top of page
xCgqF5t0 copy.jpg
Phillipsport Church House
New York

Phillipsport Church House is Matthew Bremer's labor of love, converting one of the oldest standing rural churches in the Hudson Valley/Catskills region, dating back to 1823, into a weekend home, then a Covid home, and now simply a home and workplace. The church was regarded as a sacred space of worship for a tightly knit rural community for nearly two centuries. It's reinvention celebrates everyday rituals of two men, two greyhounds, and many friends and family. It is the consummate home as sanctuary. 

IMG_0134.JPG

Before 

Image_20220923_100113.jpeg
ChurchHse 006.jpg
ChurchHse 012.jpg

After

Image_20221007_142247.jpeg

The landscape architecture for the church house was conceived as an extension of the interior architecture - creating a series of intimate, discrete outdoor "rooms" or courtyards for dining, firepit, raised planter beds, and native plantings.

WG9iD_LM.jpeg
JSTYS_fM.jpeg
ChurchHse 022.jpg
ChurchHse 014.jpg
Phillipsport Church House 02_Main Entry.jpg
Au3lIGb4.jpeg
ChurchHse 007.jpg

[They] repurposed many of the pews as headboards and footboards for beds, daybeds, and benches. They scoured vintage stores and flea markets... To finish it off, they collected smaller, whimsical curiosities, including an old elevator sign from Macy’s and a black-velvet Jesus painting.    

​

– Tim McKeogh, NY Times 

ChurchHse 030.jpg
08_PPCH Interiors_Primary Bedroom.jpg
ChurchHse 021.jpg
ChurchHse 028.jpg
isZb-aqI.jpeg
eIwNaAW4.jpeg
Z0uMF9Is.jpeg

Before 

ChurchHse 017.jpg

After

Related Projects
Screen Shot 2022-11-17 at 10.34.20 PM.png
Hudson Valley Farmhouse
front porch.tif
Texas Hill Country Casita
north shore_LANDIN.jpeg
House of Butcher and Art Maven
bottom of page