Real Estate in the Boston Area : Modernism Specialists
Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show: As a fan of Modernism in general and in the particular examples here in the Boston area, I had always intended on visiting the non-deominational MIT chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen, but it’s just one of those things in your home city that you just…
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9 Mason Street, Lexington Offered at $899,000 (Sold for $908,000) Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show: Filled with natural light, this Mid-Century-Modern classic is an expanded version of the original Walter Pierce “Peacock Farm B House” design. The warm, well-maintained hardwood floors, soaring ceilings, huge windows, and an open floor…
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7 Trotting Horse Drive, Lexington $899,000 (Sold for $942,500) Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show Located on a cul de sac where the neighborhood’s developer-architect founder, Walter Pierce, built his own house, 7 Trotting Horse is a classic Peacock Farm house. But in addition to two of the five bedrooms,…
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13 Barberry Road, Lexington $1,249,000 (Sold for $1,360,000) Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show: A special offering of a modernist classic, renovated and expanded in 2010. The Bogen House — designed by Herbert L. Bogen for his family and featured in the Architectural Record in 1962 — strikes a sleek…
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33 Tabor Hill Road, Lincoln. Offered at $4,100,000 Showings begin September 8. Open houses September 9 and 10, times to be decided. Please use contact for questions or to request a private showing. A distinctly rare offering, this luxurious Modernist estate, initially designed by pioneering architect, Henry Hoover, was rebuilt and expanded in 2004 and significantly expanded and…
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62 Turning Mill Road. Offered at $899,000. Contact us for showing requests or questions. Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slideshow: A remarkable opportunity to buy this expanded Walter-Pierce-designed Modernist Peacock Farm house on a huge private wooded lot with a grassy lawn. Located in the Turning Mill neighborhood, coveted due to…
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72 Winter Street, Lincoln. Offered at $1,295,000. Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show. Contact us for appointments or questions. This is now a pending sale listed by a separate brokerage. [This property is currently off the market. Please let us know if you’re interested.] There are not many better…
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The Leventhal House 20 Drumlin Road, Newton. Offered at $1,825,000 (sale pending) Showings begin by appointment Thursday, June 1. Open houses Saturday, June 3, and Sunday June 4, times TBD. Contact for appointments or questions. Click and photo to enlarge and view as a slide show. Shelly Harrison photography, except as noted. A truly special house, 20…
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The following is an urgent note for a preservation opportunity for this famous house. Hi All, We’re reaching the zero hour for Peter Eisenman’s House II in Hardwick, Vermont. I spoke with the owner yesterday, and he is willing to sell the house and 15 acres for $425,000 to anyone who will save the…
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29 Blueberry Hill Road, Weston. Offered at $1,489,000 [Sold $1,550,000] Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show. This light-filled, impeccably updated and maintained, Mid-Century-Modern home, was built in 1965 and originally designed by the local Stanmar company, with similar aesthetics to another regional Modern home company, Acorn/Deck. The post-and-beam construction allow the open floor plan…
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8 Birch Ridge Road, Acton. Offered at $559,000 (Pending) Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show. Perhaps the price in this original 1960 marketing piece has changed, but the description of this special property certainly holds up. And it is still a bargain! For here is true value: a sophisticated open-concept, multi-level design by pioneering architect,…
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