Colonial Revival Renovation Wins Preservation Award

Renovations and additions to a 1904 Colonial Revival house and property has won Austin Patterson Disston Architects of Southport a New Canaan Preservation Alliance 2014 Historic Preservation Award.

Under the design guidance of partner McKee Patterson, AIA, the house, located at 621 Canoe Hill Road in New Canaan, was extensive renovated and added to with a “conscious preservation ethic” notes the NCPA. The citation goes on to say the project “retains most of the building’s historic fabric and character. The minor additions were complimentary to the original symmetry of the house…following the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation.”

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