Since Robert Carl Williams arrived in Vermont from his native East Tennessee more than four decades ago, his firm has helped enrich and define the complexion of his adopted home state.
Starting in 1962, when the first two Williams-designed mountainside homes went on sale at Hawk Mountain in Pittsfield, Robert Carl Williams Associates, P.C. has gone on to design the better part of a thousand buildings of all description, primarily in Vermont, but also across the country and around the world.
At the same time, the firm has stayed true to its original mission, operating even now from a secluded farmhouse on Upper Michigan Road in Pittsfield, which also serves as home for Robert Williams.
“From the outset, I wanted to make my life and my work one thing,” states Williams. “Working out of my home is a very natural extension. I’ve done it since 1960.”
Creating functional and comfortable home environments has been the primary goal of Williams, his current partner and company president Daniel Pratt, and their staff, from the start. In his company’s statement of purpose, Williams defines the home as a place that “deeply influences the quality of personal life, a precious possession where we spend most of our lives.”