Riverside Municipal Museum
Riverside, CA

The 1912 Neoclassic building that is now occupied by the Municipal Museum was formerly a Federal Post Office designed by James K. Taylor, a principal draughtsman at the United States Architect's Office.

The neighboring First Congregational Church was built in the year after the Federal Post Office in 1913. The design was presented in a winning competition and submitted by architects Myron Hunt & Elmer Grey.

Heritage Architecture & Planning performed an assessment of both buildings and developed an adaptive reuse and seismic retrofit program in order to combine the two buildings to accommodate the immediate and long term spatial requirements to satisfy the museum's programmatic needs.