Our new Catalog of Homes features photos and designs never published before, plus updates and improvements to every floor plan in our collection, with over 150 pages of beautiful homes and interiors.

Order your copy today for $19.95, including shipping, and be among the first to receive our most comprehensive catalog yet.

If you purchased our Interim Catalog from us directly or from Amazon.com, we will replace your catalog with the new Catalog of Homes for the discounted price of $12.95, including shipping. Call us at (802) 382-9082 to order your replacement.  

New photos will be added all the time: add them to your boards, and tell us which ones are your favorites!

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People: Michael Connor of Connor Homes

Michael Connor is the founder and CEO of Connor Homes, a home design and manufacturing company headquartered in Middlebury, Vermont and Winterthur's licensee for producing Winterthur-inspired mill-built homes.

Connor was drawn to historic architecture at an early age, growing up surrounded by historic homes in his native state of Rhode Island. He attended Providence College as a psychology major but fostered his interest in historic architecture by visiting museum homes in Newport, Rhode Island and other nearby museums and historic sites. Connor started a construction business in Middlebury, Vermont in the early 70s and immediately focused on building homes with scale and proportion that mimicked the homes built in New England during the 17th and 18th centuries. With his wife Linda, a home designer and artist who shared his appreciation for classical architecture, Connor built a company known for its ability to incorporate architectural details from the past, building homes that were often mistaken for original historic homes.

Connor recognized early on that by building homes in a controlled factory environment, a better quality product could be produced at a more cost-effective price. While many other home manufacturers were building homes of varying styles and quality, Connor pioneered the concept that architectural details could be reproduced in a factory setting with precision and efficiency that would make them available and affordable to the general public. This concept along with a host of construction services including high-end architectural design, is at the heart of the company’s mill-built architecture.

In 2010 Connor Homes joined Winterthur Licensed Products. "This is a great opportunity for us to get involved with Mid-Atlantic architecture and continue to build quality homes that are affordable and get the stamp of approval from a prestigious museum," Michael Connor stated in a fall/winter 2010 article in New Old House. The Connor Homes Winterthur Collection can be viewed online at the Connor Homes Web site.

Connor is a member of the National Association of Home Builders and the Addison County Chamber of Commerce, is a past board member of Addison County Home Health and Hospice, and currently serves on the board of directors of the Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont. In his spare time, Connor enjoys playing the banjo in his bluegrass band Snake Mountain Bluegress.

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In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, Connor Homes heard from many of our friends and clients checking to make sure that we were alright. Thank you for your concern. While we were very fortunate not to have been impacted, some of our employees, their communities, and our neighbors were not so fortunate. Hundreds of Vermonters lost their home, partially or totally, in the August hurricane.

Many of those families want to stay in their communities and will choose to rebuild rather than move. Our Simple Classics can be the right solution for some of these families. We are reaching out to local banks, to state government and to the newly created Vermont Irene Recovery Authority to cut through the red tape, and our own workers are volunteering to work around the clock to build these homes in record time. 

We are offering reduced pricing, expedited delivery and Connor Homes' own framing crew to speed the building process for families who have lost their home to flooding. We anticipate that total construction time for a 1200-2000 sq ft home will be as little as 6-8 weeks, making it possible for some families to be in a new home before Christmas.

-We are a local company offering a Vermont-made product.

-Local labor can be used to install the homes, providing local jobs

-Our Simple Classics are inspired by historic Vermont homes and fit the landscape. These designs are complete and ready to be built.

-Our mill-built process is green as it reduces waste, jobsite traffic and uses local materials, and our completed homes are energy efficient and sustainable.

For more information and assistance, contact Connor Homes at 802-382-9082 or connorbuilding@connorbuilding.com, or complete the form below.

Don't forget to sign up THIS MONTH for the Subscriber Program to receive a discount on your Interior Package and guarantee a spot in our winter production schedule! Discounts decrease throughout the month, so act now for the maximum discount. There are a lot of other exciting benefits to the program too - like two complimentary nights at the historic Middlebury Inn during Vermont's foliage or ski seasons! Read the full details of the program HERE.

Commit by September 12, save 5% on an interior package

Commit by September 19, save 4% on an interior package

Commit by September 26, save 3% on an interior package

There's plenty of time still to design your home, so we welcome NEW CLIENTS to take advantage of this as well! Get started by looking at our Sampler or ordering a catalog.

Call us at (802)382-9082 or email us at info@connorbuilding.com to learn more, or give us a way to contact you below and we'll be in touch with all the details.

Connor Homes is excited to announce a whole new service for our customers: the Connor Homes Field Crew! Now our customers can avail themselves of our very own, factory trained professional framing and exterior trim crew to construct their Connor Home. The Connor Homes Field Crew program represents an exciting new chapter in the company’s continued quest to fulfill the promise of Mill-Built Architecture as being the best, most efficient and most satisfying way to build a new home.
While our company has many reliable, competent and otherwise well-qualified Preferred Builders that many of our customers can turn to for the on-site labor and oversight of their Connor Homes frame and trim package, we have long recognized that some of our customers do not have a Preferred Builder in their area. In this situation, we often assist our customers who have chosen a local, non-affiliated builder to complete their Connor Home, by providing labor estimates, information and training, and other company resources that will be helpful to the overall goal of a satisfying, efficient completion of the home. We will continue to offer back-up assistance and expertise to both affiliated and non-affiliated builders, but now take the field labor aspect of construction to a whole new level, by making available our own Field Crews to install and construct our own product on-site.

Learn more about this fantastic new service by downloading our Field Crew brochure, or call us at (802)382-9082.

Did you miss the 2010 Subscriber Program? Here's a second chance!

A Connor Homes Subscriber enjoys exclusive benefits and pricing. As a Connor Homes Subscriber, you can lock in your pricing for eight full months. We only require that the Exterior Package be built in our millshops between December 1, 2011 and April 30, 2012 and that clients have the financial flexibility to pay for the package at the time of production. Read the full details of the program HERE.

Why is Connor Homes offering a Subscriber program?

By reserving a portion of our production to customers with predetermined production slots, we increase our production efficiency. Having customers start earlier on the design of their homes allows us to complete drawings and shop paperwork ahead of production, which gives us increased flexibility in scheduling the millshop. In the way, the Subscriber Program allows us to "even out" production throughout the year. 

 

If you haven't already chosen your home, look through our Sampler, order a catalog, or learn more about our custom design services. Want to learn more about our mill-built homes? Visit our Process page, and watch the on-site shell construction of a Greek Revival in nine days. 

 

To become a Connor Homes Subscriber, or to learn more, call us at (802)382-9082 or email at info@connorbuilding.com

A framing package being constructed in our millshop.

A complete Exterior Package protected and stored in our conditioned facility.

A Connor Homes Greek Revival shell being erected on-site.

The completed Connor Home!

The Nathaniel Fowler house, (mistakenly labeled the Matthew Endicott here previously), was recently photographed by Jim Westphalen, the talented man behind the camera who has photographed most of our homes. Here's a sneak peek at some of the photos- a full slideshow will be available soon!

This custom home, based on an Augustine Parker II, was delivered last week, and is shown after just three days of on-site construction! 

 

A Jeremiah Lee is nearing completion and an Augustine Parker is under construction at the beautiful Duchess Farms Equestrian Community in Marbletown, NY. There are still lots available at Duchess Farms, which is located less than two hours from Manhattan. For more information, visit their website, or call 845-687-7041.

 We're always happy to hear from one of our clients, and are delighted that this homeowner is so satisfied with their Connor home!

"You were all such a pleasure to work with.  Every contact that I had with the company was pleasant and professional, and at the end of it I was extremely impressed at how close you got to 100% with the details of the package delivery.  Avery, looking back I see that we exchanged literally hundreds of emails and calls, and in every single one of them your responses were quick, intelligent, thoughtful, and patient. 

Something I would definitely, emphatically do differently is that I would get the interior package from Connor.  At the time, I priced out what we wanted for the interior trim and thought it would be cheaper to buy it locally.  I was very mistaken.  We ended up having a lot of material waste and consequently spent much more, and in addition it's also likely that there was considerbly more installation labor time involved because it was so much harder to keep things organized compared with the way Connor handles materials.  

Our house is gorgeous, I think.  Everyone thinks so.  It catches my breath every time I drive up to it; a mixture of aesthetic admiration and nostalgia.  And the spaces inside are beautiful and work extremely well.  You know how books on home architecture always tell you to design at least one great space in the house, the kind that everyone wants to hang out in?  We have 4. 

I wish I could just keep on buying endless houses from you, one after another, each one prettier than the last." 

The first four plans of this collaboration between Connor Homes and Winterthur Museum are complete. These beautiful house plans come priced as a Mill-built kit so that you can be the proud owner of an Winterthur inspired treasure. Contact us to find out more or click on the link below to view these one-of-a-kind homes.

TAKE ME TO THE WINTERTHUR COUNTRY HOME COLLECTION

 

Connor Homes of Middlebury, Vermont is pleased to announce that it has recently been granted the exclusive license to produce a line of homes to be endorsed by Winterthur, the museum, garden, and library that is the former home of Henry Francis du Pont. The design inspiration for this new line of historically authentic, architecturally detailed homes comes from the museum's extensive archives as well as interpretations and adaptations of existing architecture presently found on the Winterthur estate.

Located just north of Wilmington, Delaware, Winterthur is situated on 1,000 acres and is the repository of one of the most extensive and important collections of early American decorative arts in the country. There are 175 rooms in the house, containing approximately 85,000 objects. Tours and special exhibitions highlight aspects of the collection, which includes furniture, ceramics, metals, and textiles as well as fine art. The estate is also world renowned for its extensive naturalistic garden, a legacy of H. F. du Pont's horticultural knowledge and design skill.

Connor Homes has earned a national reputation for the design and manufacture of historic American architecture through a process it calls "Mill-Built Architecture." Michael Connor, company founder and CEO said the company is thrilled and honored by this one-of-a-kind opportunity to participate in the endeavor with Winterthur. He notes that it is a tribute to the years of research and development by the Connor Homes team that has earned it the reputation for an expertise uniquely suited for such an undertaking. "Our job will be to create floor plans and living environments that transcend the needs and requirements that motivated the original floor layouts, so that we can create new layouts suited to the present era, while preserving the architectural integrity and charm of a former time. Our company has demonstrated through its existing portfolio of home designs that it has the appropriate sensitivity to historic architecture that enables us to harmoniously meld the revered architectural elements of the past with the living requirements of the present."

The Vermont company points to an additional interesting connection between itself and Winterthur: Electra Havemeyer Webb, founder of Vermont's own Shelburne Museum and friend to H. F. du Pont, was among the first to interest him in American art and antiques. On a visit to the Webbs' home in 1923, du Pont was taken with the color combination of a pine cupboard holding pink Staffordshire dishes. That inspirational cupboard-a gift of the Webb family-with the original ceramics, is now prominently displayed at Winterthur.

"All of us at Winterthur are truly excited about this agreement-it's a perfect partnership," says Kristin L. DeMesse, director of Winterthur Licensed Products.  "Connor Homes' dedication to early American architecture and attention to detail is unsurpassed, and we know their Winterthur designs will be exceptional." 

Work on the design venture will begin this spring when a team of designers from Connor Homes will begin researching the many historic house plans and photos in the museum's extensive archives. First plans and home offerings are expected in the summer and fall of this year.

For more information on Winterthur, including their extensive collection, programs, events, and exhibitions, please visit them online at http://www.winterthur.org/ or call 800-448-3883.

Connor Homes of Middlebury, Vermont is honored to be featured in a new book by renowned author Sheri Koones.  Entitled Prefabulous + Sustainable, the book details some of the best prefabricated green homes in the country, and includes a passionate foreword by environmentalist, actor and director Robert Redford. The book has just been released.

CLICK HERE to learn more.

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We have four fabulous plans developed in 2009 that we are eager to share. These plans were designed in entirety by the Connor Homes design staff to explore four vernacular styles which the company is pursuing. These styles are Colonial Revival, Mid-Atlantic, Shingle and Southern Coastal. CLICK HERE to learn more.

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We went on tour in 2009 to capture Connor Homes in various stages of completion. We have many more to visit, but thought you would enjoy photos of our recent travels to visit just a few Connor Homes, both new and not so new. CLICK HERE to see five fantastic homes.

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CONTACT: Amber Rouleau

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ABOUT CONNOR HOMES: At Connor Homes we have a unique approach to building new homes. Our 40 years in the residential building business have enabled us to couple our wealth of experience in historic architectural design and construction with a state of the art manufacturing process so that we offer the exquisite detailing and building proportions of classic architecture at a cost that is affordable to the everyday home buyer.  We provide a complete, highly detailed, and historically accurate Mill-Built home, and the quality of our homes is unsurpassed, even by the highest level custom site builder.

 

For more information on Connor Homes, including photo galleries, home plans and detailed information about their Mill-Built Architecture process, please visit www.connorbuilding.com or call (802) 382-9082.  You can also find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ConnorHomes

 

For press or media inquiries, please contact Amber Rouleau or Scott Rouleau at Redstone Communications at 860-677-0560 or via email at amber@redstonecomm.com or scott@redstonecomm.com.