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.
Maine
Coast Cottage captures the spirit of old summer houses on the Maine coast, at the same time rugged but refined, understated but well-appointed.
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New Hampshire
This compound of new buildings adopts a vernacular rural style, reinforcing the culture of the place by using simple barn forms. The composition is unified by painting all the buildings the traditional ferrous oxide red.
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Central Vermont
In the tradition of New England farmhouses that evolve over time, we added wings which extend the house into the landscape and include a new living room, studio, and an indoor “endless pool.”
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Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Description Renovation of a turn of the 20th century Shingle Style cottage with a newly added guest “tower” Site Facing a harbor on the South Coast of Massachusetts Design Our task was to reverse unsympathetic renovations and augment the old-world…
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