Perched on the highest ledge overlooking Sandy Cove, Oak Ledge was built in the 1880’s as a ‘summer cottage’ in quintessential Shingle Style.  140+ years later, HMA worked with the current owners to make significant sensitive, studied revisions that improved the connection to the adjoining landscape and views to the ocean. 

The project used a studied combination of innovative, contemporary materials such as wrought steel window and door systems and expressive structure to adapt a historic but dark and spartan structure into an inviting and inspiring series of family space that are adapted to contemporary life and work.  

New viewsheds to the ocean were created by carefully studying the relationship between furniture layouts, existing structure, and the style of the existing home.   Careful integration with the landscape plan resulted in a seamless flow from formal interior spaces to outdoor areas, creating light and airy feel to every room at all times of the day.  High performance wrought steel windows were carefully detailed to provide of secure sense of weather-tight comfort in the winter, while providing the opportunity to open doors and windows and provide a seamless flow to the outdoors during the best days of spring, summer and fall.  

Selected for 2026 Cohasset Historical Society House Tour  

https://www.cohassethistoricalsociety.org/events/2025housetour 

Interior Design by Owner 

Photography by Suzanne Doherty