EDWARD JONES HOUSE, Paradise Valley, AZ Arizona Governor's Award in Historic Preservation National Register of Historic Places In 1932 Edward L. Jones designed his Mediterranean/pueblo style house with an eye for monumentality and symmetry. Like his neighbors who were building adobe houses with bricks dug on site, he had a ...
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Georgian Renovation
In a meeting of the 19th and 21st centuries, a sleeping porch that had been divided into a study and master bath has a new life with restored column capitals, new floor to ceiling steel windows, clever book shelves and a gas fireplace. A whimsical children's reading loft adjacent to ...
Farmhouse Renovation & Addition
Maine carpenter Nathanial Cousins built this Civil War era addition to an early post and beam structure in the rear. Restoring the exterior meant peeling back layers added over the years - chain link, overgrown hemlocks and an ill conceived porch - to reveal the original farm house resting on ...
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STRESS TEST – SUMMER 2020 2020 should be a year Marty McFly is told to avoid as he climbs into his time traveling Delorean! Always looking for silver linings, I’ve liked articles pointing to the huge progress that has followed major plagues throughout history. (um, why do we need major plagues to figure this stuff out?) …
OF BOOKS AND BUILDINGS – FALL 2019 Summer was officially over last week, although the weather didn’t agree. I hope you got out to enjoy it! My summer highlights were weddings on the west coast and a special college reunion in Santa Fe. Nothing like celebrating with amazing friends in beautiful places, second only to …