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PROJECTS - Residential - The Red House, Sweden, Maine

The Red House, Sweden, Maine

AdditionsCondition AssessmentContextual DesignHistoric Preservation

The B+W Master Plan set out to reconfigure the property for their use, rescuing the original nineteenth century house, adding on functional space, and improving all of the systems to create a fully sustainable, environmentally sound, year-round house – a plan to take The Red House well into the future and serve as an example to other projects in environmental stewardship.

A beloved family summer home is being transformed to year-round use. 

This project is a Comprehensive Master Plan for The Red House, owned by Nils Johnson and Becky Buyers. The original 5-bay house was reportedly built for Col. Samuel Nevers and his wife, Esther Trull Nevers, in 1805; a 2-bay Ell was added to the house in 1840.

In 1960, Nils’ parents purchased the historic farm and lovingly returning to it with their family each summer. Locally known in Sweden as “The Red House,” in December 2021, Becky and Nils acquired the house.

View progress on this project on the owner’s blog.

PROJECTS - Residential - The Red House, Sweden, Maine
AdditionsCondition AssessmentContextual DesignHistoric Preservation

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