Woolpert provided planning, architecture, landscape architecture and engineering services for the 16,000-square-foot Falls of the Ohio Interpretive Center. The building features classrooms, indoor and outdoor galleries, meeting rooms, offices, picnic areas, observation overlooks, a library and a 100-seat multimedia auditorium.

The site development included an entry plaza featuring commemorative bricks in the pavement pattern, a series of decks to provide panoramic views of the river and fossil beds, a vehicular drop-off designed to accommodate buses, and a parking lot sited in a natural depression to limit views of the cars and buses.

Planned in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the project was supported by a joint mayor’s committee representing the riverfront communities of Clarksville, Jeffersonville, New Albany and Louisville. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources operates the facility.