[4] The firm occupied space in a SoHo high-rise on Lafayette Street for several years, and by 2007, had executed 25 projects with a staff that had grown to fifteen.

[7] He studied Growth & Structure of Cities at Haverford College and Bryn Mawr (BA, 1984), before attending Yale School of Architecture (MA, 1988).

[7] At Yale, he trained as a modernist under Thomas Beeby, Frank Gehry, Josef Paul Kleihues, Bernard Tschumi and Robert Venturi, and earned the school's H. I. Feldman Prize for studio work in his final semester.

[12][13] G. P. Schafer Architect is known for what writers call "new old houses"; contemporary adaptations of classical styles suggesting long histories and regional authenticity, and the restorations of historic homes.

[5][11] Following an unsuccessful attempt to find a suitable nineteenth-century Greek Revival house to renovate, Schafer designed and built a new, modern rendition on a 45-acre land parcel.

[17][18] The residence combined contemporary features and regional farmhouse vernacular, with classically proportioned details derived from 19th century builder pattern books by Asher Benjamin and Minard Lafever, with a two-story Greek Doric columned entry portico.