<p>My image of NH is corrupted!</p>
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<p>While many think of Vermont and NH as simple or rural poor, there are some incredible homes and estates in both states. This is a vacation/resort area where many have second homes. The natives don’t live in 'em. While there may not be too many that are 13,000 sq ft, there are some very expensive properties in this neck of the woods. </p>
<p>My D is currently interning at an architectural firm in Paris. On her first day, she was introduced to work directly with one of the principals of the firm. She had been hired by the other principal and so had not had contact with this one until she had arrived. He knew she was from the US. He asked her which state and she said, “Vermont,” and he said he grew up in VT (the others in the firm are French mostly). It was a huge coincidence when he then said he was building a home in VT on vacation property he had at a ski area and he asked if my D knew it, and she certainly did because she has raced there many times and in fact, growing up, we joked about it being her lucky ski area where she won medals. So, there she is in Paris and she has put the design of his home and also proposals for a sports center and environmental center onto arch computer software and this coincidence is up her alley (or ski area!) and he is currently on vacation in VT and has brought her work here to show contractors. She is now working on other projects in Paris but it is hard to believe that in Paris she was working on vacation property in VT. How ironic is that? So, anyway, that’s another Parisian vacationing in VT right now. :D</p>
<p>Soozie: Your daughter’s experience sounds both serendipitous and ultra-glamorous.</p>
<p>Well, there are some cool things, like going to work every day on the Champs Elysee. Also her firm is working with Gehry Partners on the new museum Frank Gehry has designed that will be built in Paris. My D had to go over to that office to hand in her work on the VT project to her firm’s principal who was at the office where the architects in her firm are working on the Gehry project. She oohed and ahhed about going into that office in the Louis Vuitton complex, I believe and what it was like in there.</p>
<p>By the way, while I live in an idyllic rural town in VT, we have a lot of architects in private practices here, being that it is also a resort area. A local architect designed our home. But where I live is night and day with a city like Paris!</p>
<p>I grew up in NH on Lake Winnipesaukee. It sure has changed in the last 20 years! ;)</p>
<p>(Most of the tourists years ago were from Massachusetts and NY, and NJ.)</p>
<p>But Wolfeboro is where Mme Chiang Kai-shek had a large estate for many many years. There are some very fine mansions around there. The real estate around Lake Winnipesauke and Squam Lake has been out of reach for many years.
We’ve taken my relatives from Paris to both and they’ve loved it.</p>
<p>Corrrupted? I sure hope not! It’s just not much of a secret anymore. The uber rich have been enjoying the area on the QT for many many years.</p>
<p>Spent a few idyllic years there myself a decade ago - a little slice of heaven in my opinion.</p>
<p>Soozie:</p>
<p>What a wonderful coincidence and what an experience for your D! My niece has finished her arch degree and is headed to Montreal for a one-year program in environmental studies. We are eagerly awaiting her visit. She will arrive later this month.</p>
<p>What a great experience for your D, soozie. She should think about trying to get on at Gehry’s after graduation–with her French and her French firm experience–she should be a shoo-in.</p>
<p>They advertise on their website–but she should also ask her boss to recommend her. A couple of years at Gehry’s --using his DP software–would turn her into a hot commodity in any hot office in the world. If she could get hired, she should think about delaying arch school for a year. (Imagine applying with a Gehry job in hand–that’ll turn her app into a ringer I’d say)–returning to Gehry projects for the summers.</p>
<p>Five or six years in hot offices will be enough to get her wealthy clients of her own.</p>
<p>I had no idea that NH and Vermont had stretches of the ‘Hamptons’. Call me naive!</p>
<p>Marite: That is really wonderful about your niece. I wish I could get her and my D together as they have stuff in common. My D is also interested in Sustainable Design. It is great that your niece will be in striking distance of you while over here for a year. She is definitely in striking distance of me!f</p>
<p>Cheers, one VT or one NH town is not the same as another by far. You can be in one rural resort town and drive ten minutes and be in a very very different sort of town in terms of residents, homes, services, etc. There are most definitely some multi-million dollar homes in certain resort towns in both VT and NH. Not MY home…we are just “locals,” though we do live in a resort community. Many of these luxury homes are second homes or retirement homes. </p>
<p>About my D…I don’t know that my D could be hired at Gehry’s because she doesn’t have an arch degree yet. Right now she is an intern and even that was hard to get considering she is in a BA program and even other interns at her firm are way further along in their training. However her firm does work with Gehry Partners on projects and so perhaps in furture summers, during grad school, she can work again for them in the US or in Paris (they have offices in several major cities). Right now, no intern is working on this Gehry museum project but many architects in her office, her boss included, are on the Gehry project. I can’t see my D being hired for more than an intern without a professional degree. If they take interns, perhaps. But yes, she will have had this one internship under her belt and the world is made up of networking :D. For now, my D is on a path to apply to graduate schools. She is not in a professional undergrad program, as you know, and could not be hired than more than an intern at her experiential level. However, she has learned a lot on this job and it hopefully can help the next time she seeks a position, likely next summer, I would imagine. You are always saying to become good at AutoCad and she sure has come far with it this summer, working on it daily…in French no less. Anyway, first things’ first…</p>
<p>Cheers: See this link.
<a href=“http://www.rocherealty.com/qsresult.shtml?url=http://nh.agentave.com/i5/results.php?newsearch=1&cid=1076&agentid=&PClass[]=1&thetowns[/url][]=Wolfeboro+NH&MinPrice=0&MaxPrice=0&submit=Search+Listings”>http://www.rocherealty.com/qsresult.shtml?url=http://nh.agentave.com/i5/results.php?newsearch=1&cid=1076&agentid=&PClass[]=1&thetowns[]=Wolfeboro+NH&MinPrice=0&MaxPrice=0&submit=Search+Listings</a></p>
<p>Soozie:</p>
<p>I suspect my niece and your D are the same age, as arch school begins right after the bac in France. Another thing in common: This niece has done modern dance for many years. I took her to Jacob’s Pillow 5 years ago, and she met some of the student performers who had heard of the Paris studio where she took lessons.</p>
<p>Maybe we can arrange for the two girls to meet when both are on the same side of the ocean!</p>
<p>I have always said that about AutoCAD! </p>
<p>I know it’s hard to imagine, but it is possible that with newfound AutoCAD skills she could hop into a Gehry job. it depends on the level of skill she has at the end of the summer.</p>
<p>Connections are everything–but so is timing.</p>
<p>Don’t dismiss the possibility out of hand. This is a creative field–people think outside of the box all the time. If she is good and they can use her in their office they will take her without the degree–knowing she is going on at some point. She can still apply to grad schools–with that notated on the CV. I’d say she’d get into every single school with that tidbit, haha.</p>
<p>It’s definitely worth an ask. Gehry is 76. Who knows where he will be next year. Who knows if her boss will still be working with his team.</p>
<p>I once joined a Pritzker Prize office and was asked to immediately start assisting with a 4 million sf, $500M project with 500 drawings. I had been out of school 2 years. Eighteen months later I was bored with the job and asked to be transferred. My bosses were distraught–and gave me a six week vacation to Europe to get me to stay for an additional three months. They thought they couldn’t live without my assistance.</p>
<p>Just as she is doing now, she can surprise herself.</p>
<p>“I had no idea that NH and Vermont had stretches of the ‘Hamptons’. Call me naive!”</p>
<p>There actually is a Hampton, NH. (also a North Hampton) The oceanfront properties in Rye and Newcastle, NH are pretty exclusive. There are some very nice oceanfront mansions that make the Winnipesaukee homes look small.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nhrealestatenetwork.com/REBL.html[/url]”>http://www.nhrealestatenetwork.com/REBL.html</a>
You can buy a house lot for only $1.1 M in Rye, NH.</p>
<p>A few NH oceanfront homes where prices have come down this year.
<a href=“http://www.nhsynergy.com/realestate/...t_price/0/10/?[/url]”>http://www.nhsynergy.com/realestate/...t_price/0/10/?</a>
(Type in keyword : Oceanfront
Location Rye, NH)</p>