Farmhouse & Land Alterations
Completed in 2004
Blooming Grove, NY

Alterations to a farmhouse, accessory structures and land on the last two acres of a 1911 dairy farmstead located along an ancient trail.

 

French and English landscape principles and techniques were combined to bind the place together.

 

The front porch was re-configured and fashioned as an open loggia resembling a stage, with exits both left and right. The exit, ‘stage left’, doubles as the main entrance.

 

Liner Notes(marginalia): Edward Hopper, Rooms by the Sea, 1951, oil on canvas:

Remembering Snagglepuss: “Exit: Stage Left"(He may have lifted/heisted this from Shakespeare)

 

Entrance canopies were developed to recall a bi-planes wings and struts. It has a double simultaneous reading as a broken T-square.

 

Eleven windows and several doors were added. At night, with all the lights on the place glows like a lantern.

 

Completed in 2004 for the most part as improvements continue to this day.