Carpet in theater

Carpet has been installed in the Visitor Center's theater, and acoustical ceiling tile installation is underway.  The large opening in the front wall will have an array of four LCD monitors to show the new multi-screen visitor orientation film.

Reclaimed wood flooring

The Tourism Council of Frederick County offices will be in one wing of the Frederick Visitor Center building, and feature a reclaimed industrial maple strip floor that has just been installed.

Circuits, circuits!

Installation of light fixtures is underway as the electric room components are wired to respective areas of the building.

Staining & polishing concrete floor

After several days of prepration, acid staining & polishing of the concrete floor for the exhibit area and hallway is now underway.

Tiled

Ceramic tile has been set and grouted in the Visitor Center's restrooms, with plumbing fixture installation soon to follow.

Wired

Installation of tracks for exhibit lighting is underway along the bottom chords of the trusses over the future exhibit area.  Careful observers will note that remnants of the former cannery warehouse building's original knob & tube wiring were left in place on the trusses in contrast to the up-to-date system now being installed.  Two of the old warehouse's light fixtures will be refurbished and installed over the welcome desk.

Board Tour

The Board of Directors of the Tourism Council of Frederick County takes a tour of the project as part of the September Board retreat.  Mike Irons, Board Treasurer and Chair of the New Visitor Center Committee led the tour, with TCFC staffer Liz Shatto describing the planned interior exhibits. In the top photo, Board members Carroll Jones - Mayor of Brunswick, Mike Irons of Ole Mink Farm, Susan Trail - Superintendent of Monocacy National Battlefield, Frederick County Commissioner Kai Hagen, Frederick Mayor Randy McClement,  Frederick County Public Library Director Darrell Batson and Frederick Keys General Manager Dave Ziedelis - TCFC Board Secretary, were among the members on hand.  In the second photo, TCFC Board President George Wunderlich - Executive Director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine (right), checks out the exposed trusswork over the future exhibit area.