When a pair of New Yorkers—a nonetheless life photographer and a humanitarian assist worker on the U.N.—had been trying to find a spot to decompress in nature, they found an unlikely contender: an outdated iron foundry known as the Clover Hill Foundry, distinctive constructed throughout the early Nineties.

Tucked on a hill in Somers, New York, the sequence of interconnected buildings had been constructed to operate part of an iron mine, nevertheless for causes that keep significantly of a thriller, they’d been closed and abandoned not prolonged after—”most likely,” according to architect Ravi Raj—”ensuing from an even bigger rip-off operation.” The buildings fell into disrepair (and, according to the Somer Historic Society, the mine shaft grew to change into an space favorite swimming hole) until the Nineteen Forties, when a trio of artists reworked the buildings into separate residences, holding—fortuitously—plenty of the distinctive particulars intact.

Fast forward to the twenty first century: The New York couple was taken by the spareness of the realm and the best way wherein the house home windows framed views of the encircling bushes. To interchange the foundry for modern life, the duo enlisted a pal, Brooklyn-based architect Ravi Raj, who had labored with Adjaye Associates sooner than starting his private studio.

With care, Ravi preserved the foundry’s distinctive brick partitions and picket beams, hewed to a stripped-back palette, then rearranged various key areas and added a “trendy amount” suspended contained in the hovering space. Be a part of us for a look.

Photographs by Nick Glimenakis, courtesy of Ravi Raj Architect, moreover the place well-known.