Breslow Design & Build — 4th generation outdoor living experts since 1924. Custom motorized louvered pergolas, retractable screens, and architectural outdoor structures for Lawrence's country-club estates. PE-stamped engineering on every project.
Free Consultation (973) 798-9328Lawrence is the wealthiest of the Five Towns and one of the most established old-money villages on Long Island. Founded in 1897 by the Lawrence brothers and built around the Rockaway Hunting Club — the oldest country club in America still operating on its original site — the village has roughly 6,500 residents on lots that often exceed an acre. The community blends a long-established Orthodox Jewish population with multi-generational professional and finance families, anchored by Lawrence Country Club, the Rockaway Hunting Club, and the Woodmere Club just over the village line. Lawrence homeowners are buying outdoor structures for permanence: 25-year, multi-generational installations expected to coordinate with significant landscape architecture, custom pool design, and architect-led home renovations.
Lawrence homeowners have access to any architect, builder, or specialty contractor in the New York metro. They choose Breslow because we operate at the level Lawrence's architects and landscape designers expect — PE-stamped structural drawings on every project, in-house design coordination, factory-direct Azenco product, single-PM accountability, and a 102-year-old family business standing behind every install. Many of our Lawrence projects come through architect referrals from firms we've collaborated with for decades.
Our Lawrence projects typically run $120,000 to $400,000+. These are usually integrated outdoor environments — multi-bay motorized pergolas spanning new pool decks, custom outdoor kitchens, and entertaining loggias coordinated with the home's existing architecture. Sukkah-compatible builds, where designated louvered sections are engineered to open fully to the sky during the holiday, are a regular request and one of our specialties.
Lawrence's most ambitious outdoor projects cluster across three areas. Back Lawrence — the bay-front and creek-front section south of Rock Hall Road — features the village's largest waterfront parcels, with bulkheads, docks, and full coastal exposure to Reynolds Channel. The Country Club section around the Lawrence Country Club and Rockaway Hunting Club holds many of the village's most architecturally significant homes — restored 1920s Tudors, Colonial Revivals, and Mediterranean estates. Lord's Woods and the inland streets along Causeway and Rock Hall feature larger interior lots with mature canopy and meaningful landscape architecture.
Waterfront properties face full coastal exposure with 130 MPH design wind speeds, salt-air corrosion, FEMA flood zones, and tidal wetlands review. Our specifications use marine-grade aluminum, stainless hardware, sealed electrical systems, and foundation designs calculated for both wind uplift and flood. For inland country-club parcels, the focus shifts to architectural fidelity — matching trim, proportion, and material finishes to a home's existing facade.
Lawrence is its own incorporated village with its own building department: the Incorporated Village of Lawrence Building Department. Permitting here is more rigorous than typical Nassau jurisdictions — the village reviews accessory structures for setbacks, lot coverage, architectural compatibility, and (for waterfront parcels) flood elevation and tidal wetlands. The process can take longer than neighboring villages, but the standards are clear and predictable.
Breslow handles every step in-house. Our Lawrence permit packages include full site plans with village setback calculations, PE-stamped structural drawings, electrical riser diagrams, drainage plans, FEMA flood elevation certificates for waterfront sites, and (where required) NYS DEC tidal wetlands documentation. Our familiarity with the village's preferences is why our permits typically clear without revision.
Lawrence's median home value sits around $1.8M to $2.5M, with waterfront and country-club estate properties trading from $3M well into the $8M+ range. This is unambiguously upper-end territory — comparable to Greenwich's mid-country, Westchester's most affluent villages, or the eastern Hamptons. A $200,000 to $350,000 outdoor living investment is appropriate to property values and recovers strongly at resale, particularly for homes that buyers expect to be fully finished, professionally landscaped, and entertainment-ready on day one.
In addition to Lawrence, Breslow serves neighboring Five Towns and South Shore communities including Hewlett Harbor, East Atlantic Beach, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, and Inwood. Our full Long Island service area covers Suffolk and Nassau counties.
Breslow offers complimentary on-site design consultations for Lawrence properties. Call (973) 798-9328 or click below to schedule. We'll walk your property, evaluate your options, and produce 3D renderings showing exactly what's possible.
Schedule your complimentary design consultation. We'll visit your Lawrence property, discuss your vision, and show you what's possible.
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