BARKER
From the final paragraph of William Morgan’s Monadnock Summer book about Dublin:
“…the house represents a kind of apogee of the Dublin summer house…the clients and the architect were able to combine several Dublin threads into a perfect coda for this book. Admirers of Charles Platt, the patrons desired something similar to the long H-plan house that the noted classicist used both I Dublin and Cornish. The narrow plan allows lot of light, as well as glimpses of the mountain. Yet the house, called On Shore, actually blocks the view from the driveway; there is, in effect, a denial of the mountain which is remedied by passing into the house and discovering the concealed view. There are a few columns supporting the deeply overhanging eaves, but the house is not in any way Colonial. It is covered in the flexible, textural, and organic material of Dublin’s great summer cottage period, the shingle – a happy and appropriate marriage of modernity and tradition.”