Maryland-based landscape architecture firm Intreegue Design Inc. announced Tuesday the purchase of Maryland-based Donovan Feola Balderson & Associates Inc., a landscape architecture and site planning practice.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Andrew H. Balderson, president of DFB & Associates, Inc., has enjoyed collaborating with Intreegue’s President Colleen Vacelet for many years and is delighted to see her continue the legacy of the late Thurman D. Donovan, founder of T.D. Donovan and Associates, becoming Donovan Feola Balderson & Associates Inc. in 1977, the oldest practicing landscape architecture firm in Maryland.
DFB & Associates Inc. practiced with a diverse clientele in the greater Washington, D.C., region including: developers, builders, institutions, municipalities, estate owners, country clubs, parks and recreation owners, and historic project owners. The firm has won more than 30 awards, including an American Association of Nurserymen Merit Award, presented by Rosalyn Carter in the Rose Garden for the design of Martin Marietta Corporate Headquarters in Bethesda.
Other notable projects include: Leisure World of Silver Spring, Mount Vernon: Ford Orientation Center, Lincoln’s Cottage at the U.S. Soldiers’ Home, Abraham Lincoln sculpture garden at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland College Park, the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, and The New Sibley Hospital.