Tabla de contenidos para Winter 2019 en Old House Journal

IN THE 1920s, Long Island’s North Shore was a storied stretch, home to some of the wealthiest families in the country. Dubbed the “Gold Coast,” the area boasted over a thousand mansions built from the 1890s to the 1930s, even inspiring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby with its stunning architecture, beautiful views, and lavish parties. A century later, fewer than a third of those grand estates remain. So the owners of one such property, a 1928 French Norman-style house designed by the esteemed Gilded Age firm McKim, Mead & White, wanted to be sure to treat this piece of American history with care, while making it functional for their young family. “[The clients] view themselves as stewards of this historic property,” says William H. (Bill) Harrison, principal with Atlanta-based…

THE LUSH 13-ACRE GROUNDS at the former “Inwood,” a grand old Philadelphia Main Line estate, recently received a substantial uplift by the internationally recognized design firm of Doyle Herman Design Associates. Nothing was overlooked in their clever enhancement of the wooded landscape and hardscape that surrounds the circa 1921 stone mansion. Both the homeowners and principal James Doyle agreed that the soothing vistas of open space and legacy trees were the mainstay of the iconic property but that new garden spaces for modern outdoor living, and a sculpture collection, were desirable. When Doyle and lead designer Heather Harris first arrived at the suburban property, the clients had already carefully renovated the classical house with the help of New York-based interior designer Victoria Hagan (with whom DHDA have worked before). But…

Overlooking Teton Range sits what appears to be a historic log house—only it’s not. It’s the masterwork of Peter Zimmerman Architects, designed for a husband and wife who plan on being in the area for three to four months at a time. “Good architecture has to do with proportion and scale and harmony with the site independent of the stylistic approach. The client really didn’t want the typical great big round-log house. He wanted something that was more intimate, personal,” says architect Peter Zimmerman, principal of Peter Zimmerman Architects. However, first important measures needed to be met: to create a home large enough to accommodate the couple’s three daughters, avid outdoor fans, who visit on a regular basis with their significant others, and then contract back to a space that…

The mid-atlantic united states is hardly the Mediterranean, but you’d be forgiven for feeling somewhat transported once you arrive at a certain Barnes Vanze Architects project in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Wesley Heights. The home, with its unpainted natural stucco exterior and clay roof tiles, clearly evokes southern Italy or France. But the home’s interior was jarringly different from its exterior before Barnes Vanze Architects came along. “All the details inside the house were ‘colonial’,” says Anthony “Ankie” Barnes, FAIA, LEED AP, a partner at Barnes Vanze Architects—down to the generic trim and double-hung windows. Such disjointed design was common of spec homes built in the 1920s, as Barnes says this house likely was. Among the goals of the new renovation and addition was to make the house feel…

IN THE BAYOU COUNTRY of Louisiana, “porch life” is as much a part of the cultural fabric as sweet tea and Zydeco. So when J. Everett Schram, AIA, principal of Baltimore-based JE Schram Architect, LLC, was hired to design a family home at the edge of a coulee, or bayou, in Lafayette, Louisiana, he knew porches would be central to the character of the house. He also wanted the house to speak in the historic vernacular language of the region. A NOD TO A MASTER A. Hays Town was a master of southern Louisiana architecture throughout his more than six-decade career, and his work reverberates throughout the region, both in the homes he designed and through countless architects influenced by his work. • Town’s work was rooted in the interplay…

Patrick Ahearn Architect LLC 160 Commonwealth Ave, Ste. L3, Boston, MA 02116 www.patrickahearn.com Patrick Ahearn’s historically motivated designs have advanced the art of placemaking in some of America’s most affluent and storied destinations. Ahearn excels in his thoughtful approach in adapting historic homes to the way people want to live today. Whether restoring landmarked townhouses in Boston’s Back Bay or creating new homes that reimagine the vernacular of New England, Ahearn demonstrates an unparalleled ability to combine the romance of traditional architecture with the ideals of modernism. His sensitivity to the property’s original spirit results in a beautifully restored home that looks authentic and silent on the streetscape. Peter Zimmerman Architects 828 Old Lancaster Rd., Berwyn, PA 19312 610-647-6970 www.PZArchitects.com design@PZArchitects.com Peter Zimmerman Architects was founded in 1982 as a…

Barnes Vanze Architects was asked to make this home’s colonial-style interior match its Mediterranean-style exterior, but the client didn’t want to “pretend” the house was in Italy. The result is a design that tips a hat to Mediterranean influences while retaining a modern, clean aesthetic. A few of the details: • Swapping double-hung windows for a combination of French doors and casement windows • Re-stuccoing the exterior with a natural stucco that’s unpainted, giving it some of the hand texturing and weathering you’d expect on a true Mediterranean building • Decorative details like bracketed moldings above the French doors; deeper sills on the windows; bracket details underneath the roof overhang; and wrought iron porch • Opening a previously enclosed side porch with arched openings• Painting the exterior windows and doors…

SET IN PICTURESQUE WaterColor, Florida, the house that the prospective homeowners imagined would be a little bit different from those in the surrounding area. Being Louisiana natives, they wanted a Creole style vacation home—an uncommon vocabulary for a Florida beach house. For help, the couple tapped Tim Adams, AIA, lead architect and founder of T.S. Adams Studio, in Atlanta, Georgia, who was immediately attracted to the project because it “sounded like a design that would allow for more latitude and creativity.” Also on the clients’ wish list: a private courtyard, plenty of outdoor space, and a large front porch. Since the lot they’d purchased was small with an extremely narrow width, T.S. Adams Studio came up with a creative design — from the front elevation, it is a modest, two-story…

TIURNING INTO the Dover, Massachusetts, property, you could be a visitor from the 1800s, coming to meet your prosperous new neighbors. Acres of wild grasses carpet the front property, intersected by a stone wall-lined drive. The gently curved road inspires sweet anticipation as it winds toward the house. Centuries ago, you would likely find, at your destination, a family practicing self-sufficiency among their farm animals, gardens, and horses. And so it is today. The 16-acre homestead off Farm Street is still dotted with outbuildings, gardens, and a barn. Children still find eggs in the chicken coop, and horses stand in stalls with iron hand-forged gates. An elegant country house still sits on the rise, an estatestyle beauty with a large central mass and wings suggesting, as in olden days, that…

CLASSIC KITCHENS MEDITERRANEAN COOKING, page 23 Barnes Vanze Architects 1000 Potomac NW Suite L-2 Washington, DC 20007 202.337.7255 barnesvanze.com HOME STEWARDS, page 29 Harrison Design 3198 Cains Hill Place NW Atlanta GA 30305 404.365.7760 harrisondesign.com INSPIRED INTERIORS CONTEMPORARY REVIVAL, page 34 Gerald Pomeroy 168 Newbury Street Suite 22 Boston, MA 02116 617.227.6693 gpomeroyinteriors.com DESIGN DETAILS INSIDE OUTSIDE HOUSE, page 41 TMS Adams Studio 2969 Hardman Court, NE Atlanta, GA 30305 404.262.3499 tsadamsstudio.com HEIRLOOM GARDEN MAIN LINE ESTATE, page 46 Doyle Herman Design Associates 125 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830 203.869.2900 dhda.com PLANT MATERIALS Terren Landscapes Wynnewood, PA terrenlandscapes.com McHutchison Horticultural Distributors Wayne, NJ mchutchison.com FURNISHINGS Janus et Cie New York, NY janusetcie.com URNS Atelier Vierkant Oostende, Belgium ateliervierkant.com LIGHTING FIXTURES Fourteenth Colony Lighting Memphis,TN fourteenthcolony lighting.com Classic Lighting Devices, LLC…