• Payson Denny Architects in Santa Monica, CA

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    Ken Payson is an architect in the Santa Monica area (his firm, Payson Denny, also has an office in Santa Fe NM) who mainly works on residential projects. While Payson Denny do build many modern / modernist homes, they have sometimes produced very attractive and historically-accurate Craftsman structures; they’ve also been responsible for some really stunning restorations and remodels of historic structures throughout the Los Angeles area.

    We’ve created a small Flickr set with a few high-res images of these recent projects.

  • Woodland CA home tours: September 8, 2007

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    Woodland is a small bedroom community just outside Sacramento, and several of my colleagues live there and commute in to the Capitol and other downtown offices. I was gratified to hear that the city is hosting a home tour – I’ve always been very impressed with the number of beautiful old Craftsman homes in the city’s core (although, unfortunately, much of Woodland is now being subsumed by suburban sprawl, identical tract homes in very uninviting gated and anonymous "communities" that are anything but).

    Several free guided walking tours of the town’s several historic neighborhoods, house tours of a number of important houses in the area, music, a pancake breakfast and plenty more (including guides in period costume) are all part of this year’s "Stroll Through History." Home tour tickets are $25 and may be purchased online. Hopefully events like this will revitalize the historic neighborhoods and maybe even teach developers that there’s a market for well-built, non-cookie-cutter homes with quirky inconsistencies, color, and warmth.