South Mountain Company of West Tisbury builds some of the most expensive homes on Martha’s Vineyard. It also builds more affordable housing than any other design and construction firm on the Island. The funny thing is, South Mountain builds both types of house in much the same way.
By Ian Fein
A lifelong resident of Chappaquiddick watched a big, new house rise up where scrub and trees once grew. At first glance, it looked like just another out-of-place manor imposing itself on the wilderness. Then she met the family who owned it.
By Margaret Knight
Ask the experts your toughest home-owning questions.
By Tom Dresser
When John Abrams takes you on a tour of his five favorite buildings on Martha’s Vineyard, he doesn’t talk much about architecture. To Abrams – the president and co-founder of South Mountain Company, the innovative design and construction firm in West Tisbury – a building is defined by the way it connects to the community it serves, or to the setting in which it stands.
By Ian Fein
Notable Island designers and builders identify the rooms that best express their aesthetic.
By Joyce Wagner
Adam and Gabrielle Spiegel bought a run-down former wayside tavern in West Tisbury. Though the restoration of the property and its majestic walls is finally complete, Adam Spiegel may be seeing it for the last time.
By Brooks Robards
Margaret Knight gets downright tropical in her Chappy greenhouse.
By Margaret Knight
Fires to warm thew cockles of your heart, and just about everything else.
By Joyce Wagner
We tried to keep our expectations low, but secretly we believed in our soil, our seeds, and our own high hopes.
By Sally Bennett
Denys Wortman finds you really can go home again.
By Holly Nadler
Some Aquinnah firsts: the first bed and breakfast in town, in a house with one of the first flush toilets, and containing the first enterprise consumed with canards.
By Margaret Knight
