Preserving History,
Shaping the Future
Shaping the Future
Galbraith Carnahan Architects has helped clients adapt historic locations for their modern lives.
Let’s Talk About Your Historic
Preservation Project
We’ve helped transform neglected warehouses into ultra-sleek office spaces, farmhouses into collaborative business incubators, and vacant estates into bustling cafes. And, we do it all without losing the irreplaceable details that drew our clients to the buildings in the first place.
Our Historic Remodel & Adaptive Reuse Projects
Explore award-winning historic preservation sites designed by Galbraith Carnahan Architects.
Convivium Urban Farmstead
A pair of abandoned 1920s greenhouses in Dubuque, Iowa was transformed into an operating urban farm and community space.
The Bindery
One of Milwaukee’s last book binderies was re-imagined as a bright, welcoming creative hub for writers, artists, printers, and book binders.
Hillcrest Park
A structure originally designed as part of a missile base to protect against nuclear attacks now serves as a welcoming open-air pavilion at a Waukesha park.
South First
Buildings from 1889 and 1909 in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood, written off by many as too far gone to save, are now modern, sleek offices, lofts, and commercial spaces.
Legacy Loft
A storage building was revamped into a vibrant, contemporary mixed-use commercial and living space in Milwaukee.
Story Hill Firehouse
This 1930s firehouse and its utilitarian interior were given new life as a unique wedding and event space in Milwaukee’s Story HIll neighborhood.
We Have the Experience to Handle the Details
GCA offers a full range of historic preservation services including:
- Design services for rehabilitation, restoration, and reuse projects
- Detailed preservation plans
- National and State historic tax credit applications
- Historic structures reports
- Existing conditions reports
Experience within the firm includes work on numerous historic tax credit projects, preservation work for the General Services Administration (GSA), as well as Historic American Building Survey (HABS) documentation for the Library of Congress.
Who We Are
Galbraith Carnahan Architects (GCA) is a team of creatives who approach architecture as an opportunity to construct something more than a building. We see each project as a chance to create an experience that’s only possible in that space.
