Winthrop Road

Winthrop Road, Brookline, MA, United States

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Winthrop Road

Winthrop Road, Brookline, MA, United States

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2010

BUDGET

$500K - 1M

Like many of Brookline’s marvelous Victorian houses this building, constructed around 1890, had been altered many times. The program for the renovation was anew eat-in kitchen and deck, new master bedroom and bath, a new 1/2 bath and to renovate the lower level for use as a study, guest bedroom, new guest bath, laundry and wine cellar.The replacement of an aging kitchen presented an opportunity to take advantage of the unique siting of the house - sitting at the top of a slope with an extensive and wooded rear yard. The sequence from the street to the existing (slightly modified) materially rich, introverted central hall to the 'release' of the framed view of the treetops from the kitchen becomes the memorable counterpoint to the cross-axial en filade of the original rooms. As a result, this larger spatial composition gives gravity to the new sequence and becomes the most striking and memorable event of the house.