Long Strides for Small Houses: The ADU Advantage

Every day, newspaper headlines point to the challenges of meeting the need for affordable housing. These concerns resonate in suburban towns and rural areas as well as in large cities. In response, the design of tiny homes, the antithesis of...

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

Few buildings elicit a visceral thrill, as did Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater during a recent visit. After years of seeing this architectural masterpiece cited, it was an extraordinary experience to be there in person. Dramatically built into the rock cliff...

Sweden to the Jersey Shore

It’s not every day that a Swedish family decides to spend their vacations at the Jersey Shore. To enhance their summers in Spring Lake, Eva Wisemark and David Wertheim decided to expand their traditional one and a half story Cape...

New Porch Design Wins 2019 Montclair Historic Preservation Award

What a difference a porch makes! We are honored to announce that Francis C. Klein & Associates was the recipient of a 2019 Historic Preservation Award from the Montclair Historic Preservation Commission. Speaking on behalf of the Commission, architect John...

FKA Pool House Featured in Design NJ

Our Essex Fells pool house, designed in 2012, was featured in the June/July 2017 issue of Design NJ magazine. The pool house was added to look like an original farm building, situated in a field at the lower level of the...

Prairie School Kitchen FKA Renovation Featured in Old House Journal

This large Montclair home was designed by the architect George W. Maher, a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright, in 1904. Maher was part of the Prairie School Style, which blended traditional architecture with then-contemporary Arts and Crafts detail. In order...

FKA Renaissance Villa Featured in Home & Garden

Our Renaissance villa was featured in New Jersey Home & Garden, where it was praised for “combining the best of contemporary architectural design with the spirit of the Italian Renaissance… at once monumental and livable.” The article explained how the clients played “an...