Franklin Farm and the adjoining Fair Acres were once the estates of Pittsburgh industrialist Benjamin Franklin Jones, co-founder of Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, a competitor of Andrew Carnegie’s Carnegie Steel Corporation. During the Depression these large homes and structures that occupied this land were demolished with the remaining agricultural structures falling into disrepair until later when these properties were subdivided and sold. This region continues to be understood as historically significant in Western Pennsylvania but not for the structures that were built upon it; instead, by the remaining natural landscape and built fragments of that past that remain. This decade-long project began with the remediation of the site and landscape which was abandoned, overgrown and contained the remnants of agricultural structures, a few of which – a gothic arched barn and grain silo - were able to be saved and repurposed. Site goals included re-establishing the landscape meadows and integrating a new residence into the landscape in such a way it would not visually impact the surrounding larger historic landscape of Sewickley Heights. In order to reduce the visual scale of this home from the surrounding landscape, the residence is organized into two living zones: one that sits atop the terrain containing the kitchen, dining, living room, garage, studio and master bedroom, while the other is tucked into the hillside terrain containing a home office, exercise room and a glass covered gallery leading to a series of guest bedrooms. The main residence explored the architectural implications of thermally isolated architectural concrete made of white Portland cement, local sand and local limestone aggregate. The goal of this residential composition is to honor the past by creating a harmony between the new architectural elements and its details set within the old agrarian fragments of a western Pennsylvania landscape.