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...
This Week’s New Listings
Our New listings in Lexington this week: A modern facelift to a 1950s house, posted here (see above, in the slide show), and an affordable, stylish Cape here.
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 at 34 Oak Street in Lexington, the house is sited on...
10 Moon Hill Road / Lexington / midcentury modernism / real estate for sale / Six Moon Hill / TAC / the Sills House / Walter Gropius
10 Moon Hill – The Sills House For Sale
(SOLD July/2010) In the June 1950 issue of Architectural Forum magazine profile on the homes of Six Moon Hill, the Sills House, 10 Moon Hill Road, is described as, “designed for one of Six Moon Hill’s few non-academic couples, this carefully detailed house has reserve space to provide for future family growth… A slate floor...
Techbuilt Offered for Sale
There’s a nice expanded and renovated Techbuilt house for sale in Lexington’s Turning Mill/Paint Rock neighborhood. See the listing information and photos here. I would be glad to arrange a showing.
