Pleasant Valley Residence

The architectural character of this weekend getaway maintains the spirit of an old white-clapboard farmhouse and stone outbuildings that used to occupy the site. The three new structures – a weekend house, guest house and three-car garage – are grouped around a large informal courtyard with views across a long valley to a related family estate. The simple linear plan organizes the living room, dining room and kitchen on the ground floor with bedrooms above where they face woods and cornfields to the south, reinforcing the sense of living in the countryside.