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EDGEWATER PRESERVE
Winchester's First Certified Green Community
Edgewater
Preserve is a new neighborhood for active
adults, where one member of the household is
over 55 years of age. The location, Back
Ashuelot Road in Winchester, NH, is ideal for
this kind of a community with hiking, fishing
and canoeing right in it's own backyard, yet
still being within walking distance of the
conveniences of town.
This will be a community of "garden homes". The
definition of a garden home is a "free standing
home on it's own small lot". The entire home is
completely owned by the homeowner, as well as
the plot of land it sits on. The roadway and the
conservation land is owned and governed by a
Home Owner's Association, made up of all
homeowners.
During every phase of the entire project, from
site planning through the home building process,
we are striving to meet or exceed the strict
guidelines of the National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB) Green Building Program. Build
Green NH will provide verification and
certification services. Our goal is for the
entire development to be an NAHB Certified Green
Home Neighborhood we can all be proud of.
The development consists of 6.64 acres of land
that is subdivided into eight residential lots,
each approximately one quarter acre in size,
situated on either side of a new private
dead-end road. The remainder of the acreage is
deeded conservation land.
The homes, each one custom designed by Kathy
Beaman, CKD, AKBD, CGP, and custom built by Beaman
Land & Home Sales, Inc. will be of
"hybrid home construction". This is a blending
of traditional site-built craftsmanship with
modular built home components. It is the smart
way to build. We design and engineer our new
home to be largely built in a controlled
environment, out of the snow and the rain and
the mud. We use custom craftsmanship to build in
the highest quality finishes. This was the start
of our "jewel box" concept.
The result is a home construction system that is
highly efficient, timely and delivers maximum
precision and quality control. We are partnering
with Preferred Building Systems of Claremont, NH
(www.preferredbuildings.com), Huntington Homes
of East Montpelier, VT (www.huntingtonhomesvt.com)
and Bensonwood Timberframes (www.bensonwood.com)
to build the main structures and will be
employing the area's skilled craftspeople to
finish them once on-site.
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