Can you find the garage?
Can you see it now?
Hidden Garage Entry
This home was built in the mid-1930s and is one of our all-time favorite garage designs. If it were raised up to ground level, this three car garage would be the first thing seen in the approach to the house. But, due to the ingenious design, it fades out of view. We are fascinated by the architect’s decision to design it as a subterranean structure. It is lovely on the back side and completely disappears from the front entry side. This design solution would be perfect for a downhill building lot.
traditions
We love looking through traditional designs of other architects past and present to glean ideas and gain inspiration. So we thought it would be a neat idea to put a bunch of our plans together into a book, gathering them into a central place for easy perusal. We hope it inspires others in the design of traditional residential architecture. Get your copy here.
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Lovable Place No. 2
Simply put… Home. What is there not to love about white clinker brick, steel windows, slate roof, old towering oak trees and whistling radiators, all filled with children laughing and lots of love. Living in a “lovable old home” there is much I gripe about, but in the end my affection for it always wins out.
The home is a simple arts-and-crafts inspired English Tudor built by a father-son/builder-architect team in 1927. The concept is classic Tudor: side facing gable ends with a single dominant front facing gable, and of course, the well proportioned entry turret. It is on an up-hill site, has a wonderful walled courtyard in the back to retain the terrain above. Some fascinating details include the use of teak wood for the interior paneling and trim, no interior wood casings on the windows, self-supporting precast concrete spiral stairs, and no exposed exterior wood – truly a low maintenance home.
The architect (the son) Edwin Peckinpaugh was 24 years old when he designed the home, a recent graduate of Penn University. He went on to design some of our city’s great homes before moving to Sacramento, CA in the 1940’s – he was a real talent. You can read more about Edwin at the now Stafford King and Wiese Architects.