Silver Sands Motel - Leroy Street Studio
A hospitality renovation precedent showing how mid-century roadside architecture can be refreshed with color, native planting, and crisp detailing.
- What we like about this project
- The whimsical seahorse neon sign perched above the roofline anchors the retro aesthetic.
Materials
- wood-shingles
- asphalt-shingles
- glass
- brick
- gravel
Visual identifiers
- mint-green-shingles
- vintage-neon-sign
- covered-porch
- red-convertible
Style tags
- mid-century
- vernacular
- retro
- hospitality
Visual tags
- mid-century-modern
- hospitality
- coastal-motel
- renovation
- single-story
- Geometry
- Single-story horizontal ranch-style massing featuring a continuous overhanging porch roof supported by slender posts.
- Facade system
- Painted cedar shingle siding with punched windows and central neon signage.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction on a concrete slab foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Low-slung human scale, typical of mid-century roadside motel architecture.
- Lighting
- Warm late-day sunlight casting soft shadows and highlighting the texture of the shingle siding and gravel yard.
- Atmosphere
- Nostalgic, warm, and inviting vacation mood under golden hour light.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or coastal roadside setting surrounded by mature deciduous trees and native landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the gravel drive, the motel opens up via an inviting shallow porch with multiple sequential room entrances.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window and door modules paired with thin porch supports create a steady horizontal cadence.
- Style reading
- Mid-century modern vernacular revival
- Program
- Motel / Hospitality
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- wood-shingles, asphalt-shingles, glass, brick, gravel
- Visual identifiers
- mint-green-shingles, vintage-neon-sign, covered-porch, red-convertible
- Style tags
- mid-century, vernacular, retro, hospitality
- Visual tags
- mid-century-modern, hospitality, coastal-motel, renovation, single-story
- Geometry
- Single-story horizontal ranch-style massing featuring a continuous overhanging porch roof supported by slender posts.
- Facade system
- Painted cedar shingle siding with punched windows and central neon signage.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction on a concrete slab foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Low-slung human scale, typical of mid-century roadside motel architecture.
- Lighting
- Warm late-day sunlight casting soft shadows and highlighting the texture of the shingle siding and gravel yard.
- Atmosphere
- Nostalgic, warm, and inviting vacation mood under golden hour light.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or coastal roadside setting surrounded by mature deciduous trees and native landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the gravel drive, the motel opens up via an inviting shallow porch with multiple sequential room entrances.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window and door modules paired with thin porch supports create a steady horizontal cadence.
- Style reading
- Mid-century modern vernacular revival
- Program
- Motel / Hospitality
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture