Middleton Inn, embedded is earthworks and climbing fig vines, conveys a sense that it is locked into place, that it has been there for a long time and will remain for longer, joined to the land. It reads as a ruin in a landscape running free.
JAMES MOSES is an architect in Massachusetts, teaches graduate design studios at Roger Williams University, and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. James’s fourth great-grandfather Isaiah Moses, a German-born Jew, was a Charleston grocer and planter. He and his wife Rebecca Phillips purchased The Oaks from the Middleton family in 1814. The house burned in 1840, shortly after they failed to sell the property, including fifty enslaved persons. bigbendstudio.net jmoses@bigbendstudio.net
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