Winner of Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Northern VT Award - 2012

The property is known as the Clementine Homestead; the post and beam
frame of the original house was built in 1812 in southern Vermont and
was moved to Richmond in 1980. Other modifications and additions were
made on the house through the ‘90’s.

When the frame was moved to its current locations and reconstructed, the
original plan was for it to be an inn. The original group that worked on that
project, long on ideas and elbow-grease but short on funds, has said more
recently that the inn idea wasn’t perhaps as well though out as it might
have been.

The approach I took to all of this work was to imagine it as if it had been
done over many years several generations of handy homeowners and/
or local carpenters, so that it has the look of something that has accreted
into place instead of all having been done all at once and resolved into
some atypical “whole”. So, the kitchen addition is detailed as if it had
once been a porch that was later closed in to become the kitchen; then
perhaps a bathroom was added on top, and later a bedroom to fill out the
perimeter. This approach was also carried through to the interior details,
so that we kept, developed - or created entirely new - a certain amount of charm throughout the house, solving small problems we would run into
here and there between existing and new construction and even in the all-
new construction.