Cooper. ���There is a great satisfaction in knowing that
a house is built to endure for centuries,��� says Richard
Sammons.
Fairfax and Sammons��� brief was to replace a 19
century timber-framed summer residence with a larger
house, while maintaining the spirit of that earlier house.
The materials are rich and notable: main walls of limemortared coursed rubble stone, creating an exterior of
variegated deep pinks and browns; white painted timber
windows, columned porches and clapboarded wings,
and New York slates for the roofs, all features of local
buildings of the Federal period which the architects have
studied closely. ���It was a rare opportunity to build from
indigenous stone, in this case locally quarried bluestone,���
says Sammons.
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