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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On view from March 29 to July 6, 2014 From the press release sent by PEM: SALEM, MA – The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents California Design, 1930–1965: Living in a Modern Way, an exhibition of more than 250 mid-century modern design objects. A diverse array of works including furniture, textiles, fashion, classic vehicles and much more celebrates the…
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We are happy to be Boston Globe’s Home of the Week with our listing in Lincoln.
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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…
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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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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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Full post with slideshow and floor plans below, or click here. 5 Old Conant Road, Lincoln. Offered at $979,000. (Under agreement.) The word “stunning” is thrown around a lot in real estate marketing. We’re guilty as well of its overuse (at least we’ve never used “fireplaced” as an adjective!) But we are sent running to…
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We were glad to have our most recent listing at 14 Van Norden considered for the segment on CNBC of what a million dollars buys in Ivy League towns. We were glad to see it win it all stacked up against such worthy competitors as Penn, Columbia, and Princeton. Alas! They were no match for…
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Click any photo to see full image: [slideshow caption=”on”] Photos by Lara Kimmerer (interior) and John Tse (exterior, except where noted. Sold: 14 Van Norden is a truly unique Cambridge house, custom designed by and built for the previous owner in the 1990s. We are pleased to offer this almost 2000 s.f., three bedroom,…
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A truly excellent and comprehensive article by Linda Matchan that captures what makes Five Fields so special. Link here. Excerpt: …It is part of a small, tightknit, and, for its time, radical community of modernist homes known as Five Fields. The neighborhood, established in the postwar 1950s by a group of local architects, including…
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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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