I've been told by folks who profess a great fondness for me, that I 
have many faults.  ( I know, its shocking, isn't it?)  One of those 
many faults is that I have a tendency to challenge things that don't 
make sense to me.  It does not make sense to me that it would be 
required for you to have an architect stamp a bedroom addition onto 
this house.  I'd suggest that you challenge it, unless you want to work 
with an architect.  A good local contractor should have adequate skill 
and experience to safely construct a small addition within the building 
code.  You should be able to clear this up either by talking to the 
local government building permit folks, or the previously mentioned 
repsectable local construction professional and pillar of the 
community.

Or you can accuse me of being too damned suspicious...like the 
previously mentioned loved ones.

-jc



On Jan 7, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Met History wrote:

> In a message dated 1/7/2005 11:54:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> This is a bedroom addition in the same sort of neighborhood where
>  McKim, Mead and White were building "cottages"?
> This is a bedroom addition in a neighborhood isolated by water and 
> poor roads from the town of Vineyard Haven.  No cottages here.  Only 
> one architect (out of a dozen houses) until the 1980's.  c