New House in Talbot County, Maryland

Situated on a small point of land on Broad Creek the house, with its courtyard form, brings the surrounding water views to all of the rooms and creates a welcoming arrival area facing the entry road. Designed in traditional Eastern Shore Tidewater architectural vocabulary the house has a two story center block with a gabled entry tower and one story wings wrapping around both sides. The existing guest cottage has been integrated into the composition and modified with a roof form to match the new house. The pergolas on the river side of the house extend the interior living spaces onto the grassland shore and water beyond. The house is sheathed in lapped wood siding with a brick watertable foundation, brick chimneys and a wood shingled roof.


New House at Miles Point





New House on the Tred Avon River,
Talbot County, Maryland

A new house designed in the Shingle Style, similar to the Eastern Shore vernacular style, and well suited to a waterfront site. The house will be about 6,000 square feet (including garage). It is designed as a two-story house, with a large gable over an entry porch which gives the house presence from both the land and the water.

One enters into a spacious transverse entry hall, and there is a direct view straight ahead through the living room to the water beyond. To the right of the entry hall is a library, beyond which is the master bedroom suite. The library separates the master suite from the main part of the first floor and doubles as a nice amenity to the master suite, as a separate sitting area for music, TV or late night reading.

At the other end of the entry hall near the stairs is the den, combined with the kitchen, with a vaulted ceiling lit by front and rear ÒeyebrowÓ dormers as well as a curved fanlight window on the side wall. The second floor consists of three additional bedrooms and baths. A conservatory links the kitchen to the garage and also connects to both the front court and the outside space in the rear between the garage and the kitchen wing. This space provides the perfect setting for a garden, protected by the surrounding building.

Additions and Renovations to Thermopylae,
Rappahannock County, Virginia

Thermopylae is a fine example of a Piedmont farmhouse consisting of an 18th century single story log cabin later expanded to include a second story. In the mid-19th century (c.1840) a large five-bay, two-story block was added to the earlier house. Finally in the mid-20th century a further two-story addition was made to the original house.

The current project includes renovation of the existing house to update systems and finishes while maintaining the historic integrity of the multi-part structure. A gabled entrance porch will be added to the 1840 wing which now contains the front door to the house. A new kitchen family room wing will be added to the east end of the house, in the form of a one-story columned porch.

Georgetown University Alumni House,Washington, DC

The Georgetown University Alumni Association has been located at the corner of 36th and O Streets for the past 50 years, one block for the main gate to the University and from Healy Hall. The existing facility consists of five two-story townhouses, awkwardly connected surrounding a large garden area

The current project consists of an entire renovation of the facility. The interiors of the five townhouses will be reconfigured to provide spaces for meeting, exhibition and library functions, and for socializing for visiting alumni as well as to accommodate a limited amount of alumni association offices. The garden will be designed to better integrate with interior spaces for use by the alumni and the association staff. In addition to restoring historic elements in the houses, the project will bring the building into compliance with the building code and the ADA and will include new finishes, paneling and wood trim, stairways and elevator as well as lighting and complete mechanical systems.