near Boston, Massachusetts
Mary Wellman Associates
Palladio Design Award, July 2005
Description
House and barn
Site
Overlooking a river
Design
Down a sweep of lawn and pasture, this big house looks like a collection of small houses. Greek Revival-inspired pavilions are connected by a Shingle Style link, uniting various regional traditions. The elliptical ceiling of the kitchen eating area looks like a shallow, tented canopy.
Island off Connecticut coast
Light-hearted and picturesque, Island House distills the essence of its seaside summer community. The dramatic repetition of pointed dormers places paired windows on an angle better to capture the sweeping views to the water.
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Concord, Massachusetts
This small house with a large presence draws from sources far and near: ancient Greek Doric temples, Palladio’s ‘Redentore’ and Villa Barbaro, Peter Harrison’s Redwood Library, Jefferson’s Monticello, Asher Benjamin’s carpenter pattern books, and local Greek Revival building traditions of Concord.
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near Boston, Massachusetts
Description Six Gables our original design, is a distinctive blend of Shingle Style and Gothic architecture located in the Boston countryside. The recent project involved adding a barn for cars and storage, a pool, a pool house, and enhancing the…
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