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Ezra Stoller Shots of Five Fields

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Ezra Stoller, Five Fields On July 25, 2013

  In the past, we have posted some shots of Six Moon Hill from architectural photographer, Ezra Stoller. Here are some from Five Fields as it was being developed and soon thereafter. From Stoller’s bio on the Esto site: Ezra Stoller was born in Chicago in 1915, grew up in New York and graduated from…

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Summer’s Here. Time to Catch Our Breath

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Five Fields, Lexington, Listings, Market Report, Marketing, Sales, Six Moon Hill, TAC On July 11, 2013

Man, oh, man! What a nutty spring market here in and around Lexington (never mind nearby planets like Cambridge, where one buyer bid $1.3 million over a $3.7 million asking price). Inventory has been tight. Bidding wars were the rule rather than the exception. Since January 2013, the Janovitz + Tse Team have had 19…

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Sold: Five Fields

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Five Fields, Lexington, Listings, SOLD, TAC On May 28, 2013

 

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Sold: 11 Barberry Road, Five Fields

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Dick Morehouse, Five Fields, Lexington, Listings, SOLD, TAC On May 28, 2013

Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] Photos by Lara Kimmerer (interior) and John Tse (exterior) (Sale pending) We are thrilled to offer this listing of a classic Five Fields TAC (The Architects’ Collaborative) house, the first time this house has been available since it was designed and built in 1953. Expanded since, it strikes…

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Sold: New Five Fields Listing!

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Dick Morehouse, Five Fields, Lexington, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, SOLD On May 22, 2013

  Click here for full post (below).

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Sold: Five Fields Lexington New Listing

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Five Fields, Lexington, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, SOLD, TAC On April 5, 2013

  Available!

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Boston Sunday Globe on Walter Pierce and Architecture at UMass

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Bauhaus, Boston Globe, Edward Durell Stone, Five Fields, Hugh Stubbins, Kevin Roche, Lexington, lincoln, Marcel Breuer, modernism, University of Massachusetts On March 24, 2013

  The Globe today covers two subjects near and dear to my heart. Bryan Marquard has written a nice tribute to Walter Pierce, including links to our 2011 interview with him for this site. In the Ideas section of same edition is a very interesting article by Max Page about the architecture of the University…

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Sold: Five Fields Listing

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Five Fields, Lexington, Listings, SOLD, TAC On September 13, 2012
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New Video Tour of Lexington Modernism

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Modern Mass

Posted in Five Fields, Peacock Farm, Six Moon Hill, Video On June 7, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMPT6A2L3U   Hope you enjoy this tour that we put together. Here is a smaller, “mobile” version of the same:   For more information about eh Five-Bedroom Peacock Farm house, pictured, see below. SOLD: This is an expanded and updated five-bedroom Peacock Farm house. The original Walter Pierce design of this now-modern-classic style has been…

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Boston Globe Coverage of Five Fields and Modernism in Boston’s Suburbs

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Boston Globe, Five Fields On February 24, 2011

Nice picture and mention of the 440 Concord. Ave Five Fields house in today’s Boston Globe.

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Sold: Let the Light Shine In! New Five Fields Listing

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in 440 Concord Ave., Dick Morehouse, Five Fields, SOLD On February 13, 2011

  SOLD: For what you would expect to pay for a cape in Lexington (or for even less), you can have style and history. Yes, you erstwhile dreamers and house voyeurs can now buy this brilliant, renovated mid-century modernist house in the historic Five Fields neighborhood. This three-bedroom, two-full-bath house with an open floor plan…

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Recent Sale of a "Green Home" in Lexington’s Five Fields

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Barberry, Five Fields, Geothermal, Green, Six Moon Hill, SOLD, Stonewall, TAC On December 29, 2010

1 Stonewall Road, Lexington. Photo courtesy of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage A common problem for would-be buyers and fans of modern architecture in the Boston area is the paucity of available newly built homes with a modernist sensibility. And when one is located, the price is usually quite high, generally above even higher-end colonial (or,…

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