Early 1990s · Cass Lake
The Beached Freighter
A vision of the future, on a former swamp
An architect given complete freedom, two requests from the client, and a house published around the world.
Ken Neumann
Landmarks
Houses that defined the firm.
Every house we build gets the same attention. A few, over forty-five years, asked for more than that: an architect given complete freedom, a tolerance held to a sixteenth of an inch, a century-old landmark that had to be renewed without leaving a trace. These are the houses the firm still measures itself against.
Most were built between 1990 and 2010, before the photographs on the rest of this site. They are here because the people who built them are still here, and because the standard they set is the one we work to now.
2000s · Metro Detroit
Heritage House
Two cultures, one house, every detail curated
Restored ancient columns from India, Chihuly glass in the entry, a slate roof in a single grey: a house with few rivals.
Mark Johnson, with Susan Lovell
2002–2004 · Bloomfield Hills
Strict French Country
Framed to an eighth of an inch, finished to a sixteenth
The most exacting house Mosher Dolan has ever built, on a hillside in Bloomfield Hills, by the finest trades in Detroit.
Hammond Beeby
Early 2000s · Birmingham
The Wallace Frost House
Former home of sculptor Marshall Fredericks
A Wallace Frost original, once home to sculptor Marshall Fredericks, renewed so that the new work cannot be told from the old.
Mark Johnson
2000s · Metro Detroit
Asian Garden
A hand-layered copper roof, bronze windows, grain-matched mahogany
On completion, the architect said it was the most finely executed house he had designed to date.
Lou DesRosiers
