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In Focus: Comtemporary Shingled Cottages

Architect Paul Masi’s Saltbox Cottage on Block Island Serves as a Summertime Family Escape

Block Island, Rhode Island

September 15, 2025

The Bates + Masi partner designed the shingle-clad second home as a place to get away from the seasonal gridlock of Long Island's East End.

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Featured Houses

Morris Cove by Bates Masi + Architects

Sag Harbor, New York

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November 27, 2024

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Organized into a series of five discrete pavilions, this resilient, site-sensitive Sag Harbor retreat is situated on a narrow peninsula surrounded by water on all sides.

Stony Hill House by Bates + Masi Architects

Amangansett, New York

Suzanne Stephens

April 1, 2021

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Bates Masi + Architects’ Long Island house astutely combines the modern and the traditional, incorporating unexpected materials, from weathering steel to terra-cotta to thatch.

Asset Restaurant by Bates Masi + Architects

New York

Linda C. Lentz

June 2, 2020

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Using refined materials, a New York firm elaborates on an urban theme for a repeat client's second restaurant in Manhattan.

Amagansett Residence by Bates Masi + Architects

East Hampton, New York

David Sokol

September 5, 2017

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A cedar shingle–clad vacation home offers expansive ocean views to a couple from the West Coast.

Underhill House by Bates Masi + Architects

Matinecock, New York

Miriam Sitz

June 1, 2017

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A four-volume family home on Long Island reflects the quiet history of its surroundings.

Elizabeth II by Bates Masi Architects

Amagansett, New York

Josephine Minutillo

July 16, 2015

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In a resort town on Long Island's east end, a local firm designs a house shielded from the summer scene on one side and open to nature on the other.

Northwest Harbor

November 15, 2014

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The clients for a single-family house wanted to minimize its environmental impact on the neighboring wetlands.

Far Pond Kitchen

Existing components of this 1970s-era kit house inform the look and feel of its bold new kitchen.

Anna Fixsen

September 16, 2014

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For the expansion of a 1970s-era kit house on the East End of Long Island in Southampton, New York, architect Paul Masi looked to the structure's muscular prefabricated components for design cues—a choice that ultimately informed the look and feel of the addition’s bold new kitchen, completed last year.

Sagaponack House

Sheila Kim

September 16, 2013

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A unique site, wedged between the Atlantic Ocean and a freshwater pond on New York's Long Island, gave the Sagaponack House an opportunity to make the most of the scenic views.