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50+ years of award-winning architectural design. Residential, commercial, religious & municipal projects across Fairfield County, NY & Greater New England.

AIA Certified. Ridgefield, CT · Dover, NH · Block Island, RI · West Dover, VT

10/27/2026

Prospector Popcorn started as the concession stand at the Prospector Theater. The popcorn was made in small batches by the theater's employees, known as Prospects, the adults with disabilities the theater was founded to employ.

The operation outgrew its original 300 SF space above the theater. We designed the new 5,000 SF production facility on Ethan Allen Highway, which opened this past February.

Prospector Popcorn is now sold in more than 1,000 locations, including Big Y, ShopRite, Stew Leonard's, and Wegmans. This year it was also sold at the US Open through a partnership with Compass Group.

10/20/2026

In December 2014, the Ridgefield Visiting Nurse Association broke ground on a new home at 27 Governor Street, in its hundredth year. The Center for Exceptional Care opened in the spring of 2016.

The building was paid for entirely by donors. RVNA raised close to $8 million privately before construction began, then went public with its Campaign for Tomorrow to close the final $1 million of a roughly $10 million project.

We designed the 22,000 SF building to bring RVNA's work under one roof: clinical rooms, a teaching kitchen for nutrition programs, and the operations base for the nurses and aides who care for patients at home across the region.

The lower level was left largely unfinished at opening. RVNA soon needed more room for physical therapy, and brought us back to redesign that floor as its physical therapy center.

Our Managing Partner, Peter Coffin, is an Incorporator of RVNA and a former member of its board.

10/13/2026

Ann's Place needed a permanent home. A donated 4-acre site on Saw Mill Road in Danbury made that possible, and our founder David D. Coffin and partner John Doyle designed the building pro bono. The 17,000 SF building was funded almost entirely through donations and volunteer labor, and opened in 2012.

We designed it to feel like a home, not a clinic: a kitchen and fireplace sitting area, an art room, a kids' playroom downstairs, and meeting rooms for the community gatherings the organization runs.

Ann's Place offers free support to people living with cancer: support groups, counseling, wellness classes.

10/06/2026

The Prospector Theater started as the Ridgefield Playhouse, a 1940 movie palace designed by John Eberson. In 1970 it was gutted and converted into a bank, and it stayed that way for decades.

Founder Valerie Jensen wanted to bring it back as a theater with a different purpose: a nonprofit that employs and trains adults with developmental disabilities. We redesigned the building as a 26,000 SF theater with four screens, a café, a copper-penny ceiling, skylights, and a façade rebuilt as a replica of the original. It opened in 2014.

2015 AIA Connecticut Design Award. 2016 AIA Connecticut Business Architecture Award.

Photography: Jeff Goldberg/ESTO

09/29/2026

The house that stood here was a 1950s cape with a foundation that had had enough. We took it down and moved the new one back from the street, closer to the pool, which was rebuilt as well.

Shingle, stone, and metal roofing, styled to sit comfortably next to the eighteenth-century houses on the street rather than compete with them. A covered outdoor room, an outdoor fireplace, and a pergola carry the living space from the kitchen and great room out to the pool terrace.

09/22/2026

A wooded estate needed a guest house. Rather than let it hide next to the main house, we gave it a presence of its own: a Second Empire Victorian, built with the period colors and detail the style calls for.

The stairwell sits at the center of the house, under a skylight, so light from the roofline reaches all the way down through it.

2016 AIA Connecticut Alice Washburn Award. 2016 HGTV Faces of Design finalist, Great First Impressions.

09/15/2026

Peaceable Estates, in Ridgefield, is new construction built as a Georgian Revival: two-story façade, dormer windows, an elaborate entry portico, tall windows centered on the second floor, chimneys on both sides of the house, classical columns.

The details carry it — a cornice with crown and bracket moldings, built-in roll screens in the windows, painted shingle siding, an exterior fieldstone fireplace, and a connected pool house.

2014 A-List Awards finalist, Traditional Architecture, Greater Than 7,000 SF.

09/08/2026

The house had long views of Candlewood Lake from the front — it just wasn't doing anything with them. We reworked it top to bottom into a contemporized shingle-style home that earns the view: a new wood roof with deep overhangs, second-floor balconies over a wraparound porch, a chimney built from hand-cut Alverson limestone, walnut entry doors, and bluestone terraces.

Inside, the living and dining rooms run in dark-stained walnut herringbone floors off a paneled foyer, and the kitchen was completely redesigned to open straight onto the entertaining spaces.

Landscape design by Gregory Lombardi ties bluestone paths and gardens of hydrangea and hornbeam into the existing woodland and rock outcroppings.

09/01/2026

Wells Hill Homestead sits on a mountain plateau in Lakeville, with unobstructed views of the Berkshires — so we oriented the back of the house, including a two-story balcony, straight at them.

It's new construction, but we designed it to look like it had been added onto over a few generations rather than built in one shot: a Greek Revival farmhouse with 10-foot ceilings, antique furnishings mixed with updated traditional pieces, and a drive-through barn that's a garage on the ground floor and a great room above it.

Photography: George Ross.

2025 A-List Awards finalist, Traditional Architecture, Less Than 7,000 SF.

08/25/2026

This is the first modern house in a neighborhood of traditional lake cottages — which made fitting in the central design problem, not an afterthought.

The existing house came down: low-slung, low-ceilinged, added onto past the point of coherence. The replacement had to stay within the original footprint for zoning, gain real square footage, and avoid blocking the lake views of the houses across the street — while delivering the contemporary home the owners wanted.

The flat roof did the heavy lifting. It raised ceilings from seven feet to ten and allowed a third story without rising above the original ridgeline. Splitting the house into separate volumes opened a view corridor to the water for the neighbors behind. White shingles reference the local vernacular while horizontal shiplap ties the modern volumes together, and the balcony off the guest rooms comes to a point like a ship's prow, its cable railing drawn from boat detailing.

Interior design with Jody Fierz. As featured in New England Home.

Photography: Tim Williams

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158 Danbury Road
Ridgefield, CT
06877

Opening Hours

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

Website

http://www.doylecoffinarchitecture.com/

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