Patrick Ahearn Architect

Patrick Ahearn Architect is a Boston practice devoted to classical American architecture for contemporary living. Founder Patrick Ahearn, FAIA, has spent five decades on historically motivated, site-sensitive houses, balancing the romance of tradition with modernist discipline and describing the result as non-ego-driven architecture.

On Martha’s Vineyard alone the firm has worked on more than 400 homes, 225 of them inside the Edgartown Village Historic District. The studio of sixteen architects moves between reviving landmarked coastal structures and new residences that rework the New England vernacular, with attention paid as much to the spaces between buildings as to the buildings themselves.