We designed the new wing to fit the Victorian, but with generous windows

These days all guests have to enter via the back yard, so we created a new side porch to serve as the primary entry to the house.  We designed the new porch (posts, beams & cornice) to make it a bridge between the original Victorian house and the new wing.  Note, for example, the trim and chamfers of the posts give them Victorian proportions and aesthetic complexity.

  
  The new wing (with elevator shaft)  

The old wing - before its demolition.      

photographs by owner & architect         

The Owners loved the old Victorian, and wanted to restore it, but they had serious needs for changes, too.  For one thing, everyone has to enter the house from the rear because stopping in front of the house on the thorough-fare is impossible.  And one of the Owners, a gourmet chef, also wanted a sumptuous kitchen with natural light and a view, but paramount, their health required elevator access to the four levels upstairs.  We needed to thread an elevator through Victorian complexity, and coordinate that with a new entry, as welcoming to guests, as it is service-able for the Owners.

Our strategy was to accomplish all of this within a new wing.  We designed a new porch to lead guests to a new entry hall beside the elevator. We made that hall ample so it can also serve as a gathering space for guests on the formal side of the new kitchen island.  The kitchen is itself generous and it features another island - this one dedicated to serious cooking. The far end of the kitchen is all windows that face east and flood the kitchen with morning light.

This window bay extends two stories to afford the Owners with a bathing "spa", likewise flooded by the morning light. The rest of the new second floor is powder room, laundry, cedar closet and utilities. 

In the top picture (above) and the birdseye view (to the left), you can see the top of the elevator shaft poking through the roof of the new wing.  It had to be that high if we were to get the Owners access to the third floor, now a skylit home office.

Locating the mechanically intensive features (the elevator, kitchen, spa, laundry and utilities) all in the new construction, is not only much more cost-effective, but also less disruptive of the original historic fabric - one of the Owners' (and Architect's) central preservation objectives.