Anne Surchin, AIA is principal in the Southold,
New York firm of Anne Surchin Architect. Her
full-service practice specializes in new residences,
renovations/additions, historically correct
restorations and preservation consulting including
research and documentation of historic structures. A
graduate of Kirkland College (B.A. Visual Arts) and
Syracuse University (B. Arch), Ms. Surchin has been
practicing architecture in the five East End
townships for over 25 years.
Additionally, she has served on the Landmarks and Historic Districts Board of Southampton Town and, as both the former vice president of the Peconic Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and as its Preservation Committee chairperson.
Anne Surchin, who has written about architecture and the design arts for numerous publications including The New York Observer, Progressive Architecture, Newsday, Distinction and Vox Hamptons, is also the architecture critic for the Southampton Press. She has also authored the book, Houses of the Hamptons 1880-1930, with Gary Lawrance AIA, published by the Acanthus Press (June 2007).
HOUSES OF THE HAMPTONS, 1880 1930 explores more
than 30 houses, many designed by some of America s
leading architects McKim, Mead & White, John Russell
Pope, Harrie T. Lindeberg and by less well-known but
equally gifted designers such as Edward Purcel
Mellon, Isaac H. Green, and John Custis Lawrence.
Less enamored with showy grandeur than Newport, but
clearly a place apart from the whitewashed cottages
of New England, the great summer places of the
Hamptons present an ensemble of exceptional
architectural variety and achievement. Here,
American Colonial, half-timbered Tudor, and red
brick Georgian vie with shingled cottage and
Mediterranean fantasy. The book is
illustrated with more than 300 photographs and floor
plans, and its text provides a rich and informative
portrait of the American leisure class at play.
