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We designed this new curved stone stair to connect

We designed this new curved stone stair to connect two floors and create a duplex in a 1920s building on the Upper East Side. The new opening for the stair engages a south-facing window bringing light into both floors. The design channels some of the French stairs with closed stringers that we found in apartments in Paris. Interior Design: @juliehillmandesign; Photo: @ericpiasecki #peterpennoyerarchitects #ad100 #spiralstaircase

Brooklyn Heights in full bloom this week...so much

Brooklyn Heights in full bloom this week...so much color on every street. Here is 155 Willow Street, once home to Arthur Miller, and where he wrote The Crucible. 155 is part of a row (155, 157 & 159) of three-story Federal style brick houses from the early 1800s with simply ornamented facades and beautiful front gardens. 155 retains its original pitched roof and and dormers. #brooklyn #brooklynheights #historichouse #federalstyle #brownstoner

A view of the David D. Peden house (1922) in Shady

A view of the David D. Peden house (1922) in Shadyside, Houston, shows shadows from one of its many old trees cast against the front facade, which Harrie T. Lindeberg stripped of all detail so it appears planar and spare except for the entrance block which includes a double height oriel (not visible here) next to the wonderful sweeping wrought iron entrance porch. Photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #houston #oldhouse #shadyside

East 78th Street spring streetscapes...in full blo

East 78th Street spring streetscapes...in full bloom! Beautiful Stuyvesant Fish house by Stanford White in the first slide with its variegated orange and yellow brick radiating behind the pale flowering blossoms. #streetscapes #uppereastside #springtime #floweringpear #citygarden

A photo which reveals the textures and many colors

A photo which reveals the textures and many colors of Grosvenor Atterbury’s work on Mount Desert Island where he was commissioned by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to design several gate lodges which would ultimately be donated to the National Park Service. Atterbury surveyed the architecture of the national parks out West, taking more than 300 photographs and producing a lengthy report, emphasizing the importance of ancient local traditions, developing a style from historic precedents, and color as being almost more important than design. He opted to work in the French tradition, a reference to the area’s early French colonial associations and based his choice of materials on their color and what would harmonize with the surroundings...granite from Cadillac Mountain, weathered pecky cypress, and soft colored brick from Holland mixed with James River brick from Richmond. Photo: @jon.wallen #grosvenoratterbury #mountdesertisland #northeastharbor #maine #gatehouse

Good morning from this spring-hued bedroom in a ne

Good morning from this spring-hued bedroom in a new country house project, sunlit by the elliptical window which pivots on its center axis on hinges we designed and which were manufactured by @lowehardware in Maine. | photo: @ericpiasecki #moderntraditional #newconstruction #countryhouse #countryhouse #newoldhouse #bedroom #roundwindow

Rain dusted Leith Hall a few years ago...parts of

Rain dusted Leith Hall a few years ago...parts of the structure date from 1650...its gardens and grounds so lush especially in the rain. See stories for more of this beautifully sited house. #scotland #leithhall #springiscoming #aprilshowersbringmayflowers

A wonderful detail at the front of the F. E. Churc

A wonderful detail at the front of the F. E. Church house in Mill Neck...zoom in to see the slender wrought-iron dragon head fixture supporting the lantern above the stepped brick gabled entrance. This house is one of a pair of similar houses next door to each other designed by Harrie T. Lindeberg in 1930 for two brothers, Charles Thomas Church and Frederick Edwin Church, heirs to the Arm & Hammer Baking Soda fortune, who married two sisters, Charlotte Nichols and Alice Slocum Nichols. Photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #millneck #longisland #historichouse #wroughtiron #frontdoor

@katieridderinc’s garden in its earlier days but

@katieridderinc’s garden in its earlier days but still no less abundant! The mudroom at left reads as a small temple, complete with engaged pilasters....and a cherry red door. Photo: @ericpiasecki #peterpennoyerarchitects #moderntraditional #ahouseinthecountry #garden #gardendesign #walledgarden #countryhouse #springiscoming

The bright, airy living room at Harrie T. Lindeber

The bright, airy living room at Harrie T. Lindeberg’s own house also seen in previous post...it was entered through an opening framed by a scrolling Baroque pediment and was lit by huge leaded-glass casements, the one on this end of the room being a semi-circular bay. Many of the furnishings were of Lindeberg’s own design. Also note the incredible branches in silver vessels! Pictured here in 1935; Library of Congress #harrietlindeberg #locustvalley #pipingrock #livingroom #historichouse

West Gate Lodge, Harrie T. Lindeberg’s own house

West Gate Lodge, Harrie T. Lindeberg’s own house from 1927 set on 8 acres adjacent to Piping Rock Club. It resembled Gray Craig, on a smaller scale, with its crisply articulated facade and steep roof. The house’s front facade is variegated ledge stone but for the sides and rear, he chose a multi-shade Dutch brick in tones of pink, yellow, red and violet. The colors of the stone and roof look especially rich against the full blown foliage in high summer. Peacock statues guard the entrance, one of his favorite animals to incorporate into his designs. Photo: @jon.wallen #harrielindeberg #locustvalley #stonehouse #historichouse #oldhouselove

For an apartment renovation project within a 1920s

For an apartment renovation project within a 1920s Fifth Avenue building, we gently curved the wall of square oak panels in this sitting room in an arc and also designed the frame around the window to allow for a curtain pocket. #repost @katieridderinc; interior decoration: @katieridderinc; photo: @ericpiasecki #peterpennoyerarchitects #moderntraditional #fifthavenue #oakpanelling #library #nycliving

The warmest light blanketing our new house project

The warmest light blanketing our new house project in New Jersey. The main house is built from sandstone and the expanses of the stone walls are softened with hand-tooled vertical, horizontal, and diagonal grooves in an adze finish. @miranda.brooks.gardens enchanting walled garden is just visible here as is her stone terrace seen in high summer as the plants and herbs were bursting from in between the stones. Photo: @ericpiasecki #peterpennoyerarchitects #ad100 #countryhouse #moderntraditional #newoldhouse #stonehouse #walledgarden

Mondanne (1906-1910), an incredible, romantic and

Mondanne (1906-1910), an incredible, romantic and unique house by Albro & Lindeberg for James A. and Anne Stillman. Their property was adjacent to the Rockefeller estate, centered on Kykuit. Mondanne or “Anne’s World” was the firm’s reinvention of English cottage style with a thatch-like roof of rolled and steamed cedar shingles sculpted into unbroken surfaces and fieldstone facades. 300-feet long, sprawling across a high ridge it seemed embedded in the landscape. #albroandlindeberg #harrietindeberg #mondanne #pocanticohills #historichouse

Happy Friday from the new groin-vaulted play room

Happy Friday from the new groin-vaulted play room in an historic house in Palm Beach we renovated with interior decoration by @katieridderinc who stenciled the ceiling in silver stars! #peterpennoyerarchitects #peterpennoyer #moderntraditional #ad100 #vaultedceiling

Another shot showing the textures and warmth of ma

Another shot showing the textures and warmth of materials in Harrie T. Lindeberg’s Gray Craig from 1926. The roof was especially bold and steep, tiled in shades of red, orange, and brown. Sandy-colored limestone trim outlined suggestions of piers (one is seen here), and these were capped by urns which softened the center block of the house. Photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #graycraig #middletownri #newport #greatestates #historichouse #roof #stonehouse #stonework

Sunlight streams in through the large arched windo

Sunlight streams in through the large arched window and French doors in Peter and @katieridderinc’s living room in Millbrook. The interior of the house is bright and open, with tall ceilings and windows, vistas between the rooms, and virtually no interiors doors. Interior decoration: @katieridderinc; photo: @ericpiasecki #peterpennoyerarchitects #ad100 #ahouseinthecountry #moderntraditional #livingroom

The front entrance of Gray Craig, Harrie T. Lindeb

The front entrance of Gray Craig, Harrie T. Lindeberg’s great Georgian-influenced masterpiece for Michael and Mary van Beuren in Middletown, RI. He used tightly laid thin courses of local pudding stone, giving the facades color variegations in greys, browns, and blues, warm sandy-colored limestone details and trim, and intricate ironwork to embellish the windows. Photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #graycraig #middletownri #newport #historichouse #stonehouse

Mirrored doors conceal the dining room bar in our

Mirrored doors conceal the dining room bar in our project on the Upper East Side which encompassed the gut-renovation and decoration of a duplex within a Rosario Candela-designed building. The bar, which was a former utility closet in the apartment, is faux-painted in zebrawood with a polished tiger onyx counter. Thanks to @galeriemagazine, @jpterrebonne, and @looslips for featuring this wonderful project. Photo: @ericpiasecki; styling: @annefoxley; faux painting: Richard Jordan #peterpennoyerarchitects #moderntraditional #newclassic #diningroom #galeriemagazine #liveartfully

Spring and green is on the mind....brother Archite

Spring and green is on the mind....brother Architects Eliot and John Cross designed several important houses in the Far Hills area of New Jersey, including Mayfields in 1919 for the Kinnicutt family, a picturesque fieldstone and brick house that almost succeeds in being astylar. The informal rambling plan with story-and-a-half wings projecting at various angles and charming dormers of different shapes and sizes peeking out from the slate roof was a design trick to make the sprawling house appear smaller and more cottage-like. Photo: @jon.wallen #crossandcross #mayfields #stonehouse #historichouse #oldhouse

The view through arched openings from the paneled

The view through arched openings from the paneled living room through the entry with honed limestone floor and into the dining room in a new classical house we designed in the New Jersey countryside. The public rooms of the house are connected with a series of tall arched pocket doors and a vaulted hallway off of the entry leads to the stair hall. Photo: @ericpiasecki #peterpennoyerarchitects #peterpennoyer #ad100 #moderntraditional #newclassic #countryhouse #enfilade

Dreaming of this view! Wide doors open onto Lake C

Dreaming of this view! Wide doors open onto Lake Como from a vaulted entrance hall at Villa Carlotta, the 18th c. neoclassical villa of the Clerici family surrounded by dozens of acres of beautiful mature gardens. #villacarlotta #lakecomo #tremezzo #italy #wanderlust

Delano & Aldrich’s house for Willard D. Straight

Delano & Aldrich’s house for Willard D. Straight (1915) seen through a hazy veil of blizzard the other day with its Wren-inspired attic story bull’s-eyes looking quite graphic against the snow. Swipe to see the house in 1928, photo via @nypl.

Evening at our project in the Santa Lucia Range wi

Evening at our project in the Santa Lucia Range with spectacular views of the mountains. The low-lying house was designed in the spirit of Greene & Greene and Bernard Maybeck with a sweeping slate roof, cedar shingles, decorative rafters tails, exposed cedar fascia and skirt boards, and the goal of the whole structure receding into the landscape. Interior design by @the_wiseman_group; photo: @matthewmillmanphoto #california #roomwithaview #newhouse #artsandcrafts #moderntraditional #newconstruction