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PRIVATE RESIDENCE ADDITION
Buffalo, New York, 2017.
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PRIVATE RESIDENCE

Holland, New York, 2007.
The homeowners wanted their home to be understated from the road at the main entrance, but dramatic as it cascades down the hill to a grand terrace facing a view of the valley.

MILLER MANSION RESTORATION

Nottingham Terrace and Lincoln Parkway, Buffalo, New York, 2003.
Originally built in 1929-33.  Original architects: Bley & Lyman.
The restoration of this twelve-thousand square foot American Beaux-Arts revival of English Tudor and Jacobean manor houses returned it to a single-family house after it had been used for much of its life as an exclusive private school.  The original conversion to a school left it with no kitchen, several muti-fixture school bathrooms, and conspicuously insensitive modifications for egress.  The restoration involved undoing many of these modifications, repairing a variety of leaks in the complex roof and internal downspout systems, repointing the exterior balustrade, resetting the terrace paving stones, rebuilding the kitchen and eight bathrooms, re-creating interior plaster ornamentation, refinishing the hardwood floors, and extensive rewiring.  Shortly after the restoration, it was sold for a record-setting price.

Paint, wallpaper, furnishings, light fixtures and decoration by others.
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