A prize-winning New Hampshire house | Architects E.H. and M.K. Hunter | Photos Richard Garrison

Started when building restriction confined a house to 1,500 square feet, this modern house actually did its expansion during erection because the maximum size was increased 500 square feet during that period. It is the home of a college professor and his wife, who is an expert weaver of modern rugs and fabrics. Therefore, one of the basic requirements was a well-lighted workshop. The two bedrooms were added to the plan during the course of building, although provision had been made at the very beginning. Several things had great bearing on the finished design-first of all, site and program. The plot slopes appreciably from the west and north; dense woodlands and a brook are on the latter exposure. The street of the one-acre lot is to the south; the magnificent view of New England hills to the west.

In order to capture this view, the entire west wall of the house is of glass; in the living room, the fixed sash actually reach from floor to ceiling. Since this room is not over-large and serves as both living and dining room, an attempt was made to achieve a feeling of space that was not actually there. In part, this was done by the large glass areas but, in reality, the greatest contributor to the effect was the use of a small lally column at the juncture of the west wall and the brick abutting wall with its high windows. The effect is really quite startling. The ceiling looks as if it were floating because, in extension, it also becomes the soffit of the wide exterior overhanging eaves. Fire-resisting materials have been used throughout the house. Its framing masonry and lally columns carry light steel beams and open-webbed steel joists. Extending from the fireplace wall at right angles is a brick cavity wall, the brick laid with header joints aligning and extending beyond the westhouse wall to form a wind-breaking buttress. Where brick is not used, the exterior walls are of vertical cypress siding, stained with a gray preservative. The clear pine trim is also gray.