West Chop House

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This house sits quietly in the woods in the shadows of a well-known lighthouse. The nautical motifs are everywhere in this house whose very proportions, long, narrow, and tall are ship like. The dominating feature is a tapered stair tower shaped like a lighthouse, capped with a lantern-like crow’s nest and surrounding deck. This feature isn’t just gratuitous; it gives the woods-bound house a view of the near-bye ocean. To create the distinctive curved façade, each stud was tapered and sheathed with layers of flexible plywood.