— About

From logger
to architect.

I grew up in the Quiet Corner — the northeast edge of Connecticut most people drive past. I logged these woods before I ever drew anything.

You learn a place by working it: where the water runs, where the light lands, what the ground will carry and what it won't. Architecture came later, but it came from the same instinct.

I don't arrive with a style to impose. I look until I can see what a place wants to become — and then I draw the line that gets it there. That is the whole of it.

Stuart Peaslee · Principal, Peaslee Architect, P.C.

Why this place

A region of stone walls, working farms, and long quiet. It rewards patience and punishes the false note.

The studio sits at 648 Route 198, Woodstock Valley, Connecticut — the northeast corner of the state, where Windham, Tolland and Worcester counties meet. From here the work reaches out to Hartford, New London, Norwich, Storrs, Willimantic and the wider Quiet Corner; across the line into Worcester and Springfield, Massachusetts; south to Providence and the Rhode Island shore; and, when the project asks it, to New York and Hawai'i.

Stuart holds the practice to a single, licensed hand. Peaslee Architect, P.C. is a professional corporation; every drawing that leaves the studio is his own. The scope of service is deliberately full — project inception, feasibility, site selection, schematic design, construction documents, bidding, contract administration and substantial performance — so a client speaks to one architect from the first honest conversation to the final walk-through.

How I work →

From loggerto architect.

From logger
to architect.