We sell all kinds of residential real estate: old; new; traditional; condos; multi-families; large Victorians; tiny Capes; Colonials; and yes, Mid-Century Modern. But sometimes we have to remind people that less than half of our overall sales (over $40 million annually) come from Modern homes. As we say over at the About page, the ModernMass…
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Real Estate in the Boston Area : Modernism Specialists
Real Estate in the Boston Area : Modernism Specialists
The following is an urgent note for a preservation opportunity for this famous house. Hi All, We’re reaching the zero hour for Peter Eisenman’s House II in Hardwick, Vermont. I spoke with the owner yesterday, and he is willing to sell the house and 15 acres for $425,000 to anyone who will save the…
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125 Green Street, Canton. Offered at $1,125,000. (Sold) Photos by Lara Kimmerer unless otherwise noted. Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show. Contact us to arrange a private showing or with questions. As we have noted in past posts, early New England Modernist architect, Henry Hoover, once proclaimed, “A house is…
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We are quoted in a new article posted a few days ago on Boston.com
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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 MoreInteresting interview here with John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants, speaking in part about growing up in the landmark Modernist house his father, Earl, designed in Lincoln.
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We were saddened to learn last month of the passing of Sally Harkness, a true innovator, at 98. At the time of her passing, Ms. Harkness was still living at the house she designed 65 years ago at Six Moon Hill, the neighborhood she co-founded with her colleagues in The Architects Collaborative (TAC). Here is…
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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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We were very saddened to learn of the loss of Peacock Farm architect, Walter Pierce, a Lexington and Boston-area modernist legend and a true innovator. We were fortunate enough to interview him in 2011. The New York Times notice links to that interview. The Lexington Minuteman also had a front page notice of Mr. Pierce’s passing….
Read MoreEvery once in a while, it is good to remind our readers that we also work as exclusive buyer’s agents. Time is too limited for us to work in a non-exclusive relationship (though we can limit our exclusivity to certain towns, leaving buyers free to work with other agents in other areas). Often, we are…
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Happy 2013! The dead of winter is always the slowest time for real estate in these parts, but inventory is particularly tight this year. We have been getting inquiries from some buyers who are frustrated that most of our listings under our Homes for Sale page are already sold (by the way, not all of the…
Read MoreAn interesting multi-part series examining issues in preserving Modernist buildings around Boston at Metropolis Magazine.
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