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own drawings and the vintage images
of architectural photographer Roger
Sturtevant (1903-1982), who took
pictures of this residence between
the 1961 date of completion and
1969, where a kitchen addition to the
northeast facade cylinder was built,"
says Mary Ann Gabriele Schicketanz,
long California's central
coast, the quaint village of
Carmel-by-the-Sea is where
this 1,957-square-foot, three-
level house — originally built in 1961—
sits on a 5,750-square-foot plot. Once
the personal residence of midcentury
modernist Henry Hill, it is currently
owned by a couple who have retired
from the Silicon Valley tech industry.
Studio Schicketanz took care of the
recent renovation, which consisted in
preserving this historic landmark and
at the same time, transforming it to
adapt the house to contemporary life.
"Our intervention was rooted in the
rigorous investigation of the architect's
