Real Estate in the Boston Area : Modernism Specialists
Lincoln Hilltop Stunner

Lincoln Hilltop Stunner

I had the pleasure today to finally visit this listing atop Tabor Hill Road in Lincoln. Tabor Hill is a cul-de-sac of Henry Hoover-designed and other modernist homes, culminating at the top of the road with buena vistas out over the reservoir, Route 2,...
Boston Globe Home of the Week!

Boston Globe Home of the Week!

Check it out, here. Photos by our neighbor, Boston Globe photographer, Joanne Rathe. Written by John Ellement. SOLD.
Build (Or Restore) Your Dream Home on Lincoln's Beaver Pond!

Build (Or Restore) Your Dream Home on Lincoln’s Beaver Pond!

Offered at $998,800: 11 Woodcock Lane is a Lincoln nine-plus acre waterfront property sited at the end of level cul-de-sac off of Weston Road. Assessed by the town of Lincoln at $1,034,600, this listing offers a rare value opportunity to preserve a mid-century modernist...
Smashing Mid-Century in Lexington

Smashing Mid-Century in Lexington

Click any photo to enlarge: SOLD, JANUARY 2012, $708,000. Contact us via link or button at top. Offered at $719,000 the original owners of this mid-century have done all the right things. More importantly, they haven’t done any of the wrong things. Those of you aficionados of...
New South-End Style Loft Listing in Belmont

New South-End Style Loft Listing in Belmont

The Engine 1 Condos. Full post can be found below or by clicking through on the blog title.
New Lexington Listing

New Lexington Listing

Peacock Farm-style house in Turning Mill neighborhood. Full post can be found below or by clicking through on the blog title. SOLD.
California-Style Contemporary in Concord

California-Style Contemporary in Concord

Read about this sale here.
Architect's Own 2003-Built Home

Architect’s Own 2003-Built Home

SOLD: first week. See the post here.
See All Our Listings

See All Our Listings

See all homes (and styles) we have listed  for sale here. While the concentration on this site is mid-century modernist real estate around the Boston area, we list, market, and sell all styles of homes found here. We work as buyer and seller agents....
Interview with Walter Pierce

Interview with Walter Pierce

  Some years back, the architect and Lexington resident, Walter Pierce was quoted in the Boston Globe, describing Peacock Farm, a pioneering modernist neighborhood in Lexington that he developed with partner, Danforth Compton. Mr. Pierce told the Globe, ““we were taught that architecture could contribute...
New Video Tour of Lexington Modernism

New Video Tour of Lexington Modernism

  Hope you enjoy this tour that we put together. Here is a smaller, “mobile” version of the same:   For more information about eh Five-Bedroom Peacock Farm house, pictured, see below. SOLD: This is an expanded and updated five-bedroom Peacock Farm house. The...
Green Geothermal Charmer in Arlington

Green Geothermal Charmer in Arlington

Sold for over asking price first week on market. See our Homes For Sale link. Reap the benefits of the 2009 investment in a geothermal heating and cooling system in this dormered bungalow-style home at the end of a private way. FIrst used as...
Modernism Blends with Tradition

Modernism Blends with Tradition

    UNDER CONTRACT as of 4/20: Originally built in 1951, this house was given a dramatic facelift in 1998 by the architecture team, JASONNOAH, Jason Silverman and Noah Grunburg, who met while attending Taliesin, and were certainly inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright. Located...
7 Moon Hill Rd. - The Mann House

7 Moon Hill Rd. – The Mann House

SOLD: The spirit of exploration and invention, led by philosophy, can be present in an office. Ideas are welcomed from wherever they come. Architectural music is orchestral rather than solo. Every member is involved. – Sally Harkness, on the “collaborative” part of The Architects...
Hugh Stubbins-Designed House in Lincoln

Hugh Stubbins-Designed House in Lincoln

SOLD: We are proud to be representing the owners of this modernist home, The Baggs House in Lincoln, MA. More info here.
Let the Light Shine In! New Five Fields Listing

Let the Light Shine In! New Five Fields Listing

  SOLD: For what you would expect to pay for a cape in Lexington (or for even less), you can have style and history. Yes, you erstwhile dreamers and house voyeurs can now buy this brilliant, renovated mid-century modernist house in the historic Five...
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Lincoln Hilltop Stunner

Lincoln Hilltop Stunner

I had the pleasure today to finally visit this listing atop Tabor Hill Road in Lincoln. Tabor Hill is a cul-de-sac of Henry Hoover-designed and other modernist homes, culminating at the top of the road with buena vistas out over the reservoir, Route 2, Lexington and the Boston skyline beyond. This siting of this renovated...
AD 20/21

AD 20/21

Omnibus Sectional sofa by Vladimir Kagan, from Machine Age, and exhibitor at AD 20/21 AD 20/21 Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries & The Boston Print Fair will be returning to the Cyclorama, at the Boston Center for the Arts for it’s 5th year March 15-18, 2012. Building on the success of...
Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams

A piece here on the SFMOMA retrospective of the work of designer Dieter Rams. It is fun tracing the lineage of good, clean, modern industrial design from Apple, to Polaroid (we just sold the house of an erstwhile Polaroid designer), to Braun, and Bang & Olufsen.  

Mink Fridge and Other Mid-Century Appliances

Some great ideas, here.

Lexington School System Accolades

A letter sent by Superintendent, Dr. Paul Ash, points out the following: Recent LPS Accomplishments November 29, 2011 Bridge School wins the Massachusetts Gold-level award for health and wellness.  This award is given yearly by the DESE to a school with a strong commitment to the health of its students and staff.  Bridge School faculty and...
Seems like Eames'...

Seems like Eames’…

…are everywhere now, what with the new film and all. By the way, that is screening here in Boston at the Museum of Fine Arts. Mark Feeney has a review in the Globe today. More details here. In the meantime, you can watch Ice Cube tour the Eames house in Los Angeles at the New...

New York Times on New England Modernist Perservation

Regular readers will recall a post for a listing we had for a Deck House in Lincoln. We mentioned it being in close proximity to the well-known Flansburgh House, which architecte Earl Flansburgh built for his own family (which includes his son, John of They Might Be Giants). Well, now comes an article in the...

New Peacock Farm-Area Offering

There is a new listing in the Pleasant Brook section, adjacent to the Peacock Farm neighborhood, for $699,000, listed with Coldwell Banker. As always, John Tse and Bill Janovitz are always available as buyer agents for this and other brokers’ listings. Contact us for more information.  
The Big Lebowski and LA Modernism

The Big Lebowski and LA Modernism

Interesting report on NPR’s Weekend Edition about John Lautner.

Wassily Chair

From the Design Icon series:
The Adaptable Modernist

The Adaptable Modernist

  The real estate market gets a bit slow around these parts starting around Thanksgiving. It’s always a hood time to catch up with blogs from around the country. Thanks to the Modernesia Facebook group for constantly updating with interesting links such as this one, from the Miletus Group, about the adaptable form-follows-function principles inherent...
Eames Film

Eames Film

    New article about a film about Eames in the Times