Hi. My wife and I live in a Charles Goodman house on the Takoma Park/Silver Spring line. (the five Goodmans here were the first in the area to be added to the National Historic Record). We need to renovate the kitchen and bathroom, but can't find anyone who will even come to take a look because the job isn't big enough (I would say $25-$30K). Does anyone know an architect or design/build firm sympathetic to Goodman designs that we could contact that would have time for this project? Thanks in advance.

I understand Mark McInturff grew up in a Goodman in Wheaton and Greg Hunt lives in Hollin Hills. If neither of them is interested in your job, they teach at University of Maryland and Catholic University and may know of students or recent graduates who are capable of taking your project on. Given the recent popularity of Goodman's work, I'd think there would be a number of people interested in your project even if the numbers aren't really high.

I just recently downloaded information on the three Goodman communities in Montgomery County that received historic status. I'm going back down to the DC area (I grew up in Bethesda)in June for my father's 80th birthday and was planning to visit those three communities along with Hollin Hills and Hickory Cluster in Reston where I'm staying.

If you haven't done so already, my internet search dug up an interesting article from the City Paper a couple of years ago about Goodman. There was also a two part story in Modernism magazine in the late nineties.

thanks very much--we'll check these guys out. We have read the City Paper article--in fact, our next door neighbor, who also lives in a Goodman, is the arts editor there and he urged them to run that piece. Haven't seen the Modernism stories--will have to look into that. The Washington Post also has run several stories in the last couple of years on Goodmans. Still, I wish more information about him and his design philosophy were available.

If you can't get your hands on the Modernism articles, I could scan and send them. I have a copy of the first edition of AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC which was published in 1965 and mentions Goodman often. It gives the addresses of a number of his works, most of which are in Northern Virginia, but it does not mention any of the communities in Montgomery County. A more recent edition, published in 1994, sticks to the District proper and doesn't discuss the suburbs. Thus, Goodman is only mentioned in reference to the River Park Apartments of 1962 (which wasn't mentioned in 1965)and once in passing. Though I attended architecture school at Catholic University while Goodman was alive and studied with a faculty (before Greg Hunt) which had a very modern bent, I don't remember Goodman being mentioned. I didn't become aware of him until I began working in the DC area and dated a girl whose parents lived in Hollin Hills. All things postmodern were in vogue at that time and until pretty recently he was mostly forgotten.