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Jeff Wilkinson, Architect www.jwra.com Jeff Wilkinson, R.A., Hudson Valley architect, with a focus on restoration & interiors.

Jeff regularly serves clients in Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Ulster Counties. His work in Hudson Valley Regional Architecture has been featured in a number of nationally published magazine articles including Better Homes and Gardens and Country Living.

Stop 3 on our Fall Foliage Catskill your. Building our Gatehouse with a little help from me Friends. Full board hemlock ...
10/31/2026

Stop 3 on our Fall Foliage Catskill your. Building our Gatehouse with a little help from me Friends. Full board hemlock siding and agricultural grade metal roofing. Can’t wait until this one is up and running.

Stop 2 in our Fall Foilage Catskill Tour. Progress shots of an Artists’ Home and Studio. Certainly lifting some Byrdclif...
10/30/2026

Stop 2 in our Fall Foilage Catskill Tour. Progress shots of an Artists’ Home and Studio. Certainly lifting some Byrdcliffe motifs. The woodshop area will be board and battens all in the pine tar mix. Also inspired by that great double album “Brown on Brown”. What I’m most proud of is this project looks and feels like it’s been there for a hundred plus years. And by golly, some of it has.

Fall Foliage Framing Weather. Can’t beat it. I love when a house takes on a life of its own. One of our Catskill homes t...
10/29/2026

Fall Foliage Framing Weather. Can’t beat it. I love when a house takes on a life of its own. One of our Catskill homes taking shape

One of our latest fun projects has been the Smith Clove Friends Meeting House located a few miles south of Cornwall. Up ...
08/13/2026

One of our latest fun projects has been the Smith Clove Friends Meeting House located a few miles south of Cornwall. Up until its construction in 1801, many Quakers would use the private homes of its members for their meetings. It became apparent that a need for a new place of worship was to be built.

It is considered to be the oldest religious building in the town and village of Woodbury, NY. It’s been maintained as a historic site since 1961.

The interior has been miraculously maintained in its original state. It still has no electricity or running water! To accommodate separate business meetings the building was divided for men and women, a relatively progressive stance for the time period when women weren’t often considered in religious matters. When individual business concluded a heavy paneled wall was folded down to open up the entire space for open discussion between genders.

It still operates today as a public meeting house only once a year, usually the last Sunday of August.

The meeting house utilizes a traditional post-and-beam construction with a simple rectangular frame, traditional wooden shaker roof and clapboard siding. The craftsmanship of the building is brilliantly demonstrates its plain, yet simplistic, beauty.

In October of 2025 we were tasked with looking into alternate roof materials for the building. In some of the older photographs (swipe left), it’s apparent that the roof was in need of repair, as rot and moss took over. We looked at several options, such as slate shingles (which would we would have needed to reinforce the roof to adapt it to the extra weight), synthetic slate, and synthetic cedar shakes.

Ultimately, it was decided that in order to keep the original character and sincerity of the meeting house, the building should retain its cedar shake roof.

What are your thoughts? 🏠

Work is progressing on the Garden Suite 🌷 at 165 Grand Street here in Newburgh, NY! Shoutout to the team over at Malcarn...
08/13/2026

Work is progressing on the Garden Suite 🌷 at 165 Grand Street here in Newburgh, NY!

Shoutout to the team over at Malcarne Contracting for continuously raising the bar with their masonry and construction quality across the Hudson Valley. 🧱🪟

Stopped by our Catskills project on our way to our Summerhaven. A dream team of masons, woodwrights, painters and versat...
07/31/2026

Stopped by our Catskills project on our way to our Summerhaven. A dream team of masons, woodwrights, painters and versatile mechanics. Checked in on the drunkards weave shingles and the standing seam roof. The linseed oil paint finishes and color palette are sumptuous.

One of our recent projects was putting together a complete Structural Assessment Report for the Historic Friends Meeting...
05/13/2026

One of our recent projects was putting together a complete Structural Assessment Report for the Historic Friends Meeting House in Cornwall, NY. This report will assist the Historic Site in applying for a special grant offered by Sacred Sites. In conjunction with The New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Sacred Sites Program the Cornwall Meeting House is open to the public for a special tour this coming Sunday, May 13th from 10:00am -2:00pm. Feel free to stop by! More information can be found at cornwallquakers.org.

Our Gatehouse project is coming along. Full board rough sawn Hemlock vertical and Horizontal.
04/18/2026

Our Gatehouse project is coming along. Full board rough sawn Hemlock vertical and Horizontal.

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13 Chambers Street
Newburgh, NY
12550

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Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

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