The Homestead Project: A Residence Reimagined

When the Farnsworth family moved in 1850 from Thomaston to their new home in Rockland, the move signified an embrace of period art and design in the interior of what has become known as the Farnsworth Homestead. The house was situated right in the heart of the newly formed village of Rockland, a block from the town’s main thoroughfare, two blocks from a bustling harbor and surrounded by other buildings of equally recent design and construction. The design of an urban contemporary house will be the underlying concept behind the Homestead Project, which will be on display in the Farnsworth’s Crosman Gallery. The ten architectural firms participating have been asked to present their designs for a house on the same lot as the existing Homestead, one that meets the needs of the twenty-first century Farnsworth family. The participating architects are:

• Eric Allyn of Houses & Cottages, Rockland, Maine;
• Alex Anmahian and Nick Winton of Anmahian Winton Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts;
• Christopher Campbell of Christopher Campbell Architecture, Portland, Maine;
• Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, New York, New York;
• Bruce Norelius of Bruce Norelius Studio of Los Angeles, California;
• Susan Rodriguez of Ennead Architects LLP, New York, New York;
• Julio Salcedo of scalar Architecture, New York, New York;
• Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawkinson of Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects, LLP, New York, New York;
• Steven Theodore and Wiebke Theodore of Theodore + Theodore Architects, Arrowsic, Maine;
• John B. Tittmann of Albert, Righter & Tittmann Architects, Boston, Massachusetts.