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To Contact Rob Pike call 631 727 7204 or send email to
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Robert D. Pike and the redevelopment of old buildings into Pike's Peaks, Your Mountain Home. |
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Pike's Peaks was designed and created by Rob Pike. 138 Ostrander Ave., Riverhead, New York, 11901 rpike@pikus.com Born and raised in Riverhead, NY, a small farming town on the East End of Long Island, Rob is a graduate of Stanford University and American University (Juris Doctor.) In addition to majoring in Philosophy, Rob studied at the Stanford's Engineering Department's renowned School of Design. Actually, the capacity to design and build things probably started with building blocks and Hydro-Electric sets and worked on up from there (this involves a lot of times on boats too.. often fixing things in the bilge.) Pike's Peaks started in the winter of '88 when he traveled with a friend to the Mount Snow, Vermont area, and for the first time in twelve years spent the weekend skiing and sampling the après ski activities.. When he returned to NY he decided, "I need a tax deductible reason to go skiing." Pike's Peaks was born. With three prior house renovations under his belt, and Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language " in his design vocabulary, Rob set to work taking older, well-located but beat up buildings (the River House, pictured below, had a major fire, and lay open to the weather for over a year) and redesigning them in to the Ultimate, Large group Mountain Resort Rental buildings.
This building is unique, and while it doesn't look like that much from the outside, there is something about its internal ambience that has made it Pike's Peaks most rented unit. It combines a lot of light coming in from all directions, with an impossible to replicate site, stuck itno the side of a hill, with a river running by.. well you just have to experience it for your self (and 20 of your favorite friends and family members) Rob has now completed the redesign and renovation of six buildings in the Okemo Mountain area. Three have been sold, two of which remain under Rob's management company (White House (circa 1879) now owned by Ned and Amy Nichols, and OkemoTherapy (circa 1872) now owned by George Guldi.) Along with Rob's second Home, the Hennessy House (circa 1872), the newly completed Club House (1900) and an investment property, the River House (1932), these are the best Mountain Resort buildings of Pike's Peaks, Your Mountain Home. His current major design projects include the Whetstone, a functionally ski on ski off building in Crested Butte, Colorado, and the Flag Barn at the Hennessy House. He also is completing renovations on several recently acquired buildings back in Riverhead, New York. Pike's Peaks has been actively marketing properties, including Rob's own, the one we have sold, and now a growing stable of unigue properties owned by others who want to treat their investment in mountain resorts as a business since 1997. Rental and property management Services, are available from Pike's Peaks.
Rob at the 1953 Bridge over the Black River, on his 50th Birthday, with the River House over his shoulder, and Okemo Mountain through the trees in the background. Oh, and note the tall, truncated pyramid fireplace barbeque thing over by the building. That's a Pike/Smallarz design for a really smokin' barbeque. It's over at the Hennessy house now, but each house will have one in time.
More History! After Law School, Rob returned to his hometown and still resides in Riverhead, where he takes on projects focusing on Real Estate, Environment and the Internet. He served on the Board of Directors and as an Officer of a family owned Health Care business, South Oaks Mental Health Care Center and Broadlawn Manor Geriatric services, until it was sold in 1999. Rob's public service includes several terms on the Board of Trustees of the Long Island Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, The Hallockville Farm restoration project, and a stint as a Riverhead Town Councilman. He has served as an attorney for various environmental and civic groups, and as adjuct professor of Environmental Law at Long Island University. He was a major contributor to the implemention of a Comprehensive Master Plan and required zoning changes for his hometown of Riverhead. He is currently working on completing a book and multimedia web site about his cross continental boat journey, American Passages, (another long, terrific story of the adventure of a Lifetime.) Here's a hint....
Rob has been known to play the guitar, sing a song, give a speech and rebuild a boat or two, sometimes twice.
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Rob's
boat The Escrow in Seal Cove, Newfoundland.