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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: Smashing Mid-Century in Lexington

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Listings, Mid-Century Modern, SOLD, Turning Mill On September 22, 2011

Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] SOLD, JANUARY 2012, $708,000. Contact us via link or button at top. Offered at $719,000 the original owners of this mid-century have done all the right things. More importantly, they haven’t done any of the wrong things. Those of you aficionados of this architecture might be justifiably wary of the descriptor…

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Sold: Lexington Mid-Century Modern

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Listings, Peacock Farm, SOLD, Turning Mill On September 6, 2011

Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] SOLD January, 2012 $622,000. One of the first Peacock-Farm style houses built outside of the Peacock Farm development, this 1958-built modernist home was designed by Walter Pierce and updated by the current owners, an architect and a designer/artist, only the second set of owners of this particular example of…

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A Sign From Yesteryear to Begin the New Year

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Carl Koch, John Tse, Middle Ridge, Techbuilt, Turning Mill On January 3, 2011

Interesting article in the local Patch for Lexington (quoting John Tse) about a recent discovery of an old sign for sales of Carl Koch’s Techbuilt houses in Middle Ridge/Turning Mill, as described in a recent post of mine.

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19 Demar Rd. in Lexington — Techbuilt Classic

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Carl Koch, Ezra Stoller, Middle Ridge, SOLD, Techbuilt, Turning Mill, Walter Gropius, Walter Pierce On October 12, 2010

SOLD: Designed by Carl Koch, the “Grandfather of Prefab” (Progressive Architecture, 1994), this Techbuilt classic, a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath 2615 s.f. home is a fine example of the pioneering modernism that Koch applied to mid-century homebuilding as returning GIs and a surge in Boston-area technology firms created more demand for housing young families. Bill Janovitz…

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