Country Home in Dutchess County
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Dutch Colonial Inspired Home
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Pool Pavilion
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Modern Farmhouse
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Greek Revival Pool House

Custom home and renovation architecture. In the Hudson Valley and across the Northeast

Crisp Architects is a residential architecture firm specializing in custom homes, historic renovations, and estate properties across the Hudson Valley and Northeast. For over 35 years, the firm has designed houses that draw from classical architectural principles while supporting modern living, with a focus on buildings that fit their site, historic context, and client needs, including energy-conscious and sustainable solutions.

Crisp Architects works throughout Dutchess, Ulster, Columbia and Westchester Counties in New York, Litchfield County and Fairfield County in Connecticut, Berkshire County in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia, Maine and beyond.

Our Work

New Homes, Renovations and Accessory Buildings

The scale and scope may change, but the approach remains the same: understand the setting, listen carefully, and create a building that feels at home in its surroundings and right for the people who will use it.

New Homes

The process of designing a new home affords limitless possibilities. We are able to work with our clients to integrate the chosen site with their needs, their dreams and their style while developing a design that ensures that at the end of the process the house becomes a home.

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Renovations

Renovating can run the gamut from a new front entry to a major overhaul. We often work with our clients to update or amend their homes and in the process we often get the opportunity to incorporate the smart and green solutions that make a home much more functional and efficient.

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Accessory Buildings

Accessory buildings can be anything from a tiny potting shed to an indoor sports facility. While they usually start with a specific function in mind, they often present opportunities for creative solutions. Their design should complement and enhance the main structure.

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Visit our blog for more information about architecture and home design, insights from past and current projects, and whatever else keeps us busy at Crisp Architects.

A selection of recent articles
Breaking Ground in Boothbay, Maine

Breaking Ground in Boothbay, Maine

Breaking Ground in Boothbay, Maine Digging the foundation had begun and then immediately stopped because we hit granite. Our contractor, Derek Chapman, expected as much since most foundations…

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Regional Work

Architecture Across the Northeast

Explore how landscape, history, and local building traditions shape our work from the Hudson Valley to the Berkshires and along the Connecticut coast.

Westchester County

Litchfield County

The Hudson Valley

Fairfield County

The Berkshires

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What Our Clients Say

I have been working with Jimmy Crisp and his firm for over 10 years. He has transformed our 240 year old home and property and we continue to work with him on multiple projects. His sense of style, creativity and attention to detail is unparalleled. We renovated and expanded our main house, built a large barn and guest house, a wine cellar, pool area and our current projects include a pergola, stone house addition with a game room, pool house and gym. I trust Jimmy implicitly and depend on him as I live in a different state than my weekend home. He is a wonderful collaborator, always respectful and truly takes the time to get to know you, your lifestyle and your taste. Our home has been featured in "O Oprah" magazine and is also home to many events. I hope we can keep working with them for the next 20 years!

- Mindy Grossman

We had a wonderful experience with Crisp Architects. We wanted a pool house the reflection our love of Italy and food and we totally achieved this. I would highly recommend Crisp Architects. They were wonderful to deal with and we love our pool house. Would love to use them again for a future project.

- Piedmont1

Jimmy designed our home, from the ground up, and he and Lin Chamberlain built it. We could not be happier. It was a wonderful and easy experience working with them, and the result is a great, comfortable, and charming home. Jimmy and his staff were at all times helpful and responsive, and Lin and his crew were the same. The house was built on time, in spite of difficult conditions (unseasonable ice, and cold) and it is solid, warm in the winter, cool in the summer, and easy to live in. Jimmy was and is flexible and responsive in his approach to our needs, while maintaining a wonderful design aesthetic that is garnered many complements. I highly recommend Jimmy for any project.

- SZ Kronovet

I found Crisp Architects' website many years ago, forging our dream of hiring Jimmy Crisp to design our hypothetical addition to our small house built in 1785. Ten years later, with a comparatively small budget than their norm, located across the river, in Orange County, New York, I wrote an email to ask if we were worthy. Almost immediately, I was treated to a personal phone call from Jimmy Crisp, and began to feel the kind, white glove treatment they naturally provide. From that first conversation, to where we are today at mid-construction of an incredible addition and renovation that Crisp Architects designed, I cannot say enough about the entire team and level of expertise. They are not only the sweetest people, but they are true experts in their trade, and particularly with historic architecture.
Communication with Crisp Architects is immediate, reaction to your ideas is open minded and responded to with honest, valuable feedback, usually adding a new way of thinking to consider. My husband appreciates how Crisp successfully blended our old house architecture with the addition so beautifully, and how the team remains engaged with you and the project until its completion. We could not be more thrilled and we only hope to be able to hire them again for additional building on the property!
Never once did I feel like we had the small project across the river, and they have kept us in our modest budget. We love Crisp Architects!

- Laura Bryson

Crisp Architects are a wonderful team headed by James Crisp. They listen well and then go off and create a beautiful plan. Remodeling can be very stressful but with Crisp Architects as your partner you can be sure all the details are taken care of. We could not be more pleased with results.

- Margaret Van Sicklen

Jimmy Crisp and his team did an outstanding job designing our screened in porch, expanding family room, and new kitchen. Jimmy's plan provided us with an improved indoor and outdoor living space that better accommodates the way in which we live, and in addition, allows us to maximize the use of our home. Jimmy and his team could not have been nicer and more professional as we progressed from the early stages of this project through the construction phase. I will not hesitate to use Crisp Architects in the future.

- Louis A Parks

We hired Crisp Architects to design and oversee the renovation of our 100 year old barn and carriage house home. Their design was respectful of the historic nature of the house while bringing it up to date with all the necessary modern conveniences. I have nothing but positive things to say about our experience with Crisp Architects from the level of service of every employee to the beautiful end product. In fact, since our renovation, we have been asked several times to include our home in the Historic Homes Tour in our area.

- D. Gonick

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