New Construction · 2023
Paoli Farmhouse
A new house built to feel two hundred years old.
The clients bought seventeen acres and a ruined Quaker meetinghouse. We used the stone.
Everything above the foundation is new, but most of what you see is not. The stone came from the meetinghouse; the timbers from a tobacco barn in southern Lancaster County. We built around a single surviving fireplace and let the plan follow from there.
The finish palette is tight: lime plaster, rift-sawn white oak, unlacquered brass, honed Delaware bluestone. Nothing else.
Southern elevation at dusk
Entry hall
Keeping room
Kitchen — Reclaimed beams
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