpture giving neighborhood children an elevated view of their city, for the Philadelphia Housing Authority and the Seybert Foundation.

Chinese Cultural and Community Center, 2022

Chinatown, Philadelphia. Design study. A proposed bilingual drone tour, in English and Cantonese, of a landmark Chinatown building closed since 2006. Prepared for Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.

 

 

1801 Vine Street, 2022

Philadelphia, PA. Design study. A proposed installation of mid-century cars driven by Black travelers in the Green Book era, conceived alongside the exhibition Derrick Adams: Sanctuary. Prepared for the African American Museum of Philadelphia, AAMP.

 

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