As phase one of a larger residential compound, this project was designed to serve as temporary living quarters for the client while the main residence was being constructed. Adapted from a rather nondescript three-car garage structure existing on the property, this small cottage eventually became a guesthouse to the main residence.

Located on nine acres of beautiful rolling meadow overlooking Crab Creek near Annapolis, Maryland, the entire project was executed in the manor of the American Tudor-inspired by the great picturesque mansions built in this country in the 1920s and early 30s by such innovative architects and Harrie T. Lindeberg, John Russell Pope, and Frank J. Forester. While the main house is a serious and authentic interpretation of early half-timber and stone domestic architecture, the guest cottage has been rendered as a more playful garden folly.