The Tent Project · Ocean Grove, NJ

Four of these historic tent structures, owned by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, and built in the late 1800s, had been burned beyond repair in 2004. Cate designed a series of four separate tents that conjoined like townhouses, with two-hour fire walls between them. The open layouts of the tents provide space for cooking, bathing and relaxing.

Originally intended for pilgrims of modest means, these canvas and wood structures are still summer homes for the faithful, from carpenters to opera singers who populate Ocean Grove each summer.

*This project won the 2005 Beersheba Award for Historic Preservation.