Mrs. Kimball Blanchard's home in Connecticut | architect Perry M. Duncan

A small house can have all the pluses you generally think come only with lavish scale-grace, spaciousness, ample room for living and storage. It can be modern without looking stark. And it needn't lose the advantages that attract you to modern materials and compactness. For example, this small Connecticut house (four rooms and carport) was designed by architect Perry M. Duncan for his daughter, Mrs. Kimball Blanchard, just across the lake from his own house. Modern in conception, it has an informal feeling and blends in with the surrounding countryside. It is constructed of red cedar boards, has a natural wood- shingled roof and is well suited to the natural landscape of the lake (the Blanchards swim, canoe and fish in summer, skate in winter), huge old trees and natural rock formations. Decorative wood grilles on windows, doors are effective details with the simple flush boarding walls.

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source: House and Garden Magazine | august 1951