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“ As soon as we talked to Michael and Stacy, we knew they ‘got’ us, right out of the gate. We knew that they could design what we were going for.”—homeowner matthew hawrilenko

On the Covera new kitchen in a revived midcentury modern house. photo by peter vanderwarker.story, page 106.

90 Seaside Cottage • For the Generations A 19th-century summer house in a dream location evolves into a New England classic.

100 Grand Gardens • Newport Follies An opulent Rhode Island estate bursts with both fl ora and fancy that delight.

106 Midcentury • Modern Progression In Lincoln, Massachusetts, a determined homeowner saves a 1948 house designed by a local architectural pioneer.

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U-TURN • While touring South Shore Millwork to pick up samples for Selections (Page 31), our host Budd Kelley paused and admonished: “Be sure to spell moulding with a ‘u.’ ” For those in his business, he said (and for those outside the United States), it’s the unequivocal preferred spelling. All our architectural reference books concurred, even if Webster’s and spell check did not. So we changed our pedestrian ways and included the vowel, which we now consider as essential as the fi nal “e” in Queen Anne.

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22 visit • Paul Gaucher & Peter Niemitz A designer and architect add a bright, airy multipurpose space that connects kitchen with house and garden.

31 selections • Grab a Hard Hat The best of the basics — fl oors, walls, and details.

40 kitchen • Taking Flight A stately Georgian house connects to its fi rst-class garden with a bold yet sensitive addition.

50 bath • Maine Cottage Classic A new master bath with a vintage feel is a just-right addition to a 20th-century summer cottage.

58 places • Still Working at 50 Edward Larrabee Barnes’s design for Haystack Mountain School of Crafts proves timeless.

66 art • Images for (and of ) the Garden A Rhode Island landscape designer brings 19th-century botanical watercolors into plein air.

72 icon • Hold the Fort No longer needed for security, the fortresses that protected New Englanders still have lessons to teach.

78 house proud • Living the Dream Sports-radio talkmeister John Dennis builds a house where family can gather and play.

84 green essentials • Reclaimed seating, all-natural to go, and a good night’s sleep.

122 compendium • Showcasing local talent, and an iconic read.

124 resources

126 advertiser index

128 see+do • The Ellis Is BackA Boston tradition returns to the South End.

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chris vaccaro works out of his photo studio in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. As a photo-grapher, he enjoys “experiencing new environments as well as creating an environment for the photograph to live.” He did both for the image in art, page 66.

judith carter is a freelance writer who lives near the sea in Gloucester, Massachusetts. With a background in art history and interior design, she specializes in writing about art as well as houses and gardens, as she did for visit, page 22.

edgar allen beem took a break from writing his next book, Maine Art New: 1990 to Now, to cover two Maine projects: an addition to a 1910 cottage in Boothbay Harbor, bath, page 50, and the campus of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, places, page 58.

gail ravgiala, editor

IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN COINCIDENCE THAT HISTORIC New England magazine — the publication of the preserva-tion organization based in Boston — landed on my desk just as I was reviewing all the stories in our September/October issue. Renovation is our theme, but it suddenly dawned on me how many ghosts of New England’s past we had captured on our pages. Start with Alice James, sister of superstar writer Henry James. Her house, built in 1883 on Massachusetts’s North Shore has become a new landmark as its owners, a family with three young boys, fi lled it with their own vibrant spirit (Page 90). Then there is the fantastical garden (Page 100) on the Newport, Rhode Island, estate built for Martha Codman by her cousin Ogden Codman Jr., the legendary architect and author, with his good friend novelist Edith Wharton, of the defi nitive design guide, The Decoration of Houses. Moving into the 20th century, we have modernist disciple Henry Hoover, whose many houses, including his own residence, popu-lated the town of Lincoln, Massachusetts, where his 1948 Heck House was saved from the wrecker’s ball (Page 106). And what, oh what, are the Brahmin ancestors haunting the kicky renovation of a Back Bay penthouse (Page 114) thinking about their current poker-playing roommate?

Even our Kitchen and Bath stories pick up the historic thread. The fl ight-of-fancy addition (Page 42) on a proud Georgian built in 1771 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, could have been inspired by one of the sailing ships that made the town prosperous. And the beadboard simplicity in the master bath addition (Page 50) in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, captures the essence of the 1910 summer cottage it enhances. And though we didn’t plan it this way, in light of the 10th anniver-sary of the attacks of 9/11, Bruce Irving, whose forthcoming New England Icons: Shaker Villages, Saltboxes, Stone Walls, and Steeples (photographs by Greg Premru) is hot off the press (Page 122), wrote his Icon column for this issue (Page 72) on the forts used to defend our shores — bringing to bear the enduring heritage of the most brave souls who occupied them.

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THERE’S NO TIME TO LAMENT THE PASSING OF HAZY, lazy summer days: The fall calendar is already fi lled. Starting September 22 and running through November, Design New England presents “Real Solutions for the Home” (Page 120), our series of design salons. Each offers an opportunity to meet designers, architects, and builders, ask them questions, and learn about topics from green design to kitchen renovations, all in an informal setting (with refreshments!).

Design Boston 2011 is October 4–6 at the Boston Design Center. This annual to-the-trade event always creates a buzz as designers and architects visit showrooms, discover new prod-ucts, and discuss the trends for 2012. On October 20, after a two-year hiatus, the Ellis Boston Antiques Show returns, slightly renamed (Pages 125 and 128), with a preview gala at the Cyclorama in the South End. The show runs through the 23rd and benefi ts Ellis Memorial & Eldredge House, which has been caring for children, disabled adults, and families since 1885. Looking back, we kicked off the summer season with a Solstice Party on June 21 held at Galerie d’Orsay on Newbury Street in Boston in partnership with F. H. Perry Builder and benefi ting Friends of the Children-Boston, a local mentoring orga-nization. And who can forget the Roaring ’20s vibe at The Great Gatsby party for new members of the International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA) New England chapter.

This, our 30th issue, marks fi ve years of Design New England. We are grateful for the sup-port of our readers and advertisers, who are the lifeblood of any magazine. Our July 2011 Reader Survey confi rms you are fi nding great reading, ideas, and inspiration in our pages. This has been our mission, and it is satisfying to hear that we are accomplishing it for you.

the new hampshire Antiques Show celebrated its 55th year of showcasing “fresh-to-the-market” pieces this August.

jennifer robinson, in Colonial garb, Mrs. Samuel M.V. Hamilton, and Henry Sharpe Lynn Jr. at the Newport Antiques Show preview gala.

surrounded by art at Boston’s Galerie d’Orsay, guests toasted the Summer Solstice and the work of Friends of the Children-Boston.

at ifda’s new members party: Bob Ernst, FBN Construction (left); Vivian Robins, V Design Services; Ray Bachard, 60nobscott furnishings.

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Newton-based Audio Video Design was asked to provide the integrated electronics for a family vacation retreat within this luxury oasis.

“We had worked in one of their previous homes, so the client had high expectations of us when they set out to build a new house,” says Brad Smith, president of Audio Video Design. “I’m pleased to say we didn’t let them down, and we’ve absolutely added to their enjoyment of a property that is already very special.”

According to Smith, comfort and convenience are often the motivating factors when homeowners with a demanding lifestyle choose integrated electronics. Once they have discovered how custom electronics can make life simpler and more enjoyable, they’re apt to want the same features in a second home.

In this case, existing clients called on Audio Video Design to furnish a summer home with multi-zone music, a screen with surround sound, a flat panel over the living room fireplace and several other plasma screens. Radio frequency remote controls were used, and ventilation fans were included whenever they were needed. It was essential that all the electronics be hidden by the exquisite millwork that was central to the elegant design. While that can sometimes prove challenging, Smith says it was simple in this instance.

“We were working with Woodmeister,” he says. “They run an organized work site, and you can count on their projects to go smoothly.”

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“We plan every detail to an infinite degree before going out into the field,” he says. “All the electronics and entertainment components are planned before the millworking begins. It’s a very collaborative process, not just between the architect, interior designer and builder, but also with the companies that design the systems.

“Audio Video Design is a high-end partner for us, because the quality of their work is on par with ours,” he adds. “We appreciate the level of detail they bring to their work.”

When it comes to electronics, Goodnow says ease of use is critical. “It is important that everything in this home is carefree, so the family can just enjoy the property when they are there,” he says.

That is particularly true for the electronics, so Audio Video Design made sure that all systems are ready whenever the owners want to use them.

Architect John Grosvenor of Newport Collaborative Architects designed the home with a traditional, Newport shingle-style exterior, while interior designer Sara Gilbane worked with an open interior space, inviting for a large family, to create small areas where people can find privacy.

The integrated electronics design was done over a period of about nine months, the rough wiring took about two weeks, and the project was finished in stages, as the home was completed.

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PAUL GAUCHER & PETER NIEMITZ • A designer and architect add a bright,airy multipurpose space that connects kitchen with house and garden

A DECADE AGO, Paul Gaucher and Peter Niemitz bought a ramshackle Victorian house on Eastern Point in Gloucester, Massachusetts. They immediately renovated the structure in a major way, turning the run-down Queen Anne with undersized and redundant rooms into a rambling Shingle Style home with generous proportions and a gracious fl oor plan. Since then, the homeowners have launched a series of projects to modernize the century-old former summer house, the latest being a bright, airy family room addi-tion that connects the kitchen to the living room. In the new space, walls of glass overlook a sweeping vista of

peter niemitz and Paul Gaucher (seated) warm by the fi re with Rudder, one of their three golden retrievers. Faux bois wallpaper wraps the new family room (right).

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gardens shaded by lofty copper beech trees, verdant borders fi lled with massy thickets of hydrangea, and Gloucester Harbor.

“We didn’t build this room because we needed more square footage,” says Gaucher, a furniture designer and head of ICON Group Inc., a Boston Design Center show-room. “What happened was, we began to think about how we used the house when it was the two of us and when we entertained. I used to laugh about McMansions and their great rooms. Now I get why people want a

the kitchen (below) opens to the family room and the back porch just beyond the French doors. In a graphic juxtaposition, the tall black cabinet marking the kitchen’s end point is repeated, in white, on the opposite wall in the family room. The new garden (right) is abundant with vegetables.

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single room for cooking, eating, relaxing, working, and casual entertaining.”

The room accommodates all that and more. Before the addition, the kitchen was cut off from the rest of the house and the underused living room was usually seen only from the front hall. “We wanted to solve the problem of dead-end rooms,” says Niemitz, an architect and head of Niemitz Design Group, an interior design fi rm spe-cializing in the hospitality industry, with projects that include the Red Lantern res-taurant in Boston’s Back Bay, Ocean House resort in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, and the

a new back porch off the family room (right) makes for easy indoor/outdoor transition and prompted the owners to add a vegetable garden corralled by a natural ceder fence (above) that will weather with time. The Chinese-Chippendale-style chairs are from Italy.

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new Capital Grille in Plano, Texas. “The new space opens the kitchen to the living room and now the fl ow is circular.

“The room was originally envisioned as a pavilion,” adds Niemitz. The descrip-tion is spot-on, and like a garden pavilion, it is all about experiencing the pleasures of

its setting. Walls of windows and French doors capture breezes, garden views, and the briny scent of the nearby

ocean. “On some nights,” says Niemitz, “you can hear the waves.”

The 20-by-24-foot addition is divided into three zones. The dining area, fur-nished with a round table and sleek chairs in chocolate brown leather, is closest to the kitchen. A well-lit workspace with a built-in bookcase and a large desk, where Niemitz draws and catches up on projects, faces the sitting area, which is now open to the adjacent living room. The sitting area, which appears to fl oat on a plaid rug recessed into the dark-wood fl oor, is set up for lounging, reading, and even low-key dinner parties around

the linen-wrapped coffee table. At the center of the room is a vaulted,

beadboard-paneled well that rises 14 inches above the 9-foot-high ceiling. It features clerestory windows that fl ood the room with natural light by day and offer glittering celes-tial views at night. The space is capped off by a light fi xture Niemitz designed to look like a modern version of an armillary sphere, the instrument ancient astronomers used to chart the heavens.

The wallcovering, a highly textured faux bois paper in driftwood gray, is a whim-sical stand-in for the real thing. The color scheme: sea foam green, sand, taupe, ivory, driftwood gray, and ice blue, with rich brown accents, reinforces the beachy vibe,

bringing the outdoor environment indoors. Like the rest of the house, the family room’s furnishings are a sophis-

ticated, pared-down mélange of traditional and modern elements. “A mix of old and new creates a dialogue,” says Gaucher. “We wanted to respect the age of the house, but I like contrast and the play between old and new.

the hanging light fi xture Niemitz designed was inspired by a garden armillary sphere. “I wanted to show that the intent of the family room is to connect the inside with the outside,” he says. A plaid rug recessed into the ebony hardwood fl oor anchors the family room (facing page).

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It’s modern, and it’s a strong voice in the room.”

As a practical matter, fabrics and surface materials were chosen with durability in mind. The ability to with-stand the daily wear and tear meted out by the homeowners’ beloved golden retrievers, Teak, Bear, and Rudder, is an ongoing issue. Natural cottons, cotton blends, and linens are used in upholstery, and the coffee table has a washable, glazed surface.

Last summer, Gaucher and Niemitz planted an old-fashioned kitchen garden in a spot where it can be enjoyed from the family room. Herbs, fruit, vegetables, and fl owers for cutting are thriving, and the bountiful harvests are readily incorporated into the menu du jour. After all, Gaucher says, “I’m cooking more now because I’m always here, in this room.”

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A BUTTERFLY ON A STONE. THAT IS HOW Andrew M. Sidford, principal of Andrew Sidford Architects in Newburyport, Massachusetts, perceives the addition he designed for a 1771 Georgian-style house. “This is a beautiful old building with a

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Like many of Newburyport’s historic houses that date to the town’s 18th- and early 19th-century heyday as a mercan-tile and shipping mecca, the three-story house is formidable both in size and architecture. The owners, a married cou-ple who have lived in the house for 17 years, undertook a major kitchen renovation three years after they moved in. They engaged a contractor and The Kennebec Company, designers and cabinetmakers in Bath, Maine, and turned out a space that was a huge improvement over the Brady Bunch architecture: andrew sidford architects

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brown and white Formica kitchen it replaced.“We were quite happy,” says the wife, “until we

started to see Andy Sidford’s kitchens. Then I realized how short we had come.”

Handsome as the existing kitchen was, it didn’t relate at all to the outdoors. “We were isolated from the garden,” says the wife, who takes her horticulture seriously and has created a gorgeous expanse of fl owers, vegetables, shrubs, and trees around a formal back terrace.

“You had this beautiful old house and garden the

owner created,” says Sidford, “but there was a disconnect between them. You couldn’t see or fi nd the garden.”

A lack of easy access to the terrace was only half the problem. Because the south-facing outdoor space was framed by the three-story white clapboard facade on two sides, “it became a solar oven,” says the wife. “It was too hot to use three months of the year. We really never used it after June 1 — and then might rediscover it in September.”

Now the back of the house is gently cooled by the

rather than stainless, Sidford faced the 13-foot-long island with steel that has the original mill fi nish, protected by a sealant, for a rougher, matte surface. The upper countertop is bird’s-eye maple, while the work top is black granite.

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expansive wing of a curved steel pavil-ion that hovers above a new screened porch and protected entry. The struc-ture is a complex piece of engineering, adeptly assembled by Wilson Brothers Construction, steel fabricators in Salisbury, Massachusetts. “Their work is wonderful, artistic, and precise,” says the husband, who collaborated closely with them on the project.

A series of rafters of varying lengths and pitches cantilevers out over a curved steel beam. “It all lands on two columns, so everything looks like it fl oats,” says Sidford.

“Because this eliminated the solar refl ecting surfaces,” says the husband, “even on the hottest days, the terrace is cooler.” But Sidford also considered what the pavilion could contribute to the house’s year-round comfort. The roof pops up at intervals where glazed inserts allow the low winter sun into the porch and then into the kitchen. “There is shade in the summer, so they need less air conditioning,” says Sidford, “and in winter, more light and warmth enters through the windows.”

a formal brick walk leads from an orchard to the house, where the kitchen and pavilion now feel at one with the landscape. The pavilion roof pops up where glazed inserts allow light into the space below. The steps create a stadium seating effect for outdoor entertaining on the terrace. The garden wall terminates with a large granite block the homeowners selected from a quarry in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

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Inside, Sidford moved an 8-foot-long fl oor-to-ceiling Kennebec bank of cupboards to the far end of the room, allowing him to take down the wall behind it, exposing the existing stair-case and new clerestory windows.

A breakfast-room partition also came down. Sidford then added a bump-out to the far end of the space. It measures a mere 50 square feet, but lined with windows designed to look “extruded from the old house,” it feels much bigger, says Sidford. “The cor-ner is meant to have the pattern and rhythm of the house but with a newer vocabulary.” Furnished with a Sidford-designed 10-foot-long-by-4-foot-wide tiger maple table with cherry connectors and a glass insert in the center, it is an elegant dining space — or a place where the couple’s 10-year-old son can build a city out of Legos.

The focal point of the room, however, is the curved 13-foot-long island designed

a floor-to-ceiling cabinet was moved to the far end of the kitchen so the staircase could be exposed. New clerestory windows bring light from the pavilion into the room.

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to refl ect the lines of the pavilion. Wilson Brothers was called upon to form the sleek steel arc of the base, creating a piece of sculpture that slices through the room, both linking and dividing the old and the new. The work side of the island is fi tted with new custom cabinets by Kennebec — complete with half-crescent-shaped drawers to accom-modate the curved frame.

“This project addresses a big question in New England,” says Sidford. “You have an old house, so how do you renovate with balance and in a respectful way appropri-ate for now?”

“We respect and love the old house,” says the husband, “and this addition makes it seem even grander. On one level, it is hyper-modern; on the other, it is just organic. The contrast is unapologetic.”

“This is such an amazing house,” adds the wife, “it deserved something like this.”

the pavilion roof provides protection from rain and sun for the rear door to the original house as well as for the side entry to the kitchen and the screened porch.

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The new master bath embodies the underlying ethic of the larger renovation/addition project in that, as Whitten puts it, “it’s new and yet it refl ects the old.”

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in all, a little wooden village on stilts, pine and spruce construction with cedar shingles, all connected by 20,000 square feet of ele-vated decking, prompting The Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell to liken Haystack to an earthbound marina.

“Ed Barnes did not want to give up modernism. He believed in things being very simple,” he says. “He loved the roof being the same material as the walls, for example. So he used a modernist vocabulary — simple, geometric, clean, man-made — with very tra-ditional local materials. And he put it in a very particular place: Maine.”

Campbell nominated Haystack for the AIA award four times, until it finally won, placing it in the company of just 40 other architectural icons in the country, among them Rockefeller Center and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, and The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The citation called Haystack “an early and profound example of the fruitful and liberating fusion of the vernacular building traditions with the rationality and discipline of modern architecture.”

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts was actually founded 75 miles away, near Haystack Mountain in Montville, Maine, in 1950. But in 1958, with a state highway about to be relo-cated through the school property, 42 acres on Deer Isle were purchased for $3,500. The fol-lowing year, a capital campaign began raising the $150,000 needed to realize Barnes’s inge-nious design for a new campus.

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Maine metalsmith Tim McCreight has taught at Haystack, served on its board, and designed and published Vision & Legacy: Celebrating the Architecture of Haystack (see sidebar below). He believes that Barnes’s uninsulated, seasonal buildings with exposed structures inform the Haystack experience.

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IMAGES FOR (AND OF) THE GARDEN • A Rhode Island landscape designer brings 19th-century botanical watercolors into plein air

ART AND NATURE HAVE STROLLED HAND in hand throughout New England for cen-turies — indeed, artworks depicting nature define this region’s culture. One artist who clearly worked with that muse on his

shoulder was Edward Lewis Peckham (1812–1889), a

Providence resident who spent years in an idyllic pursuit: painting Rhode Island’s botanical treasures in watercol-ors. Peckham carefully labeled each piece of art with plant name, date, and place, an indication, one imagines, of his passion for local botany and his desire to share that love with like-minded souls.

landscape designer Graham Laird Gardner with UV-protected reproductions of watercolors by Edward Lewis Peckham.

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Years later, enter Graham Laird Gardner, whose landscape design business, The Native Plantsmith in Saunderstown, Rhode Island, spe-cializes in native plants. He was so enchanted by Peckham’s watercolors that he made them the focal point of an outdoor gallery he created for the Newport Flower Show in June.

“I’m passionate about native plants,” says Gardner, who one might say works with the muse of art on his shoulder. He studied fi ne art and art history at Vassar College, graphic design at MassArt, and landscape architecture at the University of Rhode Island.

Gardner first saw Peckham’s botani-cals in 2009 while working on a master plan for a native-plant garden at the Rhode Island Historical Society in Providence. The society owns Peckham’s “Collection of Watercolors, Illustrating Plants and Wildflowers in and Around Rhode Island,” a five-volume set of nearly 500 pieces painted between 1843 and

gardner’s display for the Newport Flower Show featured a gallery-like setting with the Peckham botanicals mounted on living walls, and stone and metal artworks by contemporary Rhode Island artists forming a centerpiece around a sculpture by Sean James Harrington.

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1881. Each original artwork measures 8 or 9 inches by 10 or 12 inches. With vivid colors and precise details, the paintings were consid-ered “the most perfect representations of New England plants” that noted 19th-century bot-anist Asa Gray “had ever seen,” according to the historical society. One look at them and Gardner, too, was smitten.

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To bring framed artworks to the garden, landscape designer Graham Laird Gardner suggests using the exterior walls of a house or a garden shed, or a high fence. Check for online printers who work with outdoor canvas or vinyl banner cloth. A high-resolution digital image of the artwork is required for this type of printing, so personal photos may be the most expedient choice. For frames, use wood such as mahogany, teak, redwood, or cedar left to weather or coated with an exterior stain or paint.

native plants growing out of the walls form a living backdrop for the Peckham repro-ductions, the originals of which were painted in Rhode Island in the 1840s and 1850s.

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area in front of Rosecliff, the Gilded Age man-sion that was the venue for the show. “So I knew I needed something with some vertical scale. And I thought, ‘What about an outdoor gal-lery?’ ” Rather than outdoor works of art such as sculpture or topiary, however, he envisioned a setting evocative of interior walls hung with enlarged framed copies of Peckham’s work. With a team of carpenters, antiques restorers,

wild-plant experts, and local nurseries, Gardner created living walls, nearly 7 feet high, made of planting material sandwiched

between wood. He covered the walls with plant-ings that literally grew out of the structure, but he left room for 10 pieces of artwork.

“It took me three return visits to the historical society to decide exactly which Peckham botanicals to use,” says Gardner, who went through the carefully preserved watercolors in the collection to choose 16 candidates. He then cross-checked them against Lisa Gould’s Vascular Flora of Rhode Island and ended up with 10 that were both native plants (the theme of his display) and blue (a requirement of fl ower show organiz-ers, who had invited landscape designers to re-create a famed 1930s “Blue Garden” from a Newport estate).

With permission from the historical soci-ety, Gardner then had reproductions of the 10 paintings printed on outdoor canvas embed-ded with ultraviolet protection, framed the works in mahogany that was painted and dis-tressed in tones of blue, and hung them on the living walls. “The walls contained the out-door space, and the frames created an interior dimension,” says Gardner, who ended up win-ning three awards for the display.

But the most satisfying aspect of the out-door gallery may well have been simply the joy of having art and nature stroll hand in hand — with Edward Lewis Peckham’s much-loved subjects en plein air.

The Rhode Island Historical Society, which owns the 500 original watercolors in Edward Lewis Peckham’s “Collection of Watercolors, Illustrating Plants and Wildfl owers in and Around Rhode Island,” sells prints of the artwork for a fee based on the intended use of the print. For information, contact RIHS, 121 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02906; 401-335-8575; rihs.org; reproductions@rihs.org.

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HOLD THE FORT • No longer needed to secure the land, the fortresses that protected New Englanders from enemies far and wide still have lessons to teach

fort warren on Georges Island in Boston Harbor is a pentagonal fort constructed of local granite. Named for the doctor who sent Paul Revere on his ride, it’s now a tourist destination.

THESE DAYS, PROTECTING YOUR home is a fairly simple proposition: a call to an alarm company, a modest monthly fee, and you’re good to go. But what if the problem isn’t burglars but entire hos-tile nations? For that, you need a fort,

and New Englanders have been building them since we showed up in this neighborhood. The hundreds of forts, ramparts, and batteries that line the region’s borders and (former) frontiers speak to a formidable list of ene-mies: domestically, Native Americans from many tribes; from overseas, the Dutch, French, and British; and from Canada, the Spanish and the Germans. And let’s not

forget the Confederate Navy. No longer needed as pro-tection, today these forts provide modern visitors insight into what worried earlier generations and how security was woven into the fabric of their world.

Early forts often literally contained the commu-nities they were meant to protect. In 1686, English settlers built Belcher’s Fort in Meriden, Connecticut, burying the butt ends of 16-foot-tall logs to form a pal-isade, a construction used as far back as Greek and Roman times. Inside the always-guarded gate of these high-and-tight fences were their cabins, to which they returned each night relatively safe from the Indians and wild animals that surrounded them. It was a good idea,

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especially given the fate of one Robert Beers, an Irish brick-maker who, a few years earlier, had refused to take refuge in his town’s fort in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, during an Indian attack. He remained in his nearby home, convinced that nothing bad could befall him if he read his Bible. A bullet came through the window, and he died with the Good Book in his hands.

Rehoboth’s fort was a garrison house, also known as a blockhouse, solidly built of squared logs with an overhanging second story. Defenders could fire their muskets through loopholes, narrow slits in the over-hang. However, as Tom Desjardin, historian for Maine’s Bureau of Parks and Land, points out, “If you’re fi ghting from the blockhouse, things have gone really, really bad.” Much better to keep the invaders farther at bay, which is why he says colonists usually built a perimeter of earthworks, and even moats, around their blockhouses. The Pine Tree

arched brick-and-stone stairways through the walls allow entrance into Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island, which was active from 1824 to 1950.

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Palisades and wooden blockhouses provided reasonable security against the arrows and muskets of early aggressors, but

constructed in fairhaven overlooking New Bedford Harbor in 1777, Fort Phoenix was burned down the next year. Rebuilt, it proved important in the War of 1812.

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Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, may have been decommissioned in 1876 and become a tourist destination, but it hasn’t lost its military roots. It returns to something of its original self this September during the Fall Revolutionary War Encampment — a two-day time warp to 1777 orchestrated by the Fairhaven Village Militia and Fairhaven Offi ce of Tourism. Visitors can experience the fort as it once was as the encampment creates a bustling hub fi lled with period-costumed men and women, a plethora of demonstrations ranging from cooking and spinning to dentistry, and militiamen engaged in military drills and fl intlock musket and cannon fi ring. On Saturday evening, there will be a “night fi ring” of the fort’s fi ve cannons for a true taste of historic power. The Fall Revolutionary War Encampment at Fort Phoenix, Green Street, Fairhaven, MA, runs from 9 a.m. Saturday, September 17, until 3 p.m. Sunday, September 18. Cannon fi ring at approximately 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. Information: 508-979-4085, fort-phoenix.blogspot.com.

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as technology advanced, there were can-nonballs and shells from British and later Confederate warships with which to con-tend. To handle that kind of incoming, the young United States government instituted an ever-evolving set of building specifi cations — dubbed the First, Second, and Third sys-tems — starting in 1794 and continuing until the end of the Civil War. Boston Harbor’s Castle Island holds Fort Independence, built between 1834 and 1851, a granite pentagon with walls 30 feet high and 5½ feet thick, bas-tions at each corner, and a “bombproof” sod roof designed to absorb the shock of a falling shell. It stands on the ruins of seven previ-ous forts, stretching back to 1634. Then, the Puritans sought to defend Boston not from hostile natives but from their own country-men back home, fearing that the long arm of the state would sail over and compel them to accept the Church of England.

Today, the only invaders on Castle Island are the thousands of visitors attracted by its waterfront setting. Similar invasions occur at beautiful spots like Newport, Rhode Island’s Fort Adams that overlooks Narragansett Bay. Since it was established in 1799, to support just 20 guns, until its fi nal days of protective service at the end of World War II, it never saw action, but it has served music lovers well as a venue for the annual Newport Folk Festival, now in its 52nd year. The fort is so huge that it holds three stages that can operate at full blast with no audible interference.

Other forts aren’t so overrun, which, as Cambridge, Massachusetts, Historical Commission executive director Charles Sullivan observes, can be to their detriment. “Fort Washington is the only surviving phys-ical remnant of the Revolutionary War in the city,” he says, “but no one knows where it is. It suffers from lack of use.” Located at 101 Waverly Street on the eastern side of Cambridgeport, it’s an evocative, moody spot, marooned among parking lots and train tracks and, as Sullivan points out, prone to damage by free-running dogs whose own-ers let them tear up the sod that protects the ancient earthworks. “We’d love it if more peo-ple went there,” he says, “because the more

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eyes and feet, the more protected it is.” The three-cannon earthwork battery was erected in 1775 under George Washington’s orders to prevent British troops from coming up the nearby Charles River. The bulwarks remain, four hillocks built up by long-still Continental soldiers’ hands, with shallow ditches in front of them, echoes of the original water-fi lled moats. Placed on the list of National Register of Historic Places in 1973, its preservation is largely credited to the tenacity of Bernard Rudolph, a neighborhood resident who put into words why such landmarks should be treated with due respect. “Fort Washington,” he said, “is a symbol and a vision, a reminder of what we are, where we came from, and what we can do.”

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Saturday, October 1; early buyers, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., $20; general public, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., $7. Preview party, Friday, Sept. 30, 5 to 9; $40, $35 in advance. 80 Fort Adams Drive, Newport, RI; 401-841-0707, fortadams.org.

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JOHN DENNIS’S DREAM HOUSE on Lake Cochituate in Natick, Massachusetts, had its begin-nings in a boyhood nightmare: a summer visit to Grandma’s in St. Louis. “She had no television,

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the “contemporary penthouse look,” a kind of “sharp” presenta-tion, whereas Kessel had more of a refi ned “traditional feel” in mind.

If form ever followed func-tion, this house is the poster child. The couple wanted to get as close to the water as setbacks allowed, which dictated a long, rather than deep, footprint on the sloping par-cel. “This was the ninth time I’ve built from the ground up, so this house was a kind of 30-year work in progress,” says Kessel. “We knew the kinds of spaces we wanted, sketched it out on paper, and the architect — Scott Rogers [of Shane Structures in Milford, Massachusetts] — fi lled in the structural details, with some small changes, but pretty much our original drawing.”

For decades, the vacant land served as a sluiceway for runoff, funneling torrents of rain into the lake. “So we needed some rather elabo-rate engineering to keep that water fl owing, but not through or under the house,” says Kessel.

Always with the refrain of family meet-ing place in the background, an open main fl oor plan that ties in kitchen, living, and din-ing areas was a must. The fi rst-fl oor master suite, set behind the kitchen, was a conces-sion to the inevitable aging of knees and hips. “When I had my hip replacement, I learned to quickly appreciate not having to walk up and down stairs,” Dennis says. Kessel also wanted

her home offi ce on the main fl oor, where it was oriented toward the lake.

A state-of-the-art playroom in the base-ment — complete with pinball machine, sit-down bar, pool table, and authentic seats from Fenway Park and the old Boston Garden — provides the irresistible space for family, as it also walks straight out to the lake. “We wanted the playroom to be indestructible as well as having all the right toys,” says Dennis, “so the fl oor is actually a very durable porce-lain, the kind used in malls, and whose design is inspired by the Four Seasons’ lobby.”

Window design is a prime example of meeting in the middle. There are Prairie Style muntins in most of the home’s glazing, to suit her artistic eye, but on the west side, where the views to the lake are the focus, the glass is unadorned. A cool palette for interior col-ors was another common ground — as was the

in the entry hall, a seat from the Boston Garden is mounted on a piece of parquet fl ooring, also from the Garden. At the back of the house (below), the main living area spills onto the upper deck while the recently completed playroom opens to the protected area beneath it.

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Elsewhere, the choice of flooring and counter materials blends five kinds of nat-ural stone, plus stained rock maple in two hues. The muted browns and grays play off the abundance of sun streaming in, especially at sunset, when the western exposure fl oods the house with amber light. A focal point of the open-plan living area is a tinted concrete hearth, embedded with 500 pounds of crushed mirror and polished to a satin fi nish. As the light or the observer moves, the surface seems to twinkle.

Outside, that same eye to clean lines, low maintenance, and durability guided the selection of materials. Factory-colored cement-and-fi ber clapboards, Azek trim, and Correct Deck decking make for a house to play in, not work on. “A power washing in the spring does the trick,” says Dennis.

After nearly three years in the house, all promised is delivered. Whenever the kids and grandkids come to visit, there is lots of cooking and conversation and the pool and ping-pong balls — not tennis balls — are in motion. “And no one has to drive all the way to the Cape,” says Kessel.

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haunt, a picturesque coastal town 30 miles north of Boston. “We got married on the North Shore, and we got the

bug from our experience with the wedding,” says the hus-band. “We went up to Manchester-by-the-Sea all the time on the weekends. We’d overlooked this place that was so

special, but was so close, we didn’t think of it.”Once the location was decided, the rest quickly fell into

place. On the fi rst day of house hunting, the couple found an 1883 summer cottage built by the family of author Henry James for his sister, Alice. But beyond its storied provenance,

After fi ve years scouring New England’s premier locales looking for the perfect weekend spot, a Boston couple found their idyll in the backyard of their favorite

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in the dining room, part of the original 1883 cottage, a bank of French doors opens the space to a new bluestone terrace. Project architect Dan Fitzgerald designed the custom 4-foot-wide,16-foot-long dining table made from 100-year-old wood. The wood paneling and coffered ceiling is the work of Payne/Bouchier Fine Builders.

Deemed too steep, the front staircase was completely rebuilt to accommodate an extra riser, creating the opportunity to add built-in storage behind moulded panels. The extended staircase also meant the entry to an adjacent library had to be eliminated. But how to access the room? The solution is worthy of a Gothic novel. The study (below),

now paneled in dark-stained sycamore, is hidden behind a telephone room (bottom left),the kind once found in upper-class houses. For those in the know, a secret pedal releases the back wall, which opens to reveal the hideaway. Inside the room, a button in the bookcase allows the visitor to electronically open or close the door.

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from the harbor (left), the stonework on the house’s foundation and terraces seems to become one with the sea wall. The kitchen (below, left) got a much-needed face lift with custom cabinetry by Payne/Bouchier. To take full advantage of views, the front hall (below) was expanded and the staircase rebuilt on a gentler incline, with hidden storage tucked beneath.

“We opened up the entry hall to create a vista through the building, so when you

walk in the front door, you can see the harbor.”— architect art dioli

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the house could not have been more perfectly sited. “We had this joke” says the husband, “about our ideal place being close to a charming town but not in town, at the end of a long, quiet road, and has a big fi eld but is on the water.” That describes the property he and his wife, who have three young boys, pur-chased in 2007. “Hurricanes be damned, it is right out there at the end of the peninsula. Not many places I’ve seen have water on three sides and have that sort of unique position.”

Over the years, winterization and two additions had turned

the Colonial-style farmhouse into a hodgepodge. The original house had “clear, good bones,” but the additions made for a space that “didn’t fl ow terribly well,” says Steve Payne, owner/partner of Payne/Bouchier Fine Builders of Boston, contrac-tors for the entire renovation. The owners, he says, wanted the revamped home to not only embrace the charm of the origi-nal structure and time period, but also to respect the stunning site and local vernacular, so fi xing the disjointed exterior was essential. “The location is so wonderful, we wanted to make

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sure to do something splendid,” says Payne. The job of design-ing such a house fell to architect Art Dioli, partner at Olson Lewis Dioli & Doktor of Manchester-by-the-Sea. Working on the project “was an educational process,” says Dioli. “We had to learn what was good about the building, what didn’t work, and why it didn’t work.”

The basic placement of rooms remained the same, though “none of it looks or feels the same,” says Dan Fitzgerald, the project architect. The foyer was expanded to allow views from the front door through to the rear bluestone terrace and the

harbor. Once the chimney on the outside was moved inward 3 feet to allow for a balcony off the third-fl oor home offi ce, the living room was given a completely new shape.

A new steeply gabled roof defi nes the home’s revitalized personality and historic sensibility, and the previously bland exterior now boasts white clapboard siding and extensive stonework that mimics the property’s sea wall, giving a sense of permanence to the house. “You appreciate it when you go across the harbor and look back,” says Fitzgerald. “It feels like the house almost grows out of the existing stone walls.”

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It was consensus: The multiple roofl ines and styles of the old house necessitated a big-picture overhaul. The owners wanted the new roof to be slate (authentic to the house’s time period), which required a new frame to support the weight — paving the way for a slew of changes. Two gambrel roofs that contributed to the disjointed feeling were eliminated. One was removed to create space for a third-fl oor roof deck, which has panoramic harbor views, while the second was replaced with a steeply gabled roof that creates a cathedral ceiling in the master

bedroom. Elsewhere, an existing bell tower was faced with copper, while a similar tower was added waterside in the master suite. Moving a chimney from an outside wall inward 3 feet allowed for a balcony off the third-fl oor offi ce (before and after above), where an eyebrow window was also added. Finally, dormers tie together the whole vocabulary. “The new roofl ines,” says architect Art Dioli, “make it feel and look like the house was always there, and that it was designed and built in one step rather than in three different stages.” Much improved.

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the first-floor living room was completely redefined when the exterior chimney was moved 3 feet into the room. The paneling along the side of the new fireplace structure hides storage closets. Original to the house, the two bow windows that flank the fireplace (exterior views, right) were expanded to create a light-filled space with views to the beach.

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the doors in the first-floor family room (below, left) fold back, opening the space to the new hardwood deck overlooking the harbor. The family’s two goldendoodles, Brudice and Falco (left), pose on the stone wall before taking a romp on the beach. The third-floor roof deck (below, right), formerly a gabled roof and unused attic, offers panoramic views of the harbor.

“It’s a magic site — they have rocky coastline, protected harbor views, and then they

have beach. It’s the best of all possible worlds.”— landscape architect gregory lombardi

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In that spirit, landscape architect Gregory Lombardi of Gregory Lombardi Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, wanted to preserve the original “worn” charm of the site and the old Yankee house-on-the-water persona.

“It is a magic site — they have rocky coastline, protected harbor views, and then they have beach. It is the best of all possi-ble worlds,” says Lombardi. “We tried to work with the character of what was there to make it more focused and refi ned.”

Lombardi and his team replaced apple trees that had to be removed during the renovation and played with the one-story grade difference between the driveway and front door using a

sequence of granite paths rather than typical linear steps.In all, the project took two years to complete. A testa-

ment to the craftsmanship and camaraderie of the renovation team, the house is the true combination of old and new — just like Manchester-by-the-Sea.

“It’s a place where there’s still an ice cream stand and kids ride their bikes everywhere,” says the husband. “It really is a pretty special little time capsule of a place, where there is every-thing from beautiful sailing yachts to a fl eet of lobster boats in the harbor. I’m sure this house will be as special to our kids as it is to us. I do feel like its caretaker.”

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the allée, completed in 2011, has two 75-foot-long columns of hornbeam trees framed by a double row of yews along a path edged with white, apricot, and blue fl owers. Hand-wrought iron and bronze archways lead to a central wooden gazebo.

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E L L E V U E H O U S E O N T H E W O R L D - FA M OUS Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, had lain empty for almost seven years before Ronald Lee Fleming, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, urban planner and preserva-tionist, bought the 1910 Federal Revival structure in 1999. To the relief of all, the new owner painstakingly restored the mansion designed by none other than renowned architect and interior designer Ogden Codman Jr. for his third cousin, Martha Codman. As his guide, Fleming had both old photos and the infl uential 1897 handbook The Decoration of Houses, which Codman wrote with his friend Edith Wharton, who had summered down the street.

But what really knocked the socks off Newport soci-ety was what Fleming did with the 3½-acre grounds. “The garden is attracting more attention than the house!” exclaims Fleming.

Like many a Newport estate, the property has a color-ful pedigree. Though Codman designed it for his cousin, he hoped to inherit it himself, but he was thwarted when,

at age 66, she married Maxim Karolik, a Russian-Jewish opera singer half her age. She had already inherited some of the country’s fi nest early furniture, silverware, needle-work, and oil portraits from her ancestors, the Derbys, early millionaire merchants from Salem, Massachusetts. Fascinated, Karolik himself became an ardent art collec-tor. Altogether, the couple bequeathed a staggering 1,200 objects to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. (Many pieces in the collection are now on view in the MFA’s new Art of the Americas wing.)

The house’s second owner, Newport hostess Jane Pickens, sang in the Ziegfeld Follies, but Fleming, the third owner, is more interested in garden follies. The original garden, designed by Achille Duchêne, who restored Versailles, already contained one good one: a 1922 copy of a teahouse that the great 18th-century Salem architect Samuel McIntire had originally built for a Derby estate in Danvers. Karolik told of taking tea there with Jacqueline Kennedy while discussing White

a fountain spouts waterin front of the Allée, which leads to a reproductionof an 18th-century teahouse designed by Samuel McIntire. An excedra (facing page, top), a curved bench the ancient Greeks and Romans designed to inspire philosophical discussions, adds a classical touch. The new latticework gazebo at the Allée center (facing page, bottom) frames the teahouse, built for Martha Codman in 1922.

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House restoration plans with the fi rst lady when she visited her family’s Newport home.

Fleming has added two more full-size rep-licas of McIntire structures: a second teahouse and the cupola of a Salem church that burned in the 1830s.

Fleming and his team also rebuilt and added gazebos, exedras, marble foun-tains, sculptures, and a fantasy Oriental Vale with waterfalls and a lacquer-red Chinese Chippendale bridge. A chicken coop and bee-hives reflect Fleming’s daughter Severine’s involvement with organic farming. Other plans include a free-standing library and a 70-foot-long swimming pool with a subterranean nymphaeum, a watery grotto inspired by those the ancient Greeks and Romans consecrated to

mythical water nymphs. A gravel walk lined with two rows of 18-foot-tall hornbeams, shorter yews, and fl owers now connects the older teahouse with the property’s south gate. At the center of the path-way, a new wooden gazebo acts like a belt buckle to cinch the garden together.

“The color palette is blue, white, and apricot,” says garden designer Mary Ellen Flanagan, who worked in close collaboration with Fleming and a team that included architect J P Couture, carpenter Derek Kosciuszko, sculptor Mark Mennin, stonemason Leon Holt, and Jonathan Glatt, who crafted the new bronze and iron trel-lises for climbing roses. Katherine Weaver helped design the Oriental Vale.

Fleming traces the beginnings of his love

A garden folly is an extravagant and often useless or whimsical ornamental structure that conjures an element of fantasy or another time or place. The garden at Bellevue House has follies similar to those found on 18th-century British estates, which in turn were often inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. Popular in the 18th century, exedras (top photo) were originally found in Greek houses, gymnasiums, and public places, their curved shape meant to encourage conversation.

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Of Follies and Exedras

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for classical gardens to childhood books. The Vietnam War was a more indirect infl uence. “I was an officer in Special Forces,” he says. “Afterward, studying English gardens was my healing force.” There are references to art his-tory and to Fleming’s life at every turn.

The “New American Renaissance Water Garden” to the south of the house is modeled on Italy’s Villa Lante. It is fi lled with personal aspects that are fanciful and surprising. The foun-tain fl ows from a statue of the goddess Pomona modeled after one of Fleming’s daughters, and

water spouts from the mouth of a sculpture that is a replica of Fleming’s own head.

Motifs and patterns repeat throughout. A carved wooden monkey on the stump of a dead beech tree peers through a telescope across the garden toward a copper monkey fi nial on the pond-side cupola. There are 46 monkeys in all throughout the house and garden. “They were a popular motif in the 18th century,” says Fleming. “Then Darwin came along and killed monkeys as a decorating element.”

The garden at Bellevue House is one of many on Newport’s Secret Garden Tour, “On and Off the Avenue,” September 9–11, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets, $25, at Newport Visitor’s Center, 23 Amer-ica’s Cup Ave., or Kingscote Mansion, 253 Bellevue Ave., or $20 in advance from secretgardentours.org.

in the water garden, inspired by 16th-century Villa Lante in Italy, sculptor Mark Mennin modeled the statue of Roman goddess Pomona on Fleming’s daughter. A re-imagined cupola of a McIntire church (bottom) sits by what Fleming describes as the “Oriental fantasy” garden.

Owner Ronald Lee Fleming (left, top) was the model for one of many green-granite fountains (left, bottom) in his highly metaphorical “New American Renaissance

Water Garden” (right). “The head of the father exudes energy across time and space to the children,” Fleming explained at the 2008 National Trust annual conference. The rill of water concludes in “The Children’s Fountain” (not shown) where blank spaces are ready for the next generation to inscribe.

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the restoration heightened the dramatic curved stairway contained within the original stair tower. The hallway offers a glimpse of the intimate den attached to the new kitchen.

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in the living room, new walnut fl ooring meets the original bluestone to create a diagonal line, which continues across the terrace to draw the eye to the bisected granite by landscape designer Shin Abe. Karen Clarke, with yellow Labrador retriever Mango (facing page), designed the master bath to refl ect the updated style of the house.

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N T H E B R O W O F O N E O F T H E H I G H E S T H I L L S in Lincoln, Massachusetts, a town known for an exceptional collection of avant-garde midcentury houses, stands a handsome, lovingly restored mod-ern residence with a most remarkable story.

Karen Clarke, co-program director of interior design at the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University in Boston, is the force behind the rescue of the 1948 Heck House, designed by Henry Hoover. The Harvard-trained architect built scores of modernist houses in the area (including the fi rst in Lincoln), many of which have been lost to the wrecker’s ball. In 2006, when Clarke purchased the property, which included 6 acres of rolling hills and trees, the house was unlived in and unloved, its previous owner having slated it for demolition. But Clarke had other ideas. She wanted to save the structure and attain LEED certifi ca-tion from the US Green Building Council in the process.

“I was determined that I would create a healthy, effi cient, and envi-ronmentally sound home, and one that was beautiful,” says Clarke. Accomplishing that in conjunction with a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating added to the challenge, as the cer-tifi cation is more common for commercial buildings than single-family residences, and, says Clarke, the program is geared to new construction, not renovation and preservation, and the process is time-consuming, dis-couragingly bureaucratic, and costly.

Nevertheless, Clarke forged ahead. It took her and her team three

years to reach their goal; Clarke, her husband, and two children took up residence in 2009.

The house occupied the footprint of a tall, rambling Victorian built in 1861 that was replaced by Hoover’s design. Clarke and architect Brooks A. Mostue, co-founder of Davis Square Architects in Somerville, Massachusetts, restored Hoover’s front facade, and by seamlessly adding a garage and offi ce at the north end, reinforced the home’s modern horizontal lines.

“I have a real affection for Hoover, and I admire the way he integrated indoors and outside,” says Mostue. He should know — he lives nearby in a Hoover house. When he fi rst encountered Clarke at a meeting of the Lincoln Historical Commission, “I offered to do what I could for a neighbor and for the house.” A Hoover connection also led to builder David Brookes of Brookes + Hill Custom Builders Inc. in Lexington, Massachusetts, who was restoring yet another house by the architect. Brookes says the Clarke project was both “challenging and fun. . . . We didn’t know what we would fi nd.”

What they could determine was that the rear of the water-damaged and oft-vandalized house looked like a motel. Yet, with an assuredness that surpasses Hoover, the mass of the 10,000-square-foot house was masterfully mitigated by setbacks, while strips of windows and pronounced eaves now serve as unifying elements. A new stair tower anchors the composition, and an exterior spiral staircase, relocated from inside, climbs to a roof terrace outlined by a Clarke-designed iron railing, complete with an abstract Arts-and-Crafts-style rose motif. A parapet hides the roof’s solar panels.

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the kitchen, designed with the help of Italian Design of Brookline, Massachusetts, combines food preparation and casual eating areas with a family room in a single rectangular unit.

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The program for the house was exception-ally complicated, as Karen Clarke wanted to design a new home for her family, and something that would speak to her con- temporary aesthetic. On the other hand, the town of Lincoln insisted that the facade facing the road (inset) respect Henry Hoover’s design. The solution was to maintain the front of the house much as designed with the addition of a new garage wing strengthening the feel of modernity. The natural English-style landscape places the house serenely in a park-like setting. On the rear, or private side of the house (below), Clarke and her team made several additions, including a stair tower that echoes that on the front, and added two rooftop terraces for outdoor living. This side of the house opens itself to the back garden, an expanse of lawn, and an in-ground swimming pool.

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A judicious use of wood sets the tone of the interior. The new fl oors were locally milled from trees harvested on the property, window frames are certifi ed tropical wood, and engineered walnut was used in the kitchen. While almost no materials were salvageable for reuse in the house, every-thing removed was recycled and kept out of landfi lls.

Offsetting the responsible yet often invisible choices (like the moisture wrapping and the energy recovery system) that create a truly sustainable house, Clarke’s adept design choices make the house a visual delight. She brushed away the cramped 1940s kitchen and awoke the house’s free-fl owing modern soul with a space that incorporates food preparation, informal dining, and a den. The kitchen cabinets are by Valucine, the only Italian brand that met her green specifi cations. “They are completely recyclable, sustainable, and scratch-resistant,” she says.

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where some of the existing bluestone fl oor was retained to create a visual and physical connection to the bluestone patio beyond the fl oor-to-ceiling window walls.

The views, crucial to the house’s identity, are enhanced by the sub-tle modern landscape design by Shin Abe of ZEN Associates in Woburn, Massachusetts. On the street side, the home’s modern essence is reinforced with “a series of stone walls at the entrance to refl ect and respect the geometry of the building line,” Abe says, and stag-gered steps fl owing into the driveway create “dimensional layers for the guests approaching the house.”

Last year, Clarke won the fi rst annual Educator Design Excellence award from the American Society of Interior Designers for the project. The competition acknowledges high-quality residential and commercial interior design work by educator members of ASID. She was cited for an “outstanding job recognizing sustainable features and incorporating them into a well executed project.” But a neighbor said it better: “Never underestimate the power of a strong, creative woman to tackle a tough, complicated job.”

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the eye-catching abstract painting by David Palmer in the informal eating area refl ects off the mirror-like black granite countertop in the adjoining kitchen. Eleven Interiors deftly created a fresh modern environment in this unit located in a stately, century-old Back Bay building (right).

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S IT A CONTRADICTION FOR A DUPLEX PENTHOUSE apartment to be lighthearted, playful, and exquisitely pol-ished, all at the same time? No, answers Michael Ferzoco, who gave his then 27-year-old clients exactly that in the transformation of a large, rather grand condominium in a staid old Back Bay building overlooking Boston’s historic

Commonwealth Avenue Mall.It’s a storybook saga, from start to fi nish. The young clients,

Matthew Hawrilenko, who grew up in Hanover, Massachusetts,and his now wife, Emily Kroshus of Calgary, Alberta, met as fresh-men at Princeton University, where she majored in economicsand was a three-time All-American runner, while he studied pub-lic policy, was a varsity wrestler, and played professional pokerduring his junior and senior years. After graduation, he spent two years in fi nance at an options-trading fi rm where “pokerculture” reigned as a learning aid for quick decision making.

Since then, he’s been on his own as a highly respected profes-sional poker player whose accomplishments include winning the 2009 World Series of Poker $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed event. “Poker play-ing was a better fi t for our lifestyle,” he says. “It enabled us to take long ‘working vacations’ in Paris, Australia, New Zealand, where I could work wherever there was an Internet [connection].”

In 2008, the couple put down roots in Boston when Kroshuswas accepted into a doctoral program in public health at Harvard University. Apartment hunting was frustrating at fi rst. They knew what they wanted and where they wanted to live, but it wasn’t until their real estate agent connected them with Ferzoco, prin-cipal of Eleven Interiors of Boston, New York, and Los Angeles, and his design colleague, Stacy Courniotes, that they found the right space with the potential to satisfy their goals. “As soon as we talked to Michael and Stacy, we knew they ‘got’ us, right out of the gate,” Hawrilenko says. “We knew that they could design what we were going for.”

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elegance with a lively twist is the theme in the living room (facing page), where asymmetrical bookcases fl ank one of four fi replaces in the apartment. Pale gray walls are set off by white woodwork, and the high-gloss swivel coffee table and custom shag rug are accented by rich blue, no-fade Sunbrella fabric on the custom daybed-inspired window seats. Interior designer Michael Ferzoco plays pool (above) at the other end of the room where a poker table is also right at home. The open kitchen (left) draws plenty of light from the large windows in the adjoining breakfast area.

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apartment as smart, young, and personable as its new owners while respecting its classic heritage. “They wanted more light and a new fl ow that would be communal, inviting, and socia-ble, rather than compartmentalized,” he says. “They wanted the living room to be his game room, with places for a billiard table and a recreational poker table, but with a sophisticated area for entertaining, too.”

At the same time, they wanted as much new storage as possible. “Matt has games and paraphernalia that had to go somewhere,” says Ferzoco. “We gave them lots of compati-ble new built-ins that keep everything organized, clean, and decluttered.”

A palette that is both exciting and soothing gives the apartment an almost magical sense of life. The couple’s favorite color is blue, which Ferzoco used as an accent, but eschewed the safer background of cream and beige in favor of gold, caramel, and gray for a neutral backdrop with a sense of spirit rather than understatement. Living room furnishings include kicky new window seats (with storage below), swivel chairs, and a custom double-width chaise covered in an eco-friendly bamboo fabric. In addition, four ottomans can be pulled in for strategic seating.

For the couple, the apartment is both fun and func-tional, an ideal place for them to have a balanced life.He usually plays poker three hours daily in a home offi ce with a 10-foot-long desk big enough for several computer mon-itors. In her free time, she runs with the Boston Athletic Association and last spring won the Canada Marathon Championship. When he’s off, he works out, reads, and is a teaching fellow at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Next on his agenda — probably in a year or so — is a new goal: earning a doctoral degree in clinical psy-chology. “Poker is challenging and stays interesting because it’s always changing,” he says. “I do pretty well because I work very hard at it. I’ll probably always enjoy playing, but at this point, psychology seems like more of a life’s work.”

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formerly open to the entry hall, the dining room (above) is now a more intimate space. On each side of the fi replace, built-in contemporary hutches have gray glass inserts on doors and drawers. A Capiz shell chandelier highlights the custom table surrounded by updated wing chairs in heavy cotton chenille. In the living room (right), an acrylic-on-metal plate by Brian Hibbard has the number 7 “painted for good luck” on the horse’s blanket. New 9-foot-tall French doors lead to the entry hall. By reconfi guring the entry, Ferzoco created a corner of built-ins (facing page) for shoes and boots, pegs for clothing, and separate closets, not in view. The faux fl oor “rug” is inset stone bordered in black marble.

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Michael Ferzoco, principal of Eleven Interiors, achieved better circulation and a lighthearted ambience by opening existing interior walls, adding fl oating walls, replacing standard 6-foot-8-inch-high doors with 9-foot-tall, three-paned modern French doors, and using tailored millwork throughout for fl at-paneled wainscot. Crisply architectural background established, Ferzoco then designed playful furnishings, such as the built-in bench that runs the length of the living room. It adds storage and, in front of each of two double windows, accommodates 10-foot-long upholstered cushions with witty high-scrolled sides that create cozy window seats. Says Ferzoco: “The apartment now is a contemporary wink at the past.”

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22–29 • Visit/Paul Gaucher & Peter NiemetzICON Group Inc., Boston Design Center; 617-428-0655. Niemitz Design Group, BDC; 617-345-9323. Outdoor seating: Chinese Chippendale chairs from Italy, available through ICON Group Inc.

42–47 • Kitchen/Taking FlightArchitecture: Andrew Sidford Architects, Newburyport, MA; 978-462-1657, asidfordarchitects.com . Construction: Peter Danusis & Son General Contractor, Salisbury, MA; 978-462-1668. Metalwork: Wilson Brothers Construction, Salisbury; 978-462-9764. Structural engineer: PRM Engineering LLC, Newburyport; 978-465-7105. Cabinetry: The Kennebec Company, Bath, ME; 207-443-2131,kennebeccompany.com. Doors and screens: Mark Richey Woodworking, Newburyport; 978-499-3800, markrichey.com. Roof: Iron Horse Standing Seam Roofi ng Co. Inc. — MadCow Division, Croydon, NH; 603-863-5591, ironhorseroofi ng.com. Table fabrica-tion: Jewett Farms & Co., York, ME; Newburyport; 207-363-2996 and 978- 961-1538, jewettfarms.com. Lighting: Schoolhouse pendants, vintage. All others, Lucia Lighting & Design, Lynn, MA; 888-595-0026, lucialighting.com. Countertop: Santo Marble & Granite, Salisbury; 978-462-2200.

50–55 • Bath/Maine Cottage ClassicArchitecture: Whitten Architects, Portland, ME; 207-774-0111, whittenarchitects.com. Construction: Knickerbocker Group, Boothbay, ME; 207-633-3818, knickerbockergroup.com. Landscape design: Back Meadow Farm, Damariscotta, ME; 207-563-5659. Exterior siding: Longfellow Cedar Shingles, Windsor, ME; 207-445-4193, longfellowcedarshingles.com. Claw-foot tub: Cella soaking tub, BainUltra, Saint-Nicolas, Quebec, Canada; 800-463-2187, bainultra.com. Medicine cabinets: Mendenhall Medicine Cabinets, Rejuvenations, Portland, OR; 888-401-1900,rejuvenations.com. Sinks: La Fayette CounterWare vessel sinks, VitrA USA, Suwanee, GA; 770-904-6830, vitra-usa.com. Light fixtures: Holophane lights, Landmark Lighting, Summit Hill, PA; 888-243-4413, landmarklighting.com.

66–71 • Art/Images for (and of ) the GardenLandscape design, “The Rhode Island Collection” dis-play at the Newport Flower Show: Graham Laird Gardner, The Native Plantsmith, Saunderstown, RI; 401-265-6986; nativeplantsmith@gmail.com. Botanical watercolors by Edward Lewis Peckham (1812-1889): Collection of Rhode Island Historical Society, 121 Hope Street, Providence, RI; 401-273-8107; rihs.org. Custom mahogany frames: Lockwood Furniture Restoration, Wakefi eld, RI; 401-497-3098, lockwoodfurniture.com. Metal sculpture: Sean James Harrington; seanjharrington.com. Bird mosaics: Pietre Design; 860-617-1795, pietreduredesign.com.

Cobweb: Real Fibers, Peace Dale, RI; 401-792-0263, realfibers.com. Fountain: New England Garden Ornaments, Sudbury, MA; 978-579-9500, negardenornaments.com. Living wall: The Native Plantsmith, and Woodscapes, North Scituate, RI; 401-864-2121, woodscapesri.com. Nautilus stonework: Ryszard Zagorski, Mason Masters; 401-826-1799. Woven wood screen: Gardner Woodwrights, North Kingstown, RI; 401-295-2721, gardnerwoodwrights.com.

78–82 • House Proud/Living the DreamArchitecture: Shane Structures, Hopkinton, MA; 888-522-7129, shanestructures.com. Construction: Brenshaw Corporation, Upton, MA; 508-482-0800. Interior stone: Gerrity Stone, Woburn, MA; 781-938-1820, gerritystone.com. Landscape architect: Jack Tremblay, Amesbury, MA; 978-834-9883. Landscape contractor: Dineen Landscaping, Walpole, MA; 508-660-0105. Hardscaping: O’Hara & Company LTD, Ashland, MA; 508-881-6851, oharacompany.com.

90–99 • Seaside Cottage/For the GenerationsArchitecture: Olson Lewis Dioli & Doktor, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA; 978-526-4386, oldarch.com. Construction and millwork: Payne/Bouchier, Boston; 617-445-4323, paynebouchier.com. Landscape archi-tecture: Gregory Lombardi Design, Cambridge, MA; 617-492-2808, lombardidesign.com. Landscape con-tractor and mason: RP Marzilli, Medway, MA; 508-533-8700, rpmarzilli.com. Structural engineers: Foley Buhl Roberts Associates, Newton, MA; 617-527-9600, fbra.com. Structures North, Salem, MA; 978-745-6817, structures-north.com. Lighting design: Light Insight, Boston; 617-268-1122, light-insightdesign.com. AV design: Rexx Home Systems, Uxbridge, MA; 617-939-3415, rexxco.com. Electrical contractor: Roy Spittle Electric, Gloucester, MA; 978-283-2299, royspittleelectric.com. Plumbing and heating: Andrews Plumbing and Heating, Gloucester; 978-281-3582. Insulation: Closed Cell Structures, Peabody, MA; 978-473-9791, buildwithfoam.com. Fireplace: Yankee Fireplace and Grill City, Middleton, MA; 978-774-1621, yankeefireplace.com. Tile and stone: Tile International, Waltham, MA; 781-699-8286, tiboston.com. ASTI (Associated Stone & Tile Installers),

Waltham, MA; 781-893-7041, tiboston.com. Roof: Stanley Roofing Co., Ipswich, MA; 978-356-7958, stanleyroof.com. Custom doors and windows: Openings Millwork, North Hampton, NH; 603-686-9334, openingsmillwork.com. Lepage Millwork, Palmer, MA; 800-463-1367, lepagemillwork.com. Door hardware: Architectural Openings, Somerville, MA; 617-776-9223, archop.com.

100–105 • Grand Gardens/Newport FolliesGarden design: Mary Ellen Flanagan Garden & Landscape Design, Newport, RI; 401-486-3559, mefl anagan5@hotmail.com. Architecture: Couture Design Associates, Providence, RI; 401-621-1861, couturedesignassociates.com. Carpentry: DK Woodworks, Fall River, MA; 508-269-2588, dk-ww.com. Sculptures: Mark Mennin, New York City; 212- 604-9412, markmennin.com. Stonemason: Holt Stoneworks & Landscape Design, Natick, MA; 508-308-3018, leonholt1@yahoo.com. Trellises: Jonathan Glatt, 101 Design, Warren, RI; 207-741-3270, jhglatt@yahoo.com. Oriental Vale design: Tupelo Garden Works, Wakefi eld, RI; 401-788-8343, tupelogardenworks.com.

106–113 • Midcentury/Modern ProgressionArchitecture: Davis Square Architects, Somerville, MA; 617-628-5700, davissquarearchitects.com . Construction: Brookes + Hill Custom Builders Inc., Lexington, MA; 781-861-0086, brookesandhill.com. Landscape design: ZEN Associates Inc., Woburn, MA; 800-834-6654, zenassociates.com. Structural engi-neer: Kanayo LaLa, P.E.; 978-337-5252, kanayo@att.net. HVAC engineer: Sun Engineering, Danvers, MA; 978-777-7765, sunengineering.net. Kitchen design: Italian Design, Brookline, MA; 617-731-4222,italian-design.net.

114–119 • Back Bay Brahmin/Jackpot!Interior design: Eleven Interiors, Boston; 617-423-1114, eleveninteriors.com. Construction: David Bardes, Boston; 617-755-1995. Millwork: Chilmark Architectural Millwork, Worcester, MA; 508-856-9200, chilmarkwoodworking.com. Artwork: all represented at Jules Place, Boston; 617-542-0644, julesplace.com.

one of the 23 regional staples featured in Bruce Irving’s New England Icons (Page 122), saltbox houses (like Hartwell Tavern in Lincoln, MA, photographed by Greg Premru) are “hunkered-down survivors, sloped back to the north wind, redolent of wood smoke and traditional colonial American values.”

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Merged with the defunct Boston Antiques Show, it is now dubbed the Ellis Boston Antiques Show and still benefi ts Ellis Memorial & Eldredge House,a nonprofi t social service agency in Boston’s South End. The show returns with a new venue, the vibrant Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts, where more than 40 dealers from around the country and Europe will show-case furniture, rare maps, jewelry, and fi ne and decorative art, including the Mason’s ironstone china circa 1820 vase (pictured), from Portuguese exhibitor Janice Paull. “We want to honor both shows,” says Fusco, “and start a brand new tradition.” Plus (to our delight), the old tradition of a gala preview is still in the mix — dress up, sip cocktails, and shop for treasures, all while helping a worthy cause.

October 20–23 at the Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts. Admis-sion, $15, includes all three days and special programs. Thursday’s Gala Pre-view is $250, with proceeds to benefi t Ellis Memorial & Eldredge House Inc. Information: ellisboston.com.

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