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Architects: Bates Masi Architects
- Area: 6340 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Arcadia Custom, Benjamin Moore, Thompkins
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Interior Designer: Bates Masi Architects, Alicia Scanlon, Victoria Pryor
Text description provided by the architects. Socially and professionally a couple desired to live in an urban environment. However, living in the city didn’t afford the lifestyle they wanted for their children as they approached school age. To compromise between remaining close to the city while raising their family, they relocated to the suburbs. Their goal was to create a strong sense of place in an environment with close neighbors on all sides of their property. The history of the community they chose, an early Quaker settlement, inspired the solution. Based on the Quaker tenants of simplicity, humility, and inner focus, the house is broken into a series of modest gabled structures, each one focused inward on its own garden courtyard instead of out to the surrounding neighbors.
