David: Wow-we are finally doing this. But it has been a long journey. So let’s start at the beginning.

My husband originally came from New Jersey, and I was raised on the North Shore of Massachusetts, where we both grew up in tightly condensed neighborhoods. But we have always shared a passion for traditional American barns and a more rural way of living. When we moved to Weston, Massachusetts, we found a great plot of land with a brook in the backyard, called The Stony Brook, running through it. Although our house was on a busy main road we also had a cul-de-sac behind us with great neighbors, lots of kids, and amazing hiking trails.

We then met a woman named Pam Fox who was the local town historian. She had written a book entitled Farm Town to Suburb: The History and Architecture of Weston, Massachusetts 1830-1980.


In Pam’s book we learned about all the great barns of Weston. Our town was a true Yankee farming community. Today our town is a major Boston suburb. And a lot of those great farms and barns have given way to big, new estates.

When we outgrew our home we thought it would be great to build a new house around our passion for barns, and at the same time give a nod to that old Weston Yankee farming community. Pam’s book gave us a lot of great details about the architecture of a traditional barn and we wanted to key our designs from these impressive structures.

When we decided to go for it and show others what we wanted to do most people thought we were nuts. That just tells us we’re on to something. So here we go.

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Source: Blog - Old House My House