SEWELL-BELMONT HOUSE & MUSEUM

Project Details

Owner: Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
Contract Amount: $605,861
Date of Award: October 2010
Date of Completion: April 2011
Architect: Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects (EE&K)

Grunley performed fire and life safety improvements, accessibility upgrades, and other select restoration work throughout this historic property. The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum is located at 144 Constitution Ave., NE, on Capitol Hill.

This historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal-rights movements was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974 and is an affiliated site of the National Park Service.

Originally built in 1800, the house is now a museum that holds many banners, documents, pieces of furniture, and other artifacts of the women's suffrage and equal rights movement, as well as sculptures and portraits of women involved in the movements.

Last updated: October 25, 2011