Real Estate in the Boston Area : Modernism Specialists
Real Estate in the Boston Area : Modernism Specialists
With the help of Alex Loer, we have a new video overview of the history of midcentury-modern architecture and neighborhoods in Boston’s western suburbs.
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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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8 Demar Road, offered at $849,000 (sold for $855,000). Click any image to enlarge and view as slide show. Hey Dwell magazine fans! Here is your chance to own a stylish and recently updated Mid-Century-Modern classic Techbuilt home, designed by the legendary Carl Koch. What do you love about the design aesthetic? Natural light? An open…
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95 Centre Street in Dover. Offered at $1,350,000 [Sold: $1,365,000] Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show. Come home to a an outstanding Mid-Century-Modern country estate. Custom-designed in the International Style by Carleton Richmond, an early student of Bauhaus co-founder, Walter Gropius at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the…
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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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Photos by Lara Kimmerer. Click any to enlarge and watch as slide show. 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…
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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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Click any picture to enlarge and view in a slide show. Photos by Lara Kimmerer unless otherwise noted. 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…
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In the early 1950s, along 190 acres along the Sudbury River, not far from where Concord, Sudbury, and Lincoln meet, a Modernist neighborhood conceptualized by MIT Economics Professor, W. Rupert Maclaurin, and designed by Techbuilt and Snake Hill architect, Carl Koch, was developed. Renee Garrelick compiled an oral history of the neighborhood in 1986 (archived by the…
Read MoreRead more here about 8 Demar Road in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. Listing post is here.
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8 Demar Road. $624,000. Check out the full post below.
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