These are two vacation cottages on a moor by the sea in Nantucket for a
Yale professor and his family and for a related family. The larger house is
complex and contradictory; the smaller house is more ordinary. The houses
are sited so as to look toward the water. First seen from the rear, they are
set far enough apart to create a sense of openness, yet close enough to be
perceived as a pair. They fit into the environment because they are like the
old fishermen’s cottages of that island in some ways and like 19th century
shingle style vacation houses of New England too -- weathered grey to meld
into the grey-green foliage and soft blue seascape.