An artist and an architect built this house for their life together and the baby they were
expecting. They designed it with exceptional care for light: how it would move through
each room across seasons, what it would feel like in January when the sun is low and
fleeting. The jack-and-jill suite was theirs and the baby’s. Her studio was the second
bedroom.
I first visited the site when the house was just a platform foundation in the trees on the
dome. I loved the place even then. When I later learned they were selling to move to
Vermont, I was living in Tokyo for work. I bought it without hesitation. I wanted this to be
my anchor in Alaska.
For years while I worked abroad, my parents cared for the land and the house. When I
came home with my one-year-old son, we lived here together for about five peaceful
years. Now I’m working outside Fairbanks again, and we want others to have what this
place has given us: the quiet, the sky, the feeling of being somewhere that is apart from
the world, in a peaceful and beautiful house.
We’ve hosted aurora chasers and scientists, a composer on retreat, locums nurses,
families in transition, and people who simply needed to rest. Whatever brings you here,
this place tends to do its work.