The projects will renovate Yaddo’s historic mansion and move its Yaddo Authors Library to the building, as well as design six new ground-up live/work studios for future guests on a bluff overlooking the property’s several ponds.

The storied writers’ and artists’ retreat in Saratoga Springs, NY has hosted guests including James Baldwin, Hannah Arendt, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Flannery O’Connor, Aaron Copland, John Cheever, Leonard Bernstein, Katherine Anne Porter, and many others.