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Sold! Architect’s Own Mid-Century Mod in Lexington

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Lexington, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, SOLD, William Mello On August 26, 2015

[Sold $920,000.] Summer may be ending but you can feel like you’re vacationing year-round in this large architect designed Mid-Century-Modern House that is conveniently located and 20 minutes away from Boston.The house was extremely well built with bolted posts and beams by the renowned architect William Mello in 1967 for his own family and updated…

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Lexington Techbuilt Available! Affordable Style and Space.

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Carl Koch, Demar Rd., Lexington, Lexington Minuteman, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, Middle Ridge, SOLD, Techbuilt On July 14, 2015

  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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New Peacock Farm Listing!

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Lexington, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, National Register of Historic Places, Peacock Farm, SOLD, Walter Pierce On May 6, 2015

(Under agreement) Photos by Lara Kimmerer. Twilight shots by John Tse. Click to enlarge and view as slide show. 30 Peacock Farm Road, SOLD $971,000. This expanded Walter Pierce-designed Peacock Farm House, located across from the entrance to the neighborhood pool, has one of the nicest sitings in Peacock Farm. Walls of glass along the…

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Sold! Expanded Peacock Farm House

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Lexington, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, Peacock Farm, SOLD, Walter Pierce On April 8, 2015

Interior photos by Lara Kimmerer. Exterior shots by John Tse. Click any photo to enlarge and watch as a light box slide show.  Beautifully sited and updated Peacock Farm house, expanded from the original award-winning Walter Pierce design. The kitchen was enlarged and opens to a deck that runs along the rear of the house, featuring hilltop views….

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SOLD! Winchester Mad Men Style Mid-Century Modern

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Don Davis, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, SOLD, Winchester On April 3, 2015

Interior photos by Lara Kimmerer. Exteriors from the homeowners. Click any photo to enlarge and watch as a light box slide show. Shaken or stirred? Just in time for the final season of Mad Men! This mid-century-modern gem was designed by the architect Don Davis for his own family. Set back off the road, the humble…

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SOLD: Sudbury Mid-Century Mod

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Core Contemporary, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, SOLD, Sudbury On April 1, 2015

Interior photos by Lara Kimmerer. Exteriors from the homeowners. Click any photo to enlarge and watch as a light box slide show. Move right into this highly stylish mid-century-modern Core Contemporary, flooded with natural light! Current owners have improved and updated the house considerably over 11 years of ownership. The house was converted to gas,…

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Mid-Century Gem in Brighton

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in boston, Brighton, Listings, Mid-Century Modern On October 15, 2014

See below post for more photos and details.

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Cape Cod Modern and Tomorrow’s Houses: New England Modernism

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Alexander Gorlin, Books, Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape, Chermayeff, Christine Cipriani, Geoffrey Gross, Marcel Breuer, Mid-Century Modern, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Peter McMahon, Raimund Koch, Saarinen, Tomorrow's Houses: New England Modernism, Walter Gropius, Weidlinger On August 28, 2014

I hate the to be the bearer of bad news, but with the kids heading back to school and Labor Day weekend upon us, the unofficial end of summer is here for those of us in the northern hemisphere. But we each have our ways of savoring those precious remaining days. Mine has been evenings…

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A Visit to the Iconic Flansburgh House

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Design Research, Earl Flansburgh, Historic New England, John Flansburgh, Mid-Century Modern, New York Times, Polly Flansburgh, Preservation, TAC On March 11, 2014

Click any photo, and click again to enlarge: Photos by Lara Kimmerer (except for the vintage newspaper shot). “Architecture should be exciting; living is exciting.” Earl Flansburgh Nestled up on a knoll in the pines of Lincoln, on a lot peppered with colorful sculptures (see list at end of post), the Modernist Flansburgh House epitomizes the…

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Our Tour of Conantum

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Brown's Wood, Carl Koch, Conantum, Concord, Five Fields, Kendal Common, Mid-Century Modern, modernism, New construction, Peacock Farm, Six Moon Hill, Snake Hill, Techbuilt, Video On November 19, 2013

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…

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Sold: Six Moon Hill Listing! “The Schneider House”

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Lexington, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, Norman Fletcher, Six Moon Hill, SOLD, TAC On October 23, 2013

Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show. Twilight shots by John Tse. All others by Lara Kimmerer. (SOLD) Rare opportunity to own an updated Norman Fletcher/TAC-designed International style Modernist house in the world-renowned, historic Six Moon Hill neighborhood. Enjoy one-level living with four bedrooms, two full baths (third full bath on lower…

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Modern Rentals

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Listings, Mid-Century Modern, Middle Ridge, Six Moon Hill, Techbuilt, Turning Mill On September 24, 2013

We are not as fast to post occasional rentals we list. As a consequence, the house at Demar, which we had listed, was also rented before we posted here as a rental listing.

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