Revival Building Co. Custom Homes & Estate Restoration
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Press

Written about,
occasionally.

We do not court coverage, and we turn down more of it than we accept — a house belongs to the people who live in it. What follows is what we agreed to.

Selected coverage

Reserve Quarterly

The Slow House

A twelve-page feature on Stonefield, photographed across three seasons, with a long interview about load-bearing stone in new construction.

March 2025
The Hearth & Beam Review

What Cement Did to the Old Houses

An essay by Peter Renda on lime mortar and the eighty-year repointing mistake, commissioned after the Hollowbrook repointing.

November 2024
Chesapeake Home & Design

Four Feet Above the Water

Cedar Reach, on the building science of shoreline construction.

June 2024
The Joiner

Apprenticeship, Four Years, Paid

On why the firm runs its own programme, and what happened to the trade schools.

February 2024
Reserve Quarterly

Seventy-Four Windows

The Winslow House restoration, told window by window.

September 2022
Mid-Atlantic Preservation Journal

Notes on a Measured Survey

A technical piece on hand survey practice, drawn from the Ashcombe project.

May 2021

Awards

Recognition

Stone & Lime Award, new constructionStonefield2025
Regional Preservation CitationHollowbrook2024
Craft in Building, timber framingStonefield roof structure2023
Regional Preservation CitationThe Winslow House2022
Interior Restoration CommendationAshcombe2021

For editors

We are glad to talk to writers and photographers, subject to the owners agreeing first — which is not a formality, and is sometimes a no.

High-resolution photography, measured drawings and material specifications are available for published projects. For anything on site, we will need notice: a live job is a working job, and we do not stop a crew for a shoot.

Write to studio@revivalbuildingco.com with the publication, the angle and the timeline.

Enquiries

Every house begins with a long conversation.

We take on a small number of projects each year, and we would rather talk early — before the drawings harden — than late. Tell us where you are and what you are hoping to make.

Begin an enquiry