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Jack's
House is an addition to a 200-year-old farmhouse located in the West
Village. This wandering nomad wood frame house has been the home of
Margaret Wise Brown, author of the book "Goodnight Moon",
but is now the home of seven-year-old Jack who was in desperate need
of his own room.
Jack's House is designed to echo its existing quirkiness; the addition
acts as
a sister to the existing house. The second floor's "potato chip" inward-sloped
roof and angled walls create an animated relationship with the "settled" farmhouse.
On the first floor, a curved loggia with oversized double hung windows creates
a new entry and kitchen. Jack's House received the annual Village Award from
the Greenwich Village Historical Society.
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