Shingle Style
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“They wanted a Shingle Style beach house with uncomplicated interiors,” Karin Blake says of the residence she designed for Greg and Teresa Nathanson in Malibu, California. A bluestone patio faces a shallow swimming pool near the front entrance. (January 2008)
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Pudding Hill , an 1887 Shingle Style manor in East Hampton, New York, was restored by Penny Drue Baird. The house—viewed from the south side—was completely reshingled. “In time it will age to a color common in historic Hampton houses,” says Baird. (February 2000)
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Interior designer Alexa Hampton was commissioned to redecorate a 4,500-square-foot Francis Fleetwood-designed Shingle Style residence on Long Island’s South Fork. Situated atop a ridge with sweeping views of the Atlantic, the house, built in 1992, is a short stroll from its own beach. The rear elevation faces the ocean, making the two-story’s three porches the frequent settings of outdoor dining and relaxing. (July 2007)
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For their residence on an island off the coast of South Carolina, a New England couple hired architect Mark P. Finlay and interior designer Elissa Cullman to design a sprawling Shingle Style retreat . (July 2007)
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With its Shingle Style front portion and attached barnlike structures in the rear, a Wainscott, New York, residence , designed by architect Frank Greenwald, is an unusual combination of formal and informal. The turret, near the porte cochere, was inspired by a local chapel. (July 2006)
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A house in Southampton, New York , conceived by architect Robert A. M. Stern, has “depth and textural interest, with classical crown moldings and windows, a broad second-floor eave, a shallow balcony above the entrance, and shutters,” he says. Above: The kitchen garden. (March 2005)
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A 10,000-square-foot residence designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects sits at the rocky edge of an island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. “Part of the charm of the site,” notes Stern, “is that the harbor is animated by the comings and goings of ferryboats and floatplanes.” The driveway curves around the north side of the Shingle Style house. (October 2007)
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“We responded to the bends of the river. The house meanders. It has lots of movement and lots of whimsy,” architect Bernard Wharton says of the Shingle Style residence he and partner Arthur Hanlon designed for Pete and Judi Dawkins in Rumson, New Jersey. A Palladian window marks the entrance. “There’s a hierarchy to the architectural details,” Wharton says. (November 2006)
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A long Island Sound house designed by Bernard Wharton and Michael McClung, of Shope Reno Wharton, is a playful take on Shingle Style. (May 2005)
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“We interpreted the Shingle Style in an old Maine cottage,” architect Matthew Elliot says of the Pretty Marsh house he designed with his wife, Elizabeth. The house and south lawn rest on what Elliot calls a “plinthlike” flat elevation delineated by a low fieldstone wall. The living room is flanked by the sunroom, right, and a screen porch. (June 2001)
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Architect Oscar Shamamian, of Ferguson & Shamamian, collaborated with New York-based interior designer Victoria Hagan on an 8,000-square-foot, Shingle Style summer house overlooking the water on Nantucket for a couple and their three children. (October 2005)
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“Everything lines up all the way through. The payoff is the view,” architect Bernard Wharton says of the enfilade that begins at the front entrance to his family’s retreat in Rhode Island and terminates at a window framing Narragansett Bay. (September 2007)