The Allegrone-built Jane Iredale Mineral Headquarters is featured in retrofit magazine!

For more than 120 years, the William Cullen Bryant School has stood as a landmark of Great Barrington and the Berkshires region of western Massachusetts with its distinctive arts and crafts design and central location just off Main Street. When cosmetics magnate and preservationist Jane Iredale was seeking larger, sustainable headquarters for her locally based company—Iredale Mineral Cosmetics Ltd.—a few years ago, she zeroed in on the school as an unorthodox yet inventive solution.

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“It didn’t seem conceivable to do a building that wasn’t sustainable in some fashion,” Iredale says. “It’s much harder to do it with an existing building instead of from the ground up. Fortunately for us, the building was built very solidly. The people building it knew they were building it for their children. They put their hearts and souls into it. The whole thing fit into our philosophy.”

Full article from retrofit magazine:

LINK: A Landmark 19th Century School Is Reborn as a Sustainable Headquarters for an Environmentally Conscious Cosmetics Company

PDF: Retrofit Iredale A Green Makeover 0916