Set back off the road on a private acre of land, this midcentury-modern home has remained in the same family for whom it was custom-built. A 2001-built addition — with its own entrance, a bedroom, a full bath, a living room, and a kitchen — offers perfect ADU, inter-generational, au pair, or studio space. The…
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Set back off of Spruce Hill Road, an ideal location in Weston, this Midcentury-Modern Techbuilt, designed by esteemed architect Carl Koch, has been expanded with the 1964 addition of a Great Room with a fireplace, beamed cathedral ceilings, and a Zen-like relationship between indoors and out that lovers of modernism appreciate. Recent updates include a…
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Set back from the road up a gentle slope on almost an acre, this CUSTOM post-and-beam Techbuilt has all the characteristics that attract fans of midcentury-modern homes. Walls of glass fill the open concept floor plan with cheerful natural light, while soaring ceilings provide a sense of volume and architectural drama. The grand living room…
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Designed by pioneering architect, Carl Koch, and his Techbuilt Company, 100 Pleasant Street is a spacious and historic Mid-Century Modern house, extensively renovated and expanded by the current owners in 2009. Originally built in 1964 for Harvard botanists Rolla and Alice Tryon, the one-acre property is surrounded by specimen plantings, including the ferns that were…
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Courtesy of Scott Hedges, this is the second airing of the Ford Foundation’s TV Radio Workshop show on the “Excursion” and “Omnibus” programs. Hosted by Alistair Cooke and narrated by Burgess Meredith shows the construction of a Techbuilt House its design inspiration in the office of Carl Koch. The show catapulted TechBuilt into the public…
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It’s your serve on your own private clay tennis court* in the big level back yard of this expanded Techbuilt Mid-Century-Modern home A long wooded driveway leads the visitor to this privately sited hideaway with four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, and a kitchen that was updated in 2010. An addition includes an entry foyer and a bonus room…
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Photos by Lara Kimmerer. Click to enlarge and view as slideshow. [SOLD for $1,050,000.] THIS is the one! Located on the corner of a cul-de-sac, this large, updated, and expanded mid-century-modern Techbuilt home was designed by Modernist pioneer, Carl Koch. It features a 1000 s.f. 2006 addition which includes a new kitchen, master bedroom, dining room,…
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If you’re dyed-in-the-wool, DON’T COME! If you think early Georgian or Late Cape Cod is just the berries, forget we came in. But if you and your kith enjoy plenty of room and light, believe a house should be designed to live in — not merely to exist in, like the idea of getting…
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Photos by Lara Kimmerer (interior) and John Tse (exterior). Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] 8 Demar Road, Lexington $624,000 What a value! Never mind the stylish mid-century modern design; where else in Lexington will you find a meticulously maintained, four-bedroom, three-full-bath house, with a master suite, and 2192 square feet of living area,…
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Photos by Lara Kimmerer (interior) and John Tse (exterior). Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] 4 Turning Mill Road, Lexington: $449,000 (Sold) The first model home for the Lexington-based Techbuilt Corp. in the Middle Ridge neighborhood, this 1956 Techbuilt home has lived up to its original forward-looking vision. The house was one of a…
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SOLD: Designed by Carl Koch, the “Grandfather of Prefab” (Progressive Architecture, 1994), this Techbuilt classic, a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath 2615 s.f. home is a fine example of the pioneering modernism that Koch applied to mid-century homebuilding as returning GIs and a surge in Boston-area technology firms created more demand for housing young families. Bill Janovitz…
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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.
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