Our Mission:
Restoring an historic neighborhood church for the creation, performance, display, and teaching of the arts.
Our Board:
Mary Reagan Shapton, Board Chair
Vince Lambert, Treasurer
Susan Hallifax, Board Member
Ingrid Miller, Board Member
JoLayne Morneau, Board Member
Kailey Smith-Barth, Board Member
Abigail Rosenow, Board Member
Jennifer Williams, Board Member
Project Manager – Carol Moore
A resident of Fairmount Square, an historic district in the East Hills neighborhood, Project Manager Carol Moore joined several community partners to begin restoring the Hermitage at Diamond building in the fall of 2017. In the past several decades she has led a number of transformative restoration and preservation efforts, including:
- saving and rehabilitating the Wealthy Theatre
- saving and restoring several historic structures and houses on Wealthy Street and in Fairmount Square
- helping form the Wealthy Theatre Historic District and Fairmount Square Historic District
- helping develop the Traditional Business District zoning code
- initiating the Trees Please effort
“The building tells you what to do, and it’s just kind of fun to take its lead.”
-Carol Moore, Grand Rapids Magazine, Feb. 12, 2020
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