Barn Renovators Win Green Honor
Article originally published in The Record
April 2014
The team behind the Bolger Community Center has earned the 2013 Green Project award in the not-for-profit category from the New Jersey Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council for its sustainable construction.
The honor will be shared by The Bolger Foundation, architects with the Peter Raymond Wells firm in Park Ridge, Consulting engineers and the contractors, architect Peter Raymond Wells said.
The Historic Pease Building
2010 Bergen County Historic Preservation Commendation Awards
May 6, 2010
The historic Pease Building has a rich history. In 1917, Ridgewood resident Gertrude Pease Anderson saw a community need for a public library and by her last will and testament established a fund to purchase a site and build a library which was to be named George L. Pease Memorial Library as a tribute to her late father, George L. Pease. The building served as Ridgewood’s only public library from 1923 through 1963 until finally the building could not accommodate Ridgewood’s growing need for a library with more services. In 1963 a much larger “main Library,” known today as the Ridgewood Public Library was constructed on North maple Avenue.
Blinds to Go
A Paramus Pinnacle
Article originally published in New Jersey Business magazine in 2013
The site at 101 E. Route 4 housed a two-story building that was wedged into an irregular lot next to a four-story office building. The property was crowded with cars and there was nothing buffering the rear-yard residential neighbors from the busy highway.
Enter the company Blinds To Go with its plan to establish a training and development center. The company turned to Peter Raymond Wells, whose firm designed a new three-story building that today is the Blinds To Go USA corporate office and signature retails store
History of Wells Associates
Article originally published in 1985 by New Jersey Architecture magazine
Wells Associates was established in 1957 by the Senior member of the firm, Raymond Wells. In recent years Peter and Jeffrey Wells have joined the firm as principals after graduation from the Rhode Island School of Design. Combined with the three principals, the firm employs six additional graduate Architects and is one of the larger more diversified offices in Northern New Jersey.