kitchen written by gail ravgiala • photographed by peter vanderwarker
TAKING FLIGHT • A stately Georgian house connects to
its first-class garden with a bold yet sensitive addition
A BUT TERFLY ON A STONE. THAT IS HOW Andrew M. Sidford, principal of Andrew Sidford Architects in Newburyport, Massachusetts, perceives the addition he designed for a 1771 Georgian-style house. “This is a beautiful old building with a
strong traditional history,” says Sidford, “and we wanted
something that would add to that but take nothing away.”
architecture: andrew sidford architects
Like many of Newburyport’s historic houses that date to
the town’s 18th- and early 19th-century heyday as a mercantile and shipping mecca, the three-story house is formidable
both in size and architecture. The owners, a married couple who have lived in the house for 17 years, undertook a
major kitchen renovation three years after they moved in.
They engaged a contractor and The Kennebec Company,
designers and cabinetmakers in Bath, Maine, and turned out
a space that was a huge improvement over the Brady Bunch
the steel rafters are
exposed so the pavilion
“looks as light and
delicate as possible,”says
architect Andrew Sidford,
who designed the
outdoor space as part of a
kitchen renovation for a
1771 Georgian house.
