RSH Architects was commissioned to transform a neglected mansion into a long-term care property now known as Kade Nursing Home.  The 68-Bed facility, which is located in a residential district of Washington, Pennsylvania, is composed of two service/residential wings, built during the 1960s and early 1970s that project back from a mansion erected on the site by a sheep farmer and wool merchant in the late nineteenth century.

Working with interior designer Jessica Reiner, RSH Architects re-oriented the focus of the entire structure by moving its main entrance, public spaces, and administrative offices to the ground floor of the mansion from their original position at the rear of one wing, adjacent to the facility’s parking lot.

New construction in an open area behind the mansion clearly connects it to the rest of the nursing home, and provides space for five new patient rooms, a hair care salon, office quarters, and an examination room.  RSH also built a bay-shaped addition to the dining area, located along the streetside façade to the left of the mansion.  Its vaulted ceiling, generous perimeter fenestration, and clerestory windows give the room an airy, open quality.  The major renovation and reorganization of kitchen and service areas adjacent to the new dining room provided room for an additional resident room and the creation of a centrally located lounge, which opens onto one of two landscaped rear courtyards.  By relocating the entrance, room for a new patient therapy area was also secured.

The facility also features a parlor, now outfitted as the main administrative office, as well as a wood-paneled library used as the admissions and social services area, a hair salon, new lounge space, and a new 68 seat dining room.