Lodge Renovations

Video Postcard: May 2016

A bird’s-eye perspective of the Lodge site as it’s prepared for the new foundation.

Lodge Formwork

Despite recent rains, formwork for the new Lodge foundation is nearly complete. Crews should pour concrete in the coming days. This shot shows the still-intact Waterfall Patio in the background.

Coming June 9: Laity Lodge in St. Paul

Laity Lodge is teaming up with Art House North to host our second on-the-road event, this time in St. Paul, MN. We’ll have plenty of appetizers, coffee, and dessert on hand so you can enjoy a relaxed, early summer evening among friends. Please make plans to join us. Speaker James K. A. Smith | Practicing Presence: Shaping Places that Shape Us […]

Finding Cedar Brake

The Cedar Brake design process reached the point where it was time to see how the new buildings would actually sit in the land. So we spent a day with plans in hand, peering through the thicket of cedar trees to find the fresh stakes that marked the proposed placement. Actual conditions on the ground always […]

Coming May 1: Laity Lodge in Nashville

Laity Lodge is hosting a relaxed evening event in Nashville on Sunday, May 1. You can expect a taste of the things we value most—food and drink, conversation, a light program, and music—in a location slightly removed from the day-to-day. Please make plans to join us. RSVP to Debbie Taylor. Want to introduce a friend to Laity […]

Office Hours

Out in the Canyon, a new foundation for the Lodge should be poured in a matter of days. Similar site preparation is about to begin just uphill at Cedar Brake too. But the bulk of current work is taking place in the offices of Mark Eubank, Overland Partners, and Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, where drawings are being completed, materials […]

Site Visit: March 24, 2016

The Lodge is gone. Stone walls were knocked down and disassembled last week (the stone was salvaged and will be reused). All that’s left is a hole in the ground next to the Waterfall patio and apartment.

Audio Postcard: March 18, 2016

Recorded by Paul Soupiset.

Progress Report: March 10, 2016

The new Lodge building (meadow side) Laity Lodge, a place we all love, is changing. There is an undeniable emotional component to this work—every time we visit the Canyon these days, we’re stopped in our tracks by the ghostly (yet blessedly temporary!) ruins of the old Lodge. At the same time, excitement is mounting for […]

A Place Becomes a Healing Environment: A Q&A