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74 Hats Off to Designers!At the NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME Design Awards in January, the
magazine recognized 14 noteworthy residential projects from
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departments
18 20 26
36 42 88
10 CONTRIBUTORS
12 FROM THE EDITOR
Saving Matters
14 LETTERS FROM OUR READERS
16 ON THE TOWN
18 FAVORITE FINDS
eco-friendly items for home
20 HOME COOKING
with mary ann esposito
Raves for Radishes26 BY DESIGN
Building for Sustainability By Debbie Kane
36 NOTABLE HOMEOWNERS
A Writer’s Home and HowIt Got That Way By Andi Axman
42 GARDEN Rx
A Grand Spring Awakening By Robin Sweetser
50 GOING GREEN
Reinventing Home Décor By Debbie Kane
84 MARK YOUR CALENDAR !
87 ADVERTISERS’ INDEX
88 AT HOME IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Family Treasures By Rebecca Rule
Illustration by Eric Goodwin
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CONTRIBUTORS
Nancy Belluscio is
a photographer
specializing in
architectural and
environmental images.
Originally from the White
Mountains, she and her
family now live and work
in the Monadnock Region.
She may be reached at
nancyonsite.com.
Jenny Donelan is an
editor and writer with a
wide variety of interests,
and has covered areas
that include computer
technology, best business
practices, pets, skiing as
well as home design. Her
articles have appeared in
the New York Times, the
Boston Globe and
numerous other
publications.
Mary Ann Esposito is
the host of the public
television series Ciao
Italia, now in its
twenty-third season,
and the author of twelve
cookbooks, including her
newest, Ciao Italio Family
Classics. She lives in New
Hampshire. Visit her
website at ciaoitalia.com.
Dana Flewelling of
Dana Flewelling Graphic
Design & Photography
has a graphic design and
commercial photography
studio in Sutton. For
more than twenty-five
years, Flewelling has
been producing creative
print projects and
commercial photography
for small and large
companies.
Eric Goodwin is an
illustrator and caricature
artist who divides his
time between his
hometown of
Londonderry and
San Diego, California.
He is a member of the
Beastheads, a collective
of like-minded artists
who are pushing the
boundaries of caricature
and portrait art. Ericcan be contacted at
ericgoodwinart.com.
Lindsay Holmes and
Tom McHugh of Great
Island Photography are
based in New London
and provide wedding,
event and portrait
photography, along
with videography
services. Their favorite
commercial projects
include architectural
and product shoots, as
well as sporting events.See their work at
greatislandphoto-
graphy.com.
Debbie Kane writes
about home, design, food,
wine and spirits for a
variety of magazines. A
resident of the Seacoast,
she’s also a copywriter
and public relations
consultant. She may be
reached at kanecomm@
comcast.net or through
write2engage.net.
Rose Zevos King recently
graduated from the
University of St Andrews
in Scotland, where she
pursued a degree in art
history, and served as the
creative director and
photo editor for two
university publications.
Having traveled
throughout Europe, Asia
and North America, she
hopes to pursue a career
that combines her
passions for travel,
photography and
architecture.
Kris LaRosa graduated
from Bedford High
School in 2013 and
began working as an
intern for NEW HAMPSHIRE
HOME. She is attending
Maryland Institute
College of Art in
Baltimore to study
photography and plans
to become a fashion
photographer upon
graduating.
Heather Milliman
spent several years at
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
in San Francisco, where
she developed a
tangible enthusiasm
for fresh, handcrafted
foods with unexpected
visual appeal. Her
clients include General
Mills and Men’s Fitness,
and she was also an
instructor at Stonewall
Kitchen Cooking School
in York, Maine. Milliman
lives in Dover with
her family.
Kara Steere has worked
as a professional
writer/editor since her
first job at a small-town
newspaper in 1996.
Since then, she has
focused her career on
bringing clarity and
consistency to
magazines, books,
corporate communica-
tions and marketing
materials produced in a
variety of media. She
can be reached through
marcomfour.com.
Rebecca Rule has lived
and gardened in
Northwood for more
than thirty years. Her
tenth book (and first
picture book for
children) is The Iciest,
Diciest, Scariest Sled Ride
Ever . Other books
include The Best
Revenge (named one of
five essential New
Hampshire books by
New Hampshire
Magazine); Live Free and
Eat Pie: A Storyteller’s
Guide to NH; and
Headin’ for the Rhubarb:
A New Hampshire
Dictionary (well, kinda).
She hosts an interview
show, the NH Authors
Series, on New
Hampshire Public
Television.
Robin Sweetser writes a
gardening column for
the Sunday Concord
Monitor and is a
contributor to the
Old Farmer’s Almanac,
among other
publications. A former
Seacoast resident, she
now lives and gardens
in Hillsborough.
Greg West is a
photographer who
believes that “in every
room, in every building,
there is a visual
character that makes
the space unique and
worth a second glance.”
He may be reached at
gregwestphotography.com.
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When I was little, I had a piggy bank for saving my nickels, dimes and quarters
so I could buy something special. But the idea of saving something special?
That I discovered later, thanks to my grandma, Beatrice Axman. She had a
great eye, and loved collecting furniture and other antiques (some of these treasures now
live with us). Grandma’s aesthetic helped nurture my interest in the decorative arts and
historic buildings, especially old houses. By the time I was twenty-eight, I was tackling the
renovation of a third home. (Note to self: You are staying put in the old house that’s been
home, sweet home for the past twenty-five years.)
Falling in love with an old house is a feeling I know well. And so does writer P.J.
O’Rourke—Cupid’s arrow struck when he saw the charming Colonial near Peterborough
that he’s called home since 1989 (page 36). Built in the 1790s in Walpole, the house was
disassembled and moved in 1939. It was put back together the next year with “someunfortunate additions,” which O’Rourke proceeded to fix.
Today, with sustainability at the front and center of conversations about the built
environment, saving an old home and making it energy efficient are some of the greenest
actions possible. But when there’s no home to save that meets a family’s needs, then
building green is a great option. That was the decision made by two families we introduce
you to in this issue.
One is the Parisiens, two physicians who moved with their young children to New
Hampshire for career reasons. They loved the eco-friendly, energy-efficient home they
built in Maine so much that they asked the same architect—Chris Briley of Briburn LLC
in Portland, Maine—to work with them again in incorporating the same green design
parameters (page 56).
The Hopwoods moved to New Hampshire from Pennsylvania, and worked with archi-
tect Frank Anzalone of Frank Anzalone Associates in New London to design a home that
would last the couple well into retirement (page 26). The couple wanted a comfortable
home that also addressed their concerns for conservation and energy creation. Thanks to
solar panels, cutting-edge heating systems and virtually air-tight construction, the home
produces between 70 percent and 80 percent of the electrical energy the family uses.
Sculptor Jon Brooks took another tack when building his New Boston home, which
became his biggest work of art (page 66). Its floor, ceilings and walls are made from local
hemlock and pine, and feature organic forms, such as curved walls, ribbed supports and
stairs that look like vertebra.A similar labor of love is landscape architect Kristian Fenderson’s spectacular garden
in Acworth (page 42). Located on a gorgeous property that’s been his home for more than
forty-five years, his spring garden bursts forth in a riot of blooms from bulbs, shrubs, trees
and other plants. And then there is his passion, the primulas—his garden has more than
a hundred varieties.
I hope you enjoy our tribute to beautiful environments and sustainability in this, our
seventh anniversary issue. And don’t forget to celebrate Earth Day’s forty-fourth
birthday on April 22—see earthday.org for ways to participate.
Editor
Saving Matters
FROM THE EDITOR
Falling in love
with an old
house is a feeling
I know well.
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Designing a masterpieceI wish that you could have seen the
expression on my face when I opened the
package containing the latest issue of your
magazine! I couldn’t be more thrilled and
appreciative of the cover photo and the
beautiful spread that you have given the
Lancaster home [ A North Country Dream
Home, January/February 2014]. It truly
exceeds anything I could have imagined!
I am deeply grateful for the exposure this
brings to my work. I have so enjoyed getting
to know you and work with you, and hope
our paths cross again soon.
—Alice Williams of Alice Williams Interiors in Hanover
It was delightful to read A North Country
Dream Home in the January 2014 issue. My
team of landscape architects and I worked
for three years on the design and refine-
ments for all the exterior spaces of the
house, creating outdoor rooms to extend
indoor livable spaces; defining view sheds
toward the mountains; and specifying lo-
cally available construction materials and
plant palettes. We worked closely with our
wonderful clients and collaborated exten-
sively with the architect to marry the house
to the land. It is lovely to see how writerJenny Donelan also connected the interior
of the house with the exterior gardens and
landscape. Thank you for a thorough expla-
nation of the collective collaboration.
—Sandra Youssef Clinton of Clinton & Associates, PCLandscape Architects in Hyattsville, Maryland
An architect’s own homeThank you for the four-star (and appropri-
ately named, Free Rein) spread on my own
private creative folly [January/February
2014]. Once again John Hession’s photos are
exemplary, and Howard Mansfield’s writingis a right-on-the-money mix of humor and
serious architectural perception.
It feels like a mature NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME
now has the confidence to take a deep andexpansive breath to then reach out to a
wider range of residences, or dwellings with
soul as Howard Mansfield writes about
elsewhere. Thank you.
—Dan Scully of Daniel V. Scully/Architects in Keene
These photos and essay on Dan Scully and
his home are among the most accom-
plished and delightful articles I’ve ever seen
in a periodical! This is one magazine that’s
not likely to disappear from our house any-
time soon. Thanks for a great article.
—Jack Barrett in Lyme
Kudos to the jurors!I won’t be able to attend the NEW HAMPSHIRE
HOME DESIGN AWARDS [in January] because I
will be traveling to our Los Angeles office. I
wish you the best of luck with it, and I sin-
cerely appreciate serving on the jury. There
are many fine practitioners in your area,
and they should be encouraged to strive for
creative and beautiful projects. I am sure
the support of your publication, with its de-
sign awards, serves to further enhance the
design community for the betterment of all.
—Kathryn Herman of Doyle Herman DesignAssociates in Greenwich, Connecticut
We love hearing your thoughts about the
stories we’ve published, and we’re always on
the lookout for homes and gardens that might
interest our readers. Write to us at Editor;NEW
HAMPSHIRE HOME; 150 Dow Street; Manchester, NH
03101; or e-mail [email protected].
We look forward to hearing from you!
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS
Left:The entry parlor of a geothermal home in Lancaster (A North Country Dream Home, January/February 2014).
Right: In his garage, whose design was inspired by his love of classical architecture and classic cars (Free Rein, Janu-ary/February 2014), Keene architect Dan Scully readies his 1959 Volvo for racing.
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ON THE TOWN
Outstanding architectureFour homes were among the projects recognized at the American Institute of Archi-
tects New Hampshire Chapter (AIANH) Thirtieth Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet
in January at LaBelle Winery in Amherst. John Otte (left, left photo) and Ward D’Elia
of Samyn D’Elia Architects in Ashland, received an Honor Award for the firm’s Norway
Point lakeside project. TMS Architects in Portsmouth took home a Merit Award for itsLighthouse Cove Cottage in Wolfeboro, as did Dennis Mires, P.A., The Architects in Man-
chester for a private residence in New Hampshire. Steve McHenry and Brandon Holben
(from left, right photo) of McHenry Architecture in Portsmouth won the People’s
Choice Award for their Ash Street Split project in Portsmouth. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN W. HESSION
DESIGNAWARDS
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Art and BloomAmong the Concord Garden Club’s
participants at McGowan Fine Art’s Art
and Bloom show in January were, from
left: Susan Heinecke, Laurie Owen, Louise
Spencer, Charlie Cole, Millie LaFontaine,
Lucy Breed and Judy Mathews.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN W. HESSION
Award-winning designNearly 200 people turned out for the presentation of
the New Hampshire Home Design Awards in January at
the Radisson Hotel in Manchester. Awards were given in
eight categories—see page 74 for more information.PHOTOGRAPHY BY WENDY WOOD
Among the winners were: Peter Wobber (left)
and Sam Sayers (right) of Beam Construction
Associates, Inc. in North Sandwich, which
won 2014 Home of the Year, with Jessica
Schooley,NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME sales manager.
Sharron McCarthy,NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME publisher
(left), chats with sponsor Annie Rehm of Liberty
Hill Construction and Bob Davis of Crown Point
Cabinetry in Claremont, winner of Excellence in
Kitchen Design.
Andi Axman, NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME
editor, congratulates Jeremy Bonin, of
Bonin Architects in New London, for
winning Excellence in Green Design.
Also attending were
Nancy and David
Belletete, of Belletetes
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Specialists in Jaffrey,
Peterborough, Andover,
Nashua, Sunapee andAshland—one of the
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in Nashua; event sponsors Greg Rehm of Liberty Hill Construction in
Bedford, and Dave Brassard and Michael Huptly-Pierce of RE Marble in
Temple; and Jessica Schooley,NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME sales manager.
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Decked-out holiday homes
Seven homes in New London were
opened to visitors for The Fells Holiday
House Tour 2013 in December. Among the
volunteers, staff and trustees celebrating
at the Holiday Patron Party were, from
left: Laura Beth Foster, volunteer house
tour chair; Bill and Sharon Palmer, volun-
teer preview party chairs; Susan Warren,
executive director of The Fells; and John
Ferries, board chair.PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF JOAN EATON
Nearly 400 people turned out to take the
Palace Theatre Holiday Tour in December,
which featured five homes in Bedford.
Shown at Ira Lexus in Manchester, where
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T he unassuming radish gains
notoriety mostly as an over-
looked, carved-rose garnish on a
party appetizer platter, or thinly sliced
and squished between small, buttered
cubes of crustless bread that is served as
a classic, crunchy French hors d’oeuvre.
But, there is so much more radishes
can offer a cook looking for a fresh
vegetable this time of year (radishes
are available year round but are at their
best in winter and spring).
Radishes were first cultivated in China
and Egypt thousands of years ago, and
today come in many different sizes,
shapes and even color. Best known are
the Cherry Belle variety, those round,
red radishes that look like jewels andstand out in the produce aisle. But,
there are also very thin, white tapered
radishes known as icicle radishes as
well as purple, yellow and black rad-
ishes. Farmers’ markets usually have
a variety of these lesser-known types.
Asian markets sell the daikon radish—
cylindrical in shape and long, these are
used in Japanese soups and stews as well
as Chinese stir-fries.
Generally eaten raw, radishes are
members of the mustard family, where
they get that nice tangy and peppery
flavor. And while radishes are delicious
raw, they are also terrific roasted, grated,
steamed and sautéed. They make a
terrific side dish for roasted meats and
chicken; salad slaws take on new tastes
when made from grated radishes. They
are even good pickled.
Raves for Radishes
P H O T O G R A P H Y C O U R T E S Y O F P A U L L A L L Y
Spring is the perfect
time for this versatile
vegetable.
HOME COOKING with mary ann esposito
By Mary Ann Esposito | Photography by Greg West | Food styling by Heather Milliman
When buying radishes, look for firm,
non-cracked bunches with smooth skin
and vibrant green tops. Wilted leaves are
a telltale sign that the radishes are past
their prime. Don’t remove the tops until
you’re ready to use them (the leaves
can be chopped, and used in stir-fries
or salads). Radishes can be stored for up
to two weeks in the vegetable compart-
ment of your refrigerator.
I like to grow radishes. Once the seed
is sown, radishes are one of the earliest
crops to pop up in the garden. I prefer
to harvest radishes when they are a
small size (larger ones tend to be dry
and mealy).
Low in calories—just nineteen in a
cup of sliced radishes—this vegetable is a
great source of fiber, vitamin C, folic acid
and potassium, as well as a good source
of riboflavin, vitamin B6, calcium, mag-
nesium, copper and manganese. Adopt
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Chicken and Ginger Stir-FrySERVES 4
Chicken can be quickly prepared with daikon radishes in this stir-fry.
Ginger and soy sauce add just the right amount of punch for flavor.
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1½ cups chicken broth
1 pound boneless chicken cutlets,cut into ½-inch-wide strips
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
1 teaspoon Chinese Five Spice Powder
Juice of 1 lemon
4 tablespoons sesame-seed oil, divided
2 carrots, peeled and julienned
1 small daikon radish, julienned
1 small bok choy, cut into thin strips
1 cup thinly sliced shitake mushrooms
2 tablespoons grated ginger
Recipe courtesy of Mary Ann Esposito
1. In a small bowl, whisk together the cornstarchand chicken broth, and set aside.
2. In a bowl, combine the chicken, garlic, soysauce, Chinese Five Spice Powder and lemon juice. Toss well to combine and marinate for 15 minutes.
3. In a wok or large sauté pan, heat 2 tablespoonsof the sesame oil over medium heat. Add carrotsand daikon, and cook quickly for 2–3 minutes. Addthe bok choy and cook until it begins to soften.Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring constantlyuntil they begin to soften. Transfer the mixture toa bowl.
4. Add the remaining sesame oil to the pan overmedium-high heat. Drain the chicken (reserve themarinade), and add the chicken and ginger to thepan. Cook, stirring often until the chicken browns.Stir the marinade into the cornstarch mixture andadd to the pan. Cook over high heat, stirring untilthe sauce begins to thicken.
5. Serve over cooked rice or noodles.
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HOME COOKING with mary ann esposito
Grated Radish SlawS ERV ES 4 –6
This colorful and healthy radish slaw is a spin-off on the more commonly known
coleslaw salad. The radish version is perfect for company because it can be made ahead.
2 tablespoons rice-wine vinegar
2½ tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon caraway seed, crushed
2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
1 garlic clove, minced ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
15–20 medium radishes, withoutleaves, grated
1 large carrot, peeled and grated
1. In a small bowl, whisk together thevinegar, oil, honey, caraway seed, parsley,garlic and salt.
2. Combine the radishes and carrots in alarge salad bowl. Add the dressing andtoss well.
3. Cover and refrigerate at least one hourbefore serving.
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Roasted RadishesSERVES 4
What a nice surprise! Radishes are
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1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Combine all
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around the edges and are fork tender.
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BY DESIGN
Bill and Jane Hopwood had
three primary concerns when
they decided to build a home
in the Lake Sunapee area: reduc-
ing energy use, producing their
own energy and living comfortably.
Protecting natural resources and
saving energy is a way of life for Bill,
who worked for more than twenty
years in the renewable energy field.
Through his experience with wind
energy and photovoltaics (solar cells,
panels or arrays that convert sunlight
into electricity), Bill knew the advan-
tages of incorporating this technol-
ogy into his new home.
“I don’t believe any home is truly
net zero (meaning all the energy that
the home consumes is produced on-
site via renewable resources),” Bill says.
Building for Sustainability
By Debbie Kane
In designing a home
that would last well into
retirement, a couple’s top
priorities were energy
efficiency, conservation of
resources and comfort for
their family.
Bill and Jane Hopwood's cedar-shingled, lakeside home was designed by architect Frank Anzalone of Frank Anzalone Associates in New London to address
the homeowners’ concerns for comfort, energy conservation and sustainability.
P H O T O G R A P H Y O N T H
I S P A G E A N D F
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H O T O G R A P H Y
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Thanks to high-tech
features—such as solar
panels, cutting-edge heating
systems and virtually air-tight
construction—the red cedar-
shingled home produces
between 70 percent and
80 percent of the electrical
energy the Hopwoods use.
“But we were interested in producing
our own energy while conserving what
we don’t produce.”
A move to New Hampshire
The Hopwoods moved to New Hamp-
shire from southwestern Pennsylvania,
where they raised cattle and hay on
250 acres of rural farm land and lived
in a circa 1830s, Greek Revival-style
farmhouse. After twenty-five years, they
decided to move, primarily due to noise
and pollution created by one of the
world’s largest underground coal mines
that was located only eight miles from
their home.
Fortunately, the hilly, wooded3.6 acres they purchased on a New
Hampshire lake in the mid-1990s
had no such neighbors. A small, two-
bedroom cottage on the property was
used primarily for family vacations.
Once their three children were grown,
Bill and Jane decided to move to New
Hampshire full time and hired archi-
tect Frank Anzalone of Frank Anzalone
Associates in New London to design a
home that would last the couple well
into retirement.
Bill and Jane worked closely with
Anzalone to design a home that was
comfortable but also addressed con-
cerns for conservation and energy cre-
ation. “Bill was interested in designing
an energy-efficient home,” Anzalonesays. “Jane was interested in a home
that would be comfortable as well as
accommodating to family and friends.”
The cottage on the property was
taken down, and much of the struc-
ture was salvaged or recycled for other
uses. Anzalone identified oak trees on
the property that were removed dur-
ing construction and used as flooring
throughout the house. Designed to
blend into its natural environment,
the three-bedroom, three-bathroom
(with three half-bathrooms) home is
oriented to take advantage of lake views
and maximize sunlight for energy use.
Grading the property and installing
rainwater gardens reduced the amount
of unwanted water-runoff into thelake below.
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BY DESIGN
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P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y G R E A T I S L A N D P H O T O G R A P H Y
P H O T O G R A P H B Y D A N A F L E W E L L I N G
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Making the homeenergy-efficient
Thanks to high-tech features—such
as solar panels, cutting-edge heat-
ing systems and virtually air-tight
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home produces between 70 percent
and 80 percent of the electrical energy
the Hopwoods use. “A tight house
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Bradford, who was hired by the
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BY DESIGN
the house, reducing the need to open
windows to let in fresh air. During
this process, energy transfers from
outgoing air to incoming air, cooling
it in the summer and warming it in
the winter.
When the Hopwoods are home,
Bill—who prefers a local, renew-
able energy source to help heat thehome—uses a wood-fired boiler,
which stores heat in a 620-gallon
tank for heating and domestic hot
water use. The home’s other heat
source (for hot water, cooking and
running a clothes dryer) is an
efficient, condensing-propane smart
boiler. A radiant-heating system keeps
the floors comfortably warm during
cool weather.
A five-kilowatt photovoltaic system
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home’s electrical load. A solar thermal
system powers an 80-gallon, solar
hot-water system. A high-efficiency,
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new home (HERS stands for Home
Efficiency Rating System, which is an
index for measuring a home’s energy
efficiency).
“The Hopwoods generate most
of the electricity they use with this
whole system,” Anzalone says. “It’s a
sustainable home that’s very livable
and attractive.”
A comfortable, bright interior
While Bill’s focus was sustainability,
Jane’s goal was making the home’s
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The home’s lower-level mechanical room contains a
condensing-propane smart boiler (the white box at
right, hanging on the wall), the heat source for hot
water, cooking and the clothes dryer. The wood-
fired boiler is on the left. A radiant-heating system
throughout the house keeps floors warm.
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This storage tank and reservoir for the wood-fired
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“But, I wanted to be able to use the
room year round,” Jane says. “Now
it’s one large room. Someone can be
sitting on the loveseat reading a book
while someone else is working in the
kitchen.” There’s also access to a
giant stone fireplace, one of five in
the home.
Especially important to Jane was
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The home's front entry highlights
an antique bench as well as the main
staircase, built by Colonial Woodworking
in Bradford. The wall trim is maple, and the
staircase rails are mahogany.
P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y G R E A T I S L A N D P
H O T O G R A P H Y
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A Writer’s Home and
How It Got That Way
By Andi Axman | Photography by John W. Hession
NOTABLE HOMEOWNERS
Every old house has a unique
history of who’s done what
and why. While most of these
stories are pretty predictable in light
of when the home was built, some
buildings have stories that are hard
to imagine. A case in point is P.J.
O’Rourke’s house near Peterborough.
O’Rourke is the best-selling author
of fifteen books and his sixteenth, The
Baby Boom—How It Got That Way…And
It Wasn’t My Fault…And I’ll Never Do It
Again, was published in January by
Atlantic Monthly Press. He’s also writ-
ten for numerous publications, includ-
ing Rolling Stone and the Atlantic , and
has established himself as America’s
premier political satirist. Time and the
Wall Street Journal have called him the
“funniest writer in America,” and he
Despite all the work it
needed, an eighteenth-
century house won
P.J. O’Rourke’s heart
from the get-go.
The living room is P.J. O’Rourke’s favorite room in the house because of its original woodwork and the view. The décor includes objects from his travels
to forty countries as a foreign correspondent. O’Rourke likes to read in the leather Eames chair by the fireplace.
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Standing in the center hall, P.J. O’Rourke says the wood figures flanking the entry to the dining room were made in China in the nineteenth century and one of the few
items he did not buy abroad. “These were from an estate in Florida,” he says, “and weren’t very expensive because they were white elephants and we knew just what to
do with them.”
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NOTABLE HOMEOWNERS
frequently appears on television and
National Public Radio’s Wait, Wait,
Don’t Tell Me.
Moving to New Hampshire
O’Rourke found his way to New Hamp-
shire after visiting a college friend and
his wife in Jaffrey in 1979. He was liv-
ing in New York at the time and wanted
a place outside the city. When a two-
bedroom cottage in Jaffrey with a lovely
view and fifteen acres came on the mar-
ket that year, O’Rourke couldn’t refuse.
He bought the property even though it
needed work. “I couldn’t get a parking
spot in New York City for $66,000,” he
says, “and I thought, ‘What do I have
to lose?’” A couple of years later, he
became a freelance foreign correspon-
dent and took his accountant’s adviceto become a New Hampshire resident.
Among the renovations that O’Rourke made to house—seen above as it looked before it was disassembled and
moved from Walpole—were adding a pair of bay windows and a screened porch on the “awkward” addition
(top photo).
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He lived in that house for ten years,
but the time came when he and his
wife, Tina, needed a bigger house with
room for a family that now includes
three children and four dogs. So he got
back in touch with real estate agent
Heather Peterson, who sold him the
first house. “Both times I told her whatI wanted, and both times I bought the
first house she showed me,” he says.
“When we drove up the driveway,
I saw this house and said it was the
house my mother always wanted. She
had always loved Colonial architecture,
and although she had been dead for
fifteen years, this house really struck
a chord.”
The house, on a beautiful eighty-
acre site with a spectacular view of
Mount Monadnock, was built in
Walpole in the 1790s. In 1939, it
was taken apart and moved to where
it now stands. “It was put together
again in 1940 with some unfortunate
additions,” O’Rourke says. Although
the paneling in the living room, the
pumpkin pine floorboards and the
main beams date back to 1790, the
siding does not. Nor do the woodworkdetails and the ceiling. While the pre-
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Published in January by Atlantic Monthly Press,
O’Rourke’s newest book has been called “a terrific
American memoir” and his “best book ever” by
fellow author Christopher Buckley. O’Rourkeappears at The Music Hall in Portsmouth on April
16—see page 84 for details.
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vious homeowners were interested in
preserving Colonial architecture, “they
weren’t sticklers for accurate details,”
O’Rourke says. That’s putting it mildly:
in a hysterical Wall Street Journal piece
published in October 2013, he calls
these homeowners “amateur architects”
and refers to them as “Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Lloyd Wrong.” O’Rourke sur-
mised that after the house was disman-
tled, “mice ate the plans.” When work-
men finished putting the house back
together, “they had so many parts left
over that they built a barn with them.
Our chickens scratch authentic, antique
twenty-four-inch wide pumpkin pine
flooring and roost on fireplace mantles
that, for all I know, were hand carvedby Duncan Phyfe.” O’Rourke continues,
saying that Mr. and Mrs. Wrong “tacked
on random boxy additions in an archi-
tectural style that might be called Old
Sturbridge Village Self-Storage.”
O’Rourke already had renovated an
old house and says he “learned the
hard way that you don’t do the cos-metic stuff first.” The
house’s wiring and
plumbing systems
dated from 1940
and the insulation
wasn’t very good, so
he began with those
projects.
The house also had
“a hideous picture
window in the dining
room” and an “ugly”
bay window in the
living room. “It was
very 1970s and made
up of three, great
big sheets of floor-
to-ceiling insulated,
twin-paned glass that
got all fogged up on
the inside,” O’Rourkesays. “The result was
just awful.”
There was also
grass cloth wallpaper
and a playroom
“box” added on to
the house. “The
porch was walled
in to waist height
and also walled in
from the top, so there was only a nar-
row view down to the mountain. One
whole wall of the porch had jalousie
windows and a fake tile concrete floor.
It was terrible.”
Renovating the house
So O’Rourke went to work with Andy
Weber, a contractor from Jaffrey. “I
asked him to put a pair of bay
windows—one in the living room, onein the dining room—so it would look
like it was a one-hundred-year-old
aesthetic error instead of a twenty-year-
old error,” O’Rourke says. “Because
rooms in these center-hall Colonials
are not huge, the bay windows actually
work. They make the room appear a
lot bigger.”Other projects included putting a
screened porch on that “awkward”
addition to the house and transforming
the “rather lumpy-looking three-bay ga-
rage attached to the house.” The garage
area was so big that it became a mud-
room, a breakfast room, a coat closet, a
laundry room, a one-bay garage and a
storage shed. “This was without altering
the footprint,” O’Rourke adds. “We
have not altered the footprint of any
part of the building.” As work proceed-
ed on the mudroom, the kitchen ex-
panded into what had been the garage
and got a little more space.
When it came to decorating the
home, O’Rourke says that was easy.
“The décor is ‘Me and Tina Random,’”
he says. “I spent twenty years filing
stories from forty different countries
and brought things home. I’ve alwaysliked folk art, so a lot of what you see
around this house are things from
various expeditions.”
In the living room—O’Rourke’s
favorite room in the house, because of
its original woodwork and the view—
are an Australian aboriginal painting,
a cross from Mexico, figures from
Paraguay, baskets from the Philippines,
another cross from Ethiopia, a bellows
from Syria, Inuit sculptures, and
wooden masks from Cuba and Tanza-
nia. Near the fireplace is a lamp next to
a modern leather chair where O’Rourke
likes to read. “I have a bad back, which
was an excellent excuse to pay too
much for an Eames chair,” he says.
“But it really does work.” NHH
In the dining room is Patrick Oliphant’s 2007 sculpture called Bush, Cheney and
the Country . Above it hangs a landscape by Maryland artist Kevin Fitzgerald and
over the door is a spear from South Africa used for killing lions.
NOTABLE HOMEOWNERS
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Spring arrives early at Grout Hill Farm in
Acworth, home of landscape designer
Kristian Fenderson and his partner
Alston Barrett. In mid-March, a collection of
witch hazels ( Hamamelis x intermedia)—
including the deep yellow ‘Arnold’s Promise’,
pale yellow ‘Pallida’, and coppery red ‘Jelena’
and ‘Ruby Glow’—begin to bloom. The earli-
est plants to emerge are golden-yellow winter
aconite ( Eranthis hymenalis); sky-blue hepatica
( H. transylvanica) with its large, felted leaves;
and hundreds of self-propagated giant snow-
drops (Galanthus elwesii). “These three plants,
along with the witch hazels, are the sure first
signs of spring for me,” Fenderson says.
Soon, hundreds of spring flowering bulbs
A Grand Spring Awakening
GARDEN Rx
By Robin Sweetser | Photography by Nancy Belluscio
A master
plantsman
creates an
extraordinary
landscape on
old farmland
at home.
Constructed from stones found on the property, this path leads to the 1836 barn, which was recently restored using most of its original hardware.
Foundations of an old blacksmith shop, corn crib and other outbuildings have provided settings and stonework for many of the gardens.
naturalized in the pasture begin to poke out
of the soil. The miniature daffodil ‘Peeping
Tom’ with its long, golden trumpet is first to
appear, followed by a succession of bloom-
ing daffodils, such as pale yellow ‘Hawera’
with its swept-back petals and ending with
the poet’s narcissus ‘Actaea’, a fragrant, white
heirloom variety.
Blue, white and lavender flowers of
creeping phlox ( Phlox stolonifera) provide a
colorful groundcover and—along with the
graceful, giant, white trilliums (Trillium gran-
diflorum), which age to a deep pink as they
mature—have spread throughout the garden.
“This trillium is only surpassed in beauty by
the double-flowering form,” Fenderson says.
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“The double is spectacular!” (His trilli-
ums came from single clumps someone
gave him. “They love to be divided,”
Fenderson says.)
The early magnolias blossom next.
Fenderson has quite a collection of
them, including star magnolias( M. stellata) and ( M. x loebneri). ‘Centen-
nial’ is a double-star magnolia that was
developed and named for the Arnold
Arboretum’s one hundredth anniver-
sary. ‘Centennial’ has flowers that are
between three and four inches wide,
each with between twenty-eight and
thirty-two petals that are white with a
slight pink blush. ‘Royal Star’ is another
fragrant double-star, and ‘Ballerina’
also has white blossoms tinged faintly
with pink. ‘Dr. Merrill’ has fragrant,
strap-like white blossoms, and the later
blooming ‘Leonard Messel’ has pink
petals. “The magnolias self-hybridize
and seed freely in the garden,” Fender-
son says. “A lovely one showed up
with pale pink and white peppermint
striped flowers.”
Building a homeThe three-hundred-acre Grout Hill
Farm is one of New Hampshire’s hidden
gems. Located on a winding dirt road,
the farm has been Barrett’s and Fend-
erson’s home for more than forty-five
years. The house, built in the 1790s, is
one of the oldest in town and belonged
to one of Fenderson’s distant ancestors
in the 1830s. Lovingly restored along
with the 1836 barn, the house has a
solid, nestled-in look. Behind the house
is a large, circular stone patio that
Fenderson built from the stones Barrett
collected from the property. The patio
is home to about 150 potted plants
each summer.
At a glance, the surrounding land-
scape has matured to look as though
it is native to the site, although that is
not the case. “When we moved here,
there were no plantings other than afew lilacs and an old mock orange,”
To locate Kristian Fenderson (top) in his garden, just look for the beat up Stetson—his favorite gardening hat.
Early blooming and very fragrant European alpine primroses (Primula marginata, above left) grow in large
pots placed around the garden. Hybrid peony ‘Itoh’ (above, center), a cross between a tree peony and an
herbaceous peony, bears many of these soft yellow blossoms and is very hardy in this zone 5 garden.
White trilliums (above, right) light up the understory and are a shade-loving companion for the earliest
blooming primroses.
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Fenderson says. “The open farmland
was growing up in wild apple seedlings,
pasture pine and gray birch.”
Now, the well-kept pasture is home
to two horses. “I don’t think I could
garden without horse manure,” he
says. “The blue poppies especially likethe soil that has been built up using
manure.”
Rare plants in Acworth
Tibetan blue poppies, which Fenderson
calls the signature plants of the garden,
are just one of the rarities to be found.
On closer inspection, the garden reveals
itself to be the work of a master plants-
man: There are the blue Aquilegia
jonesii—these sub-alpine plants are
native to the limestone cliffs of the
Continental Divide but are successfully
surviving in a raised bed that mimics
alpine conditions. Kentucky lady’s slip-
pers—which are elusive even in their
native range of Virginia to Texas—grow
happily along with other uncommon
finds, such as pale pink Himalayan
mayapple, blue wood anemones and
hardy cacti. Specimen trees include the con-
torted European beech ( Fagus sylvatica
tortuosa). “Now that’s a tree with is-
sues!” Fenderson says as he points out
the twisted branches that loop back on
themselves in a painful-looking way.
Another very rare and prominent tree is
a golden weeping beech ( Fagus sylvatica
aurea pendula). “It has been christened
‘Sarah Bernhardt’ by a dear friend for
its dramatic appearance,” Fenderson
laughs. There are several weeping
European larches ( Larix decidua pen-
dula) lending their gracefully arching
branches and fine bright green foliage
to the spring landscape.
The specialty
Small gardens along the meandering
paths draw you in, demanding close
attention. There are columbines,butterfly-like jeffersonia, bird’s foot
Top: Blue Tibetan poppies are just one of the rarities to be found at Grout Hill Farm.
Above: Tall delphiniums provide a backdrop for the pinks and reds of ‘Liberty’ snapdragons, gomphrena
and ‘Raspberry Splash’ petunias.
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violets, hellebores, double pink
anemonella, pink tiarella, crested iris,pulmonaria, Virginia bluebells and
hybrid lady’s slippers in spectacular
colors. Many of these flowers are wood-
land natives that form the perfect
understory for evergreen rhododen-
drons and deciduous shrubs—such asazalea, andromeda, viburnum, daphne,
spirea and weigela—and trees—such
as Japanese maples, birches, cherries
and crabapples.
In almost every garden there are
primroses. Plants in the primulafamily have been Fenderson’s lifelong
passion, and he is an expert, having
written a book about them, A Synoptic
Guide to the Genus Primula. Fenderson is
The stone and brick patio behind the house provides a stage for about150 pots of flowering annuals,tender perennials, coleus andtuberous begonias.
Cary Award Plants
You may recognize many of the plants that Kristian Fenderson and Alston Barrett grow as being
Cary Award winners. Named for nurseryman Ed Cary, the award has been given annually since
1997 to promote outstanding trees and shrubs for New England gardens.
Nominated to the list by landscape professionals from around New England, the plantsaren’t necessarily new but are superior performers that deserve to be used more in
area landscapes.
“There are a lot of Cary Award winners growing in the garden,” Fenderson says. “Of course,
they were here before there was a Cary Award. I am on the selection committee and help
choose the plants for it.”
A few from the list growing on Grout Hill Farm are pinkshell azalea, large fothergilla, witch
hazel ‘Pallida’, Kousa dogwood, climbing hydrangea, stewartia, rhododendron ‘Olga Mezitt’, and
magnolias ‘Centennial’ and ‘Leonard Messel’. In this way, Grout Hill Farm is not only a pleasure to
behold but also a living laboratory.
For more information about the Cary Award and a complete list of the plants, visit
caryaward.com.
Hybrid yakushimanum rhododendron ‘Ken Janek’
is just one of the many Cary Award plants (it won
in 2002) Kristian Fenderson grows in Acworth.
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a member of the American Primrose
Society and serves as a judge during
their national show held each spring
at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in
Boylston Massachusetts. If you have
struggled to grow primroses, you’ll be
amazed by the way the plants havenaturalized, many escaping their beds
and taking over pathways. “I have
been collecting primula species and
hybrids for more than forty years
and grow nearly a hundred different
forms,” Fenderson says.
Golden-yellow cowslip primroses
( Primula veris) and pale yellow oxlips
( P. elatior ) are the first primroses to
show color in the spring, and they
remain colorful for about six weeks.
“Both oxlip and cowslip are wild
European species that have natural-
ized throughout the garden by the
hundreds,” Fenderson says.
Early blooming European alpine
auricula primroses ( P. marginata),
with their fragrant blue flowers and
leathery gray-green leaves, grow in
a perlite and peat mix in large con-
tainers placed around the property.One of Fenderson’s own selections
is a garden auricula he named ‘Grout
Hill Violet’. Rosy lavender and white
globes of drumstick primroses
( P. denticulata) thrive in the damp-
ness of the lower garden. Blooming
at the same time are the small Juliana
primroses, including pink ‘Kinlough
Beauty’, which Fenderson calls an
all-time great. “You can’t kill it! It is
extremely durable,” he says.
Pink, white and blue primula acau-
lis are followed by the larger flowered
polyanthus crosses, including the
Cowichans. “A particular favorite
of mine are the deep ruby and sol