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HUGH NEWELL JACOBSEN, FAIA (1929-2021)
Jacobsen was born in Grand Rapids MI and the family moved to Washington DC. After graduating from Wilson HS, Jacobsen graduated from the University of Maryland in Fine Arts in 1951. He married Robin Kearney in 1952. According to the Boston Globe, they bought a taxi in London with 500,000 miles and drove it to Rome and back. He attended the Architectural Association of London, graduating in 1954, and architecture at Yale, studying under Louis Kahn, graduating in 1955. He served in the USAF 1955-1957. Two sons, Simon and John Matthew. Jacobsen worked briefly for Philip Johnson in 1955 and Keyes Lethbridge Condor from 1957 to 1958. After that, he started his own firm. He created the addition under the West Terrace of the U.S. Capitol, restored two Smithsonian museums — the Renwick Gallery and the Arts and Industries Building — and renovated part of the US Embassy complexes in Paris and Moscow. He was known for steep-roofed pavilions, like Monopoly houses and hotels, unfurling like a telescope. Jacobsen won many awards and was a perennial favorite of Architectural Record's Record Houses issue, which since 1956 included him a record 20 times.
One of his two sons, Simon, joined him in practice and continues the firm. Bio adapted from Wikipedia and the Washington Post.
1958 - The Roberts House, West Virginia. Destroyed in a forest fire a year after being built.
1959 - The Branscomb House, 7935 Deepwell Drive, Bethesda MD. Original address 5 Hidden Oak Lane. Next to the Thoron House 1, below. Destroyed in 1997.
1959 - The Benjamin Warder Thoron House 1, 7933 Deepwell Drive, Bethesda MD. Next door to the Branscomb house. Also next door to a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Has a basement fallout shelter. Later expanded, not by Jacobsen, with a vaulted roof addition. Sold to Brent Siler. Sold in 2001 to Michael Barnard. Sold in 2004 to John Clark. Sold in 2014 to Leland and Jenny Crabbe.
1960 - The Harold Tager House, 9000 McDonald Drive, Bethesda MD. Tager met Jacobsen at a dinner party and asked for a Philip Johnson-style house. Landscape design, Lester Collins. Later a floating second floor was added by architect George Hartman. Sold in 1978 to Carl Nordberg. Sold in 2014 to Ted and Ruth Kassinger; years of water damage had almost destroyed the house. Architect Ben Van Dusen added a library, fixed the second floor, put in new windows, and took everything else to the studs. Jacobsen visited in 2017, saying "Nice house! It must have been a brilliant architect!"
1960 - The Robert Edmund Lee House Remodel, 2813 Q Street NW, Washington DC. Not the Confederate General. Original 1900 Victorian Rowhouse remodeled to streamlined modern. At some point before 1960 the owners bought the vacant lot next door and moved the house's entrance around to that side. Won a 1962 AIA Potomac Valley design award; 1964 AIANY design award. Sold to Paul Opalack.
1960 - The Hugh Newell Jacobsen Renovation, 2735 P Street NW, Washington DC. Original house built in 1900. Renovated again in 1965. Sold in 1998 to Bernard and Carol Cutler. Sold in 2017 to Akseizer Design Group who renovated it. Sold in 2019 to Ross and Sandra Flax.
1961 - The Alan Y. and Natalie Naftalin House, 3080 Tudor Hall Road, Riva MD. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1965; Architectural Record Vacation Houses of 1970. Engineer, Carl Hansen; built by Fishman; photos, Robert Lautman. Won a 1964 national AIA Honor Award; 1964 AIANY Award of Merit; 1965 AIA Potomac Valley Award. This house put Jacobsen on the national radar. Sold in 1986 to Samuel Thomas. Sold in 1997 to James Dechaine.
1962 - The Robert Shorb House, 5118 Wissioming Road, Bethesda MD. Located on Beard's Creek. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1964. Engineer, Carl Hansen; built by Fishman; photos by Robert C. Lautman. Addition in 1972 designed by Colden Florence. Sold in 1979. Sold to John and Judith Aldcock.
1962 - The Robert Nathan House, 7101 Crail Drive, Bethesda MD. Commissioned in 1960. Cruciform plan, bubble skylight, and porte-cochere. Jacobsen designed an addition in 1987. Sold in 2025.
1962 - The Carter House, Washington DC. Addition in 1967. Original house built in 1907. Status unknown.
1962 - The Ronald Scheman Renovation, 1307 35th Street NW, Washington DC.
1962 - The Richard Friedman Renovation, 2515 King Place NW, Washington DC.
1963 - The William Shaw House, New York NY. A Manhattan brownstone remodel: the living room ceiling was raised by lowering the floor above, a 10x10-foot rear wing was removed to bring in daylight, and the walls were stripped back to rubble brick. Won a 1967 AIANY Merit Award. Featured in Architectural Record, March 1966; New York Times, March 1967. Status unknown.
1964 - The Heyward and Sheila Isham House, Washington DC. He was a career diplomat, later Ambassador to Haiti; she was the painter Sheila Eaton Isham (1927-2024). The family was posted to Hong Kong from 1962 to 1965, so the house was designed for their return. Featured in the Washington Post, 11/10/64. Likely sold around 1978. Status unknown.
1964 - The C. Woods Vest Jr. Guest House, 1342 28th Street NW, Washington DC. Featured in Home and Garden Magazine, July 1967. Sold to Robert and Susan Wallace. Sold in 2017 to Ezra and Jessica Glass.
1964 - The Calvin Cafritz Remodel, 3038 Cambridge Place NW, Washington DC. Original house built in 1900. Sold for the first time in 2021 to Michael and Jocelyn Rapelyea.
1965 - The Ronald L. and Alice Gainer House, 3012 North Monroe Street, Arlington VA. Featured in Architectural Record Vacation Houses of 1970. Formerly 3000 North Monroe. Built by John Claiborne; mechanical, Carl Hansen; photos Robert Lautman. Still owned by the Gainers as of 2019.
1966 - The Stephen Millett House, aka Pavilion House, 363 Poppasquash Road, Bristol RI. Engineer, Carl Hansen; built by Anthony Nunes; B/W photos by Norman McGrath. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1968. Sold in 1996 to Nils Westberg. Sold in 2006 to Bryan J. Sadler. Destroyed. New house built in 2017.
1966 - The Benjamin W. and Violet S. Thoron House 2, aka Beech House, Seven Gates Farm,
64 Tisbury Lane West, Vineyard Haven MA
1966 - The Sohier House. Featured in the Washington Post Potomac Magazine, 11/10/66. Status unknown.
1967 - The Scott House, Georgetown, Washington DC. Renovation in 1972. Featured in the Washington Post, 4/1/73. Status unknown.
1967 - The James Newmyer House, aka Brick Pavilioned House, 3003 Audubon Terrace NW, Washington DC. Commissioned in 1966. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1967. Structural engineer: Carl Hansen; consulting mechanical engineer, George Campbell; built by Jesse Dustin & Son; landscape architect: Lester Collins; interior designer: Edward M. Benesch; photos, Robert Lautman. Still in the Newmyer family as of 2019.
1967 - The Bolton Square Townhomes, 300 West Lafayette Avenue, Baltimore MD. Commissioned in 1964. 35 townhomes. Developer, Stanley Panitz. Won an AIA National Honor Award. Designated a Baltimore City Landmark in 2008.
1968 - The Stephen Trentman House, 1348 27th Street NW, Washington DC. Addressed 1350 27th Street NW by the DC assessor; both numbers refer to the same house. Engineer, James Madison Cutts; B/W photos by Robert Lautman; built by Brincefield; landscape design, Lester Collins. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1969. Won an AIA Honor Award. Photos by Robert Lautman. Sold to William Shew and Leslie Wheelock. For sale in 2024.
1968 - The Hugh Newell Jacobsen and Robin Jacobsen House 2 Remodel, 1352 28th Street NW, Washington DC. House originally built around 1810. Renovated again in 1975. Sold in 2022 to Tewbdc LLC. Sold in 2024 to unnamed buyer.
1969 - The Jewett House. Status unknown.
1960s - The Stern House, status unknown.
1969 - The Gerald Smernoff House, 7005 Nevis Road, Bethesda MD. Built by Elvin Brincefield Company; Lester Collins, landscape design; James Madison Cutts, structural engineer. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1970. Received a WBOT Architectural Excellence Award in 1969. Still owned by the Smernoff family as of 2019.
1970 - The Stuart Land House, 59 Ocean Drive, Rehoboth Beach DE. Commissioned in 1967. Project architect, Roger Spees. Still there in 2020. Status unknown.
1970 - The Arthur Hartman Additions and Pool, 2738 McKinley Street NW, Washington DC. Commissioned in 1968. A 1939 Tudor designed for Samuel Carpenter by Evan J. Connor. Ambassador Hartman served as President Carter's Ambassador to France and President Reagan's Ambassador to the Soviet Union. When Hartman was in Moscow the house was rented to, among others, Samuel Dash, Chief Counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee. In 1968 Jacobsen added a pool and a breakfast room overlooking the pool. In the 1990s architect John Wiebenson lengthened the living room and turned the screened porch into a den. In 1997 architect Dickson Carroll expanded the master suite, turned the garage into a laundry room, and created a playroom on the lower level. Sold for the first time in 2019 to Grant and Melissa Epstein.
1970 - The Cord Meyer Remodel, 1523 34th Street NW, Washington DC. Sold in 2024
1970 - The Edward Echeverria Remodel, 2706 Olive Street NW, Washington DC. Original house built in 1900. Sold in 2016 to Rory G. C. Veevers-Carter and Patricia Elisabeth C. Dijkhuizen. Sold in 2022 to Jennifer Bisceglie and Robert Brese.
1970 - The Tidesfall Lake Townhouses, 10252-10331 Wilde Lake Terrace, Columbia MD. A 54-unit lakeside community; Jacobsen designed all four models for developer and builder Page Construction Corporation. Units 1,540-2,275sf. Structural, James Madison Cutts; photos, Norman McGrath. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1971.
1970 - The V. V. King Vacation House, Long Island NY. Status unknown.
Around 1970 - The Proctor Harvey House, 7710 Georgetown Pike, McLean VA. Original designed included several houses. Sold in 2004 to Alfred Moses Trust. Sold in 2022 to Michael and Courtney Green.
1971 - The Alexander Blumenthal House, 6008 Shipyard Lane, Easton MD. Located on the water. Built by Ships Point Construction; structural, James Madison Cutts; photos, Robert Lautman. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1971. Sold in 2010. Sold in 2021.
1971 - The Miller and Smith Detached Houses, Truro Community, Annandale VA. The community of Truro was started in 1968 and was built in 3 phases. Main architects involved were Robert Campbell Deigert and David Norton Yerkes. 377 mid-century modern houses were built in total. Jacobsen designed the "Skyview" model aka the "Pod" house. Five of these were built. Above is 4106 Turkey Creek Court, which sold in 2020.
1971 - The C. Woods Vest Jr. House 2, aka House in St. Croix, 32 Estate Carlton West End, St. Croix VI. Won a 1972 National AIA Award. Sold. Status unknown.
1972 - The Ralph A. and Marian Schwaikert House, 54 Beaver Dam Road, Taconic, Salisbury CT. On the east shore of Fisher Pond, a former reservoir. 89 acres. Nearly 5000sf in offset segments butted at transverse walls, with a circular stair to the boys' bedrooms; red cypress exterior, cedar shingle roof. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1973. Built by Gilligan Brothers; structural engineer, Fortune Down Elliott. Sold in 1985 to Donald Gummer and Meryl Streep. Still owners as of 2022.
1972 - The J. Robert Porter Renovation, aka Town Home with a Country View, 3518 Newark Street NW, Washington DC. Original house built in 1917. Featured in LOOK Magazine. Sold in 2011 to Victoria Marchand and Daniel Hamilton. Sold in 2021 to Neal Wolen and Nicole Elkon.
1972 - The James Kemper House, 1231 West 57th Street, Kansas City MO. Still in the Kemper family as of 2019.
1973 - The Burton Reiner House, 7108 Armat Drive, Bethesda MD. Sold for the first time in 2022 to Aaron and Kimberly Sobel.
1973 - The Fredrica Rosenberg House, 817 Vicar Lane, Alexandria VA. Sold in 1976 to Herbert and Louise Rust. Sold in 2012 to Jerome and Tara Casagrande. Sold in 2020 to Jeane Thomas.
1973 - The Peter Peterson Apartment Remodel, 10 Gracie Square, New York NY. Status unknown.
1973 - The Sam Korman Apartment Remodel, Philadelphia PA. Status unknown.
Around 1974 - The Schumacher House, Georgetown, Washington DC. Status unknown.
Around 1974 - The Eichols House/Greenhouse, status unknown.
1974 - The Berton (Bertie) Korman House,
6015 Sheaff Lane, Fort Washington PA
1976 - The Joseph Baker House, aka Three Pavilions House, 5511 Shookstown Road, Frederick MD. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1976. Built by Floyd Culler; B/W photos Robert Lautman; structural engineer, Kraas and Mok. Status unknown.
1976 - The Edwin Stetson Pool Addition, Maryland. Status unknown.
1976 - The Michael and Nina Straight Remodel, 5908 Bradley Boulevard, Bethesda MD. Addressed 5910 Bradley Boulevard until the property was subdivided in 1997. Remodel of a 1939 stone-and-brick Tudor built by architect Harry Edwards as his own house. Michael Whitney Straight edited The New Republic and was deputy chairman of the NEA; he and Nina Auchincloss Straight moved here in 1976 after selling the Newton D. Baker House at 3017 N Street NW in Georgetown. Sold in 1997. Still standing as of 2020.
1976 - The Elkins House. Status unknown.
1976 - The Edward and Frida Burling Addition, 1339 29th Street NW, Washington DC. Jacobsen added a solarium. Sold in 2017. Sold in 2019 to Mnnt LLC. Altered and painted white.
1976 - The Robert Butts House, Virginia. Originally there were to be ten houses. Status unknown.
1977 - The Robert and Judith Elliott House Remodel and Addition,
17 West Irving Street, Chevy Chase MD. Originally
a carriage house built in 1871 for an estate that has since been destroyed. Featured in
Architectural Record Houses of 1977.
Won a 1977 AIA Washington Award. Addition built by the owners; photos Robert Lautman; structural engineer, Kraas and Mok. Deeded to Judith Elliott.
Renovated by Jacobsen again in the 1980's. Sold in 2024 to Edward Norberg
and Carolyn Small.
1977 - The Jerome Kurtz House, Washington DC. Status unknown. He was Commissioner of the IRS under Carter.
1977 - The John Dreier House, aka Dreier Barton House, aka Monopoly House, aka Four Linked Pavilions, 2927 University Terrace NW, Washington DC. 1990 sf. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1978. Structural engineer, Alfred Kraas; built by EJ Smith; B/W photo by Robert Lautman. Sold in 2010 to Robert Holleyman and Bill Keller. Renovated around 2013 by architect Richard Williams. Won a 2013 Residential Architect Magazine Design Award.
1977 - The Paul and Rachel (Bunny) Mellon Estate, aka Rokeby Farm, aka Country House, aka Rokeby Farm, 8540 Mill Reef Road, Upperville VA. When the property and 2000 acres could not be sold as one, the property was divided. The brick house and 284 acres were sold in 2015 to Alex and Jill Holtzman Vogel. Subsequently, Oak Springs Farms, Bunny Mellon's estate, sold almost 122 acres to Connecticut based Oak Springs Dairy, which makes artisan cheeses.
1977 - The Baer House, New York City NY. Status unknown.
1978 - The Feild House. Status unknown.
1978 - The White Residence, aka Hillside House Overlooking the River, 1003 Crest Lane, McLean VA. Project architect, Rodger Speas. Featured in Architectural Digest, November 1982. Addition in 1988; project architect, Ernest Schickler. Photo, Robert Lautman. Sold in 1999 to Barry Appleman. Sold in 2008 to William Melton. Sold in 2010 to Patricia Smith. Sold in 2012 to the UAE Government, which also owns the house next door. Has been modified several times.
1978 - The David E. Rust Renovation, 2812 P Street NW, Washington DC. Featured in the Washington Post, 1/8/78. Rust was curator at the National Gallery of Art for nearly 20 years, retiring in 1984. There was a fire in 2007 where he lost several expensive paintings. Gutted and rebuilt in 2010 by architect Dale Overmyer; little of Jacobsen's work is thought to survive. Sold in 2011 to 2812 P Street LLC.
1978 - The Elliott House, aka Design House, Reston VA. Unbuilt.
1978 - The John and Jo Ann Kingdon Addition, 5500 Chamberlin Avenue, Chevy Chase MD. Original house built in 1937. Won a 1980 AIA Washington award. Sold in 1995 to William and J. A. Reyner. Sold in 1998 to Richard Creighton.
1979 - The Sand Castle, Washington DC. Jacobsen built a large sandcastle on the grounds of the AIA Headquarters. Featured in Architectural Record, May 1979.
1979 - The Dixon Residence, 3250 Fox Street, Wayzata/Long Lake MN. 20 acres, 3000sf. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1979. Built by McNulty; structural engineer, Kraas and Mok. Photos by Robert Lautman. Featured in the Washington Post, 5/26/79. Sold in 2004 to Mallory Mullins and Martin Lueck.
1979 - The Joel Putterman House, 3 Fairway Drive, Selinsgrove PA. Commissioned in 1979. Landscape design by the owner; built by Commonwealth Construction; structural engineer, Kraas and Mok; photos by Robert Lautman. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1980. Sold in 2018 to Curtis Michael Brown.
Around 1979 - The Jackie Onassis House, aka Red Gate Farm, 3 Red Gate Farm Road, Aquinnah MA. On Martha's Vineyard. 340 acres. Most of the land was sold in 2020 to the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank Commission and the Sheriff's Meadow Foundation. It was known as the Squibnocket Pond Reservation and later opened to the public. The Kennedy family kept 95 acres, including this house.
1970s - The Katz House. Status unknown.
1970s - The Sollis House. Status unknown.
1980 - The Donald Johnson House, aka House in Kentucky, 1315 Castle Rock Way, Lexington KY. Photos by Robert Lautman. Featured in Architectural Digest. Sold to Helga Duffy, Redbob Farms.
1980 - The Challinor House, 201 Long Neck Point Road, Darien CT. Sold in 2010.
1980 - The Eichholz Apartment. Status unknown.
1980 - The Robinson and Jean Baker Renovation, 8717 McDonogh Road, Pikesville MD. Additional renovation in 1988. Transferred in 2012 to Susan and Scott Baker, aka Horsehead Farm.
1981 - The John and Cynthia Buckwalter House, aka House in Lancaster, aka Disappearing House, 124 Eshelman Road, Lancaster PA. 5000sf. Structural engineer, Kraas and Mok; photos by Robert Lautman. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1981. Photos by Robert Lautman. Renovated by Jacobsen in 2010. Sold in 2021 to Veronika and Andreas Fuchs.
1981 - aka Saddleback, 151 Veritas Lane, Afton VA. Sold in 1999 to Andrew and Patricia Hodson. Renovated with counsel from Simon Jacobsen and turned into a farmhouse winery.
1982 - aka Desert Guest House, Tucson AZ. Status unknown.
1982 - The Charles E. Van Horn House, aka Huge House, aka Hugie House, aka Huge-Gee House, 628 Boyle Lane, McLean VA. 2200sf. Sold in 1995. Sold to Rainer Famulla.
1982 - aka House on the Eastern Shore, aka The Glover Residence, Talbot County MD. On a man-made five-foot knoll at the tip of a neck, with a pier off the point and an 800-foot double-hedged allee running south from the garden front to the shore; the pool is treated as a formal reflecting basin. Won a First Honor Award from AIA Homes for Better Living. Structural engineer, Kraas and Mok; project architect, Charles Parker; built by Harper and Sons of Easton; landscape design, Lester Collins; photos by Bent Rej. Featured in Architectural Record Houses 1982. Status unknown.
1983 - The Calman Zamoiski House, aka House in the Tidewater, 5960 Hopkins Neck Road, Easton MD. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1984; AIA National Award winner. Built by Nuttle Lumber; structural engineer, Alfred Kraas; project architect, Rodger Speas; landscape design, Kurt Bluemel; photos by Robert Lautman. Zamoiski died in 2021. Deeded to heirs.
1983 - The J. David Bryan House, 3700 Butler Road, Glyndon MD. Still owned by Bryan as of 2019.
1983 - The Georgetown University Student Housing, aka Village B, 37th Street between N and O Streets NW, Washington DC. Documented in the Hugh Newell Jacobsen architectural drawing archive at the Library of Congress, drawings 1980-1983.
1984 - The David Welles House, 16962 West River Road, Bowling Green OH. Deeded to Georgia Welles. Sold to the Toledo Museum of Art. Sold in 2024 to Dan and Lana Ridi.
1984 - The Spaso House Renovation, Moscow, Russia. Since 1933, it was the residence of the US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and since 1991, to the Russian Federation.
1985 - The Charles (Chuck) and Janice Rosenak House, 29 Camino Sabio, Tesuque, Santa Fe NM. 5 acres. Jacobsen also built a hillside guest house holding art storage. The Rosenaks were nationally known folk-art collectors and authors whose collection went to various museums. Sold in 2004.
1985 - The Richard G. Schaub Jr. House, 320 Shores Drive, Indian River Shores FL. 25 pyramid-shaped roof sections. Featured in the Vero Beach Press Journal, 7/21/85. Built in The Shores, the 77-acre, 83-lot architectural showcase community developed by Schaub. Destroyed around 2007; a new house was built on the site in 2010.
1985 - The James L. Kahn House, 56 Hawthorne Drive, Lima OH. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1986. Structural engineer, Kraas and Mok; photo, Mick Hales. Sold in 2014 to Ashok and Pavithra Tripuraneni.
1987 - The Eugenie Voorhees Renovation, 47 Orange Street, Nantucket MA. Original house 1750. Won a 2003 AIA Washington Award. Sold in 1999 to DPL/Neil Millman. Sold in 2008 to Trevilian Station LLC.
1987 - The Mendoza House, aka Island House, aka Casa Fiesta, now Casa Miralejos, Bahia Chavon 1, Casa de Campo, La Romana, Dominican Republic. White gabled pavilions in a palm grove above a private beach, 15,000sf. Won a 1988 AIA National Honor Award. Available for rent.
1987 - aka House on the Gulf, somewhere in Florida. Status unknown.
1988 - The 26th and L Apartments, Washington DC. Unbuilt.
Around 1988 - The Syrigos House, aka Villa Syrigos, Perseos 5, Psichiko 154 52, Athens, Greece. Project architect, Paul Roddick. Next door to Villa Andropoulos. Status unknown.
1988 - The Philip Palmedo House, aka House on the North Shore, 4 Piper Lane, St. James NY. The Library of Congress catalogs the drawings as 87 Harbor Road, St. James, 1985; Piper Lane is the later subdivided address. A "house of six gables" - five gable-end units in a line plus a detached stair pavilion on a glass bridge, at the end of a 500-foot drive with a view to Long Island Sound. Project architect, Charles Parker; structural, MMP International; built by Van Horn and Son. Featured in Architectural Record Houses 1989. Still owner as of 2023.
1988 - The Russell and Judith Carson House, 78 Hammond Hill Road, Dover Plains NY. Five pavilions on 51 acres in the Town of Washington. Project architect, John Murphey. Still owned by the Carsons as of 2020.
1988 - The Waddell House, Long Island NY. Built. Project architect, Jamshid Kooros. Status unknown.
1988 - The Steve and Sue Jacobs House, aka A Village of One's Own, 1625 Stocton Road, Meadowbrook PA. Sold in 2016 to Damian Fernandez. Sold in 2020 to Samuel Dykstra and Olivia Romeo.
1989 - The Derald and Janet Ruttenberg House, Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic. Status unknown.
1989 - The Richard B. and Mary Ann Patton House, 340 Shores Drive, Indian River Shores FL. 4562sf on 1.62 acres on the Indian River lagoon, with a dock. Sold to David Schaeffer.
1989 - The David Welles Guest House Renovation, Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic. Originally designed and built by others in the 1970s. Periodically expanded. Destroyed in a 1999 hurricane.
1989 - The Forbes House and Gardens, 1350 Kirkway Road, Bloomfield Hills MI. Won a 1997 AIA Virginia Award. Photo by Balthazar Korab. Status unknown.
Around 1990 - The Sohn House, Ontario, Canada. Status unknown.
1990 - The Andropoulos House, aka Hillside House, aka Villa Andropoulos, Perseos 9, Psichiko 154 52, Athens, Greece. Project architect, Paul Roddick. Next door to Jacobsen's Villa Syrigos. Status unknown.
1990 - The Kate and Jim Lehrer Renovation, aka Piedmont, aka the Robert Worthington House, aka Quarry Banks, 296 Piedmont Lane, Charles Town WV. Commissioned in 1989. A 1730 stone house with a 1784 Georgian addition by Dr. John Briscoe, restored and stabilized. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Photos, Robert C. Lautman. Featured in Southern Living and House Beautiful.
1990 - Private Residence, Pescadero CA. Unbuilt.
1991 - Private Residence, Soba Netherlands Antilles. Unbuilt.
1991 - The Waldman House Addition, Annandale NJ. Unbuilt.
1991 - The Advaney House, Van Beethovenlaan 100, Voorschoten, Netherlands. Sited half into a pond in a 19th-century five-acre garden park. Project architect, Rodger Speas; photos, Robert C. Lautman. Featured in Elle Decor, April/May 1992; Audio/Visual Interiors, October 1993.
Around 1991 - The Huntington and Amie Block House, 9 Morey Lane, Siasconset, Nantucket MA. At some point there was a lawsuit between Jacobsen and the Blocks. Sold in 2010 to Frank and Georgine Anton.
1991 - The James Garner House, aka Rancho La Zaca, 6903 Foxen Canyon Road, Santa Maria CA. Additional buildings in 1998. Sold in 2000. Sold in 2018 to Live Oak Partners, a winery and wedding venue.
1991 - The Charles C. McKinney Residence, 277 Beach Road North, Wilmington NC. Won a 1996 AIA VA award; 1995 AIA Washington Award. Sold in 2010 to John Gussenhoven.
1990s - aka Pimney's Point, 39 Gardner Road, Shawkemo, Nantucket MA. On Nantucket Harbor. 9.92 acres.
1991 - The Donald and Shirley Brown House, aka Waterford Estate, 5605 West Lake Road, Vermilion Township OH. The firm's own caption gives the location as Sandusky. Donald Brown was inventor of the drop ceiling. 160 acres on Lake Erie. A complex of 11 buildings, including room for your chopper. Deeded to son Ken Brown in 2014. Sold in 2020 to DeGeronimo Properties.
1990s - The Rosenak Gallery, New Mexico. A second commission for folk-art collectors Chuck and Jan Rosenak, separate from their 1985 house at 29 Camino Sabio. Status unknown.
1992 - The Karpidas House, Athens, Greece. Designed in 1978 for a Greek shipping family and completed in 1992. Perched near the top of a mountain on a steep slope of solid rock, about 500 feet above the city, with a panoramic view over the plain of Attica. Project architect, Andreas Simion. Status unknown.
1992 - The Jerome and Elaine Kurtz Loft, 17 East 16th Street, New York NY. Probably unit 8, in a 1909 loft cooperative. He was Commissioner of the IRS under Carter from 1977 to 1980 and later taught at NYU Law; she was the painter Elaine Kurtz. Sold in 2013. Needs verification.
1992 - The Stewart Greene House, 25715 Bruffs Island Road, Easton MD. Sold in 2017 to Stephen Wolf. Project architect: Robert Riddick. Featured in Southern Living Magazine, 1994. Won a 1993 AIA Washington Award.
Around 1992 - aka Courtyard House, aka Residence at Windsor, 3405 Windsor Boulevard, Vero Beach FL. 3613sf around an enclosed central court with a reflecting pool. Built as a spec house by Georgia Welles. Won a 1992 AIA Washington Award. Sold in 1994 to Thomas and Marian Marill.
1993 - The Rich House, 15 Academy Lane, Demarest NJ. Sold in 2019 to Mooyeon and Chonghyo Park.
1993 - The Harvey Caplan Residence, 7 Noel Drive, Short Hills NJ. Sold in 2000 to Douglas Steiner. Sold in 2016 to Ruth Katz.
1993 - House in Ohio. Status unknown.
1994 - The Margaret Kelly and Haleem Tahir House, 5406 Tuscarawas Road, Bethesda MD. Still owners as of 2019.
1994 - The Gordon and Carole Segal House 1, 8147 SE Golfhouse Drive, Hobe Sound FL. Sold in 2021 to Hobe Sound Husket LLC. In 2003 Jacobsen designed a second house for the Segals in Colorado, below.
1995 - The Thomas and Robin Clarke House, 8850 Marengo Farm Road, Easton MD. Photos by Robert Lautman. Sold in 2012 to Ronald Mueller.
1996 - The Nef House, aka House in the Berkshires, 230 Blue Hill Road, Great Barrington MA. 116 acres. Won a 2000 AIA DC Award. Built by Louis Boxer of West Stockbridge MA. Sold in 2012 to Blue Hill LLC.
1996 - The Ridgelea House Renovation, 8362 Holtzclaw, Warrenton VA. Original 1920 house by architect Waddy Wood. Sold to Barbara Langhorne. Sold in 2021 to William R. Morris III.
1997 - The David and Georgia Welles House, aka Windsor I, 3240 Savannah Place, Vero Beach FL. Built as the first of three Windsor spec houses developed by the Welleses. 11,456sf. Built by Wissel Construction. Won a 1996 AIA Washington Chapter Merit Award. Sold in 2006; Sold in 2011 to Carl A. and Jessica Grimstad.
1998 - aka the LIFE Magazine Dream House. LIFE Magazine commissioned Jacobsen to design a house that could be built for $200,000. 550 sets of plans were sold in the first year. Few were built, and even fewer without modifications. Re-released by the firm in 2015.
1998 - One of the LIFE Magazine Dream Houses, Forest Lake MN. Status unknown.
1998 - The Knapp House, 10807 Bellagio Road, Los Angeles CA. Sold in 2013 to Nobuyuki (Nobu) Matsuhisa.
1998 - The Polpis House, 3 Fulling Mill Road, Nantucket MA. Sold in 2020 to George and Christine Spencer.
Around 1999 - The Georgia Welles House, 2935 Hammock Way, Vero Beach FL. Built as the second of the Welles Windsor spec houses by Wissel Construction. Sold in 2001 to Don and Evelyn Mayerson.
1999 - The Kenneth Scheer House, 3400 Windsor Boulevard, Vero Beach FL. Won a 2000 AIA Washington Award. Still owned by Scheer as of 2019. Photo by Robert Lautman.
2000 - The David Welles House, Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic. New house built after a 1999 hurricane.
Around 2000 - aka House in Richmond. For sale in 2014. Status unknown.
2000 - The Donald and Patricia Wilks House, 7028 SE Harbor Circle, Stuart FL. Photos by Robert Lautman.
2002 - The Richard and Kim Fletcher Residence, 3811 Harding Place, Forest Hills, Nashville TN. Sold in 2020 to Keith and Maria Naisbitt.
2002 - The Eugenie Voorhees Barn Remodel, aka Liberty, 11 Liberty Street, Nantucket MA. Originally the stable, carriage house, and servants' quarters for the "Red Brick" mansion at 75 Main Street. Won a 2003 AIA Washington Award of Excellence. Sold in 2019 to Thomas J. Kim and John F. Olson.
2002 - The Gordon and Carole Segal House, 265 Aspen Way, Snowmass Village CO. 5720sf in linked stone pavilions. The Segals founded Crate and Barrel. Project architects, Luther Weber and Simon Jacobsen. Won a 2004 Masterworks in Masonry Honor Award from the Rocky Mountain Masonry Institute.
2003 - House in Nantucket, Nantucket MA. Status unknown.
2003 - aka House in New Jersey, aka Chatham Residence, 23 Loantaka Lane North, Chatham Township NJ. A four-bedroom house in a chain of white gable pavilions on 2.66 acres. Second house by Jacobsen for these owners. Sold in 2019.
2004 - The Doug and Sarah Rivers House, 5190 Castle Creek Road, Snowmass, Aspen CO.
2004 - The Ken Sugarman and Tommy Llewellyn House, 2 Wades Court, Rehoboth Beach DE. Canal Corkran. Built by CMG Construction Services, whose managing principal is Sugarman; landscape, Paxton Holt Jordan; cabinetry, Oceanic Ventures; photos, Carolyn Watson. Featured in Delaware Today, 5/14/14. Sold in 2014 to Kimberly Casey.
2005 - The David Welles House IV, aka Windsor IV, 10611 Charleston Drive, Vero Beach FL. 6404sf. Notice of commencement filed 10/31/03; built by Wissel Construction. Won a 2009 AIA Washington Award. Deeded to Georgia Welles. Sold in 2024 for $8,400,000 to George K. Moss.
2007 - The Bob Klinkowstein, Ruth Shefer, and Earl Marmar House, 105 Spring Trail Road, Stowe VT. Deeded to an LLC but likely the same owners. After they bought the land, they found out that zoning allowed one house, not two. The solution was separate suites and guest rooms at either end of a 100-foot-long, 4,000-square-foot house. Jacobsen designed the furniture as well. Jacobsen declined to design them a basement, so that was handled by a different member of his firm.
2010 - The Jeff Atlas House, aka Birdhouse, 3173 Dry Creek Road, Napa CA.
2010 - aka 4MVR Residence, aka Harbor Hill, 4 Middle Valley Road, Shawkemo, Nantucket MA. 12 connected cottages, 11,057sf. Won a 2014 AIA Washington Award in Architecture. Designed by Simon Jacobsen. Owned by Harbor Hill House LLC.
Around 2010 - The Dowley House, Nantucket MA. Status unknown.
2009 - The Simon Jacobsen Renovation, 1353/1355 28th Street NW, Washington DC. Two 1863 houses joined and renovated. Designed for his son, also an architect.
2011 - The Farish House, 1068 Wilson Way, Telluride CO. For sale in 2021.
Around 2011 - The Ziegler/White Doerfer House Renovation, 1 Scipio Creek Drive, Apalachicola FL. A renovated 1870 Creole beach cottage moved from another location to a site overlooking a 200-acre preserve between the shrimp boat harbor ad the Apalachicola River. Sold in 2020 to Brigham Gardens LLC aka Hillary Brigham.
Around 2013 - The John Olson Apartment, aka O/K Calvert Apartment, aka Olson-Kim Residence, 2700 Calvert Street NW, Unit 611, Washington DC. In the Shoreham West cooperative. Won a 2014 AIA Washington Award of Merit; 2013 Washingtonian award. Designed by Simon Jacobsen.
Around 2013 - The Kahlbetzer Residence, aka Vero to 60, 3335 Abercrombie Way, Vero Beach FL. A 19,000sf compound spanning three lots — main house, summer house with pool, and two guest houses enclosing a central courtyard. Won a 2014 AIA Washington Award. Project architect, Richard Cho; photos, Simon Jacobsen. One of the last houses designed by Hugh Newell Jacobsen. Sold to Craig and Erin Reicher. For sale in 2024.
2014 - The Welles House II, Vero Beach FL. Project architect, Ernest Schickler; photos, Robert C. Lautman. Featured in Architectural Digest, June 2014. May overlap with one of the other Welles Windsor houses. Needs verification.
2016 - aka The Prevailing Westerlies, Kennett Square PA. A 900-1000sf guest cottage - two bedrooms, two baths, kitchenette and a sleeping loft - added behind an 18th-century stone manor originally built in 1710 in the Brandywine Valley. Shaker-derived doors, red inside and white outside. Project architect, Heidi Leinbach; photos, Simon Jacobsen. Won a 2016 Gold Award from the Society of American Registered Architects, Pennsylvania Chapter. Featured in Architectural Digest, 11/1/16. Status unknown.
Around 2018 - The Jack and Joan Dempsey Condo Renovation, aka Spy House, 400 Madison Street, Alexandria VA. Built by Harry Brasswell. Won a 2018 AIA DC Award of Merit. Designed by Simon Jacobsen.
Around 2019 - The John Bray House, 100 Pepperell Road, Kittery Point ME. Designed by Simon Jacobsen. Addition to a house built in 1662. Won a 2020 AIA Washington DC Award. Restoration of earlier main house as well new pavilions replacing 3. Sold in 2007 at auction to Daryl Hall (of Hall and Oates fame). Sold to Jonathan King and Jim Stott, founders of Stonewall Kitchen in York ME who hired Jacobsen Architects to restore and rebuild.
Year unknown - aka HiW House, Arizona. Status unknown.
Sources include: Architectural Record Houses; Phoebus Panigyrakis; Hugh Newell Jacobsen; Hugh Newell Jacobsen Architect - Recent Work; Hugh Newell Jacobsen Architect - Works from 1993-2003.