About this Sacred Place
Fello supports people with disabilities to live the lives they choose by creating opportunities, promoting respect and equity, and providing access to services. Since its founding by a group of parents of children with disabilities in 1961, Fello has grown dramatically and now supports thousands of people with disabilities and their families each year. Fello’s programs and services support the full spectrum of a person’s life, from birth through retirement, and all the joys and opportunities in between.
Fello’s building in Easton, MD is part of the town’s Port Street Small Area Plan, intended to make Port Street a vibrant gateway to the town and connect historic Easton to Easton’s waterfront. It is the first building implemented of this plan and serves as both Fello’s Eastern Shore Headquarters as well as nine apartment units managed by Fello Communities, a program of Fello that offers affordable housing to people with disabilities and low-income families. This Sacred Place is in a location optimal for use by the Fello at Port Street community as well as the broader Easton community, ensuring that the new waterfront plan will incorporate a contemplative space among the many diverse uses this corridor will sustain.
The space is located in between a stormwater pond feature and an existing woodland with a meandering pathway that winds through these two areas. Lush native plantings and the shapes of leaves stamped into the pathway further evoke the sensation of being in a forest. Two medium benches and several boulders are set in the middle of the pathway. Metal birds, a nod to the Easton Waterfowl Festival, hover above the native plantings along the street edge of the site.
Design Team:
Miles Barnard, Principal, South Fork Studio
Melissa Lodge, South Fork Studio
