Old House Journal

OUTSIDE the box

ALTHOUGH the community of Windsor prescribes asymmetrical massing, this house—which is in the middle of the block and terminates the long axial view into the South Village—begged for symmetry, says architect Peter D. Moor, a principal of the Vero Beach–based firm Moor, Baker & Associates. He adds that permission to design it that way was graciously granted.

“Palladio would be very proud” of the rigorous symmetry, Moor says. He says the community, which

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