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Cape Cod-Style Architecture and Royal Barry Wills
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Cape Cod-Style Architecture and Royal Barry Wills
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" We're visiting in an exurban location. On Cape Cod with Dick wills who's continuing the work of architectural firm begun in the 1920s by his late father royal Barry wills and before we start talking about houses. And some that you've designed -- some that your father's designed. Could you. Talk -- us a little bit about the philosophy that started the royal where the royal Barry wills."
" But I think that dad's thought was to. Popularize. The traditional. New England architecture. And and because he was so proud of the forefathers and the scale and proportion that they were able to maintain. And then to adapt it to. -- century."
" Exactly and this was at a time when. We hadn't yet really celebrated the colonial revival. Since the 1870s. When they had the Centennial of the revolution and we'd gone through the period of heavy Victorian architecture and Edwardian architecture and kind of a mishmash of styles in this country especially by the gentry. And the world to do so that in a way he was trying to get back to simpler basic are."
" And and humanize it that the human scale proportionate. That included in today's living. You could. Make the common man shall we say. Comfortable in his. Suburban living."
" In an elegant way this I noticed some of the interiors of some of these houses that were built in many different regions of New England. While using. Modern day methods of construction still worked in antique building elements sometimes right old beams old mantelpiece this old doors and door surrounds absolutely. Now we're standing in front of a late twentieth century cape style house right. And that Medicaid as opposed to the center entry colonial. Is a house that's usually a more modest house and usually usually. House that would have been built by. Pioneers almost right simpler detail right this as some of the features here have to do with its low horizontal profile."
" It was built close to the ground is that ground. And low weave line this is. Three quarters -- you might say in minutes. Historically you have half cape. With the door on the left and went all the windows on one side right then the three quarters cape with -- one window. And then the full cape with the center entrance and two windows on either -- that's a great garden tucked away in the corner and that's our secret garden. So is that off the master suite balustrade off the library I see now from the street when you're looking at the house you see the small. Cape Cod cottage this is a big house there's a huge amount of space here I don't know that is there's a lot of space here about 5000 square feet. This still has the same kind of feeling that I was talking about a minute ago in terms of there's one part that came first and then another part came later even though is all built together right right. But you are in yet traditionally your Cape Cod house was expanded and expanded and expanded. And again the blending of materials especially over here of the whitewashed brick on this gable end. The whitewashed brick and then the detail of -- blowing it out just a bit to give -- just a little different that details a little bit of visual interest yet. So you've got the shingles and you've got the bricks and a little copper year old glass there it all works together so beautifully."
