Russell Swinton Oatman, Registered Architect, first offered New England period reproduction house designs in standard working drawings in 1977. Since that time, his designs have been featured in the "New York Times-Home Section", "Boston Globe", "Boston Herald", "Chicago Herald", "Des Moines Register", "Phoenix Home & Garden", and national magazines, such as "Colonial Homes", "Traditional Homes", "Early American Life", "Country Living", "The Washingtonian", "Victorian Homes", "Family Handyman", "Country Home", "Texas Homes", and "The Journal of Light Construction". A measure of his attention to proportion and detail was the selection of Russell Swinton Oatman to create the first museum-authorized reproduction houses for Old Sturbridge Village, in Sturbridge, MA. We presently offer over one hundred designs of modified reproduction period houses dating
from the late 1600's through the early 1900's.

Working from measured drawings, the houses are adapted to today's basic code requirements; living requirements; standard materials readily available; today's platform framing techniques. Careful attention has been paid to retaining, as far as possible, original proportions and detailing.

Mr. Oatman has long been recognized as an outstanding designer of reproduction period houses. His adaptation of the "Solomon Howes House" , in Chatham, MA., has been used by Bow House, Inc. as a package house, under written agreement, since 1972, in Bolton, MA., as well as being offered as the "Old Ship's Bottom Roof House" through our own collections.

Our working drawings are complete, with full foundation, dimensioned framing, interior and exterior elevations, all trim detail, door and window schedules. Houses have been built from our standard plans as far away as Australia and India, as well as throughout Canada and the United States.

Russell Swinton Oatman Design Associates, Inc. will perform custom design residential projects. Please contact our office for more information.
Office hours M-F 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (EST)

Russell Swinton Oatman Design Associates, Inc.
132 Mirick Road, Princeton, MA. 01541-1111
978.464.2360