A historic house in Cape Cod was brought down and rebuilt to match its original structure, form, and detail, but with modern construction means and according to modern building codes. The house had grown immensly throughout its life, so that the product that we were looking at was actually an accumulation of many changes. It is this active process of additions/subtractions/cares & abuses from its former inhabitors - rather than a style - that renders a historic structure as valuable.

I worked on this project at Imai Keller Moore researching the existing structure & construction so as to bring it up to code in its reconstruction, translating observations and analyses into architectural drawings and details, with particular study spent on the complicated double-sided central corbelling chimney. I worked on this project with Randall Imai & Christine Dunn.

All photos are by Elton-Pope Lance. The drawings, by yours truly, belong to I.K.M.