The Farm

The original house at this New Hampshire farm was built in 1796, expanded with an ell with a kitchen and shed, and modified over the two centuries of continuous use as farmhouse.  The original house, increasingly fragile over time, had survived with its timber frame and sheathing intact while the ell had entirely deteriorated when its owners decided to preserve and renew it as a family home.  This new home captures the feeling of the original by a focus on the beauty and straightforward poetic of simple things enduring through generations of weather and use, and an understanding that modesty is the key to perpetuating the spirt of this place.  The design of the new timber framed ell is based in uses of materials, scale and proportion which are common with those of the original structure so that the history of the place is vivid in the experience of the new home.