Lily Lake Residence, Dalton, Pa.

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Nic Lehoux

View of the two houses from the driveway approach.

Nic Lehoux

The new linear house, built behind the stone cottage, relates to… Read More The new linear house, built behind the stone cottage, relates to the old fieldstone walls and a new pond.

Nic Lehoux

A deck extends the lattice-clad study over the pond.

Nic Lehoux

Viewed from the cottage, now a library and loft, a skylit chimne… Read More Viewed from the cottage, now a library and loft, a skylit chimney marks the main house entrance.

Nic Lehoux

A glass passageway links the old stone cottage with a new milled… Read More A glass passageway links the old stone cottage with a new milled timber house. Parallel linear corridorsone outside, one inside–lead from the parking court and garage to the house.

Todd Howard

Floor plan.

Nic Lehoux

The stone fireplace wall echoes the sites existing fieldstone wa… Read More The stone fireplace wall echoes the sites existing fieldstone walls.

Nic Lehoux

The interior corridor intersects with the glass passageway to th… Read More The interior corridor intersects with the glass passageway to the cottage.

Todd Howard

Site plan.

bohlin cywinski jackson
wilkes-barre, pa.

“Sublime” is how a judge described the relationship between an old stone cottage and a long, linear house that hovers behind it, like a mirage in the rolling terrain.

The clients wanted their new house to assimilate the old one. Peter Q. Bohlin, FAIA, took cues from the raw materials of this early 1900s agrarian landscape: farm structures, high grass, and a pattern of dry-laid stone walls. He placed a wood-and glass house between the cottage, now renovated as a library and loft, and a new pond. A delicate glass passageway joins the structures, lining up the cottage’s front door with a massive fireplace in the new house. Light streams down its stone face from skylights on either side.

The low-slung house unspools along an existing stone wall. Two lattice-clad rooms, inspired by corncribs, pop out of the narrow footprint. One is the study, extended by a deck over the pond. The other, a guest bedroom, pushes toward a great maple tree along the wall. “The lattice makes it a special room, perfect for resting or reading in the afternoon, with a sliding door facing the water,” Bohlin says.

Our panelists appreciated that the new house defers to the original, but each has its own identity. “The design restores the old stone farmhouse and then just quietly makes it a grand estate,” a judge said.

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product details

bathroom fittings and fixtures: Kohler, www.kohler.com; countertops: Vermont Structural Slate Co., www.vermontstructuralslate.com; dishwasher: Miele, www.mieleusa.com; doors and windows: Tradewood Windows and Doors, www.tradewoodindustries.com; flooring: Endless Mountain Stone Co., www.endlessmountainstone.com, Vermont Structural Slate Co., www.vermontstructuralslate.com; garage doors: Designer Doors, www.designerdoors.com; hardware: FSB, www.fsbna.com; insulation: Fomo Products, www.fomo.com; kitchen fittings: Blum, www.blum.com, Hansgrohe, www.hansgrohe-usa.com, Reveal Designs, www.reveal-designs.com; kitchen fixtures: Blanco, www.blancoamerica.com; lighting fixtures: Ardee Lighting, www.ardeelighting.com, B-K Lighting, www.bklighting.com, Bruck Lighting Systems, www.brucklighting.com, Lumière, www.lumierelighting.com; oven: Wolf, www.wolfappliance.com; paints/stains/wall finishes: Cabot, www.cabotstain.com, Penofin, www.penofin.com; refrigerator: Sub-Zero, www.subzero.com; roofing: Carlisle SynTec, www.carlisle-syntec.com, Revere Copper Products, www.reverecopper.com; skylights: AIA Industries, www.aiaindustries.com