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Boston Globe Home of the Week!

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Home of the Week, Lexington, Listings, Turning Mill On November 2, 2011

Check it out, here. Photos by our neighbor, Boston Globe photographer, Joanne Rathe. Written by John Ellement. SOLD.

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Sold: Four Bedroom Lexington Contemporary Colonial

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Lexington, Listings, SOLD On September 25, 2011

For all photos, click here. (SOLD) Offered at $879,900. Contact us via link or button at top. The views from this 1984-built house makes it feel like a vacation house. But you’ll appreciate how, on a daily, “real life” basis, it just plain works: four bedrooms; three full baths; a master suite with a fireplace, en…

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Four-Bedroom Lexington Contemporary Colonial

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Lexington, Listings On September 22, 2011

Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] (Under agreement) Offered at $879,900. Contact us via link or button at top. The views from this 1984-built house makes it feel like a vacation house. But you’ll appreciate how, on a daily, “real life” basis, it just plain works: four bedrooms; three full baths; a master suite…

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Sold: Architect’s Own 2003-Built Home

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in homes for sale, Lexington, Listings, SOLD On July 21, 2011

Click any photo to enlarge: SOLD: If it is accurate that (as Walter Pierce noted in our discussion) 98% of the homes built in America are not designed by architects, then it partially explains the lowest-common-denominator plan-book design that has resulted in a glut of newly constructed spec houses in this region from the past decade-plus….

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Loring Hill Lexington — New Listing

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in homes for sale, Lexington, Listings On July 7, 2011

Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] Centrally located in one of Lexington’s most coveted and convenient neighborhoods, Loring Hill, this mid-century ranch was updated and expanded with designs from Lexington architects, Bechtel Frank Erickson. The first-floor master suite was expanded in 2006 with cathedral ceilings and an en suite bathroom with separate shower and…

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Interview with Walter Pierce

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Lexington, Peacock Farm, Walter Pierce On June 7, 2011

Some years back, the architect and Lexington resident, Walter Pierce was quoted in the Boston Globe, describing Peacock Farm, a pioneering modernist neighborhood in Lexington that he developed with partner, Danforth Compton. Mr. Pierce told the Globe, ““we were taught that architecture could contribute to social policy; we were zealous and were reacting against the…

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Sold: Modernism Blends with Tradition

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in JASONNOAH, Lexington, modernism, SOLD On April 12, 2011

UNDER CONTRACT as of 4/20: Originally built in 1951, this house was given a dramatic facelift in 1998 by the architecture team, JASONNOAH, Jason Silverman and Noah Grunburg, who met while attending Taliesin, and were certainly inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright. Located at 34 Oak Street in Lexington, the house is sited on a hill…

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10 Moon Hill – The Sills House For Sale

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in 10 Moon Hill Road, Lexington, midcentury modernism, real estate for sale, Six Moon Hill, SOLD, TAC, the Sills House, Walter Gropius On March 11, 2010

(SOLD July/2010) In the June 1950 issue of Architectural Forum magazine profile on the homes of Six Moon Hill, the Sills House, 10 Moon Hill Road, is described as, “designed for one of Six Moon Hill’s few non-academic couples, this carefully detailed house has reserve space to provide for future family growth… A slate floor…

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Techbuilt Offered for Sale

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in homes for sale, Lexington, midcentury modernism, Techbuilt On December 23, 2009

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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