Architectural heritage
Building histories, restoration guidance, and careful notes on the craft of old houses, written for owners and for anyone who stops to look twice at a cornice.
Read the house historiesOne house, six lives
Hand-hewn oak sills and posts, pegged mortise-and-tenon joints, and a massive center chimney that heats every room.
A new front with flat pilasters, a wider entry with sidelights, and six-over-six sash windows in wavy cylinder glass.
A bay window, a porch with turned posts and sawn brackets, and a slate roof replacing the original cedar shingles.
Knob-and-tube wiring and the first indoor plumbing are threaded through plaster and lath, room by room.
Siding over clapboards, dropped ceilings, an enclosed porch. Most of the original fabric survives, hidden rather than lost.
Layers are documented before anything is removed. Windows are reglazed, plaster is reattached, and the frame is left to speak.
From the archive
A floor in a historic building is never just a surface. It’s a document: decades of foot traffic, rearrangements, repairs, and successive building campaigns have left their mark. Keeping that evidence intact demands a deliberate approach—clean gently, repair only what truly needs intervention, and whenever you replace something, match the original material and method. […]
A historically sensitive kitchen upgrade is not about freezing a house in the past. It is about making the kitchen work for modern life without flattening the character that makes the building worth keeping. The best results come from a clear plan: protect the features that define the house, modernize the systems that keep it […]
Реставрация исторического дома — это не только дизайнерское решение, но и решение, продиктованное правилами. В историческом районе даже, казалось бы, незначительная замена перил крыльца, оконной створки, изменение линии крыши, установка нового забора или пристройка могут потребовать официального рассмотрения до того, как на объект завезут материалы. Я не раз видел, как владельцы, вдохновлённые архивными фотографиями, заказывали точные […]
Every old house is a document. Before you repair it, learn to read it, because the most valuable thing a restoration can keep is the evidence of how the house was made.
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