The Longwood
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Longwood is an Arts and Crafts style house, for a TND neighborhood, named for an urban street in a historic section in the City of Norfolk, VA.
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The Lindenwood
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Lindenwood is a house plan for a narrow lot in an urban neighborhood. This plan provides for a garage facing the street while maintaining the architectural detailing of quality homes. It is named after a historical neighborhood in Norfolk, VA, that is known as “One of Norfolk’s most intact settlements remaining from the late 19th Century.”
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The Lafayette
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Lafayette is named for the TND neighborhood in Norfolk, a corridor of historical houses, spanning the Lafayette River Bridge.
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The Lamberts Point
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Lamberts Point is the name of this urban house plan. This plan is named after a neighborhood of the same name in Norfolk, VA. The recent history of Lambert’s Point is associated with the location of a major coal exporting pier on the East Coast as well as encompassing the grounds of Old Dominion University.
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The Katrina Cottage
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Katrina Cottage is a small 3-bedroom home designed for a working class household in Louisiana who were rendered homeless in the wake of the 2005 hurricane that devastated New Orleans and the surrounding areas. Mary Anne Cusato and other architects have promoted such designs as ‘The New Economy Home’. Our version is especially suited for a very shallow lot depth.
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The Juliet
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Juliet is a Victorian style house, designed for a TND neighborhood, named for the architectural designer who created it.
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Jennifer
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Jennifer is a model house plan for a traditional urban neighborhood. It features a master bedroom on the first floor in spite of its compact size and affordable architectural detailing. Jennifer is a popular name for a number of prominent entertainment personalities as well as the name of the wife of the designer of this home.
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The Jamestown
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Jamestown is a compact Colonial Revival house plan, named after a neighborhood in James City County, near Williamsburg, Virginia.
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The Ironbound
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Ironbound is a model house plan designed for a working-class urban neighborhood in Williamsburg, Virginia. The name may also be related to another working-class neighborhood of the same name in Newark, New Jersey.
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The Gordon-Van Tine
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Gordan-Van Tine is a Bungalow style house plan, recreated from design #594 as seen in his house plan pattern book published in 1922. It is reminiscent of many of the Arts and Crafts style homes in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The Gate House
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Gate House is a TND style house plan, designed for a narrow lot, is vaguely reminiscent of a Charleston Single-House, with a linear porch along the side of the house.
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The Gabriella
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The GABRIELLA model plan is designed for a narrow lot urban, for an in-fill property where the front-loading garage can be tolerated by the architectural reviewers that would prefer to maintain street fronts that are free of cars. There are times when there is no alternative and the planners and historical committees do relent. The GABRIELLA maintains the front porch for sitting and meeting the neighbors. The canopy over the garage door is a detail that embellishes the façade of this house to improve its eye appeal for historical purists.
The plan lives large with four bedrooms and an efficient layout that keeps the overall size at 2,300 SF. The style of this design is historically patterned after a variant of Victorian homes made famous by an architectural historian named Charles Eastlake in the 1860’s. The style is well document and now bears his name, also know as Victorian Stick style. It is often typified by half-timbered boards that create panels on the clapboard siding. Our model plan shows this detailing on the box bay that projects over the garage door to further distract attention from the garage itself.
Who can deny that the name Gabriella denotes femininity and elegance, perhaps a Victorian Femme fatale. We noticed in an article in Architectural Digest some years ago where an owner by the name of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd were featured with their home by the famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, supposedly the only house he designed in this country. We credit the owners of the Niemeyer house with our name selection of this urban plan. (Boyd is not as sexy as Gabrielle.)
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The Ford Street
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Ford Street is as an extremely narrow house plan. It can be combined with other identical units into a string of two or more row of homes in a line. The 12-foot wide plan is three stories with three bedrooms. It is named after the street where it was originally designed to be built.
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The Federal Smithfield
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Federal Smithfield is a competition winning design for affordable, sustainable, workforce housing, in the Town of Smithfield, Virginia in 2008.
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The Dorian
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Dorian is named after the Greek column order that was featured on the Parthenon in Athens. The architectural style of this compact home is known as ‘Greek Revival’. It is a simple version of an urban house intended for an infill lot in a traditional neighborhood.
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The Colonial Smithfield
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Colonial Smithfield is a competition-winning design for affordable, sustainable, workforce housing in the town of Smithfield, Virginia in 2008.
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