A building with a fence in front.
A hallway with a painting on the wall.
A large room with paintings on the walls.
A room with a wood floor and white chairs.
A garden with a sign.
A building with a sign on it.
A building with a flag on top.
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Texas Quilt Museum

La Grange, Texas

For the new Texas Quilt Museum, Gensler transformed a pair of 1893 commercial buildings in historic downtown La Grange to accommodate galleries and a textile research library. The project included masonry restoration, full roof replacement and all-new electrical and HVAC systems. To create the ideal display setting with the museum, quilts are mounted on a flexible display system against exposed brick walls or the overlook railings, daylit through ultraviolet-filtered clerestory windows. The grounds include a reconstructed, 19th-century Texas garden faced with a 70-foot-long mural inspired by traditional quilt geometries.

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