In the Shenandoah Valley, a Mountain Home Channels the Spirit of the Aegean
Architecture firm Schaum/Shieh designed a white home with walls that play with light and shadow for a retired professor and a playwright.
As with many of their neighbors, views of the Blue Ridge Mountains fill James D. Faubion and William R. Duell’s Lexington, Virginia, home. This is a place, however, unlike most others in the Shenandoah Valley. Red brick, faux-mansard roofs, and other suburban conventions hold sway in the area. But situated on a grassy precipice 1,350 feet above sea level, this 2,500-square-foot, single-story house embodies different ideals. Its stark white exteriors channel an archaic mood, more Greek isles than Appalachia, with an interplay of light and shadow that recalls ruined temples.
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