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Our New Breuer Listing Featured at Boston.Com/Globe.Com

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Boston Globe, Marcel Breuer, press On June 17, 2022

Thanks to Boston.com for featuring our fab listing!

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Dwell Features Our Breuer Listing!

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Dwell, Marcel Breuer, press On June 16, 2022

  We are thrilled to have our new listing covered over at Dwell.  

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The Grieco House Designed by Marcel Breuer

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in On June 3, 2022

As featured in Dwell, Architectural Digest, and the Boston Globe!   More than a wonderful Andover home, here’s your chance to live inside a work of art: the Grieco House (1956), a rare offering designed by modernist master architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981). While a student at the internationally renowned Bauhaus school, Breuer studied with artist Paul Klee (1879-1940)….

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Marcel Breuer-designed Geller I and Preservation

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Bauhaus, DOCOMOMO, Marcel Breuer, New York Times, Preservation On February 8, 2022

The New York Times has had a couple of articles in the past weeks about the demolition of the Geller I House in Lawrence, Long Island, New York, designed by Marcel Breuer. The first piece was the sad news itself. The second came today, an explanation called Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer…

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Sold! The Marcel-Breuer-Designed Robinson House

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in On June 13, 2019

There are not many homes that we would jump in a car and drive 2.5 hours across the state to work as buyer agents for, but one day Bill received a call from someone who said. “I am interested in a house in Williamstown and wondering if you could help.” Bill responded, “The Breuer house?”…

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Video Tour of a 1948 Marcel Breuer-Designed Home on 42 Acres

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Bauhaus, Dwell, Edwin Goodell, Eleanor Raymond, Henry Hoover, Marcel Breuer, Sales, Video On May 21, 2019

We are very proud to represent the buyer of this magnificent property in Williamstown. Located just a half mile from William College, the Robinson House was built in 1948 and is sited on a private 42 acres with river frontage and mountain vistas. The 5,000 s.f. butterfly roof home was designed by Bauhaus-identified architect, Marcel…

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Marcel Breuer’s Famous Chamberlain Cottage For Sale

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Chamberlain Cottage, homes for sale, Marcel Breuer, Wayland On May 12, 2015

This is not our listing. We would act as buyer agents for clients. Contact us for details. Offered at $2 million. Located in Wayland, a pond-front 7+ acre setting for this 1940 house with three bedrooms and two full baths. 3,742 s.f. of living area. The Chamberlain Cottage. Click to enlarge:

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Breuer in Wellfleet

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Marcel Breuer, Preservation On April 4, 2012

From our friends at the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, comes this call for action supporting the Wellfleet Historic Review Board’s effort to maintain a demolition delay list. Preservation can be a tricky cause in some instances, and as a real estate broker, I have been embroiled in one or two. But in the case…

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Gropius (and Breuer!) on the South Shore

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Cohasset, Dwell, Hagerty House, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius On November 30, 2010

This is a bit old now, but worth posting here. The rarity of modernism on the New England waterfront, except perhaps in the Wellfleet/Truro area, makes this Gropius/Breuer house in Cohasset of particular interest. Read the article here, in Dwell.

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More Breuer Residencies in Massachusetts

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in lincoln, ma, Marcel Breuer On February 3, 2010

Courtesy of the very good site, GreatBuildings.com Breuer House I in Lincoln, MA (very close to Gropius House) This is the J. Ford House in Lincoln, MA.

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Icon in Brown’s Wood – The Hill House

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in On March 24, 2020

Private showings by appointment only. Contact us via below form. Any/all offers will be reviewed Monday, May 11 Monitoring the guidelines from federal and state authorities, and those of Compass, MAR, and NAR  regarding the Covid 19 novel virus. See end of post for more details. Virtual Facebook Live Showing/Open House embedded below.  Located at…

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Heroic Brutalism and the Lincoln House and Studio

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Ben Thompson, brutalist, Cambridge Seven Associates, Carl Koch, Design Research, Earl Flansburgh, Ezra Stoller, Five Fields, Hugh Stubbins, Jane Thompson, Josep Lluís Sert, Josep Lluis Sert, Kallman and McKinnell, Le Corbusier, Lexington, lincoln, Marcel Breuer, Paul Rudolph, Roche-Dinkeloo, Saarinen, Six Moon Hill, Snake Hill, TAC, Techbuilt, Walter Gropius On December 27, 2018

In 2015 I attended a talk given by a couple of the authors of Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, which had just been published. The insight of the authors was so keen and their presentation so impressive that I naturally purchased a copy at the event. It is truly a hefty tome, more…

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