Elly Andrews interviews 4 of Roc Caivano's close friends from his Yale years: Bob Knight, Peter Woerner, Tom Carey, and Ron Filson.
Roc received his BA from Dartmouth College and a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University. He and and wife Helen arrived on MDI in 1974 where he was hired to start a program in Environmental Design at the College of the Atlantic. While at COA, Roc, Barbara Sassaman and Harris Hyman established an office in Southwest Harbor where they were involved in the renovation of the Turrets, a granite shorefront “cottage” designed by Bruce Price and originally built in 1895. They also created the Wendell Gilley Museum, the Somesville bridge and a number of single family residences. For over 45 years Roc Caivano Architects prepared the master plan for Acadia National Park, the renovation and conversion of the Schoodic Navel Station in to the Schoodic National Park Education Center, Acadia’s Fee Station and the Island Explorer Bus Shelter System, the Mary Dow and MDI Hospital Oncology Centers and other medical and educational facilities.
