New Hampshire Home March-April 2017

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features

departments

68 And the Winners Are…

26 Favorite Finds

New H ampshire Home recognizes its fourth annual design award winners from a group of seventy-two submissions in ten categories.

For Sustainability

30 HOME COOKING

From the Good Earth

By Andi Axman

By Mary Ann Esposito

76 A House That Gives More Than It Takes

Designing and building this net-zero Passive House in the North Country was a family affair.

By Jenny Donelan | Photography by John W. Hession

38 TRANSFORMATION

An Elegant Pied-à-Terre

By Debbie Kane

44 BY DESIGN

Repurposing an Old House

in every issue 18 From the Editor 20 Letters From our Readers 22 On the Town

97 SPECIAL ADVERTISING

SECTION: Hall of fame

1 04 Home Resources 106 Mark Your Calendar!

By Barbara Coles

52 INSPIRATION

A Studio of One’s Own

By William Morgan

58 ROAD TRIP

Spirit Quest

By Carrie Sherman

84 MASTER OF Her CRAFT

Embracing the Curves

By Barbara Coles

90 ARCHITECTURAL ICON Beginning Its Fourth Century

By Debbie Kane

112 At Home in New Hampshire An Open and Shut Case: Lessons from an Old Latch

By Howard Mansfield Illustration by Carolyn Vibbert

On the cover and page 44: The second-floor office of Prime Roast Coffee Company in Keene features the original chimney’s brickwork. Judy Rogers bought the 1840s mill manager’s house in 2014 and renovated it with help from architect Michael Petrovick of Catlin + Petrovick PC in Keene. Photography by Nancy Belluscio

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Sharron R. McCarthy Andi Axman Art D irector John R. Goodwin Photo E ditor John W. Hession Asso c iate E ditor Kara Steere editorial Assistant Rose Zevos King photo Assistant Morgan Karanasios

PR ESI DENT/PU B LISH ER

Nancy Belluscio is a photographer specializing in architectural and environmental images. Originally from the White Mountains, she and her family now live and work in the Monadnock Region. She may be reached at www.nancyonsite.com.

Barbara Coles has long reported on life in New Hampshire, first at Nashua radio station WOTW, then at New Hampshire Public Television and most recently at New Hampshire Magazine. She’s now a contributing editor for the magazine and editor of its Bride issues as well as a freelance writer for various publications. She can be reached at barbaracoles@comcast.net.

Jenny Donelan is an editor and writer with a wide variety of interests, and has covered areas that include computer technology, best business practices, pets, skiing and home design. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe and numerous other publications.

Mary Ann Esposito is the host of the public television series Ciao Italia, now in its twenty-seventh season, and the author of twelve cookbooks, including her most recent, Ciao Italia Family Classics. She lives in New Hampshire. Visit her website at www.ciaoitalia.com.

EDITOR

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Jodie Hall, Wendy Wood contributors

Nancy Belluscio, Barbara Coles Jenny Donelan, Mary Ann Esposito Debbie Kane, Rob Karosis, Howard Mansfield William Morgan, Carrie Sherman Carolyn Vibbert regional sales m anag er

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Debbie Kane is a writer and editor based on the New Hampshire Seacoast. She writes about home, design, food, spirits and a variety of other subjects for regional publications and clients across New England. She may be reached at www.debbiekanewriter.com.

Morgan Karanasios is both New Hampshire Home’s photo assistant and a contributing photographer. While she was a student in Dijon, France, she took photographs throughout Europe and continues to develop her passion for photography.

Rob Karosis has been taking photographs of people, places and things for more than thirty years. His primary focus is architecture, and he is the principal photographer for some of the country’s premier architects and designers. He lives in South Berwick, Maine, with his wife and three children.

Rose Zevos King is New Hampshire Home’s editorial assistant. She recently received her master’s degree in history of art from the University of Glasgow. She will pursue a PhD later this year, specializing in Venetian Renaissance art.

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Howard Mansfield is the author of In the Memory House; The Same Ax, Twice; The Bones of the Earth; and Dwelling in Possibility. The essay in this issue (page 112) is based on his newest book, Sheds. He lives in Hancock.

William Morgan is an architectural writer based in Providence, Rhode Island. His book, Monadnock Summer: The Architectural Legacy of Dublin, New Hampshire was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Carrie Sherman works as a freelance writer/editor. She also writes fiction, and her short stories have been published in the Saint Katherine Review and Yankee magazine. She lives in Kittery Point, Maine, with her husband, Terry, and their dog. She can be reached at carrie.sherman7@gmail.com.

Carolyn Vibbert is a Portsmouth illustrator whose work also appears on packaging for food and wine brands such as Barbara’s, Stone Cellars and Williams Sonoma. She is represented by Freda Scott, and you can see more of her work at www.fredascottcreative.com.

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from the editor

Living a Four-R Life

E

arth Day is almost here—and this April 22, we’ll be only three years away from celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of this more-important-than-ever day. As we approach that milestone, the Earth Day Network (www.earthday.org) is promoting

many initiatives, including planting 7.8 billion trees in order to replace carbon in the air with oxygen; helping with divesting from fossil fuels; and working toward making cities and towns 100 percent renewable. But the bigger point the organization is trying to make is that Earth Day is more than just one day—it’s a way of life that protects our environment, which is more fragile and vulnerable than ever because of climate change.

There’s a lot we can do to live a lifestyle that’s more environmentally conscious. We can embrace the four Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle and recover. The first two Rs are key: if we reduce the amount of waste we generate as well as reuse as many resources and things as we can, then we’ll have less need to recycle items and recover energy from those things that can’t easily be recycled back to their original commodity. For example, consider buying items in bulk at the grocery store, to avoid throwing away unnecessary packaging.

If we reduce the

amount of waste we generate as

well as reuse as

many resources

and things as we

can, then we’ll have less need to recycle items and recover

Reuse by enjoying antiques, repairing furniture and choosing salvaged wood for flooring.

Recycle as much as possible of what isn’t used. Recover what’s unable to be recycled by composting kitchen waste or donating leftover food to those who need it. Maybe one day all our homes will be heated by renewable resources and powered by the sun, and all our cars will run on oil we’ve fried our fish and chips in!

According to a study by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, there’s no greener building than one that’s already built. So it is with great delight that we celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the Warner House in Portsmouth (page 90), the earliest Georgian-style building in New England. A large 1850s house in Beacon Hill that once belonged to a governor is now home to multiple families, including a New Hampshire couple who adore their four-hundred-square-foot weekend retreat there (page 38).

And if an old building has been retrofitted to be high performance and energy efficient, all the better. Two great examples are the adaptive reuse of a house that’s now home to Prime Roast Coffee Company in Keene (page 44) and one of the new buildings currently

energy from those

under way for Tamworth Distilling & Mercantile (page 58), which was built on the site of

easily be recycled.

Garland Mill Timberframes in Lancaster did when he designed and built a Passive House

things that can’t

the old Tamworth Inn. The next best thing is building with sustainability as a priority, as Ben Southworth of for his parents that actually generates more power than it uses (page 76). When Keenebased architect Dan Scully adds the solar panels he’s planning to his new, super-insulated studio at home, that building will be net-zero (page 52).

It’s easy to head in the right direction—our Favorite Finds (page 26) will help you think green!

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Left: A family retreat designed by Sheldon Pennoyer of Sheldon Pennoyer Architects in Concord, with landscape design by Gordon Hayward of Hayward Gardens in Putney, Vermont. Center: The main reading room of Ohrstrom Library at St. Paul’s School in Concord, designed by famed architect Robert A. M. Stern in New York City. Right: Bill and Judy Moran’s Alstead cottage, built from stone on the property and based on the design of Henry David Thoreau’s cabin near Walden Pond in Massachusetts.

Happy subjects

A special request about A Family Retreat in Touch with Its Surround- a special building ings [January/February 2017] is really wonderful. Thank you for this superb coverage of this refined project. You are so smart to be working with John W. Hession. He is the best when it comes to garden photography, and then there’s Jenny Donelan’s lucid and accurate text. Bravo to all of you.

—Gordon Hayward of Hayward Gardens in Putney, Vermont

Thank you for the interesting and informative article on the home in the Monadnock region [A Family Retreat in Touch with Its Surroundings, January/February 2017].

Nicely done!

—Dan Snow of Dan Snow Stoneworks in Dummerston, Vermont

I’m the son of Bill and Judy Moran from Alstead, who were the subjects of a wonderful article, Moved by History, in the March/April 2010 issue of New Hampshire Home. I have a bit of an odd request for you.

I am trying to obtain digital copies of the high-resolution photographs used in your piece that were taken by John W. Hession, as indicated in the article’s byline. Might that be something you could possibly help me with?

Unfortunately both Mom and Dad died from cancer (in 2012 and 2016, respectively), so I’m doing everything I can to gather images and details of their lives and work in Alstead, especially their last Thoreauinspired cottage effort, to record for future sharing with my and my brother’s children.

My parents’ home in Alstead is such a beautiful place and huge part of our family history—one we plan to continue for generations to come as a way to honor and celebrate my parents’ lives. In so many ways, my brother and I still consider Alstead and New Hampshire as our “home.”

I cannot express how pleased I am with your latest publication. To be included in your editorial content [Lighten Up!, January/February 2017] is a truly wonderful feeling. Writer Carrie Sherman did such a good job with her story; I am very impressed. And John W. Hession’s photography, it goes without saying, is superb. It —Todd Moran in Fort Collins, Colorado is all more than I expected, which seems to be a tradition with your magazine. You and Editor’s note: We are so sorry for your loss. your staff are consistently excellent and beyond expectations—not really a surprise, Bill and Judy Moran were extraordinary people who loved their Alstead home and but always appreciated.

—Derek Marshall of Derek Marshall the beautiful landscape surrounding it. It Sculptural Lighting in Sandwich was a pleasure and a privilege to work with them on our story for the magazine, and we are happy to help you with photographs.

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home your parents created, and we hope your families will continue enjoying it for many years to come.

Built by a starchitect

Thanks so much for your time and effort in sharing the beauty of Ohrstrom Library at St. Paul’s School [A New Library with a New Purpose, January/February 2017]. It’s a special place, beloved by many. We’ll be sure to share the story widely!

—Sarah Aldag, director of communications at St. Paul’s School in Concord

Thank you for your lovely and very kind article on our firm’s Ohrstrom Library at St. Paul’s School [A New Library with a New Purpose, January/February 2017]—it was much appreciated here.

—Peter Morris Dixon , director of external communications at Robert A. M. Stern Architects, LLP in New York City

Food for thought

I made the flounder dish from The Feast of the Seven Fishes story [November/ December 2016] to bring to a feast of the seven fishes dinner on Christmas Eve. Not only was the dish delicious—it was also pretty to look at.

—Wendy Wood, senior designer at McLean Communications in Manchester

We love hearing your thoughts about the stories we’ve published, and we’re always on the lookout for homes and gardens that might interest our readers. Write to us at Editor; New Hampshire Home; 150 Dow Street; Manchester, NH 03101; or e-mail editor@nhhomemagazine.com. We look forward to hearing from you! march/april 2017

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AWARDS

Celebrating excellence in residential design

Awards were given in ten categories at the 2017 New Hampshire Home Design Awards in January. The presentation took place at the Manchester Country Club—see page 68 for more about all the winners and honorable mentions.

Photography by Wendy Wood

Doug Dimes, of D. R. Dimes American Furniture in Northwood—the Design Award’s lead sponsor—displayed this bonnet-top secretary, along with other pieces of furniture made by the company, at the event.

Among the winners were front row, from left, Randy Trainor of C. Randolph Trainor Interiors in Franconia; Nicole McNeal, Rachel Smith and Lisa DeStefano of DeStefano Architects in Portsmouth; Craig Wentworth of Belknap Landscaping Company in Gilford; Janice Page of PKsurroundings in Exeter; and David Belletete of Belletetes, with locations throughout the state. Back row, from left, Daniel V. Scully of Scully Architects in Keene; Cynthia Clark of Cynthia Clark Interiors in Hampton; Jeremy Bonin of Bonin Architects in New London; and Hayden McLaughlin of Belknap Landscaping Company.

Sponsors included, front row, from left, Bill Golden and Andrea Mongeau of Ferguson in Manchester and Portsmouth; Mia Helminen of Seasonal Specialty Stores in Amherst; Ellie Melloy of Artistic Tile in Nashua; Eileen Caplan of Ferguson; Greg Rehm of Liberty Hill Construction in Bedford; Mike Troisi of Dead River Company in Manchester; and David Belletete of Belletetes. Back row, from left, Angela Turini of Ferguson; Fouad Mahfuz of PRG in Nashua; Carl and Diane Dubberly of Artistic Tile; Scott Johnston of Dead River Company; Keith Ledeau of Winchendon Furniture Company, Inc. in Amherst; and Cheryl Tufts of 3w Design in Concord.

Moving on

Architects, builders, designers and others (including New Hampshire Home editor Andi Axman, seventh from left in the back row, and photo editor John W. Hession, second from left in the front row) turned out to salute Carolyn Isaak (center, in red shawl) at Four Winds Farm in Peterborough in November.

Isaak retired after serving as executive director of the American Institute of Architect’s New Hampshire chapter for seventeen years. Bonnie Kastel is the new executive director.

Photography by John W. Hession

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Glass artists Shandra McLane (right) and Derek Marshall celebrated the February opening of Forecasting: Climate Change and Water Impact at the Museum of the White Mountains in Plymouth. McLane, whose studio is in Ashland, was one of the artists participating in the show; she was also featured in New Hampshire Home [Inspired by an Old Farmstead, January/February 2013]. Marshall, whose studio is in Sandwich, makes glass lights that were the subject of Lighten Up! In the magazine’s January/February 2017 issue. Photography by John W. Hession

Building green

New Hampshire Home editor Andi Axman (right) congratulated Steve McHenry (left) of McHenry Architecture in Portsmouth, for designing the Smuttynose Brewing Company in Hampton, a LEED Gold facility that hosted the New Hampshire chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council’s annual chapter meeting in December.

Photography by John W. Hession

Great views

Among those enjoying Concord painter Melissa Anne Miller’s (second from right) opening reception in November at McGowan Fine Art in Concord were, from the left, Bill Stelling, Bill Siroty and Bill Glahn. Miller’s show, called Clearing, included her lovely skyscapes and city views of Concord. Photography by John W. Hession

Award-winning architecture

Giving back at the holidays

Behind the success of the Exeter Area Holiday Home Tour in December were, back row from left, Renee Carman, Jaye Carr, Heather Nadeau and Robin Drunsic.

In the front row, from left were Carol Keating, Pam Oulundsen and New Hampshire Home contributor Debbie Kane (Teresa Toomey is missing from the photo).

The group sold a record-setting sixhundred-plus tickets and raised $30,000 for Womenade of Greater Squamscott.

Image courtesy of Grazier Photography

At the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New Hampshire chapter’s annual design awards presentation, New Hampshire Home photo editor John Hession (top photo, center) received an honorary AIANH membership for his outstanding work with the organization’s Environmental Guild, whose other members include architects Jay Purcell, of J.L, Purcell Architects in Peterborough (left) and David Ely, of Windy Hill Associates in New Boston (right). Sales associate Jessica Schooley (middle photo, left) and editor Andi Axman (center) represented New Hampshire Home, one of the event’s sponsors, and celebrated with interior designer Phyllis Stibler (right), founder of Stibler Associates in Bedford. Architect Patricia Sherman of Newbury (bottom photo, right) and Jay Purcell (left) presented former AIANH Executive Director Carolyn Isaak with the Clinton Sheerr Award for her outstanding work promoting architecture. top Photography courtesy of Valerie Michaud middle and bottom Photography by John W. Hession

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Sleep like a baby on a Naturepedic mattress handcrafted in the United States from organic cotton and wool. With the push of a button, the mattress transforms from firm to plush. Pottery Barn in Salem • (603) 893-7835 • www.potterybarn.com

Add a fragrant and decorative touch with 100 percent pure soy wax candles, which burn longer and cleaner than paraffin. Sweet Grass Farm in Greenland • (877) 540-3105

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Serve your salad in a bowl made in Vietnam from bamboo coiled and shaped by hand, and finished with a food-safe lacquer. Bambu • www.bambuhome.com

Enjoy furniture like this spalted maple table and benches made from sustainably harvested, native New Hampshire wood by Jay Legg. Legg’s Logs in Dorchester

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Home cooking with

mary ann esposito

From the Good Earth Supporting local farmers makes sense, and provides us with food that’s fresher and tastier.

E

verything we eat comes from the earth, and we are its stewards.

Whether you are a farmer, artisan

food maker or home vegetable gardener —or if you just want to eat healthy foods that are clean, sustainable and good—we should all strive for food in its purest form.

That is why the Slow Food movement was started in Bra, Italy, in 1986 by Ital-

ian food journalist Carlo Petrini, who brought awareness to what was happening to our food sources. That awareness has grown rapidly worldwide. Petrini’s message is timeless: demand real, pesticide-free and GMO (genetically modified organism)-free foods, and get back to the intrinsic value and integrity of growing foods as nature intended.

The rise of the Slow Food movement

Mary Ann Esposito at the Winter Farmers’ Market at Cole Gardens in Concord.

also catapulted farmers’ markets to a new nationwide level of public support. To me, this means consumers are educating themselves about food that is grown

In a recent visit to the weekly farmers’

with care, and that has not been geneti-

market at Cole Gardens in Concord, this

as consumers; the give and take infor-

cally modified or chemically treated.

connection between grower and con-

mation about these and many more

sumer was very strong as I met the arti-

foods—such as herbs, organic poultry,

to stand up to agribusinesses that ma-

san cheese and bread makers as well as

meats and even a clever microwaveable

nipulate our foods for the sake of profit.

the condiment makers with everything

popcorn in a non-chemically treated

We have the purse power to tighten the

from national prize-winning mustards

container—gives confidence that our

strings and boycott those businesses that

to a woman in her 70s making superb

support of farmers’ markets is critical,

practice bad food management; instead

Indian chutneys.

not only for their maintenance and

As consumers, we have all the power

we can support our local farmers.

The beautiful display of locally grown

Farmers’ markets keep us engaged

growth but also for the good of Mother

mushrooms from the New Hampshire

Earth. Every time I visit a farmers’ mar-

ing place for the exchange of ideas that

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ket, I am helping to keep our Mother

Your local farmers’ market is a gatherbenefit us all. Going to the source of

presented me with so many varieties of

Earth sustainable for the next generation

where our food comes from gives us a

mushrooms that my fellow shoppers

and am reminded of a powerful bum-

personal connection to food and farmer

started to talk with me about the many

per sticker message that aptly says, “No

like no supermarket ever could.

ways they could use them in cooking.

farms, no food.”

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Maple Syrup-Roasted Carrots and Parsnips

Ser v es 8

Maple syrup-roasted carrots and parsnips are so good that even kids will eat them without a struggle. Serve them alongside pork, chicken or beef.

6 medium-size carrots, trimmed, peeled and cut into 2-inch chunks 6 medium-size parsnips, trimmed, peeled and cut into 2-inch chunks 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 11/2 teaspoons salt 1/3 cup maple syrup 2 teaspoons fresh minced thyme 1. Preheat the oven to 375ยบF. Toss the carrots and parsnips together in a large bowl with the olive oil and salt. Place them on a rimmed baking sheet in a single layer (use two sheets if necessary) and bake for 15 minutes.

2. M eanwhile, heat the maple syrup in a small saucepan over low heat; add the thyme. Turn off the heat and allow to steep for 5 minutes.

3. Pour the maple syrup over the vegetables and brush them with a pastry brush. Continue roasting the vegetables, turning them occasionally until a knife is easily inserted and the vegetables look roasted. Serve hot.

Recipe courtesy of Mary Ann Esposito

Honey Mustard Dressing

M a k es a b o u t 1 cu p

Make a green salad come alive by shaking up this light, bright and sprite honey mustard dressing. One-half cup of the dressing is enough to toss with 4 cups washed and spun-dried greens. Refrigerate the rest for another time.

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1 teaspoon orange zest 2 teaspoons honey mustard 2 teaspoons honey 2 teaspoons water 1/2 teaspoon salt

1. Combine all ingredients in a jar and shake well. When ready to use, pour over salad greens in a bowl and toss well.

Recipe courtesy of Mary Ann Esposito

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Farm-Fresh Frittata

Ser v es 6

Farm-fresh eggs make quick and nutritious meals, including this frittata that is good enough for lunch or dinner.

2 medium-sized potatoes 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1 medium yellow onion, peeled and diced 5 large eggs 1 cup shredded fresh spinach 1/4 cup minced parsley 1/2 cup grated Pecorino cheese Fine sea salt, to taste Grinding black pepper Recipe from Ciao Italia Family Classics

1. Microwave or boil the potatoes until tender. Cool, peel and dice them.

2. Heat the olive oil over medium-high heat in a large, nonstick (12-inch) sautĂŠ pan. Stir in the onion and cook until soft. Add the potatoes and cook uncovered until the potatoes begin to brown slightly. Toss them now and then while they cook. If the pan seems dry, add more olive oil.

3. I n a separate bowl, beat the eggs with a fork until they are foamy. Add the spinach, parsley, cheese, salt and pepper. Pour the mixture evenly over the potato and onion. Cook until the underside is browned and the frittata moves in one piece when the pan is shaken. With a wooden spoon or spatula, push any raw egg mixture on the surface to the edge of the pan and lift up the frittata to allow the raw egg to run underneath the frittata. When the frittata is firm on the bottom, place a dish larger than the diameter of the pan over the top and invert the frittata onto the dish.

4. If the pan seems dry, add more oil. Carefully, push the frittata back into the pan to cook the other side. This should take about 3 minutes. Place a dish over the top of the pan again and invert it. Cut into wedges to serve hot, room temperature or even cold.

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Chicken Cutlets with Mushrooms and Marsala Ser v es 4 Chicken cutlets get a special flavor treatment when teamed with earthy mushrooms and Marsala wine in this quick-to-prepare dish.

4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided 2 medium shallots, minced 1 tablespoon capers in salt, rinsed 1 cup sliced oyster mushrooms 4 boneless 1/2-inch-thick chicken cutlets 1/2 cup flour Zest and juice of 1 large lemon 1 teaspoon salt 3 turns of the peppermill 4 tablespoons butter, divided 1/2 cup sweet Marsala wine (do not use cooking wine) 1. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a sautĂŠ pan over medium heat and cook the shallots until they soften. Stir in the capers and cook 1 minute longer. Transfer the mixture to a small dish.

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2. Add the remaining olive oil to the pan, and cook the mushrooms until they are soft and have rendered their liquid. Transfer them to the dish with the shallots and capers.

3. Cut the cutlets horizontally in half. Pour the flour into a plastic bag and add the lemon zest, salt and pepper. Add the cutlets, close the bag and shake to coat them in the flour.

Set aside.

4. Melt 3 tablespoons of the butter in the pan, add the cutlets and brown them on each side. Do not crowd the cutlets. As they brown, transfer them to a dish.

5. Stir in the remaining butter. Raise the heat to high. Stir in the wine and lemon juice, and scrape the bottom of the pan to get all the brown bits. Lower the heat and return the chicken, mushrooms and capers back to the pan and heat through. Serve hot.

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Grilled Cheese Sandwich

M a k es 2 s a n dw i ch es

When it comes to sandwiches, nothing tops the all-American grilled cheese. But for it to be really good, concentrate on the type of bread and cheese used.

Grilled cheese calls for a good country loaf with a tight crumb texture. The cheese should be a good melting variety, such as Swiss or fontina. If you are using harder cheeses, they will melt faster if you grate the cheese before topping the bread. And don’t forget to butter the outside of the bread slices as well as the inside for a nice first bite crunch.

4 slices whole-grain bread or bread of your choice 4 tablespoons butter (or more, if needed), softened 11/2 cups grated Swiss cheese, divided 1 apple, thinly sliced into rounds Recipe courtesy of Mary Ann Esposito

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1. Brush 2 slices of bread with some of the butter, and cover each slice with ½ cup of the cheese. Place two apple slices over the cheese. Sprinkle the remaining cheese over the apple slices. Brush the remaining 2 slices of bread with some of the butter and place on top of the cheese, buttered side up.

2. Heat a panini maker on the grill settling. Brush the outside of each sandwich with some of the butter and place on the grill. Close grill top and cook until the cheese begins to melt. Turn and brush the other side with butter. Close top and cook 1–2 minutes longer. Serve warm.

To make in a skillet: Heat a nonstick frying pan large enough to hold 2 sandwiches over medium-high heat. Press on the sandwiches with a wide-face, metal spatula. When the bread begins to brown on the underside, turn it over, brush with the remaining butter and cook until the cheese begins to melt. Serve warm. march/april 2017

Winter and Spring Farmers’ Markets Fortunately, you don’t have to wait until summer to enjoy fresh, locally grown produce in New Hampshire. That’s because many towns throughout the state host year-round farmers’ markets where you can buy fresh greens, local meat and other specialty foods made here. For more information on which farmers’ markets are open in March and April along with what they sell, visit the NH Winter Farmers’ Market page at www.agriculture.nh.gov.

Resources

Blackwater Mustard (603) 746-2349 www.blackwatermustardco.com

Canterbury Bread Shop (603) 783-5051 canterburybreadshop@gmail.com Cascade Brook Farm (603) 496-7470 www.cascadebrookfarm.com Cole Gardens (603) 229-0655 www.colegardens.com

New Hampshire Mushroom Company (603) 323-0097 • www.nhmushrooms.com

Mary Ann Esposito (left) talks with Cindy Canane at the Winter Farmers’ Market at Cole Gardens in Concord. With her husband Ed, Cindy owns and operates Cascade Brook Farm in North Sutton and New London, which produces U.S. Department of Agriculture–certified, 100 percent grass-fed Angus beef that’s free from antibiotics, hormones, pesticides and herbicides. In 2013, Cascade Brook received the Farm of Distinction award from the New Hampshire Department of Agriculture.

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transformation

Skip and Debbie Windemiller’s condo in Boston is an opulent escape. Its lavish design is inspired by a portrait, over the marble fireplace, of Dutch painter Peter Paul Rubens by an unknown artist.

An Elegant Pied-à-Terre A short walk

from Boston’s

theater district,

S

kip and Debbie Windemiller know how

they discovered is in historic Beacon Hill,

to live large in a small space.

on the first floor of an 1850s home built for

The couple—busy owners of D.W.’s

a former Massachusetts governor and his

Oceanside Inn and Oceanside Real Estate in

family. The building—steps from the theater

Hampton Beach—first started looking for a

district, restaurants and Boston Common—

weekend retreat a few years ago. “We don’t

was among the neighborhood’s first con-

in an historic

have time to take long vacations,” Skip says.

dominium conversions. The condominium

“We work seven days a week.”

itself needed a complete redo. Despite its

New Hampshire

vorite destinations: Boston, a quick, forty-five-

the same day they saw it. They brought in

minute drive from the Seacoast. Initially, they

longtime friend and collaborator William

wanted parking access and room for guests.

Soupcoff of TMS Architects in Portsmouth,

“We ended up with neither,” Skip muses.

to transform the small space into a cozy,

a tiny condo

home is now a

couple’s weekend getaway.

They focused their efforts in one of their fa-

The four-hundred-square-foot pied-à-terre

condition, the Windemillers made an offer

luxurious weekend getaway.

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The room’s black and gold wallpaper and mahogany window blinds are from Wicked Awesome Wallpaper and Paint in Hampton.

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transformation

Maximizing space

the condo renovation, the couple acted

bathroom, Skip needed a local plumber

The small space, with old windows fac-

as general contractors and decorators,

who was small enough to crawl into a

ing the street, originally encompassed

implementing Soupcoff’s vision but

space above the ceiling to do the work.

one room with a bathroom. Its floors

adding their own unique design. “Skip

Old walls were ripped out and replaced;

were rotted and the small kitchen area,

has a wonderful eclectic style, contem-

ceiling, window and door molding was

located in a corner, dated to the 1950s.

porary but with traditional elements,”

fixed and repainted. Ornate original

Soupcoff says. “He’s extraordinarily

doorknobs and keyholes were acciden-

resourceful.”

tally painted over during this renova-

Soupcoff’s challenge was maximizing the space. “The space is very small, so Skip and Debbie wanted to make

Everything about finishing the space

tion, and then had to be scraped and

it as appealing as possible,” he says.

was challenging, Skip says, from secur-

repainted. Even the marble fireplace,

“Every inch had to be used effectively

ing approvals for new windows through

also painted over, had to be scraped and

to get the most out of it.” He’s worked

the local historic district commission,

restored to its original luster.

with the Windemillers before, on both

to installing new plumbing and electri-

residential and commercial projects. For

cal wiring. To re-route plumbing in the

The finished residence combines cozy elegance with contemporary convenience. Each living space is delineated by different flooring: refinished quarter-sawn, original oak floors in the main living room; marble tile in the bathroom; and wood flooring in the kitchen. Soupcoff designed a galleystyle contemporary kitchen, incorporating it into the existing space. An entryway distinguished by a carved wooden arch separates the kitchen from the living area. There’s just enough room for compact appliances and granitetopped counters. Deep, European-style, mahogany veneer cabinetry provides additional storage.

The Windemillers’ residence is the only one in their building without a separate bedroom. Soupcoff cleverly solved that problem by designing a Murphy bed, which conveniently folds up and down into a custom-designed wall unit. A small dining area was created by placing a table and chairs in the front of the room, between two large windows overlooking the street. “We used the space in multiple ways and designed furniture to accommodate the bed,” Soupcoff says.

Skip took advantage of the residence’s twelve-foot ceilings when renovating the bathroom, which is all limestone and marble. To create a sense of space, he installed a pyramid-shaped ceiling

William Soupcoff of TMS Architects in Portsmouth maximized the condominium’s living space by designing a custom-built Murphy bed. The bed is easily stored when not in use (top photo); bedding is from Bloomingdale’s (bottom photo).

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transformation

Inspired by art The residence’s elegant furnishings and accessories were inspired by a large painting Skip purchased in New Orleans, a portrait of Dutch painter Peter Paul Rubens in his studio by an unknown artist who was possibly one of his students. “I was going to hang it in our inn, but it looks wonderful in the condo,” he says. The painting, now hanging over the fireplace, is the room’s focal point. Colors in the painting are echoed by black and gold wallpaper, a black ceiling, and glossy black crown molding. Sumptuous silk drapes frame the windows; mahogany blinds ensure privacy. Antique furnishings and accents, juxtaposed with the modern kitchen and bath, help make the whole space appear larger. “The layering of textures, colors and materials is the most interesting aspect of the space,” Soupcoff says.

The Windemillers try to escape to their Boston retreat at least once a week. It has everything they could want—comfort, privacy and convenience. All this is proof that living large doesn’t require a lot of room.

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Resources

American Standard www.americanstandard-us.com

Bloomingdale’s www.bloomingdales.com Doris Rice Watercolor (603) 964-9254 www.dorisrice.com D.W.’s Oceanside Inn (603) 926-3542 www.oceansideinn.com

Exeter Handkerchief Factory (603) 778-8564 www.fabricandfurniture.com Historic Window & Door (603) 835-2918

Linda Cloutier Kitchens & Baths (603) 964-2959 www.lindacloutier.com Neff Kitchens, Ltd. (905) 791-7770 www.neffkitchens.com Parsons Electric (603) 926-2923 www.parsonselectricnh.com TMS Architects (603) 436-4274 www.tms-architects.com

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The bathroom (top) and kitchen (bottom) strike a contemporary note. The Tiffany-style light fixture in the bath is from the shop at D.W.’s Oceanside Inn, owned by the Windemillers; the sink is by American Standard. Kitchen cabinetry is from Neff Kitchens, Ltd.; artwork on the far kitchen wall is by North Hampton artist Doris Rice. march/april 2017

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Built in the 1840s as a mill manager’s house, this building sat abandoned until 2014, when Judy Rogers bought it and turned it into a roastery for her business, Prime Roast Coffee Company. Her goal of making the roastery green and sustainable started with the adaptive reuse of the building itself.

Repurposing an Old House A brick building in Keene is

transformed

into an energyefficient coffee roastery.

building many times in the years she’s

J

to, places that you put yourself in when

lived in Keene. It sat on a small bit of land

thinking about your life’s dream,” Rogers

house, the building had become a vacant

ing coffee. Her business—Prime Roast Coffee

remnant of the city’s industrial past.

Company, which begun in 1993—had out-

udy Rogers had driven by the old brick

right on Route 101, bordered by a busy intersection. Built in the 1840s as a mill manager’s

The years had taken a toll on the building.

“There are buildings that people are drawn

says. ”This is one of them.”

Her dream? To use the building for roast-

grown its retail space on Keene’s Main Street.

Most evident was an outside wall that was

More storage was needed. Plus, Rogers wanted

crumbling. Rogers describes it as “a wreck, a

to separate the roasting from her trendy café

tear-down,” but there was something about the

to provide a more peaceful environment.

building that intrigued her enough to buy it.

“Our production is up to five thousand

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pounds of coffee a month,” she says.

ing of the structure itself was a large

“Coffee roasting equipment is loud,

first step. “I wanted this project to be

and we roast every day.”

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Above: Prime Roast Coffee Company roasts up to five thousand pounds of coffee beans each month.

Right: A crumbling masonry wall was replaced by a wall of glass with black-clad, energy-efficient windows and doors.

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the viewing of the coffee roasting process from the outside and bi-folds to become the loading dock entrance.

To accommodate the size and weight of the new coffee roaster, the stone cellar was eliminated and an insulated concrete slab installed. “The finished floor height was lowered to nhhomemagazine.com

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The second floor of the roastery is used for office and storage space. The brickwork of the original chimney provides an additional design element.

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provide ample clearance for the roasting equipment,” Petrovick says.

That roasting equipment, a Loring Smart Roast, is cutting-edge technology in the coffee-roasting business.

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Creating the look The concrete floor that holds the roaster, bags of green coffee and the wholesale order fulfillment area is painted in a warm tone (“like coffee splatter,” Rogers says) and the newly sheetrocked walls are painted white (“to keep the space bright and welcoming,” Rogers says).

Acting as her own interior designer, Rogers left the original brick fireplaces and chimneys exposed to maintain the building’s historic ambience.

Also exposed is the new steel support beam in the high ceiling.

The industrial-inspired staircase to the second floor—which houses an office and secondary storage space— is also steel, with treads made from wood reclaimed from the building’s joists; the railings are metal pipe. It is Rogers’s design, and the work of two local artisans: welder Troy Tucker of Tucker’s Metal Fabrication & Welding

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Continuing the industrial look are the black-clad, energy-efficient Marvin casement windows and doors. On the exterior, above the glass wall, is a black steel canopy. To the left of it is the sign: Brick House Roastery.

But there is another sign that was an important design element to Rogers. It’s called a “ghost sign,” reminiscent of long-ago signs that were

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past each day, and [because the roastery is not open to the public] discouraged people from entering the property at this very busy intersection without being negative,” Rogers says.

Instead, the ghost sign—made in collaboration with Peter Poanessa of Keene Signworx in Swanzey—directs drivers to the Prime Roast Coffee Company café on Main Street in downtown Keene.

The sign says: “Welcome to Keene, NH; Great Town, Great Coffee; Coffee Shop, 16 Main St.”

Green value The passing traffic can hardly be heard inside the roastery because the interior walls are so well insulated. This also makes the building better able to hold

Prime Roast Coffee Company owner Judy Rogers (right) with architect Michael Petrovick, of Catlin + Petrovick PC in Keene.

Rogers, who acted as her own interior designer, had the concrete floor painted in a warm tone, “like coffee splatter,” she says.

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The stamp for Prime Roast Coffee Company is used on bags of coffee—some are on the countertop on the facing page.

the radiant heat of the super-efficient gas boiler. Add in the fact that the

home addition outside

building’s lighting is 95 percent LED,

home addition inside

and you get what Rogers says are “very low operating costs.”

The low operating costs eventually will offset the higher cost of renovating the old building, but the value of building green goes far beyond money. As Petrovick says, “The green movement has been the catalyst to make us think about every aspect of buildings, and how we can make them better places to work, live and play while minimizing their negative impact on the environment.”

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inspiration

A dynamic roof over a 1950 Ford pickup truck announces Daniel Scully’s studio in the woods. Although he has always raced Volvos, the early Swedish rally cars that first caught his attention as a teenager in Greece had voluptuous fenders not unlike those on this Ford.

A Studio of One’s Own Architect Daniel Scully’s one-ofa-kind atelier

at home was cited for Excellence in Specialty Room

Design at the 2017

New Hampshire Home

Design Awards in January.

D

aniel Scully’s writing lodge is the

Given Scully’s love of the automobile,

latest structure on the Dublin

one might argue that he should have settled

compound where the architect both

in Southern California. Yet, he deliberately

resides and prepares his vintage Volvo race-

chose to anchor his career in New Hamp-

cars. This twenty-by-twenty-four-foot shed

shire, where his fertile imagination found a

is no less personal than his Temple to the

hold in the rocky soil. Scully is at once the

Gods of Speed (another building nearby). The

most eccentric and the most thoughtful of

garage—complete with its piston-columns

designers; this deceptively simple, yet intel-

formed with fifty-five-gallon oil drums and

lectually complex outbuilding represents

a Doric entablature with license plates in

a distillation of decades of practice in the

the frieze—complements his house with a

Monadnock Region.

kitchen shaped like the proboscis of a Pontiac

The writing shed serves as a place for

Chieftain. It is also the latest jewel in what is

Scully, whose architectural practice is based

arguably the richest collection of architectur-

in Keene, to work on his memoirs and cata-

al landmarks in any New Hampshire town.

logue the drawings, paintings and sketches

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Architect Daniel Scully stands next to the studio-wide drafting table lit by a wall of windows that looks out on forest and pond. The industrial aesthetic of the exposed vertical I-beam is echoed by similar supports under the wheels of the car.

that contributed to his unique Ameri-

tect Le Corbusier’s cabanon overlooking

can voice. It is a contemplative place

the Mediterranean.

for the ironic and polymathic Yale-

Scully’s essay harks back to an even

What an architect builds for himself is most revealing of their inner thoughts and worldview (think Thomas

trained artist. A steel entrance pavilion

older tradition. The seemingly humble

Jefferson’s Monticello). As Howard

that serves as the platform for a piece of

cube is a respectful nod to the Ratio-

Mansfield wrote in Free Rein, a portrait

automotive sculpture contrarily intro-

nalism of the Enlightenment. More

of the architect in the January/February

duces the utilitarian shed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau than Thoreau,

2014 issue of New Hampshire Home, Scul-

the idea is an homage to the primitive

ly’s philosophy is a “romance with cars

Space for himself

hut—man’s earliest temple—and by

and roads.” His house is a combination

This studio is not just a cabin in the

extension, the very essence of architec-

of a Shingle-style summer cottage and

woods. It is more than a predictable

ture. Or, this shack can be understood

an auto parts museum.

tribute to Henry David Thoreau’s ten-

as a garden folly, an eye-catcher that

by-fifteen-foot wee house at Walden

acts as punctuation in a pastoral poem.

historical knowledge. But it also defers

Pond. The Dublin structure recalls

Such work of art is harder to design

to the Yankee aesthetic of utility and

some iconic writing shacks, like the

than, say, a tool shed. As in a lot of his

thrift. Much of this designer’s work

poets Dylan Thomas’ boathouse in

work, Scully applies the original prin-

may echo the movement of cars and

Laugharne, Wales, or Robinson Jeffers’

ciple of the Picturesque: his building

trains, but this idyllic shack is more

stone castle overlooking the sea in

is less about its own intrinsic qualities

at rest. The almost vanilla-plain box

Carmel, California. It is closest in size

than it is about our response to the

of the writing studio is in contrast to

and intention to mythic modern archi-

associations it evokes.

the space frame entrance. This has the

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inspiration

A deeply recessed entrance doorway focuses the eye on the bullet nose of the classically simple Cooper racer. The faux slate roofing material surrounding the door gives the building the visual permanence of stone.

same height, profile, alignment and

ago. The truck announces the building’s

actually plastic roof tiles manufactured

roof material, although its delta-wing

whimsical seriousness.

to look like slate. The roof itself, how-

roof creates a dynamism absent in the

The uncluttered cubic quality of the

ever, is made of heavy-duty corrugated

studio. Beneath this shelter is parked

archives’ exterior is part illusion—as

steel decking usually employed with

a 1950 Ford pickup that the architect

at first glance, the walls appear to be

concrete flooring. Despite the designer-

bought for $25 almost half a century

constructed of stone but the material is

patron’s obsession with vehicles that

Despite the presence of the car, the studio is a serious work zone, complete with archival space for the record of a life’s work.

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inspiration

The new writing studio is but one of several “temples” that form architect Daniel Scully’s Dublin compound. To the left, we see the corner of the main garage, with its giant piston column and license plate frieze above.

have a predestined rendezvous with rust,

water—a sort of Nordic mural—there is

the building is about sustainability. The

a twenty-foot-long drafting table. Along

walls are sprayed with a super-insulated

the sides are extensive metal shelving

practical layers, a Daniel Scully work

foam, and when photovoltaic collectors

and two worktables.

of architecture requires interpretation

are added, the building will be net zero.

Personal touches

workings of the Maserati.

Given its myriad historical and

Like Le Corbusier’s own cabin,

on the part of the viewer. The archive

the interior finish is intentionally

does make reference to several threads

no-nonsense plywood. Above the

of intellectual inquiry. But most of all,

One enters the shed to confront a For-

vertical files on the east wall is an

it reads as basic shelter, a cozy cabin

mula 3 racing car suspended from the

interpretation of a Maserati V8 engine,

to which an introspective artist can

studio’s ridgepole. With its egg-shaped

painted by Scully in 1968. On the

retreat.

aluminum body, the 1957 Cooper

opposite wall is a print of Giambattista

hovers above the flat files that form the

Nolli’s 1748 Map of Rome, where the

heart of the archive. Beneath a strip of

River Tiber, street system and intricate

windows that frame a view of forest and

neighborhoods mirror the internal

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Visitors at Tamworth Distilling & Mercantile can enjoy a flight of samples at the tasting bar, learn about craft distillation, and shop for bar tools and mixers to create cocktails at home. Here Jamie Oakes, Morgen Belluscio, Meghan Moody, David Grasse and Matt Power take a moment to savor their very first aged release, a straight rye whiskey.

Spirit Quest A craft distillery

in Tamworth sets

the standard and pioneers new tastes.

S

pring in New Hampshire calls for

Rum and Narragansett Beer. Having achieved

something seriously tonic. At Tamworth

this success and given his deep abiding inter-

Distilling & Mercantile’s tasting bar in

est in Colonial America and Transcendental-

Tamworth, you can sip and very likely find a

ism, Steven wanted to try craft distilling in a

spirit that sings your tune.

new way, from the ground up.

Opened in the spring of 2014, Tamworth Distilling is the brainchild of visionary Steven

Local flavors

Grasse, owner of Quaker City Mercantile, a

When it comes to distilling, water quality is

marketing firm in Philadelphia. Billing him-

everything. Steven, who summered in Mer-

self as a “renaissance brand maker,” Steven

edith as a kid, was drawn to Tamworth for its

has promoted worldwide brands such as Hen-

exceptional water drawn from the Ossipee

drick’s Gin, Art in the Age, Sailor Jerry Spiced

aquifer. As Steven puts it, “You can’t frack in

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granite.” Tamworth’s strong New Eng-

even sells a do-it-yourself base alcohol,

four years to age. “We have about seven

land culture was yet another draw.

The Good Reverend’s Universal Spirit

thousand gallons aging in our bar-

(RUS), for those customers who want

relhouse now,” David says. “But we’re

building near the center of town, the

to try their hand at their own spirit

pretty excited about our newly released

distillery is built on the site of the for-

infusions.

Camp Robber Whiskey, a sixteen-

Housed in a sturdy, new, sage-green

mer Tamworth Inn. Next door is a new,

At the tasting bar, Director of Opera-

month bourbon made from organic

handsome, dark red Victorian building

tions David Grasse, Steven’s brother,

corn and rye. It’s combined with apple

that repurposes dramatic architectural

pours a small glass of Apiary Gin, one

brandy and fresh apple cider. Our cider

features from the old inn; there are

of their bestsellers.

comes from Carter Hill Orchard in

plans to transform it into a farm-totable restaurant.

The distillery features a central,

It’s all heart, as a true distiller might say, and smooth from the get go.

I take a sip: “Wow.”

Concord. We think it will present a new interest in brandies. It’s like the next step from bourbons and whiskies.”

square tasting bar to showcase their

David smiles and says: “We’re well

dozen or so brands. Customers can

known for our seasonal gins. This is our

Local talent

sip, visit, muse on one taste and then

summer gin made with local honey,

Close by are distillers Jamie Oakes and

another. Handsome bottles with beauti-

balsam poplar buds and pine rosin.

Matt Power. They grew up in the area,

ful labels and recipe cards are displayed

Our Flora Gin is made with juniper and

then left to study and pursue careers.

around the room along with Steven’s

local flowers. We also have a fall Wild

When presented with opportunities

recent book, Colonial Spirits: A Toast to

Hops Gin and a winter Spruce Gin.”

to help create a unique craft distillery,

At the moment, most of Tamworth

explores Colonial drinking habits, reci-

Distilling’s products are unaged, since

pes, remedies and tonics. The distillery

whiskies require anywhere from two to

they both chose to return.

Oakes, with support from Tamworth Distilling, studied at Moonshine Uni-

photography courtesy of breanne furlong

Our Drunken History, which irreverently

Right on the main street, the distillery’s address is 15 Cleveland Hill Road in Tamworth. www.nhhomemagazine.com

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versity in Louisville, Kentucky. It seems

one has a brandy helmet, whiskey col-

experts. And, of course, contributing

that all things whiskey originate in

umn, gin basket and rectifying column.

to recipes. Like any kind of cookery,

Kentucky. Anyone who drinks whis-

Oakes commenting on the Vendome’s

good, fresh ingredients make all the

key certainly likes a Kentucky brand

versatility, says, “It’s like a Swiss army

difference.

or two. The white-oak barrels that by

knife.”

law whiskey must age in are manufac-

Oakes has been instrumental in

Power, an organic chemist, was immediately at home creating spirits. The

tured in Kentucky, as is the distillery’s

sourcing and creatively identifying local

distillery is really a big laboratory with

custom-built Vendome, the huge cop-

ingredients, reaching out to local grow-

its manufacturing equipment, smaller

per “kettle” used by craft distillers. This

ers and UNH Cooperative Extension

lab facility and test kitchen where he and the team can further finetune and create their recipes. He likens the process to musical composition, adding tones and notes of flavors. Since the distillery is a craft distillery, Power has the luxury of working with the best of the “spirit run,” which is when flavors are added to the alcohol. The beginning of the spirit run is known as the head, and the end is known as the tail. Both the head and tail can have a rougher taste. It’s the middle of the spirit run— known as the heart—that’s smooth and warming.

“We’re well known for our cold infusion of vodkas and cordials,” David says. “We have a chamomilethyme-infused flavored vodka; a sweet potato-infused flavored vodka; a black trumpet, blueberry cordial; and a tamarind cordial. For our chicoryinfused flavored vodka and beet-infused flavored vodka some of the ingredients are grown onsite.”

A few more sips. This time some Tamarind Cordial. It’s a “liquid modifier” as a mixologist might say and pairs well with tequila.

Sourcing ingredients Whenever possible, the team sources ingredients locally, defined as a 150mile radius. Honey and maple syrup are produced just down the road. Wild cranberries were foraged from a local bog. Beets came from White Gates Farm in Tamworth, and thyme from Mountain Heartbeet, LLC in Effingham.

Above: Matt Power checks the purity of his distillate.

Top: Lemon verbena, chamomile, lavender and coriander are just some of the herbs grown on site and used to flavor the spirits.

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photography courtesy of breanne furlong

Right: In the distillery proper, Matt Power presses infused fruit for a blueberry black trumpet cordial.

Above: About 150 barrels of aged spirits—including whiskey, botanical gin and apple brandy—currently reside in the barrel house, which was part of the original Tamworth Inn. Below: Distiller Jamie Oakes is “thieving” whiskey from an American white oak barrel to test the maturing spirit.

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field, Maine. With recommendations from UNH Cooperative Extension, the distillery found sweet potato varieties for northern climates. For balsam poplar buds, a Coos County extension forester guided the distillery to accessible stands. And for small fruits and berries, a Carroll County extension expert put the distillery in touch with a hobbyist, who has fifty varieties of apple trees, and a researcher working with Siberian kiwi fruit.

Grains, essential to whiskey, present more of a conundrum. At the distillery, fresh grains are milled onsite. However, most New Hampshire farmers haven’t grown grains for generations. But that may change.

Recently in Coos County, farmers working with Cooperative Extension have successfully grown triticale, a wheat and rye hybrid.

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Lulu Henle pours samples for Tom Belluscio and Emmaline Ashe, while John and Linda Smith from Mission Viejo, California, peruse the selection.

Mix It Up! photographs of cocktails courtesy of breanne furlong

Here are some of Tamworth Distilling’s favorite cocktails made from their spirits.

Berry Basil Gimlet

Ser v es 1

½ ounce honey 3 fresh basil leaves ½ ounce fresh lime juice Ice 1 ounce gin 2 ounces AITA Black Trumpet Blueberry 1. Muddle honey, 2 basil leaves and lime juice in cocktail shaker.

2. Add ice, gin and AITA Black Trumpet Blueberry, and shake. Strain into a chilled coupe glass, and garnish with a basil leaf.

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Mountain Mule

Ser v es 1

2 ounces White Mountain Vodka ½ ounce fresh lime juice Crushed ice 4–6 ounces ginger beer Lime wedge, for garnish

Pear Gin Fizz

Ser v es 1

8 or more fresh blueberries 1½ ounces Apiary Gin Ice 3 ounces pear soda

1. Pour White Mountain Vodka and lime juice into copper mug with ice.

1. Muddle 5 blueberries and Apiary Gin in a mixing glass. Add ice, stir, and strain in a chilled glass.

2. Top with cold ginger beer and stir.

Garnish with a lime wedge.

2. Top with pear soda and garnish with 3, or more, fresh blueberries.

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Top left: The tasting bar line up. Right: Custom-built in Louisville, Kentucky, the 250-gallon Vendome copper still sports a brandy helmet.

Bottom left: The distillery’s showroom caters to a wide range of tastes.

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according the American Craft Spirits

any of the eighty New Hampshire

Association.

Liquor & Wine Outlets. Of the seven-

In a few short years, Tamworth Dis-

teen alcohol beverage control (ABC)

tilling’s vodkas have routinely won top

states in the country, New Hampshire is

awards from the American Distilling

ranked third for bourbon sales, accord-

Institute and the San Francisco World

ing to the Breaking Bourbon website.

Spirits Competition. Between ten thou-

So, with outlets’ patrons accustomed

sand and twelve thousand people vis-

to buying the best, once Tamworth

ited the distillery in just the first year.

Distilling’s spirits come of age, they’ll

Even English gin makers have come to

compete with titans.

visit. At the fourth Distiller’s Showcase

Staying true to Steven’s philosophy,

held last fall in Manchester, more than

soon after the distillery got under way,

four hundred spirits were represented.

Tamworth Distilling took measures to

Tamworth Distilling is offering a

protect that precious water resource and

pairing dinner at the Wolfeboro Inn on

implemented a thirty-thousand-gallon

March 5. On March 26, there is a Taste

cistern to chill the equipment. After

of the Lakes Region tasting at Church

the cistern was installed, the distill-

Landing at Mill Falls in Meredith, and

ery’s usage went from between three

another tasting at the White Mountain

thousand and four thousand gallons a

Hotel in North Conway on March 31.

day to just six hundred gallons a day,

Tamworth Distilling brands are avail-

the equivalent of a six-bedroom house.

able onsite; in select outlets in Boston,

David notes, “We’re very proud of that

New York City and Philadelphia; and at

accomplishment.”

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Resources Breaking Bourbon www.breakingbourbon.com

Burke Hill Farms (207) 460-6215

Carroll County Extension (603) 447-3834 www.extension.unh.edu/Carroll-County Carter Hill Orchard (603) 225-2625 www.carterhillapples.com

Church Landing at Mill Falls (603) 279-7006 www.millfalls.com

Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History Steven Grasse. Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2016 Coos County Extension (603) 788-4961 www.extension.unh.edu/Coos-County Mountain Heartbeet, LLC www.mountainheartbeet.com

New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlets (603) 230-7015 • www.liquorandwineoutlets.com

Tamworth Distilling & Mercantile (603) 323-7196 www.tamworthdistilling.com UNH Cooperative Extension (603) 862-1520 www.extension.unh.edu UNH Department of Biological Sciences (603) 862-1453 • www.colsa.unh.edu/dbs White Gates Farm (603) 662-7538 www.whitegates-farm.com

White Mountain Hotel (603) 533-6301 www.whitemountainhotel.com

Wolfeboro Inn (603) 569-3016 • www.wolfeboroinn.com Young Maple Ridge Sugarhouse (603) 662-9934 www.youngmapleridgesugarhouse.com

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and the

Winners are…

New Hampshire Home recognized designers across the state

at its annual awards gala in January.

I’m happy to report some wonderful news: There appears to be no end to the variety of inspired and interesting work being done by the talented design community in New Hampshire.

This year, for the magazine’s fourth annual design competition, we received seventy-two submissions for ten categories of awards. What a pleasure to discover all these wonderful projects from designers throughout the state!

To determine the winners and honorable mentions, we assembled a jury of three out-of-state professionals—a talented group from Maine consisting of an architect, an interior designer and a landscape architect. See the sidebar to the left to learn more about them.

To ensure that the judges’ decisions are unbiased, we sent all submissions to them blind; we removed all information regarding who had submitted the project and where it is located.

Our goal is for the judges’ decisions to be objective, since their thoughts are the sole basis for the awards. And this is another reason we choose a jury from out of state.

Winners were announced January 25 at the Manchester Country Club in Bedford, where author Howard Mansfield—who writes about architecture, history and preservation (he’s also this issue’s “At Home in New Hampshire” essayist; see page 112)—served as master of ceremonies. For those of you who couldn’t make it to the event, awards were given to designers in the following categories.

—Andi Axman

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Architect Jesse Thompson of Kaplan Thompson Architects in Portland, Maine

Jesse Thompson is a Maine-licensed architect (NCARB), a board member of Maine chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), a LEED accredited professional, a partner at Kaplan Thompson Architects and the first architect in Northern New England to become a certified Passive House consultant. He grew up in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and lives in the Deering Center neighborhood of Portland, Maine, with his family. He received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Oregon in 1996.

Interior designer Tracy A. Davis of Urban Dwellings in Portland, Maine

Founded by Tracy A. Davis in 2005, Urban Dwellings provides a complete range of design services for luxury primary and secondary residences, boutique hotels and restaurants; one unusual project involved transforming a Maine lighthouse. In 2014, Urban Dwellings was named one of the country’s top one hundred interior design firms by Design Bureau Magazine. Davis is an active member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and has lectured at various East Coast universities.

Landscape architect Jeff Pelletier of Michael Boucher Landscape Architecture in Freeport, Maine

Jeff Pelletier earned his master of landscape architecture degree at Cornell University, and brings a broad array of experiences from business and teaching to Michael Boucher Landscape Architecture. He has worked at the firm since 2003, where he coordinates many projects and oversees other project managers in all phases of work. The firm has completed projects and competitions throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South America and Asia.

Current projects are under way in California, Colorado, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia as well as in China and on St. Barthelemy Island.

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AWARDS

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Awa r d s po n s o r e d by l i b e rt y H i l l co n str u c ti o n

Home of the Year Winner: South End Revival

Lisa DeStefano of DeStefano Architects in Portsmouth (603) 431-8701 • www.destefanoarchitects.com

Photography courtesy of Greg West

An active family moved to this Greek Revival-style home with a sizable back yard in an historic neighborhood, which allowed for better connectivity to schools and the downtown. However, the 1920s style of the interior spaces did not suit the needs of a growing family—an addition and renovation were mandatory.

The historic neighborhood enforced strict expansion rules, so renovation began with the demolition of a poorly insulated addition to the rear of the house.

Keeping the existing footprint, the rebuilt addition now includes a three-quarter bathroom and a relocated mudroom with bright, cheery accents. The former mudroom is now a dining room that seats twelve and is flooded with natural light. Second-floor modifications include a reworked master bedroom with a conjoining deck that makes better use of the space.

To the rear of the house, a deck with a carport was added, which improves connectivity between firstfloor living areas and outside spaces. The deck also provides beautiful panoramic views of the Mill Pond in Portsmouth.

Judges said: This project got our unanimous vote for favorite project of the year. It shows a careful and creative transformation of a faded classic house with good bones into an elegant, light-filled and spacious home. We like the great use of harmonious materials, thoughtful detailing and well-selected furnishings.

Well done!

honorable mention : Bristol Woods Residence Scott Fiorentino of Fiorentino Group Architects in Portsmouth (603) 373-8562 • www.fiorentinogroup.com

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Photography courtesy of Rob Karosis

Nestled within a secluded wooded lot, the homeowners wanted the interior and exterior spaces to have a direct connection, and for the outdoor spaces and landscape design to incorporate the existing ledge outcroppings, mature oak trees and wooded views. On the inside, reclaimed pine timbers from nineteenthcentury mill buildings were used for the ceiling, while interior walls were built with reclaimed bricks from New York City buildings. SIP roof panels, geothermal radiant heating and cooling, and photovoltaic solar panels were integrated into the building envelope to minimize the use of fossil fuels.

Judges said: The house appears to sit comfortably within its site. We also like the rich use of materials and generous openings to the broader landscape.

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excellence in Architectural Design Winner: Lake Sunapee Shingle-Style Jeremy Bonin of Bonin Architects & Associates, PLLC in New London (603) 526-6200 • www.boninarchitects.com

Photography courtesy of Jeremy Bonin

With fantastic views of the Mount Sunapee slopes, this lakeside home was designed as a primary residence for an active young family whose members enjoy skiing and lake activities. Located on Lake Sunapee, this home has an existing boathouse— a treasure the family plans to restore in the near future.

Judges said: The lovely exterior detailing is highlighted by the curved dormer balcony. The cedar shingles and painted trim harmonize with the incredible surroundings and views.

honorable mention : Woodland Meadow Home

Ward D’Elia of Samyn-D’Elia Architects, PA in Ashland (603) 968-7133 • www.sdarchitects.com

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Photography courtesy of Joseph St. Pierre

At the site of their new home, the homeowners made a great effort to cut as few trees as possible so they could forgo window treatments and enjoy panoramic views. The Craftsman-style home features a garage with space for a tractor and wood storage, a large fieldstone fireplace in the living room, an exercise room, as well as a wine cellar.

Judges said: The interior of this home is lovely with well-executed, fine woodworking details.

There is a very comfortable feeling to the house, with wonderful views and daylighting. The exterior massing and organization is very well done.

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excellence in bath Design Winner: Contemporary Bath

Randy Trainor of C. Randolph Trainor Interiors in Franconia (603) 823-8133 • www.crtinteriors.com

Photography courtesy of Rob Karosis

“Spa-like” is the phrase that drove the renovation decisions of this master bathroom that the designer previously described as “dysfunctional.” Before renovation, the toilet was in the middle of the room, the tub was never used and the only storage was in the very cramped vanity.

The bathtub was eliminated, and the toilet and new shower were installed in its place. The original shower and vanity were replaced with a ten-foot double vanity.

To visually enlarge and brighten the bathroom, the same twelve-by-twenty-four-inch tile was used across the floor, up the walls and on the window jambs with the cabinet color closely matching the tile. A custom tile backsplash matches the handmade glass pendant lights over the vanity. A frameless shower surround keeps things open and bright.

Judges said: This bathroom is open and spacious without any wasted space. The soft color scheme works well as a restrained backdrop to the colorful tile accents and light fixtures.

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excellence in Historic Renovation Winner: Stella Maris

Lisa DeStefano of DeStefano Architects in Portsmouth (603) 431-8701 • www.destefanoarchitects.com

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Photography courtesy of Greg West

Built in 1902, this Colonial Shingle-style home served as the parish residence for many Christian ministers and their families. Fondly nicknamed Stella Maris, meaning “The Star of the Sea,” the house was purchased by architect Lisa DeStefano in 2015 and renovated to become her family’s home (see Ready for a New Century in New Hampshire Home, January/February 2017).

The renovation focused on restoration of the exterior and giving new life to the interior while being sensitive to the home’s original, classic design. Foam insulation was added to the roof and wall assemblies; a new high-efficiency boiler was incorporated into the home’s design; lead paint and asbestos were removed; and doors throughout the home were refurbished. The existing windows were removed and fully repaired; caulked and sealed; and then reinstalled with the addition of custom exterior storm panels.

The kitchen was relocated from the rear to the front of the home to create connectivity between the heart of the home and the front porch with street views. Upstairs spaces were updated to accommodate visiting family members. A dilapidated rear porch was remodeled into an outside living space. Gardens were restored and enhanced.

Judges said: This project is a sensitive and thoughtful renovation of an old house that respects both its history as well as the current residents. Wonderfully done!

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excellence in Kitchen Design Winner: Waterville Valley Kitchen

Randy Trainor of C. Randolph Trainor Interiors in Franconia (603) 823-8133 • www.crtinteriors.com and Ashland Lumber, a division of Belletetes, in Ashland (603) 968-7626 • www.belletetes.com

Photography courtesy of Rob Karosis

Among the homeowners’ goals for this renovation were more storage and the need for a kosher kitchen, which requires the separation of meat and dairy.

But the footprint could not be changed. A second entrance to the kitchen was closed up to make more space for cabinets as well as two dishwashers, two ovens, two drawers for pots and pans, two drawers for flatware and cooking utensils, and a divided sink.

Simple, oversized stainless pulls bring life to the dark, cherry stain on the cabinets, while an unusual circular sink and faucet are an artistic, yet functional, exclamation point for the renovated space.

Judges said: This kitchen has clean lines, creative fixtures and great material selections. It is functional, tough and elegant—all in one.

honorable mention : Urban Chef’s Kitchen Janice Page and Rebecca Dillman of PK Surroundings in Exeter (603) 817-6347 • www.pksurroundings.com

Photography courtesy of Rob Karosis

This classic New England kitchen is the heart of a downtown Portsmouth condo. The homeowners asked for a chef’s kitchen with high-end appliances, lots of storage and spacious countertops.

The island cabinetry is painted gray to contrast with the white cabinetry and houses a wine cooler. From the sink, you can view the family room in this open-concept space.

The Britannica Cambria countertops add visual interest at the island, while a marble backsplash and brushed nickel hardware give the kitchen a polished finish.

Judges said: This kitchen has a great integration of cabinetry, color and surface design, and is subtle, functional and very elegant.

honorable mention : Wells Project Tedd LeBlanc of Crown Point Cabinetry in Claremont (603) 504-6901 • www.crown-point.com

Photography courtesy of Jeffrey Stowell

The homeowners wanted a kitchen with an early American look and modern feel. Details include open shelving, glass doors, cutlery dividers, stainless-steel double baskets and a file drawer.

The kitchen also features an expansive island for storage and entertaining needs.

Judges said: This kitchen has beautiful color choices, huge amounts of work surfaces and storage. It feels very personal and exceedingly functional at the same time. We love the butcher block!

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excellence in Interior Design Winner: Kaknes Home

Janice Page and Rebecca Dillman of PK Surroundings in Exeter (603) 817-6347 • www.pksurroundings.com

Photography courtesy of Rob Karosis

This residence is small but boasts a big view of the Atlantic Ocean. The renovation made this small kitchen function and provided a view of the ocean from the sink. A rich, rift-cut oak with horizontal grain gives a warm but contemporary feel to the room, which also includes countertops made from recycled glass and shells.

The color scheme throughout the home is gray, blue and white with pops of yellow or gold. The family and dining rooms are finished with custom furniture pieces.

White leather and printed fabric chairs surround a locally made, stainless-steel dining table. From the living area, the homeowners can relax on the plush gray sofa and enjoy the ocean view.

The master bath has a modern nautical style— custom yellow cabinets with a shiplap doors. Recessed pulls are topped with white and blue recycled glass countertops. The shower has large scaled tiles with a wave-like relief.

Judges said: This project felt bright, cheerful and creative while maintaining clean lines and a nicely restrained color palette. It has a nice balance of punchy interior furnishings and elegance.

A w a r d s p o n s o r e d b y s e a s o n a l s p e c i a lt y s t o r e s

excellence in Outdoor Design Winner: Newfound Lake Retreat Belknap Landscape Company, Inc. in Gilford (603) 528-2798 • www.belknaplandscape.com

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Photography courtesy of Shanna Hale

This residence in Hebron has amazing views of Newfound Lake, and the homeowners wanted an outdoor living space that felt like it was carved into the mountainside. The two-level bluestone patio provides an area to serve meals just off the kitchen, and a large cedar pergola filters sunlight while dining. The lower patio is the place to enjoy views and the fieldstone fireplace. The space also includes landscape lighting for nighttime gatherings and several planting areas.

Judges said: This project shows an honest use of materials. The design maximizes the fantastic views while providing a variety of spaces accommodating both intimate and large-scale gatherings.

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excellence in REMODELING/RENOVATION Winner: South End Revival

Lisa DeStefano of DeStefano Architects in Portsmouth (603) 431-8701 • www.destefanoarchitects.com

Photography courtesy of Greg West

An active family moved to this Greek Revival-style home with a sizable back yard in an historic neighborhood, which allowed for better connectivity to schools and the downtown. However, the 1920s style of the interior spaces did not suit the needs of a growing family—an addition and renovation were mandatory.

The historic neighborhood enforced strict expansion rules, so renovation began with the demolition of a poorly insulated addition to the rear of the house. Keeping the existing footprint, the rebuilt addition now includes a three-quarter bathroom and a relocated mudroom with bright, cheery accents.

The former mudroom is now a dining room that seats twelve and is flooded with natural light. Second-floor modifications include a reworked master bedroom with a conjoining deck that makes better use of the space.

To the rear of the house, a deck with a carport was added, which improves connectivity between first floor living areas and outside spaces. The deck also provides beautiful panoramic views of the Mill Pond in Portsmouth.

Judges said: This project shows a careful and creative transformation of a faded classic house with good bones into an elegant, light-filled and spacious home. We like the great use of harmonious materials, thoughtful detailing and well-selected furnishings. This is a well-done renovation!

excellence in SMALL HOME DESIGN Winner: Living Large in a Small Space Cynthia Clark Cheney of Cynthia Clark Interiors in Hampton (603) 929-2987 • www.cynthiaclarkinteriors.com

Photography courtesy of Nat Rea

Antique furnishings and accessories are interwoven throughout this charming 1,100-squarefoot, 1950s Cape. Custom designed Pratt & Larson tile on the fireplace façade adds texture and cheerful color in the living room. A cabinet displays books and accessories, and also hides the television when it’s not being watched. The neutral tile floor in the mudroom is detailed with a colorful border.

Judges said: We like how the designer made an effort to blend contemporary needs to the aesthetics of the structure.

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Photography by John W. Hession

excellence in SPECIALTY ROOM DESIGN

Winner: Archives Studio

Daniel V. Scully of Scully Architects in Keene (603) 357-4544 • www.scully-architects.com

With its look-like-slate siding, this architect’s 450-square-foot archives/ studio is a simple barn form. But a few elements are turned inside-out or upside-down. For example, a roofing material is used for the siding; the roofing is concrete form decking; and the plywood sheathing is on the inside, as the finish.

Inside are sixty flat-file drawers, twenty-four vertical file drawers, two work desks and a twenty-foot-long drafting table. On the wall is a crosssectional drawing of a Maserati V8, painted in 1968. Opposite, is a map of

Rome; its rivers, city axes and intricate neighborhoods are not unlike the internal workings of the Maserati V8.

With the future addition of photovoltaic collectors, this building is net-zero ready. (See A Studio of One’s Own on page 52.)

Judges said: This project is so much fun, and is packed with more creativity and great design than houses ten times the size. With great material selections, this project is strikingly personal and evocative, and much more than just a studio.

honorable mention : Straws Point Pool House

Carla Goodnight of CJ Architects in Portsmouth (603) 431-2808 • www.cjarchitects.net

Photography courtesy of Eric Roth

This pool house in Rye takes full advantage of the waterfront setting and brings the outside in. Walls facing the ocean and pool disappear with the integration of Kolbe lift-and-slide doors. A low-profile sill blurs the line between the interior polished concrete floor and the poolside patio outdoors. Pocket doors disappear behind the fireplace to allow this central feature to become freestanding. Concealed overhead roll screens descend at the push of a button from the bold walnut banding that encircles the vaulted ceiling.

Judges said: This room opens completely to the pool patio while also functioning well as an enclosed space. Regardless of the weather or season, this room inspires gatherings.

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Tom and Nancy Southworth’s Capestyle house in Lancaster produces about twice the electrical energy it uses on an annual basis.

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A House That Gives More Than It Takes

Designing and building a passive solar house

in the North Country was a family affair.

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After almost thirty-seven years in the old farmhouse

son Ben Southworth and his cousin Dana Southworth, who

near the mill they ran in Lancaster, Tom and Nancy Southworth

is Harry’s son. The company specializes in high-performance

decided it was time to move someplace smaller and quieter—

homes and heavy timber-frame structures. One of its projects

although still close to their grandchildren. “We wanted some-

is New Hampshire’s first LEED Platinum-certified renovation

thing really small and efficient enough that either one of us

of a home on Squam Lake that was featured in Giving Back to

could live here into our nineties,” Tom says.

the Grid in New Hampshire Home, March/April 2010.

The resulting one-story, modern, Cape-style house—

The mill itself—the only one of its kind still operating in

finished in 2011—stands in a flat valley in Lancaster with

New England—has been a net electricity producer since 1982.

Mount Cabot and other peaks visible in the distance. It’s a

It generates excess power (when not milling), which is sent

lovely, livable North Country retreat; in addition, it’s a solar,

into the grid.

net-zero Passive House that produces approximately twice the electrical energy it uses on an annual basis.

A Passive House with presence

This wasn’t the Southworths’ first foray into high-efficiency

Tom, Nancy, and Ben all knew that the planned home was

housing, nor into building. Since 1974, when Tom and Nancy

going to be high performance (“It needed to be if I was go-

purchased the historic Garland Mill, an 1856 water-powered

ing to build it,” Ben says). But Tom and Nancy proposed

sawmill in Lancaster, Tom has built numerous homes, barns

taking things a step further. After reading a magazine article

and other structures. In 1977, Tom’s brother Harry South-

about Passive Houses, they asked themselves: Why aren’t we

worth became Tom’s partner in the mill business.

doing this?

In 1986, they founded Garland Mill Timberframes, a Lan-

Ben was excited about the idea but wasn’t a certified

caster construction business that uses the timber supplied

Passive-House builder at the time. There would be a learning

by the mill. This company is now run by Tom and Nancy’s

curve. “My parents have always been very willing to try new

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Left: The large windows in the kitchen and living room/dining area provide more than views— they allow the sun’s energy to heat these rooms.

Below: Homeowners Tom and Nancy Southworth (left and center) worked with their son Ben Southworth (right) to create their highly efficient home. Ben and his cousin Dana Southworth now run the company Tom founded with his brother Harry—Garland Mill Timberframes in Lancaster.

things and to take risks. They thought, ‘This looks like an in-

windows and the enclosure is so incredibly tight that none of

teresting opportunity,’ and they knew it would be for me,”

the heat leaks out of the building.”

Ben says. “I said, ‘Great! Let’s do it!’”

Ben began by tackling the Passive-House precertification pro-

Even though Ben and Tom had high-efficiency and even

tocol, which involves submitting a design for a house that looks,

net-zero building experience, a Passive House provided a very

on paper, as though it will operate according to Passive-House

different challenge. A net-zero home uses an amount of en-

principles. “That was pretty tough,” Ben says. Luckily, he was

ergy on an annual basis that is basically equal to the amount

able to hire a friend who was a certified Passive-House designer to

of renewable energy created on its site. “A drafty house with

assist. “He helped me navigate this thing,” Ben says. “I would fill

a load of solar panels could be net zero,” Tom says. But it

out the protocol and send it to him when I got stuck.”

wouldn’t be very efficient.

Although efficiency was a priority for Tom and Nancy.

A Passive House doesn’t have any energy-production

“We wanted the house to be aesthetically pleasing,” Ben says.

requirements, but is built along relatively simple but hard-

Nancy—an artist by training who has a good eye and a feel for

to-achieve guidelines for energy efficiency. These guide-

spatial relationships, according to Tom—was instrumental to

lines—which originated with the Passivhaus movement in

this process. One way to achieve both efficiency and beauty

Germany—include thermal protection, air tightness and

was through the use of windows that let in the sun to warm the

ventilation with heat recovery, as well as efficient appliances

house while affording views of the mountains and forest. “Mom

and lighting. The house’s internal temperature is supposed to

and I did a lot of work with the windows,” Ben says. Nancy

stay between 68ºF and 77ºF year-round.

originally wanted the windows in the family room/dining area

“Passive House is mostly about the enclosure system, insu-

to be floor to ceiling, but along the way, the family decided to

lation, south [facing] windows and especially tightness,” Tom

incorporate window seats, which were suggested by the thick-

says. “The idea is that the sun heats up the inside through the

ness of the walls. The windows are still quite tall.

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Group effort Another consideration was the location of the house. Tom and Nancy chose a ten-acre lot just six hundred yards or so from the mill. The site—former home to a gravel pit and evergreen farm—had a pond, good solar exposure and excellent access to nearby grandchildren.

Once the location was set, the next challenge was to figure out the orientation of the house. The Southworths knew they needed a long roofline facing south. “Nancy and I spent a long time sitting out there on stones trying to figure out where to put the house,” Tom says. “We had the luxury of time.”

The eventual site (15 degrees west of due south for optimal solar orientation) offers great views and plenty of sun. The latter is not only necessary for Passive Houses, Ben says. “It’s good house design. People are heliocentric. The more sun we get—particularly in this climate—the happier we are.”

Construction began on a six-room house (plus bathrooms, a screened-in porch and a pantry) of about 1,700 square feet. The construction team consisted of the Southworths; mill workers Matt Hammon and Scott Cramer (who did the framing, tile work and most of the cabinets, with assistance from Tom); additional mill workers from time to time; and subcontractors for excavation, plumbing, plastering, etc. Harry helped build the house as well but passed away suddenly in December 2010.

The house is on a slab and has very thick walls; a Passive House is first and foremost a super-insulated house. It has forty inches of cellulose insulation in the roof, twelve inches of foam under the floor, and twelve inches of cellulose inside and two inches of foam outside the walls. One of the more challenging design considerations for a Passive House is that it must have a minimum of penetrations (other than doors and windows) for things like chimneys and plumbing vents.

The house has a 7 kW solar array on the south-facing roof. Hot water is provided by an 80 ft2 SDHW collector. For heat, there is a very small woodstove and five small electric heaters that are seldom needed. In the living room and kitchen especially, there is heat from the sunlight that pours in through the large windows. These are made in Canada from low-iron glass that allows for more heat transfer than most American homeowners desire. In Lancaster, “we’re a heating climate,” Ben says, “not a cooling climate. Most of this country is a cooling climate. Very few Americans live within a few hours of the Canadian border.”

When required, shades allow for the reduction of the amount of heat and light entering the building through the south-facing windows.

Such shades are also a Passive House design requirement.

In this tightly insulated environment, and given the threat of houserotting moisture that occurs where heat meets cold, an HRV (heat recovery ventilator) is a must. The system brings in fresh, cold air and preheats it with the outgoing moist air from the building. Carbon dioxide levels—a proxy for indoor air quality—are also continuously measured.

Cross-ventilation is a key feature that was carefully designed into the house. When the screen porch at the west end of the house and the kitchen door (and bindery windows) at the east end are open, outside air flows through the main living area from west to east.

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Left: Natural light fills the main living area of the house.

Below: An open shower (with no door) provides easy wheelchair access, should that ever be required.

Above: Nancy Southworth’s book bindery occupies one room of the house. Here, too, natural light is plentiful.

Left: A screened-in porch provides additional living space in pleasant weather.

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The building materials for this special house were quite common, Tom says, with standard wood framing, etc. The exterior siding is untreated Eastern white cedar from a small mill in northern Vermont. The team salvaged where they could.

The beech floorboards, for example, are from wood that had been sitting unused in a barn next door.

Streamlined interiors The spaces inside the house are simple and easy to navigate. A large room at the east end of the house serves as the headquarters for Nancy’s bindery. (She operates a book conservation business.) Nancy notes that when she retires this business, this space will be added to the overall living area in the house.

There is a master bedroom and bathroom with a shower at the west or “cool” end of the house, away from the sun, which the couple wanted for sleeping.

Another room serves as Tom’s office but has also been “value-engineered,” as Tom puts it, to become a guest room.

Two couches in this room can be moved together to form a bed when needed.

A bathroom with a deep, streamlined tub adjoins the office/guest room. The largest room in the house is the living room/dining area, which opens onto the kitchen.

The interior design aesthetic throughout is, as the couple describes it, mid-century Scandinavian. The walls are a thick layer of plaster skimcoated over blue board, because the homeowners find plaster more durable, waterproof and aesthetically pleasing than sheetrock. The walls are painted in neutral shades.

Most wooden furniture is blond and streamlined, although the rooms are punctuated with color provided by artwork on the walls, area rugs and some painted cabinetry, such as in the kitchen. (Nancy, with her artist’s background, made most of the decisions on color.) Many items of furniture are from Tom and Nancy’s old farmhouse, and a few things have been added from IKEA. The cabinetry in the kitchen and bathrooms was made by the mill workers from locally harvested wood. The cabinets facing the dining room are maple, and the ones in the kitchen are painted poplar. The kitchen also features a soapstonetopped counter that acts as a divider between the kitchen and dining room, and provides additional seating.

It was important to the homeowners that the kitchen have plentiful natural light, so the windows are four feet high. “We spend most of our waking hours in the kitchen,” Ben says.

However, he points out, when you have large windows in a kitchen, you lose cabinet space. To make up for that lost space, there is a “hidden” pantry off the kitchen. And because the kitchen is open to the main living area, the Southworths installed their refrigerator in the pantry as well. Ben says a fridge is not necessarily an attractive visual element. Energysaving LED lighting is used throughout.

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Above: A covered walkway between the house and garage makes navigation easy in all seasons and is also designed for wheelchair accessibility.

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The constant temperature that is maintained from floor to ceiling and the lack of drafts actually makes this house extra comfortable. For example, if a floor is 6 degrees cooler than the upper part of the room, Ben says, it can make humans feel chilly. “But people can’t discern a difference of 3 degrees or less,” he says.

The resulting home (which was certified as a Passive House) is a success on many levels. In terms of efficiency, it produces on average 4,000 kWh more than it uses on an annual basis.

In keeping with the Southworths’ long-term living proposition, the front door of the house is wheelchair accessible, as

This electricity is returned to the local grid through a program called community net metering.

is the large, open shower in the master bathroom that is de-

In terms of livability: “It’s a wonderful house,” Nancy says.

signed without a door. Eliminating the door also reduced ma-

“As soon as the sun comes over the mountains,” Tom says,

terials expense and makes for easier bathroom maintenance.

gesturing to the living room windows, “it lights up like a Dis-

Another nod to aging in place, but nice under any circum-

ney scene in here.”

stances, is a short, level, covered walkway between the door of the mudroom/laundry area of the house and the garage. Ben

“Building our first Passive House was a huge challenge,” Ben says.

says that “healthy” houses are not supposed to have attached

“It was new territory,” Nancy says.

garages in any event.

Compounding the challenge at times was that family

Outdoors, Nancy’s raised-bed vegetable garden is steps

members with different opinions were involved in designing

away from the kitchen. She grows salad greens, kale, garlic,

it, but their shared history of working together helped offset

peas, cucumbers, onions, tomatoes and much more. Tom is

that. “We had to change some of the ways that we approach

responsible for growing squash and pumpkins. A screened-in

designing and building,” Ben says.

porch and outdoor flagstone patio add outdoor living space when the weather is pleasant.

In the end, it was worth it, Tom says. “Everything we do teaches us something.”

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Living in the house One of the concerns some people have about net-zero and Passive Houses is that they require too much of a compromise in terms of lifestyle and comfort. The Southworths have not found this to be the case. “Being warm is never a problem,” Nancy says. “Being cool can be. But then we just keep those

Resources

Garland Mill Timberframes (603) 788-2619 • www.garlandmill.com IKEA www.ikea.com

Net Zero Energy Project www.zeroenergyproject.org Passive House Institute www.passiv.de/en

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Master of Her Craft

To create scale models for her furniture design and documentation, Vivian Beer uses CAD (computer-aided design) software and a 3D scanner.

Because she uses abstraction as a major design element, “almost anything” can be source material, she says.

Embracing the Curves Manchester

designer Vivian Beer gives her unique pieces

of metal furniture a soft touch.

“I

make furniture that is simultaneously

Beer accomplishes this with the surprising

sculpture,” Vivian Beer says. “It is

combination of rugged industrial materials—

built to make you think and feel as

sheet metal and concrete—with the luxuri-

well as function in your home.”

Comfort is important to the nationally

ousness of compound curves. It is a style she calls “sexy industrial.” With welders, torches

recognized furniture designer and maker,

and the other tools of metal fabrication in

but so is the conjuring of a physiological

her Manchester studio, Beer creates a soft

experience. As Beer says, “When you see

elegance that has, as she puts it, “a come-

that a piece is beautiful from across the

hither look.”

room, you have the memory of that attraction in your mind as you sit on it—

Beer’s inspiration

making you a part of its attraction, both

There are two reasons she’s attracted to

performance and participant.”

curves: one functional, the other aesthetic.

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Master of Her Craft

In her Manchester studio, Vivian Beer uses the rugged tools of metal fabrication to create a soft elegance that has what she calls a “come-hither look.” Working with Beer in the other room is her assistant, Olivia Juarez.

“I use rigid materials, which means

nautics, fashion, architecture and car

the forms touching your body need

design. Those things­—“the stuff we live

to conform to the body,” she says.

with,” Beer says—can become “powder

“Our bodies are not made of sharp

kegs of meaning that I absolutely love to

angles and corners, so why should our

play with.”

furniture be?”

The aesthetic aspect comes from the

apple red one shown on pages 85 and

tion. “As someone who uses abstraction

88. The colorful design was inspired by

as a major component of my design

fashion and hot rods: “I wanted a little

process, almost anything I encounter

pop culture, a symbol of the American

can become source material,” she says.

car culture, a souped-up hot rod.”

and forces of culture.”

In nature, inspiration can come from

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series, with benches like the candy-

forms she uses as visual cues for inspira-

“I categorize them as forces of nature

Beer designs and makes her own tools as well as the furniture. Here she forms a 1steel plate into a compound curve using her custom-built hydraulic press.

As she did in her “Anchored Candy”

The depth of the candy-apple red color is achieved using the techniques of high-end automotive finishing,

the design dynamics of formations and

which Beer says she started using when

transformations, such as wind, tide,

she realized the “seductive” effect she

erosion, and freeze and thaw; in cul-

could achieve with them. “They can

ture, it can be things such as aero-

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one that you want to reach out and touch,” she says. “It is a way to draw people into the experience.”

The finishes have layers of color that make the surface semi-transparent, giving it a lot of depth. “You can see into the color underneath,” Beer says.

Treat for the eyes In part because of the sleek finish, people sometimes mistake Beer’s sheet metal work as molded plastic or fiberglass. “It’s because of the fluidity of the form,” she says. “But as soon as you touch them, you can feel that they are metal. There is a presence and quality that is quite different.”

Beer does not paint her concrete

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Master of her Craft

Support Arts Education at the Currier Museum of Art

A sleek, candy-apple red bench from Vivian Beer’s “Anchored Candy” series is to be raffled off to benefit the Currier Museum’s arts education programs. Functional as seating and beautiful as a piece of art, it is valued at $10,500. Only 150 raffle tickets will be sold for a chance to win the bench; the cost is $150 each. The ticket includes two invitations to a reception, scheduled for May, where you can meet Beer, see more of her work and learn about her process. You can purchase the tickets by phone [(603) 669-6144, ext. 108], in person through Guest Services at the Currier or online at www.currier.org/heartofthearts.

The winning ticket will be drawn on Saturday, April 22, at the finale of the Heart of the Arts gala fundraiser. Raffle tickets do not include entrance to the gala, and you don’t have to be present to win.

Beer says of the “Anchored Candy” series, one of which can be seen in the Currier collection: “They are benches that counterbalance bright automotive finishes and anthropomorphic sheet metal forms with raw blocks of steel. It is furniture simultaneously about desire and structure.”

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the concrete mix that she utilizes. To

there is a substructure of small bar ma-

and unique lighting pieces in her

make concrete furniture, she first builds

terial that has mesh tied to it. The ce-

studio.

a metal framework. Inside that frame,

ment, much like stucco, is troweled on

Another change she anticipates for

and ground down to the original metal,

her business: starting a new division

revealing a pattern of lines and creating

to produce lines of furniture. Also, she

a finished surface in the concrete.

wants to build community and collab-

Expect that Beer will go beyond con-

orative experiences, using an intern-

crete and metal as her means of expres-

ship program she’s had for five years

sion. “I have been developing

as a starting point. “Up to now, I have

new designs that use other material

mainly worked alone and the object has

and will always be looking for what’s

been all important. Moving forward, I

next,” she says. After residencies this

dream of collaborative spaces and proj-

past year at Pilchuck Glass School in

ects that I can be a part of and engineer

Stanwood, Washington, and the Mu-

in the coming years.”

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seum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, Part of Vivian Beer’s new “Pattern Recognition” series, this small tuffet is in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.

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where she worked with glass artisans to make lighting objects, she is currently finishing a number of prototypes

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The front sitting room, or library, of the Warner House was a place for evening entertainment and conversation when Jonathan Warner lived there during the late eighteenth century. A portrait of Warner hangs over the fireplace. The marbleized walls were re-created during a 1939 restoration.

Beginning Its Fourth Century The landmark

Warner House in

Portsmouth is the earliest building

of its type in New England.

I

f the British television series Downton

the Warner House is very real—a distinctive

Abbey were set in Colonial America instead

landmark in a city that treasures its history.

of Edwardian England, there’s a chance

“Portsmouth is one of a few communities

that Downton would resemble Portsmouth’s

in the country that still retains much of its

eighteenth-century Warner House.

eighteenth-century architecture,” says Sandra

The Georgian-style Warner House—a

Rux, curator and chair of the Warner House

National Historic Landmark, built between

Association’s board of governors. “The city

1715 and 1718—has a rich history. Like

has an unusual amount of intact historic

Downton, its art and architecture are recog-

landmarks.”

nized internationally by historians. Like the

The Warner House, which celebrated its

Crawley family, Downton Abbey’s owners,

three hundredth anniversary in 2016, is

generations of extended family lived at the

located on Daniel Street in downtown Ports-

Warner House up until the 1930s.

mouth, a short walk from the Memorial

But whereas Downton Abbey is fictional,

Bridge connecting Portsmouth to Kittery,

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One of the home’s most impressive pieces of furniture is this mahogany bookcase, commissioned by Jonathan Warner specifically for the sitting room.

Attributed to “Robert Harrold, Portsmouth, NH, 1765–1775,” the bookcase includes a collection of Polly Warner’s books.

Maine. A fashionable thoroughfare in the eighteenth century, the street led to the banks of the Piscataqua River, once lined with warehouses and docks.

The docks and warehouses are gone, replaced by the structures and hustle of modern-day life. Yet the Warner House, set back slightly from the street, is a reminder of an earlier Portsmouth; it’s the earliest building of its type in New England. “Houses like this don’t exist anymore in the United States,” says Warner House Director Jeff Hopper. “It was the largest mansion in Portsmouth when it was built.”

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Built between 1715 and 1718 by John Drew, the Warner House is designed in the style of a London townhouse.

A lightening rod on the west wall is attributed to Benjamin Franklin, 1761.

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was originally built for Archibald Macpheadris (circa 1680–1729), an

for a gas station, the home was saved

enterprising Scots Irish sea captain

through the efforts of Portsmouth

who became one of Portsmouth’s

residents who raised money to pur-

most successful entrepreneurs.

chase the Warner House in 1932 and

Jonathan, also a thriving merchant,

Association was established to run the

After Warner passed away, his niece

museum.

cousins and grandchildren, lived there

The most impressive residence in Portsmouth

throughout the nineteenth and early

Archibald’s story is unique to its time.

twentieth centuries. Warner descen-

“When he came to Portsmouth, the city

dants—the Sherburne, Penhallow and

was like the wild west in the early eigh-

Whipple families—lived in the house

teenth century,” Hopper says. “People

until the 1930s, when it was put up

came here to get rich.”

home. Her extended family, including

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make it a museum. The Warner House

married Archibald’s daughter, Mary.

Elizabeth Sherburne inherited the

The colorful murals in the Warner House’s entry hall and main staircase, possibly by Nehemiah Partridge (1683–c. 1737), depict a number of scenes, including the sacrifice of Abraham (top photo, left) and possibly the visit of two Mohawk sachems to London in 1710 (staircase landing).

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1761, the year after Jonathan Warner

Visiting the Warner House

married Mary Macpheadris Osborne, the portraits show an affluent family at the height of their social power. Most striking is the Blackburn portrait of eleven-year-old Mary “Polly” Warner, the young daughter of Jonathan and his first wife Mary Nelson.

Furnishings include some of the finest examples of work by Portsmouth cabinetmakers, who helped furnish the grand homes of local merchants and businessmen in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. According to Hopper, these objects were the result of prominent area merchants “showing off their homes” to court prospective buyers.

The Warners knew how to show off.

Polly’s extensive collection of books— selected in London and each stamped with “Miss Warner” in gold lettering— is housed in the downstairs library in a grand mahogany bookcase, custom built

The Warner House is open June through mid-October, Wednesday–Monday, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Off-season tours are available by appointment. Admission is $7; $3 for children ages seven through twelve; children younger than age seven are admitted free of charge. Call (603) 436-5909 or visit www.warnerhouse.org.

by Portsmouth cabinetmaker Robert Harrold between 1765 and 1775, and the only piece of furniture specifically commissioned by Jonathan. Polly’s

on Archibald’s early life in Britain and

underneath. The murals were restored

charming William and Mary-style writ-

his life in America. Images include

in the late 1980s and again in the early

ing desk, a gift from her father, sits on

the Biblical sacrifice of Abraham; a

2000s.

the upstairs landing. Also on the land-

woman spinning; an eagle swooping in

ing—where Archibald, and later Jona-

to snatch a chicken; and two smaller

Art and furnishings

figures who could be Archibald and his

When the Warner House was purchased

business associates—sits a spectacular

wife, Sarah Wentworth. Two Mohawk

in 1932, it was nearly empty. Among its

maple and walnut high chest of drawers

figures on one wall may represent the

surviving contents was a set of caribou

that belonged to descendant John Sher-

Mohawks who traveled to London in

antlers, still hanging in the front hall,

burne. Inscribed with the date 1733,

1710 to visit Queen Anne and became

possibly a gift to Archibald from Sarah’s

it’s the earliest known dated example of

the toast of the city. Another mystery

father, John Wentworth. Other pieces

American Queen Anne furniture.

is a male figure on horseback, possibly

have been donated back by various

British gentry, who has both a gold

descendants.

than, would have greeted guests and

In Jonathan’s time, the most formal room was on the second floor, above the

Tours of the Warner House tell the

parlor (now the dining room). A place

sabretache, a pocket used by cavalry

stories of its residents, room by room,

for both sleeping and socializing, the

officers for easy access to paper and

through its collections. In the down-

parlor showcases Jonathan’s conserva-

also used as a portable writing desk. At

stairs dining room are five paintings

tive, but high, style. A curtained canopy

some point, the side wall murals were

of Warner family members by Joseph

bed—covered in green damask—stands

covered by wallpaper; in 1853, a child

Blackburn, a prominent English portrait

in one corner, across from a tiled fire-

playing on the stairs accidentally tore

painter who counted John Singleton

place and mahogany chairs and a table.

off a piece of the paper, revealing paint

Copley among his students. Painted in

The paneled room is distinguished by

crown and “P” emblazoned on his

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its sprung floor (a clue that dancing was among the room’s entertainments) and its sparkling blue walls. Coated in “smalt,” a unique treatment of crushed cobalt blue glass tossed onto paint while wet, the room practically glitters when the sun shines through its windows.

Across from Jonathan’s bed chamber are two family bedrooms, currently interpreted to represent the Penhallow and Sherburne families, who lived in the house from the early 1800s to the early 1900s. Connected by a hidden passageway, used during the winter when the drafty main stairway and halls would have been unheated, the two rooms also include closets, a rarity in eighteenth-century homes. A stairway down to the kitchen from one of the bedrooms provided discreet passage for servants.

After the Civil War, a period of A canopy bed, covered in green damask, is a focal point of the upstairs parlor, where Jonathan Warner slept.

Other furnishings include an early nineteenth-century English mirror and a mahogany chest of drawers.

fascination with all things eighteenthcentury—called the Colonial Revival— captured American imaginations. The Warner House became a beloved Portsmouth landmark. By the early 1900s, Evelyn Sherburne and her nephew Thomas Penhallow were using the home as a summer residence. Still, visitors often dropped by, hoping to glimpse inside (and, if they were polite and dressed appropriately, they would be allowed in).

Now, as Warner House staffers commemorate its three hundredth year, they marvel at how the home has transcended generations. “This house was really thought through,” Hopper says.

“It was built to be a center for business transactions as well as function as a multifamily house. We’re looking forward to the next three hundred years.”

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2017 Excellence in Outdoor Design

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Belknap Landscape Co., Inc.

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elknap Landscape Company is a family owned, full service landscape company located in the beautiful Lakes Region of New Hampshire. With over 25 years of experience, skilled staff will guide you through the entire process, from permitting and design through install and maintenance.

We will ensure that the journey to your dream landscape is as relaxing as the finished project. We’ve gathered professionals from every aspect of the landscape industry to be able to meet all your needs. Belknap Landscape has the passion, expertise and the experience to complete your outdoor kitchens, lighting projects, shoreline landscapes and tree care, along with everything in between. With dedicated account managers and professional staff, you will quickly realize why we received thirteen NH Home Builder Cornerstone Awards in 2016, the 2017 New Hampshire Home Excellence in Outdoor Design Award and the 2017 Best of Houzz Service Award.

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2016 Excellence in Historic Renovation

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Christopher P. Williams Architects, PLLC meredith, New hampshire (603) 279-6513 • www.cpwarchitects.com

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ur award winning team of LEED certified architects has provided innovative and environmentally friendly design solutions to clients throughout New England since 1984.

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Our firm specializes in sustainable building practices and we offer expertise in incorporating solar, geothermal and other green systems into client projects that enhance and protect ecosystems and conserve natural resources. With sensitivity to landscape and building site requirements, we strive to bring together the beauty of the exterior surroundings with the warmth and comfort of your home.

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2017 Excellence in Architectural Design

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Bonin Architects & Associates

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ith fantastic views of the Mt. Sunapee slopes, this lakeside home is designed as a primary residence for an active young family. Planning for skiing, lake activities and family gatherings, this home on the beautiful shores of Lake Sunapee has the good fortune to be near everything the family desired. These busy family members were also very active participants during the design process; their enthusiasm and energy contagious throughout!

Bonin Architects, located in New London and Meredith, New Hampshire, serves New England with a focus on homes in the lakes, mountain and coastal regions. As a design firm, we bring architecture and landscape Architecture together in a collaborative approach to every project. Our values of honesty, integrity, commitment, respect and service are reflected in all we do. Those values and hard work are the difference between building a home and building a dream.

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2016 Excellence in Outdoor Design

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amily owned and operated, Crown Point Cabinetry handcrafts the finest quality custom cabinetry for the entire home. Because we only sell direct, every client can work firsthand with one of our in-house designers. Our unique approach enables us to sell direct to homeowners, architects, custom builders and remodelers nationwide. Specializing in period style, including Arts and Crafts, Shaker, Victorian and Early American, we also create outstanding designs in transitional, cottage and contemporary construction.

Cabinetry can be crafted from choices in lumber across a large range, including cherry, sapele, red oak, maple, quartersawn white oak, walnut and pine. We also offer a special selection of reclaimed and old growth lumber, including reclaimed chestnut, reclaimed hickory, old growth heart pine and reclaimed elm. Our smooth, beautiful finish completes the cabinetry in clear or a rich stain, or from a wide palette of paint colors by Sherwin-Williams or Genuine Old Fashioned Milk Paint.

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Derek Marshall Sculptural Lighting Lilia is a delightful contemporary pendant with seductive curves made of American art glass. Used singly or grouped, Lilia is a unique statement of elegance. Derek Marshall Lighting has been the manufacturer of choice for designers and architects around the world for more than 25 years. Full catalog with prices at www.derekmarshall.com.

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Made in the USA, Lighting by the Sea features several exterior lantern styles made locally; handmade solid cooper and solid brass lanterns are a perfect finishing touch to the exterior of your home. It’s worth a trip to Lighting by the Sea we offer services from fitting a lampshade to your lamp to a complete lighting layout for your new home or renovation. We’re here to assist you in finding the right fixture to fit your style and lighting needs.

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Your home should be as hard-working as you are, yet provide the sanctuary you need at the end of the day.

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Second Annual Steel Chef Challenge

This competition is hosted by celebrity chef Robert Irvine, host of the Food Network’s Restaurant Impossible, with a special celebrity chef challenge.

Guests can watch the chefs compete, and enjoy a fabulous dinner created by Irvine and his team.

VIP guests are invited to a meet-and-greet with Irvine and the chef challengers as well as receive an autographed keepsake. Proceeds to benefit the New Hampshire Food Bank. Tickets are $125; $200 for VIP tickets.

Radisson Hotel • 700 Elm Street in Manchester (603) 669-9725, ext. 129 www.steelchef.nhfoodbank.org

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The New Hampshire State Home Show—in Manchester from March 17 through 21— celebrates fifty years.

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Produced by the New Hampshire Home Builders Association, this show offers the opportunity to interact with builders, remodelers, decorators, landscapers and others. The latest in home-related products and services are showcased—everything from mortgages to landscaping, hot tubs to custom homebuilders, and custom closets to fabulous kitchens and baths. Highlights also include the Tiny House Village and the Junior Lego Build. Held in conjunction with the home show, the third annual Hammers for Veterans auction is open for donations or financial contributions. Friday, 1–8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m.– 4 p.m. Admission is $9; $6 for seniors age sixty-two and older; and children under age twelve are admitted free of charge.

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Purple Martins are known as harbingers of spring.

But their numbers have been dramatically reduced as European Starlings and House Sparrows have successfully competed with them for nesting cavities. In 2013, Purple Martins were discovered nesting in a small birdhouse in a Hampton, New Hampshire, marsh. The following year, a group of Audubon volunteers placed a gourd rack on town land nearby. Since then, that Martin colony has grown and now serves as a model for York County Audubon to emulate. Dennis Skillman is a member of Seacoast/New Hampshire Audubon, and has been at the center of their work to expand the colony there. York County Audubon hosts his program on the success they’ve had, which has yielded a colony filled to capacity with more than forty young fledged. 7–8:30 p.m.

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Fiftieth Annual New Hampshire State Home Show

SoBo Story Slam: The Agony of Victory, the Thrill of Defeat

This experience features engrossing true stories told by the people who lived them. Whether funny and poignant, incredible and scary, or all of the above, each story centers on the theme of “the agony of victory, the thrill of defeat.”

7–8:30 p.m. Admission is $8; $5 for Historic New England members.

Sarah Orne Jewett House Museum and Visitor Center • 5 Portland Street in South Berwick, Maine (207) 384-2454 • www.historicnewengland.org M a rch 15

The Winemaker’s Kitchen Cooking Series: Maple Syrup in Savory and Sweet Preparations

Amy LaBelle, founder and winemaker at LaBelle Winery, and one of LaBelle’s chefs will prepare each item for you to try, as well as share tips for entertaining. This class is suited for couples, singles, family and friends, as well as corporate colleagues.

Menu will include a maple season cocktail, maple crusted chicken tenders and bacon waffles with sweet potato tots, and concludes with maple churros. 6-7:30 p.m. Cost is $27.25.

LaBelle Winery • 345 Route 101 in Amherst (603) 672-9898 • www.labellewineryevents.com/ events-calendar

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Oceania in Salem: Art and Culture of the Pacific Islands

A purple martin

Disney’s Moana introduces viewers to many aspects of ancient life in the Pacific Islands, from the demigod Maui and the many uses of coconuts to tapa (bark-cloth) and outrigger canoes. While living in Hawaii in the 1800s, the Phillips family developed a passion for Oceanic culture. During this program designed for children age five through twelve, explore items from their collection, listen to legends of Maui, and create a tapa stamp design.

10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Admission is $15; $10 for Historic New England Members. Advance registration required.

34 Chestnut Street in Salem, Massachusetts Education@HistoricNewEngland.org

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2017 Maple Weekend

See website for events at local sugaring operations throughout the state. Special events at participating sugar houses. www.nhmapleproducers.com/2016/11/04/2017maple-weekend M a rch 28

Broadening Your Global Perspective Through Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves—acclaimed for his best-selling guidebooks and public television series—believes there’s more to travel than good-value hotels, great art and tasty cuisine. Drawing from lessons he learned while exploring Europe, Central America, Asia and the Middle East, Steves explains that by traveling thoughtfully, you can take home the greatest souvenir: a broader perspective. 7:30 p.m.

The Music Hall • 28 Chestnut Street in Portsmouth (603) 436-2400 • www.themusichall.org

New Hampshire Earth Day Celebrations

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Join Strawbery Banke’s inspired community of garden volunteers and help bring new life to the Historic Gardens at Strawbery Banke. RSVP required. 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (followed by potluck lunch).

Strawbery Banke Museum • 14 Hancock Street in Portsmouth • (603) 422-7504 volunteers@strawberybanke.org

See a variety of demonstrations, take part in activities and get information while learning about the environment and the local ecosystem.

10 a.m.–3 p.m.

Children’s Museum of New Hampshire 6 Washington Street in Dover www.childrens-museum.org

Earth Day Volunteer Garden Clean Up Day

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Earth Day Festival— Tread Lightly in Auburn

Featuring bird banding demonstrations, live animals, prize drawings, build-your-own-birdhouse kits for sale, games, mural painting, crafts, scavenger hunts, live music and marshmallow roasting at a campfire. 10 a.m.– 3 p.m.

Massabesic Audubon Center • 26 Audubon Way in Auburn • www.nhaudubon.org A pri l 16

Earth Day 5k in Nashua

The Rivier University Biology Club is hosting the twelfth annual Earth Day 5k road race to benefit Beaver Brook Association in Hollis. 10 a.m.

Memorial Hall Parking Lot at Rivier University in Nashua • www.rivier.edu/roadrace

april Restaurant Week Portsmouth and the Seacoast

This bi-annual culinary event features special three-course prix fixe menus at participating restaurants throughout Portsmouth and the Seacoast. Some of the many restaurants that have participated include the Black Trumpet, the Blue Mermaid Island Grill, Brazo, Café Mediterraneo, Epoch Restaurant, Jumpin’ Jay’s, The Dolphin Striker, The Library Restaurant, Mombo, Orchard Street Chop Shop and Salt. Lunches are $16.95; dinners $29.95. www.goportsmouthnh.com/where-to-eat/ restaurant-week 108 | New Hampshire Home

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Kids Club: Earth Day at Churchills in Exeter Events include pansy planting in recyclable pots, face painting and more. 11 a.m.

12 Hampton Road in Exeter www.churchillsgardens.com A pril 23

Monadnock Earth Day Festival in Keene

More than thirty area nonprofit organizations and local sustainable businesses gather together to showcase their contributions to the vibrancy and wellness of the Monadnock Region.

Noon–4 p.m.

Cypress Street (next to the Food Co-op) in Keene www.facebook.com/MonadnockEarthDayFestival or monadnockfood.coop/earthfestival/

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The Seacoast Home and Garden Show features more than two hundred exhibitors showcasing the latest products and services in areas such as building, remodeling, kitchens bathrooms, outdoor living, green living and décor. The Garden Marketplace has flowers, seeds and planters. The Churchill’s Garden Seminar Series offers a variety of gardening seminars. The TASTE Meet the Chefs Cooking Series features some of the Seacoast’s top chefs with the opportunity to learn new recipes, get great cooking tips and taste their culinary creations. Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.– 4 p.m. Admission is $8; $6 for seniors; $5 for children age six through sixteen; children younger than age six are admitted free of charge.

Whittemore Center Arena • The University of New Hampshire in Durham www.seacoast.newenglandexpos.com

Dozens of chili and cornbread recipes are put to the test. 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

North Conway Community Center and the Gibson Center (603) 356-5701 • www.mtwashingtonvalley.org

Seacoast Home and Garden Show

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Earth Day Celebration in Dover

Chili Cook-Off

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Preserving Community Character Conference

Take this opportunity to be inspired by experts while learning how to save community landmarks, promote sustainability, assemble a highperforming project team, use best practices in communication and more. Sponsored by the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance. 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

(603) 224-2281 • www.nhpreservation.org march/april 2017

Heart of the Arts Gala

Only 150 tickets are being sold for a chance to own Anchored Candy No. 2, made by nationally recognized Manchester artist Vivian Beer (see more information on page 88), winner of HGTV’s Ellen’s Design Challenge. The sculpture is part of the “Anchored Candy” series, and is both functional as a bench and a stunning work of art. It is valued at $10,500. All raffle ticket holders are invited to an exclusive event with the artist at the Currier in May. Raffle tickets are $150 each and include two invitations to the artist reception. Raffle tickets do not include entrance to the gala, and you do not have to be present to win.

The Currier Museum of Art • 150 Ash Street in Manchester • (603) 669-6144 • www.currier.org

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Art in Bloom

This rite of spring pairs fine art and floral design with offerings of free guided tours among MFA treasures, plus workshops, demonstrations and lectures. Garden clubs and professional designers from across New England create floral arrangements inspired by the MFA’s works of art. Highlights include a special evening preview, Community Day with children’s activities, as well as a lecture, a demonstration and master classes with Ariella Chezar, an expert on painterly arrangements.

Museum of Fine Arts • 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts • (617) 267-9300 www.mfa.org

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New Hampshire Maple Experience

Take a guided tour of a sugaring operation, including horse-drawn and tractor-drawn rides, tapping a maple tree with the group, tree identification and the history of maple sugaring. Other activities include attending a chef demo about cooking with maple, touring the New Hampshire Maple Museum as well as sampling maple syrup, pickles and donuts. March 11, 18, 19, 25, 26 and April 1.

The Rocks Estate in Bethlehem www.nhmapleexperience.com

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Ingo Günther’s Wetlands (2016) is an illuminated globe that shows the marshes , swamps and similar areas where 75 percent of the world’s endangered species live.

Ingo Günther: World Processor and Mining Big Data: Artists’ Global Concerns

Ingo Günther—who studied ethnology and cultural anthropology at Frankfurt University as well as sculpture and media at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf—has been mapping data onto a sea of illuminated globes in his World Processor series for fifteen years. In very different ways, Amy Balkin and Luis Delgado-Qualtrough use data-driven research to grapple visually with topics such as climate change, the demands on global natural resources, carbon emissions, solar energy and the effects of various human activities on a global scale. All these exhibitions reveal how artists use information to create new forms and ways of understanding global issues. World Processor on view March 24 through April 30. Artists’ Global Concerns on view March 24 through June 18.

Hood Museum of Art • Dartmouth College East Wheelock Street in Hanover • (603) 646-2808 www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu

Forecasting: Climate Change and Water Impact

This exhibit brings together the disciplines of meteorology, technology and visual art to explore climate change and its impact on water. This interdisciplinary experience provides viewers with a model for describing and presenting information that originates in New Hampshire but has wider impacts; it also highlights the power of combining different critical thinking pathways to deepen one’s understanding of the relevance of climate change. On view through April 21.

Museum of the White Mountains • Plymouth State University • 17 High Street in Plymouth • (603) 535-3210 • www.plymouth.edu/museum-of-thewhite-mountains

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March 28 • 7:30 PM The Music Hall, Portsmouth PBS travel show host & guidebook author RICK STEVES has helped millions experience the joys of travel.

Rick will entertain and challenge you while “Broadening Your Global Perspective Through Travel.”

Pack your bags & reserve your ticket • (603) 436-2400 • themusichall.org 110 | New Hampshire Home

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Advertisers’ index 3W design, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Frank Webb's Bath Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Pella Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Bedford Village Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . n 25

Hayward & Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

PRG Rugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Belletetes Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

j.ellen Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Artistic Tile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Belknap Landscape Co., Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,104

Bonin Architects & Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,100

California Closets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Catlin + Petrovick Architects PC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Cedar Mill Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Christopher P. Williams, Architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fred E. Varney Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Home Comfort. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Jancewicz & Son. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Keepsake Quilting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Leigh B. Starer Landscape Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Liberty Hill Construction, LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Lighting by the Sea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 105

Ponders Hollow Flooring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 104 Rockingham Electric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Rolling Green Nursery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Rumford Stone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Runtal Radiators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6, 105 Samyn-D'Elia Architects, PA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Seasonal Specialty Stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Linda Cloutier Kitchens & Baths. . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 105

Soake Pools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Company C, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Loewen Window Center 0f VT and NH. . . . . . . . . . 63

Standard of New England, LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Crown Point Cabinetry . . . . . . 102, inside back cover

McLaughlin Transportation Systems, Inc.. . . . . . 104

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99, inside back cover Colonial Woodworking, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Creative Ventures Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Little River Oriental Rugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

McGray & Nichols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

CRT Interiors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 104

D. R. Dimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

New England Expos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Currier Museum of Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Mr. Appliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

db Landscaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

New Hampshire Homebuilders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

DeStefano Architects. . . . . . . . . . . . inside front cover

New Hampshire Furniture Masters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Derek Marshall Sculptural Lighting. . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Dream Kitchens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Eport Wood Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Ethan Allen Home Interiors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Ferguson Plumbing Supplies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

New Hampshire Food Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 New Hampshire Public Television. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Northcape Designs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Not Just Kitchens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Southwick Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Stephens Landscaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Tailored Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 The Carriage Shed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 The Lighting Showroom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The Music Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 The Palace Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 TMS Architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Triad Associates, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Vintage Kitchens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Winchendon Furniture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Old Hampshire Designs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

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at home in new hampshire

An Open and Shut Case: Lessons from an Old Latch Doors in old houses are promiscuous. Over time, they

was short. The spring leading from the latch bolt to the door-

move from room to room and sometimes from house to

knob hub sat in a channel, but about a fourth of that channel

house. Aging makes them cranky. Old door hardware can be

was filled with a small piece of wood. Cheap Yankee, I thought.

mischievous, stubborn and just plain stuck. Is there an old

Someone, forty to seventy-five years ago—or more—only had

house that doesn’t have doors

a short spring and put that wood

that don’t latch, or latches miss-

in to make up the difference.

ing hardware, and all manner

Off I went to our local hard-

of strange, shotgun marriages

ware store, one of those old

of doorknobs—brass living one

family-owned businesses with

side, while porcelain or glass may

narrow, creaking aisles crammed

be on the other side?

with stuff from toe to ceiling. It’s

Unless you’re that species

like being inside a toolbox. Every

of homeowner who emits the

inch is used, and your visit can

“update call”—as in, when enter-

turn into a Where’s Waldo? trea-

ing an older kitchen or bathroom,

sure hunt for a faucet washer.

you chirp, “This needs updating!”

I looked through the boxes

—you accept that some doors

of springs, at last settling on a

close and others don’t. (And

#4 spring for 88 cents. It worked,

some

open,

but the springiness was weak.

and

old others,

windows

on

The spring moved like it was set

the humidity, just refuse to

depending

in pudding. I put back the little

be

of

piece of wood. (I had set it aside.

acceptance is the peace that

I’ve done enough old house

bothered.)

This

kind

passeth remodeling.

repairs to know that you never

Recently a faithful door latch gave out, as if the door

cut off your retreat route.) It was perfect. No other spring

had wearied of staying closed. It’s an old door, of course,

worked. Cheap Yankee? No. Clever Yankee. Once again, I was

maybe older than the 1880s origin of our house, with two

schooled by an old repair. It works just right with this piece

“Bennington brown” porcelain doorknobs with a swirling pat-

of wood.

tern like an old marble. It’s smooth to the touch. In the nine-

This is a small repair, but it follows the path I’ve learned

teenth century, The Mineral Knob Company made these by

from our old house. I set out with some idea of what needs

the thousands.

fixing, and the house schools me. In our first years, I had tried

I was wary of making this repair. You never know when a

to straighten and level things until I came to see they were

screw will be stuck. You take out the first three, but the fourth

crooked for a reason and were that way long before I came

is a struggle that may defeat you. Not this time. Everything

along.

came right out, and when I chiseled the old paint away, I was

Too many people bully old houses, knocking down walls,

able to slide out the mortise lock—a thin, rectangular box in

loading in granite counters and stainless steel, when a softer

which the mechanism is easy to see and understand. Push

touch would be best. In an era when you can watch endless

on the latch bolt, the spring moves, the knob hub turns and

cable TV shows where they throw out the interiors of houses

it feels as if you have discovered an elf-sized factory hiding

by the dumpster load, this small spring in an old latch is a

inside your door.

homily on thrift. Old houses, even ones with promiscuous

There was a broken spring inside, and oddly, that spring

doors, can be patient teachers.

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