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Shonk Residence
Shonk Residence Dublin, New Hampshire This renovation of a house lived in by the same family for generations is reflective of changing life styles. The original house was approached from the south on a difficult drive, and oriented toward Mount Monadnock to the south. The renovation maintained the Monandock focus, while creating a more distinguished […]
Murray Cates
Murray Cates What started many years ago as a renovation of a long thin cabin, has grown over the years with further house additions, a towering garage/music room; a screened porch and a long ramp, a winter link from house to garage, and then another garage, while pushing back more and more trees, exposing an […]
Hunter Garden Apartment
Hunter Garden Apartment Hunter Garden We recently moved the owner of the Peterborough Community Theater building into an apartment upstairs, and she found she missed an outdoor space. In furtherance of her commitment to live downtown, The owner asked for a design of a pergola with flower boxes. She also asked Michael Gordon, who has […]
Hoffman
Hoffman The venerable couple of John & Jean, who steward a great hill top farm in an equally venerable house from the seventeen hundreds, needed a first floor bedroom suite. In addition to the master suite, the design needed to accommodate Jean’s office, and provide for the needs of a couple choosing to age in […]
Hancock Screen Porch
Hancock Screen Porch This screen porch is the tail at the end of a house, a bit of a warped plane of a wagging tail. The existing house has an almost 40 degree monolithic kitchen roof sloping East, a true product of a ’70s architecture imposing itself on an antique colonial structure. Our office redesigned […]
Stonlea
Photography, Peter Clement STONLEA Dublin, New Hampshire STONLEA today is the renovated confluence of Historic Preservation and Net-Zero Energy of an 1891 Peabody & Stearns cottage. The house stretches out along a hill side directly facing Dublin Lake and Mount Monadnock in Dublin, New Hampshire. The compound was modernized to be a gathering place, as […]
Tiadnock
TIADNOCK There is a famous picture of Mark Twain in a rocking chair with stogie on the porch of Tiadnock, or Lone Tree Hill. Tiadnock should be equally famous as it is extraordinarily well sited – looking out to the long 180 degree valley view, while off to the side, as if an afterthought is […]
Bigelow House
THE BIGELOW HOUSE Temple, NH FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT CAME A-COURTING A PRE-REVOLUTIONARY MAIDEN Project Scope: Design an addition to an existing historic cape, provide restoration advice drawings of existing cape and ice house, and design new landscaping. Special Constraints: Design an addition that can be used year round. The client requested addition be connected to […]
Beth House
BETH HOUSE Princeton, MA We set out to restore this 1920’s summer house, and bring out its best. We began by removing additions that had buried the original house, making the mass of the original structure easy to read again. We then created a roof line that unified the additions and acted as a foil […]