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Permanently embedded into the landscape of Northampton and now standing proudly in ruin, are the industrial artifacts which record the history of cement making. Within a decade, the Schoefer kilns were replaced with rotary kilns whose technology remains in existence.This single-family, three bedroom home deviates in scale and appearance from the neighboring houses. Hues of blue skin echo the mottled limestone quarried here.The base of the home is constructed of concrete. Deliberately crude in its execution, the concrete monolith is treated as an existing condition, or ruin, whose subsequent wood-framed, cementitious clad boxes are carefully inserted.