Vol. 8/no. 6, November 2007

Table of Contents

PROFILE
The Scholar Architect
Mark Alan Hewitt Architects of Bernardsville, NJ, specializes in restoration, renovation and historically inspired new construction; even before the firm’s founding in 1998, Principal Mark Hewitt was championing traditional architecture through design and scholarship. By Will Holloway

FEATURE
Modern Marvels
The sometimes unusual materials and forms of aging Modernist houses, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnworth House, Philip Johnson’s Glass House and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wescott House, are proving a unique challenge to preservationists. By Kim A. O’Connell

RECENT PROJECTS
The Dowager’s Facelift
Rosario Candela’s 1926 Stanhope Hotel on the Upper East Side of Manhattan is transformed into a 26-room apartment house under the direction of John Simpson & Partners.

An Artist’s Home
McIntosh Poris Associates’ five-year restoration of an 1896 Dutch Colonial home in Detroit, MI, includes the replacement of plumbing, bath and heating systems and the re-creation of the former garage.

Windows on the Gulf
Opticos Architecture’s renovation of a Seaside, FL, house gives new detailing, a new color scheme and a timber-frame porch and balcony to a design that was never fully realized.

Puritan’s Progress
The 1661 Elder James Blake House, the oldest house in Boston, MA, and one of the oldest American houses built with the thick beams typical of England’s West Country, is given a facelift by Historic Preservation & Design.

Stick Style Ingenuity
River Architects’ overhaul of the 1892 Herman C. Timm House in New Holstein, WI, preserves one the country’s best examples of the notoriously fragile Stick Style.

Crash Test
The late-18th-century Butler-McCook House, the oldest house in Hartford, CT, recovers from damages brought on by a runaway automobile with the help of Roger Clarke, AIA.

Back to Its Roots
Donald Lococo Architects LLC renovates and sympathetically expands a 3,020-sq.ft. stone farmhouse in rural Loudoun County, VA, that had fallen into disrepair.

BOOK REVIEWS
Bertram Goodhue: His Life and Residential Architecture, by Romy Wyllie. Reviewed by Eve M. Kahn

New Rooms for Old Houses: Beautiful Additions for the Traditional Home, by Frank Shirley. Reviewed by Nicole V. Gagne

North Shore Long Island: Country Houses, 1890-1950, by Paul J. Mateyunas. Reviewed by Anne Walker

Barns, by John Michael Vlach. Reviewed by Martha McDonald

THE FORUM
Energy-Saving Answers, by John H. Cluver
Replacing siding, windows and doors in the name of energy savings can compromise the traditional character of an historic house.