HARRISON & VALE

Project 06

HudsonHouse

Location
Hudson Valley
Type
Private Residence
Year
2025
Size
5,900 sq ft
Farmhouse living room with a stone fireplace, a large sectional sofa, and steel windows onto green hills

A nineteenth-century stone farmhouse at the edge of an open hayfield. The thick walls stayed, the old timbers stayed, and we added a single new wing to bring the house back into the landscape.

The clients use it as a gathering place for family and friends, so the kitchen became the heart of the plan, and every room has a door to the outside. Heating, insulation, and plumbing are all new, and none of them are visible.

Sitting room with a marble fireplace, cream sofa, oak coffee table, and tall windows
Rustic oak bench against a fieldstone wall, with sunlight across wide oak floorboards

Fieldstone

The old walls are two feet thick. We repointed with lime and left every stone face as we found it; a rough oak bench is all that sits against them. The sitting room next door keeps its marble fireplace.

Curved plaster staircase with a carved oak handrail, light falling across the wall

A housethat faces the fields.

The stair

In the new wing, a curved plaster stair with a carved oak handrail. It is the one smooth, modern line in a house of stone and timber.

Material samples of travertine, honed limestone, oak, boucle, and aged brass on a plaster table
Linen lounge chair beside oak shelving and a tall steel-framed window

Lime plaster

Interior walls are lime plaster, troweled by hand and left unpainted. Samples of travertine, limestone, oak, bouclé, and brass were tested against it, and the reading corner shows the result.

Living room with linen sofas and oak beams, open to a porch and grassland beyond

The reading corner

A low linen chair, a stone side table, and oak shelves by a tall window. On winter afternoons it is the warmest seat in the house.

Linen lounge chair and a stone side table beside built-in oak shelving

Elevation, south front

STONEWINGPORCH

Fields and weather

A single new wing in dark-stained timber steps down the slope toward the meadow. At dusk the glass catches the last light, and the stone catches the first of the dark.