Clark and Menefee Architects

Maggie Cookman September 27, 2000 The Reid House was designed by W.G. Clark and Charles Menefee and built in John’s Island, SC in 1986. Menefee and Clark designed primarily in the American South. Clark and Menefee are known for their “tripartite vertical organization.” The base level normally consists of secondary bedroom(s)/studio spaces and services. The First floor is a “piano nobile of principal rooms with a double-height living space.” The attic level usually consists …

…architecture, one critic notes that Clark and Menefee’s buildings “distil a didactic language through which both formal meaning and construction can be revealed and understood.” It was also said that their houses were “idealized pavilions sitting solidly on the site in the classical manner.” Their designs were small and succinct, and interior finishes were sometimes rough, but their craft was excellent. Clark and Menefee succeeded in practical designs, while economizing on budgets and space.