The Taft School Dining Hall

Watertown, CT

Cast Stone Institute 2010 COMMERCIAL EXCELLENCE Award Winner

This project is a 13,000 square foot dining hall addition to an early 1900’s building at The Taft School in Watertown CT. The collegiate-gothic style Cast Stone scope included base panels, ornate window and door surrounds, caps, bands, coping, and chimney caps. Scope also included interior arches designed to match the Cast Stone in the original portion of the building.

The Cast Stone was to match the existing collegiate-gothic style architecture prevalent across the entire campus of the school. The interior Cast Stone required a second mix design which was used to match the “old-world” styling of the existing interior elements.

Cast Stone was critical to the success of the project in that it provided the architect with unlimited design creativity, but still allowed for maintaining architectural continuity with respect to the other buildings throughout the campus.