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...

Back-to-Back Historic Preservation Award Winner!

We are delighted to announce that Francis C. Klein & Associates, Architects, has been honored with a 2020 Montclair Historic Preservation Award for its restoration of the Paper Plane Coffee Company storefront and interior. It’s the second year in a row...

Paper Plane Coffee Company: Ready to Soar

When Francis C. Klein & Associates took over the project to convert the storefront at 194 Claremont Avenue, in Montclair, from an antique shop into Paper Plane Coffee Company, we didn’t know that we’d be contributing to a five-generation legacy....

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...

Ask a Real Estate Expert: An Interview with Roberta Baldwin

A conversation with Roberta Baldwin, Partner at Chu/Baldwin Homes and Keller Williams NJ Metro Group, explored questions about first-time home-buying, first-time home-selling, the current Montclair housing market, and Baldwin's own move from Brooklyn to Montclair twenty-five years ago. In the years...