Ginger and Baker

For more than a century, the Northern Colorado Feeders Supply building has been part of the fabric of Fort Collins, serving as a grain elevator, warehouse and gathering place. When clients Ginger and Jack Graham purchased the building in 2015, they wanted to renovate it into a simple pie shop. The vision evolved into a multifunctional facility housing two restaurants, a bakery, a coffee shop, a cooking school and two event spaces. The project became a catalyst of the newly defined River District in Fort Collins.

The resulting $12 million project was a modern glass and metal volume juxtaposed against the historic white facades. The exterior work included the strengthening of the basement foundations, rebuilding the roof structures, reinforcing the existing brick, simplifying the floor levels, and repairing all of the historic windows.

Since its completion, the project has won two honorable awards for its historical preservation. One being the 2018 Governor’s Award for Best Adaptive Reuse and Rehabilitation and the second being the 2018 Fort Collins Friends of Preservation Award (Outstanding Rehabilitation and Adaptive Reuse).

During the Friends of the Preservation Award ceremony, the committee chair Meg Dunn spoke about the hard work that went in to preserving this landmark. “They have taken the simple, utilitarian ‘workhorse’ materials that the building was made of and turned them, quite honestly, into a sensory delight,” she said. We are proud to say we turned the dilapidated into the delectable.