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Brynmor Early Education & Preschool exemplifies the transformative power of adaptive reuse of a historic property through the conversion of a portion of the Lorton Workhouse into a vibrant educational environment. The design skillfully repurposes the existing structure, creating a welcoming and humanizing space that beautifully contrasts with its former use as a prison. With innovative ceiling treatments and an inviting atmosphere, this project masterfully embodies a “death to life transformation” that the jury found profoundly impactful. The conversion not only respects the historic core of the site but also fulfills the vision of the Fairfax County Laurel Hill Master Plan, promoting a socially positive use that benefits the surrounding community.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 24, 2024) – Brynmor Early Education & Preschool will join forces with the U.S. Department of State and the Diplotots Board of Directors to offer high quality early childhood education at Diplotots, the Department of State’s on site, employer sponsored child care center.  Beginning July 8th Brynmor at Diplotots will serve children ages six weeks through preschool in full day, full year care.  Diplotots has operated for more than thirty years with various management partners.  Brynmor is honored to lead Diplotots into its next season.     Brynmor will offer full-time, part-time, and drop-in care at Diplotots.  Diplotots serves

Author: Vernon Miles Buildings that once housed inmates are instead being used to care for infants and toddlers.   This past weekend, Brynmor Early Education & Preschool (9060 Power House Road) held a grand opening in Liberty Market, a redevelopment within what was once Lorton Reformatory.   “The center will begin operations October 16, eventually welcoming up to 156 children into two historic buildings that once served as maximum-security units at the heart of the old prison complex,” a release from Brynmor said. “In place of the cell blocks are whimsical, light-filled rooms for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. A courtyard

Author: Rhian Allvin This month, Brynmor Early Education & Preschool (Brynmor) will welcome families with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers to new and revolutionary child care center — built at a site that was once a prison. It is an unlikely transformation story that community leaders are hailing as a game-changer for the community, and a new model for child care delivery. LORTON, Va., Oct. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — When Rhian Evans Allvin went looking for just the right location to open her child care company’s flagship child care center, she found inspiration in the unlikeliest of places: a long-closed maximum-security

Author: Rhian Allvin For more than 20 years, neuroscience has confirmed what parents, grandparents and early childhood educators have suspected for a long time. The first five years of life are the most profound period of brain development in the human lifespan. In these years infants, toddlers and preschoolers develop the synaptic connections and foundations for learning and development. This includes their language, cognitive, social, emotional and physical attributes. In fact, a child’s brain at age five is 90% the size of an adult brain. To make the most of this extraordinary time of development, children need to have experiences

Author: Erika Christ Brynmor Early Education & Preschool will be located in buildings P1 and P3 at Lorton’s Liberty Market. A brand-new, privately owned early childhood education center is slated to open at Liberty Market in Lorton this fall. Brynmor Early Education & Preschool is the brainchild of Rhian Allvin, a leader in early education who spent nearly nine years as chief executive officer of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). She decided to launch her own company to address what she saw as three critical deficits: a lack of childcare for children up to age five, a lack

Lorton, VA – New high quality child care is coming to Fairfax County, Virginia in the fall of 2023.  Brynmor Early Education & Preschool (Brynmor) will open its doors to children six weeks through five years of age at the newly redeveloped Liberty Market in Lorton.  There are more than 1000 children birth to five within ten minutes of Lorton, VA without access to child care.   At a time of uncertainty in the American child care industry, Brynmor’s vision is to bring reliable, high quality early childhood education that is within reach for every child, family and community. The company