We recently began work on a family compound featuring a large three-story hundred-year-old farmhouse with a recent one-story addition, wrap-around porch, lots of shutters, etc.; an interesting job.
Our part of the project was to lightly prep and repaint a detached residence on the same property, a rambling barn structure with an apartment.
ONE of the most interesting peculiarities of Early American domestic architecture is its "localism," its adherence to type within the confines, often, of a very restricted locality.
The fame of this beautifully located city in the center of the Berkshire Hills, has traveled far and wide, and few indeed are the visitors who have not heard of its attractiveness.
Sheffield lies in the heart of the Berkshires at the point where the hills open into a broad valley and the plain throws into contrast the loftiness and grandeur of the mountains.
