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Main living area of the Hull House.

Tucked beneath the eastern roof edge is a 25-by-25- back line to setback line, and we could fit everything that
foot box clad in boards of sapele, a mahogany-like wood, we needed within one level, so why not try to make a
which contains a garage. On the side that faces the living more interesting project?” Jameson asked. “It’s not only
area, the interior wall of the box conceals a refrigerator, unique, but that a client would build a one-story house
cabinetry, and appliances clad in the same wood. A small with a simple place to eat, live, and cook is very different
office sits atop the box, and thus is reached by stairs, but than what you find around here.”
the rest of the house is arranged to accommodate aging One of the benefits of a gabled roof is the great volume
in place, which Jameson sees as a growing trend in the beneath it, and here, Jameson uses that volume to its
local market. While the clients might have been content fullest; an Alexander Calder mobile hangs from a high
in a two-story house like those on adjacent properties, point. But Jameson is also interested in the spaces between
Jameson encouraged single-story living. “The site was the gables, where the ceiling is at its lowest. “The roof
large enough to allow [the design] to unfold from set comes back down and becomes this demarcation

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