Post-modern Green Houses

This industrial city on the western edge of Lake Michigan has miles of shoreline, but no one would confuse it with East Hampton. When Vera Scekic and Robert Osborne filed plans for a new house here with construction costs estimated at $476,000, it was the largest residential application in years, said Rick Heller, the city's chief building inspecto...

This industrial city on the western edge of Lake Michigan has miles of shoreline, but no one would confuse it with East Hampton. When Vera Scekic and Robert Osborne filed plans for a new house here with construction costs estimated at $476,000, it was the largest residential application in years, said Rick Heller, the city's chief building inspecto...