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NORMAN JAFFE, FAIA (1932-1993)
Jaffe was born in Chicago to immigrant parents from Poland and Latvia. During the Depression, he was sent to live with relatives in Seattle where he graduated from West Seattle HS. He joined the military in 1954, serving with the US Army Corps of Engineers in Japan during the Korean War. In 1956, he began studying architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, later transferring to Berkeley for a Bachelors in 1958. Jaffe also studied at the Art Students League of New York and Art Institute of Chicago. Jaffe began working for Marquis+Stoller, Joseph Esherick, and in 1961, he moved to New York to work for Skidmore Owings & Merrill and later briefly for Philip Johnson. Jaffe moved to Bridgehampton NY in 1973 where he opened an architectural practice. By 1993, according to his son Miles, Jaffe was stricken with advanced prostate cancer, a failing marriage, and disillusion from dealing with super-rich clients who were difficult and often refused to pay what they agreed to. He died by suicide in 1993 swimming out in the ocean in Bridgehampton NY.
In 1987, Jaffe donated the design for a new synagogue, Gates of the Grove, in the Hamptons of NY (above), which critic Paul Goldberger called Jaffe's greatest building. His archives are at Columbia. Bio adapted from Wikipedia.
His son Miles has a
website
which has memories of his father, audio above.
1962 - The Pension Homes, San Francisco CA. Status unknown.
1964 - The George Berkowitz House, aka Five Pavilions Linked by a Service Spine, Lake Mahopac NY. Designed with Robert Sobel. Interiors, Nicos Zographos. Built by Edwin and Allen Page, Page Brothers. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1964. Photos by Richard Weatherwax. Status unknown.
1965 - The W. A. Mann House, Mount Vernon VA. Designed with Nicos Zographos. Unbuilt.
1965 - The Harold Becker Apartment Renovation, 5th Avenue and 19th Street, New York NY. Status unknown.
1966 - The Betty Watson Hall House, Pleasantville NY. Unbuilt.
1966 - The Peel House, 24299 Seabreeze Drive R03, Rodanthe NC. Commissioned 1965. The lot went from the ocean to the sound and was about 75 feet wide. Sold in 1999 to Mike Evans who moved it back off the ocean a little higher off the ground and put in steps and railings. Sold in 2011 to Michael and Jan Rabe who did a restoration, bottom three photos.
1966 - The Spacemakers Prefab Housing System. Unbuilt.
1968 - The Sascha Burland House #1, aka East House, aka Burland East, Pheasant Walk, Bridgehampton NY. Commissioned in 1967. Top image is an early concept sketch for Burland. Still there, as a barn as of 2021.
1968 - The Sascha Burland House #2, aka West House, aka Burland West, Pheasant Walk, Bridgehampton NY. Commissioned in 1967. Destroyed around 2008.
1968 - The Leonard A. Schulman Beach House, 31 Surfside Drive, Bridgehampton NY. Asher Israelow, grandson of the original owner, did renovations around 2008. Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects designed a guest house around 2018, bottom photo.
1968 - The Carl Fischer Cabin, 10 Laurel Drive South, Sherman CT. Designed with Nicos Zographos. Deeded in 2013 to son Kenneth Fischer and daughter-in-law Robin Cohen.
1969 - The Harold Becker House, 147 Town Line Road, Wainscott NY. Sold in 2014 to Robert Daglio. Featured in: Architectural Record, April 1973; Home and Garden, August 1972; and the documentary, Beyond the Beach. Jaffe took swimming lessons in the Becker pool.
1970 - The Irving and Dorian Goldman House, 31 Surfside Drive, Bridgehampton NY. Addition in 2011. Still owned by the Goldmans as of 2020.
1970 - The Stephen and Sandy Perlbinder House, 4 Potato Road, Sagaponack NY. Structural engineer, James Romeo; built by Stephen Perlbinder. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1971; Architectural Record Vacation Houses of 1977. In 1983, a fire caused by a faulty heater devastated the living room, which they had to rebuild. And in 1998, a series of unusually fierce storms eroded the dune upon which the house was built. Moved inland 350 feet and expanded by 4000sf in the late 1990s by their son-in-law, Cristian Sabellarosa. Sold in 2020 to Saghaus LLC, controlled by the Perlbinders. A pond was created to rebuild the dunes.
Sandy Perlbinder, Madeline Warren, and Bruce Feirstein made a satirical film about Modernist architects called HOME in 1989.
1970 - The Barry Lee Cohen House, 544 Asharoken Avenue, Northport NY. Sold in 1998 to Barbara Johnson. Sold in 2018 to Daniel and Stephanie Arsham. Featured in Architectural Digest, November 2019.
1971 - The Norman Jaffe House I, 1075 Ocean Road, Bridgehampton NY. Former address, Pheasant Walk. Built by Jaffe. Featured in Architectural Record Vacation Houses of 1977. Sold in 1997 to Ron Rubenstein who did a large renovation, restoring the framing, reshingling the exterior, rebuilding the decks, overhauling the kitchen and baths, as well as adding a garage. Keith Boyce, who took over the office after Jaffe's death, was the overseeing architect.
1971 - The Meyer (Mike) Osofsky House, 4 Dawn Lane, Shelter Island NY. One part of the Jacobs/Osofsky/Seidler "compound." Featured in House & Garden, January 1972. Sold in 2020 to Alli Waheed.
1971 - The Seidler House, 52 Gardiners Bay Drive, Shelter Island Heights NY. One part of the Jacobs/Osofsky/Seidler compound. Commissioned around 1969. Featured in House & Garden, January 1972. Sold in 2015 to the Kathleen Tropin Revocable Trust.
1971 - The Betty Jacobs House, 60 Gardiners Bay Drive, Shelter Island Heights NY. One part of the Jacobs/Osofsky/Seidler compound. Featured in House & Garden, January 1972. Deeded to daughter Sally Jacobs Baker. Sold in 2015 to Andrew Frankel aka Frankel 1 LLC.
1971 - The IPX Houses, East Hampton and Bridgehampton NY. Status unknown.
1971 - The Machiz Apartment, New York NY. Designed with Michael Wolfe. Built. Status unknown.
1972 - aka Brighton Apartment, Brighton NY. Status unknown.
1972 - The Julius Perlbinder Apartment, 175 West 12th Street, New York NY. Father of Stephen Perlbinder, future Jaffe client. Status unknown.
1972 - The Village Greens Housing Project, Staten Island NY. Jaffe was not happy with the project and was blamed for the development's shortcomings.
1972 - The Klimpl House, 142 Post Road, Old Westbury NY. Sold in 2007 to Adria and Gary Selmonsky.
1973 - The Wilbur and Dorothy Breslin House, 30 Wheatley Road, Old Westbury NY. Commissioned in 1972. Breslins still owners as of 2020, in a trust.
1973 - aka Parsonage Pond, Southampton NY. Jaffe developed this enclave of houses and the five acre pond. In the 1990s a developer and architect Michael Davis came in and built a blend of English country and shingle-style homes. Status unknown.
1974 - The Stephen and Sandy Perlbinder Apartment, New York NY. Still owned by the Perlbinders as of 2022.
1973 - aka Cragsmoor, Monticello NY. Owned by Mile Square Development. Unbuilt.
1973 - The Elmswood Park Housing Development, Staten Island NY. Status unknown.
1973 - The Chico Hamilton House, 142 Water Hole Road, East Hampton NY. Hamilton was an American jazz drummer and bandleader for Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie, and Lena Horne. Featured in Architectural Record, November 1975. Deeded to the Hamilton Family Trust. Sold to the Town of East Hampton. Destroyed in 2017.
1973 - The Marvin and Trudy Schlachter House, 47 Sams Creek Road, Water Mill NY. Built by MS Construction Company. One of 6 houses designed by Jaffe on Sams Creek Road. Featured in Architectural Record, November 1975; Architectural Record Vacation Houses of 1977. Sold to Michael Trokel. Renovated in 2014. Sold in 2016 to Sams Creek ARQ, LLC.
1974 - The David Reiss House, 35 Pheasant Walk, Bridgehampton NY. Commissioned in 1973. Sold to Barbara and Howard Rich. Sold in 2006 to Ocean Road Holdings LLC. Destroyed in 2007.
1974 - The Machiz Beach House, Bahamas. Status unknown.
1974 - The Brighton Townhouses, Rochester NY. Status unknown.
1974 - The Cesare Di Montezemolo House, Southampton NY. Built. Status unknown.
1974 - The Joseph S. Wohl House, 124 I. U. Willets Road, Old Westbury NY. 14,000 sf. Became a showcase for the owner's art collection. Sold to Jay and Jill Bernstein. For sale 2023-2024.
1974 - The Lemon Creek Development, Staten Island NY. Unbuilt. Lemon Creek came closest to reflecting the garden city concepts Jaffe most admired. 350 low-rise units were to be built on 35 acres that straddled an inlet. Jaffe battled to bring the plan to fruition, but as with Village Greens, building codes, contractors, and a restrictive budget made it impossible to achieve.
1974 - The John Tozzi House, 59 Sams Creek Road, Bridgehampton NY. One of 6 homes that Jaffe built on Sams Creek Road. Second floor added at some point. Sold in 2008 to Paul and Bonnie Bernstein.
1975 - The Tony Leichter House, aka Swan Creek House, 119 Pointe Mecox Lane, Water Mill NY. Jaffe's first spec house. Sold in 2003 to Eric Price. Renovation and addition in 2017 by Jaffe's son, Miles Jaffe. Sold to David Sidwell.
1975 - 144 Pointe Mecox Lane, Water Mill NY. Sold in 1994 to Sidney and Helaine Lerner.
1975 - The Max Raab House, Barnegat Bay, Schooner Downs NJ. Unbuilt, according to Merle Raab. Commissioned 1973.
1975 - The Paden House, New Bern NC. Unbuilt.
1975 - The Howard P. Kreiger House, 640 Old Montauk Highway, Montauk NY. Built by David Webb. Won an AIA New York Award; Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1977. Appeared in an episode of the Showtime series, The Affair. Sold in 1994 to Evan Berger. Most photos by Bill Maris.
1976 - The Milton Gilbert House, 11 Autumn Terrace, Alpine NJ. Sold in 2003 to Canfield Enterprises, which also owned the land next door. Abandoned for about a decade. Video. Sold in 2022 to 11 Autumn Terrace LLC. Will be destroyed in 2023 and a new house built on the site.
1976 - The Robert Aron House, 10 Hamptworth Drive, Kings Point NY. Sold in 2018 to Hamptworth 26, LLC.
1976 - The W. A. Morton House, 43 Pointe Mecox Lane, Water Mill NY. One of three houses at Pointe Mecox. Sold in 2011 to the Gisela Hoveyda Trust. Most of the interior woods have been sheetrocked over, sadly. Available for rent.
1976 - The Roseland Housing Development, Roseland NJ. Likely unbuilt.
1977 - The Donald and Ellen Kreindler House, 61 Sams Creek Road, Bridgehampton NY. Built on spec. One of 6 Jaffe built on Sams Creek. There was an addition in 1993, for which Kreindler never paid Jaffe's fee. Sold in 2013 to Rob-Din 1963, LLC.
1977 - The Fredric and Anne Garonzik House, 135 Pointe Mecox Lane, Bridgehampton NY. Expanded. Still owned by Garonziks as of 2019.
1977 - The Paul Guilden House, 236 Town Line Road, Sagaponack NY. Sold for the first time in 2018 to Xiao Li Tan.
1977 - The Ortman House, East Quoque NY. Unbuilt.
1977 - The Richard Lloyds House, 12 Heller Lane, East Hampton NY. Photos by Cerwin Robinson. According to Jaffe's son Miles, it was Jaffe's favorite house. Sold in 2013; destroyed around 2016.
1977 - The Marvin Turetsky House, 15 Horseshoe Road, Old Westbury NY. Last photo is pool house, which has been destroyed. Structural engineer, John Grammis; built by Donald Cappy; landscape design, Donald Rose. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1978. Renovated by Peter Keller. For sale in 2020-2022.
1977 - The John F. (Jack) Whitaker House, 95 Jobs Lane, Water Mill NY. One of three houses at Pointe Mecox. Whitaker was a longtime sports announcer for CBS and NBC. Sold in 2002 to Mark and Wendy Biderman who did a renovation and expansion. Unfortunately, they removed the beautiful interior natural wood or painted it white. For sale in 2023-2024.
1977 - The Sascha Burland House #3, Corner of Jobs Land and M Road, Bridgehampton NY. Destroyed in a fire. Another house built on the site, not by Jaffe.
1978 - The Herbert Gallen House, Alpine NJ. He founded the Ellen Tracy clothing line. Commissioned 1977. Status unknown.
1978 - The Josh and Shoshanna Gruss House, aka Gruss/Chambers, 32 Heller Lane, East Hampton NY. Sold in 2009 to Heller Lane Residence LLC (Gruss heirs). Altered in 2014 by Modi Architecture Design. Bottom two photos by Christopher Sturman. Renovated in 2021 by Neil Logan.
1978 - The Norman Jaffe House II, 75 Sams Creek Road, Bridgehampton NY. One of six houses Jaffe designed on this street. Sold to Howard and Frieda Bloom. Sold in 2015 to Henryk Conrad De Kwiatkowski. Addition and renovation by Kirby Grimes.
1978 - The Karram House, 15 Marie Major Drive, Alpine NJ. Sold in 1991 to Don and Elinor Chatrnuck. Deeded in 2019 to Elinor Chatrnuck.
Around 1978 - aka Sky House. Zeus styling. Status unknown.
1979 - The Weiss House, Kings Point NY. Built. Status unknown.
1979 - The Halprin House, Kings Point NY. Built. Status unknown.
1979 - The Orest and Tish Bliss House, 88 Meadow Lane, Southampton NY. Commissioned in 1978. The 1978 Southampton Architecture Review Board (ARB), because they thought the house was ugly and out of character with the area, forced Bliss to hide it from roadside view with expensive landscaping. The house was roughly doubled in size by another architect around 2000. In 2021, Bliss applied for a demolition permit, and Southampton Architecture Review Board, 43 years later, ironically decided the half-Jaffe house should be preserved and denied the permit. Bliss lawyered up and took the case to the NY Supreme Court, which ruled against the ARB in 2023. The ARB appealed later in 2023.
1979 - The Philip Datlof House, 34 Forest Drive, Port Washington NY. Sold to tennis pro Bjorn Borg. Sold to Cooper Investments. Sold in 2005 to Richard Ming Chang and Tina Lee.
1979 - The Ben Rickert House, 10 Meadowlark Lane, Bridgehampton NY. Built as a spec house. Originally on Ocean Road and was moved to Meadowlark Lane and restored. Sold in 2019 to Clover Road Holdings LLC.
1979 - The Arthur Fischer House, Aspen CO. Unbuilt.
1980 - The Joel M. Stern House, 100 Further Lane, East Hampton NY. Deeded in 2021 to a Stern trust. Sold for the first time in 2023.
1980 - The Lou Ganz House, aka Tree House, 6 Hyerdale Court, Goshen CT. Commissioned in 1978. Sold to Arthur and Judith Orr. Sold in 1996 to Barry and Beverly Friedricks. Carport added in 2013. Sold in 2020 to David and Alexandra Carroll.
1980 - The Richard and Thelma Florin House I, 72 Lawrence Court, Water Mill NY. Sold in 2016 to Matthew and Nicole Ammarati, who did an extensive restoration designed by Roger Ferris.
1980 - The Leichter Apartment Renovation, New York NY. Status unknown.
1980 - The Paul Loduca House, Sands Point NY. Commissioned 1979. Built. Status unknown.
1980 - The Harry Kosovsky House, Chatham MA. Unbuilt.
1980 - The Arthur Fischer House, East Hampton NY. Status unknown.
1980 - The Alan Golub House, 91 Sams Creek Road, Bridgehampton NY. Built on spec. One of six houses Jaffe designed on this street. Still owners as of 2019.
1980 - The Marilyn Hillman House, 992 Springs Fireplace Road, East Hampton NY. Commissioned in 1977. Featured in GA Houses 12. Sold in 2021. Renovation planned with architect Michael Lamont.
1980 - The Pierre and Dee Schoenheimer House, 77 Cross Highway, East Hampton NY. Built on spec. Sold in 1998 to Linda McCurdy/77 Cross Highway LLC. Refurbished in 2017. Sold in 2020 to Christopher Young and Perry Edwards.
1980 - The Seligson House, 11 Stallion Trail, Greenwich CT. Sold in 2016 to Rajesh and Akta Menon.
1981 - The Machiz House, 9 Hamptworth Drive, Kings Point NY. Sold in 2017 to Richard and Nazy Solomon.
1981 - The Daniel and Noemi Mattis House, 299 Federal Heights Circle, Salt Lake City UT.
1981 - The Kobachovitch House, Chicago IL. Status unknown.
1982 - The Alan and Arlene Alda House, 210 Olivers Cove Lane, Water Mill NY. Commissioned in 1978. Arlene Alda wrote hundreds of letters requesting design changes, none of which Jaffe got paid for. He took the case to arbitration, which lasted about nine months. According to his son Miles, Jaffe offered to settle, with the fees going to a charity, and the Aldas refused. Jaffe eventually withdrew the suit. Aldas still there as of 2022.
1982 - The Edward Cohen House, aka Xanadune, 380 Barons Lane, Southampton NY. Commissioned in 1981. Sold to Frank Brunchhorst. Sold in 2002 to Joseph Edelman. Bottom two photos by Jake Rajs. Still owned by Edelman as of 2024.
1982 - The Matthew (Matt) Forte House, 131 Skunks Misery Road, Locust Valley NY. Sold to Brian James and Laura Raffa. Sold in 2017 to Christopher and Pascale Schmidt. Sold in 2022 to Shah Rishi.
1982 - The Marvin (Tony) Leichter House, 39 Sams Creek Road, Water Mill NY. Sold in 1998 to Steve Rappaport and Judith Garson.
1982 - The Pedone House, Southampton NY. Unbuilt.
1983 - The Prager House and Cabana, Montauk NY. Commissioned 1980. Built. Status unknown.
1983 - The Mitchell Levy House, Alpine NJ. Status unknown.
1983 - The Melvin C. Arnold House, 1840 Meadow Lane, Southampton NY. Commissioned in 1981. Sold in 1994 to Diane Abbey.
1983 - The Peter Cohen House, 73 Cross Highway, East Hampton NY. Sold in 2002 to Overbrook Real Properties. Was for rent in 2018.
1983 - The Israel House, aka Eagle's Reste, Bennett Point, Queenstown MD. Status unknown.
1983 - 700 Hanover Square, New York NY. Designed with Emory Roth. Renovated in 2000.
1984 - The Bertram Turoff House, 23 Pine Tree Lane, Westhampton NY. Sold in 1995 to Richard Goldberg. Sold in 2010 to Andrew and Suzanne Goldberg.
1984 - 4 Seascape Lane, Quoque NY. 7850 sf. At one point, the property also included 2 Seascape Lane, which was sold in 2021. Sold to Lewis Sanders. Sold in 1999 to Katherine and Alan Trager. Sold in 2001 to John D. Miller. Sold in 2022 to 4 Seascape Lane LLC.
1985 - The Marc Selden House, 531 Centre Island Road, Oyster Bay NY. Still owner as of 2020.
1985 - The Martin and Patricia Raynes House, 170 Meadow Lane, Southampton NY. Commissioned in 1981. In 1994, tennis star Vitas Gerulatis died in the pool house from exposure to carbon monoxide. Sold in 2000 to Jay Sugarman. Destroyed in 2003.
1986 - The Amy and Van Greenfield House, 2170 Meadow Lane, Southampton NY. Sold in 2008 to Kandinsky Escape, LLC. Available for rent.
1986 - The Norman Jaffe House III, aka Sea Farm, 635 Lumber Lane, Bridgehampton NY. Commissioned in 1980. Originally a spec house. Jaffe took it over when his partner Tony Leichter left the project. The property was originally a single shingled structure, but over time, Jaffe added several more buildings, all pinwheeling around the central pool. Sold to Howard and Frieda Bloom. Sold in 2015 to Henry Conrad de Kwiatkowski, who commissioned architect Nick Martin to remodel and build an addition.
1986 - The Punzi House, 5 Point Lane, Shelter Island Heights NY. Sold in 2001. Sold in 2007 to Robin C. Zost.
1986 - The Widenor House, East Moriches NY. Commissioned 1985. Status unknown.
1986 - 210 Meadow Lane, Southampton NY. Three acres. Sold to Lesley Kohl. Sold in 2005 to Mid-Summer Dream LLC (Janna Bullock). Sold in 2018 to Glenn and Claudine Nussdorf. Destroyed.
1987 - The Russell and Uni Berrie House, aka Uniwood Estate, Englewood NJ. Commissioned in 1985. Built. Status unknown.
1987 - The Ferrera House, Westhampton NY. Unbuilt.
1988 - The Gary Atherton House, 55 Melanie Lane, Atherton CA. Commissioned in 1984. Sold in 1994 to Catherine N. and Orion L. Hoch. Sold in 2020 to Melanie Lane LLC.
1990 - The Richard and Thelma Florin House II, 50 Oak Bend Road, West Orange NJ. Sold in 2016 to Carlos Timiraos.
1990 - The Rickert House, Vero Beach FL.
1991 - The Raymond Auyang House, 1981 Broadway Route 9W, West Park NY. Commissioned in 1990. For sale for the first time in 2022.
1991 - The David Gerstein House, 460 Sagaponack Road, Sagaponack NY. Built on spec. Still owner as of 2020.
1991 - The Kroll House, 1545 Laurel Hollow Road, Syosset NY. Commissioned around 1985. Sold to David Klein. Sold in 2012 to Alan and Adrienne Henick.
1991 - The Brian Cury Addition, Alpine NJ. Built. Status unknown.
1992 - The Lawrence and Carol Ashinoff House, 1233 North Bay Shore Drive, Virginia Beach VA. Commissioned in 1984 and took years to build as neighbors repeatedly lobbied to stop construction. Status unknown.
1993 - 565 Fifth Avenue, New York NY.
1993 - The Sullivan House, Southampton NY. Status unknown.
1993 - The Isenberg House, Southampton NY. Status unknown.
1993 - The Melvin Roslin House, 1880 Meadow Lane, Southampton NY. Commissioned in 1989. Built by David Webb. Sold to James Nederlander. Sold in 2005 to Water View Real Estate LLC. Leased in 2007 to shock jock Howard Stern and his wife Beth while their house was being built. A rental for years, it is still owned by the LLC as of 2024.
1993 - The Leeser House, Irvington NY. Likely unbuilt.
1996 - The Albert and Neda Young House, 53 Ferry Road, Sag Harbor NY. Commissioned around 1993. Deeded in 1996 to a Young family trust.
Year unknown - The Werson House, Stowe VT. Likely unbuilt.
Year unknown - The John Taylor House, Princetown NY. Status unknown.
Year unknown - The McCrae House, Mohnton PA. Likely unbuilt.
Year unknown - The Mike Trokely Renovation, Bridgehampton NY. Likely unbuilt.
Year unknown - The Erol Becker or Bebker House, Greenwich CT. Likely unbuilt.
Year unknown - The Howard Stone House, Toronto, Canada. Likely unbuilt.
Year unknown - The Sinha House, Sands Point NY. Likely unbuilt.
Year unknown - The Howard Barron House, Bridgehampton NY. Likely unbuilt.
Year unknown - The Perkins House, Woodside CA. Likely unbuilt.
Year unknown - The Driscoll House, Quisett MA. Likely unbuilt.
Year unknown - 30 North Hollow Drive, East Hampton NY. Sold to Edward and Renee Lieberman. Sold in 2001 to Pamela Choy. Remodeled and expanded around 2015. Sold in 2022 to Poochie and Ollie LLC.
Year unknown - The Ike Dweck House, Deal NJ. Status unknown. Needs verification
Sources include: The Norman Jaffe Architectural Papers and Records at Columbia University; Son Miles Jaffe's site; Weekend Utopia by Alistair Gordon; Romantic Modernist by Alistair Gordon.