WALL & TERRACE HOUSE
ADDITION AND RENOVATION AT AN HISTORIC FARMHOUSE, COMPLETED 1998
This Federal Style house has been continuously occupied and sequentially expanded since 1810 on this site, first deeded in 1761 as 16 acres of farmland. At present, the house sits 150’ back from a secluded street on 0.7 acres of wooded property at the edge of Wyndmoor, just outside Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill area. Walls dominate at this house of low-pitched roofs; the two-story additions reinforce that characteristic as they accommodate the Owners’ program of a new Breakfast/Family Room, Kitchen, and Garage on the 1st floor and Master Suite above. Extraneous existing elements (photos below) were either enveloped in the additions or removed.
A single new wall, placed parallel to the original back wing, envelopes the existing one-story entry remnant and defines the width of the new Breakfast Room and Master Bedroom. A trellis extends beyond these rooms to form a two-story porch that connects the Breakfast Room with a flagstone terrace at the edge of the wooded yard.
‘This addition totally changed the way we live in this house. Now we open the blinds BEFORE we go to sleep, so we can be awakened by sunlight filtering through the trees in the morning’.
Angelo Manioudakis, Owner
