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Michael and Barbara Willis House (Blue House)
2003, Margaret McCurry. 606 Marquette Dr.
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(Photograph by Roger Funk)
From its foundation burrowed into one of the high sand dunes that mark the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan, the gabled country house built for a Chicago family rises three-and a-half stories and encloses a five-thousand-square-foot plan. Its vertical tongue-and-groove cedar exterior siding is painted marine-blue. The house is a sophisticated twenty-first-century interpretation of vernacular rural housing.
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Location: New Buffalo, MichiganRegional Overviews:Architect:Styles:no metadata availableMaterials:
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Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Michael and Barbara Willis House (Blue House)", [New Buffalo, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-BE19.
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Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 236-236.
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