Spring Brings Inventory
Sorry the site has been so quiet lately. Winter is generally a dead time in real estate around here. However, the buyers are out early and all indications are that it is going to be a very busy spring. There are multiple offers on a Peacock Farm house that just came on at $699,000. We (Bill and...
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...
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...
Boston Globe Home of the Week!
Check it out, here. Photos by our neighbor, Boston Globe photographer, Joanne Rathe. Written by John Ellement. SOLD.
Our Dewey Road Listing is Boston Globe Home of the Week
Check it out, here. Photos by my neighbor, Boston Globe photographer, Joanne Rathe. Written by John Ellement. SOLD.
Four Bedroom Lexington Contemporary Colonial
For all photos, click here. (SOLD) Offered at $879,900. Contact us via link or button at top. The views from this 1984-built house makes it feel like a vacation house. But you’ll appreciate how, on a daily, “real life” basis, it just plain works: four bedrooms; three full baths; a master suite with a fireplace, en...
Four-Bedroom Lexington Contemporary Colonial
Click any photo to enlarge: (Under agreement) Offered at $879,900. Contact us via link or button at top. The views from this 1984-built house makes it feel like a vacation house. But you’ll appreciate how, on a daily, “real life” basis, it just plain works: four bedrooms; three full baths; a master suite with a...
New Listings
Keep an eye on this site for new modern home listings next week. We have a mid-century modern home in Lexington in the mid-$600,000s and a newer converted loft in Belmont in the low-$600,000s. In coming weeks, we hope to have a few more.
New Video Tour of Lexington’s Mid-Century Modern Neighborhoods
Hope you enjoy this tour that we put together. Here is a smaller, “mobile” version of the same:
Architect’s Own 2003-Built Home
Click any photo to enlarge: SOLD: If it is accurate that (as Walter Pierce noted in our discussion) 98% of the homes built in America are not designed by architects, then it partially explains the lowest-common-denominator plan-book design that has resulted in a glut of newly constructed spec houses in this region from the past decade-plus....
Loring Hill Lexington — New Listing
Click any photo to enlarge: Centrally located in one of Lexington’s most coveted and convenient neighborhoods, Loring Hill, this mid-century ranch was updated and expanded with designs from Lexington architects, Bechtel Frank Erickson. The first-floor master suite was expanded in 2006 with cathedral ceilings and an en suite bathroom with separate shower and whirlpool tub....
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 to social policy; we were zealous and were reacting against the...
