Disston Recreation Center Rehabilitation

Disston Recreation Center, located in the Tacony area of Philadelphia, was built in 1931 in the Colonial Revival style with Flemish bond brick walls, limestone accents and gabled metal roofs. The building is a contributing structure in a National Register listed historic district.
CWA carried out an extensive exterior and interior renovation, which involved addition of a rear ADA entrance, updated finishes and energy efficient fixtures in the exiting restrooms, a new gender neutral accessible restroom, new finishes and updated LED light fixtures in the Main Lobby and Multipurpose Room. The main staircase was renovated with new wood treads and risers and code compliant railings.
Work on the exterior of the building included masonry cleaning and repointing, isolated crack repairs, replacement of single pane wood windows with aluminum clad wood windows with insulated glazing, replacement of doors with new bronze finish stainless steel doors.
CWA also documented the full replacement of all the roofs with standing seam metal roofs and the replacement of the EIFS cornice with a GFRC cornice that mimics the original tin cornice. Work on the roof and cornice will be carried out at a later phase to accommodate funding availability.