The Old Parish House, an historic meeting house owned by the City of College Park, has been undergoing renovations this summer to come into compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).

The renovations include a ramp accessing the building through the back addition, new bathrooms, and a reconfigured kitchen. The main hall is also being spruced up with a new paint job.

Because of the historic value of the building, the City and its contractors took care to design improvements that would not impact the old main structure of the building, yet still provide universal access.

The Old Parish House was originally a dairy barn built in the early 1700s as part of the Calvert estate. It was the first home of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. During much of the twentieth century, it was the meeting place for the College Park Women's Club, who donated the building to the City of College Park in the late nineties. Now, the City makes the building available to those who wish to reserve a large, comfortable meeting space, with kitchen and bathrooms.

College Park Arts Exchange holds many events monthly in the Parish House, and is thrilled with the new changes, which expand our ability to satisfy the mission of making arts programming available to everyone in College Park.