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Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] Photos by John Tse. Every once in a while, a seller might ask us to let our possible buyers clients know that they will be selling their house soon. Usually their idea is that the house is not quite ready, or their circumstances are not yet to the…
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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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See all homes (and styles) we have listed for sale here. While the concentration on this site is mid-century modernist real estate around the Boston area, we list, market, and sell all styles of homes found here. We work as buyer and seller agents. Contact us with any questions or requests.
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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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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMPT6A2L3U Hope you enjoy this tour that we put together. Here is a smaller, “mobile” version of the same: For more information about eh Five-Bedroom Peacock Farm house, pictured, see below. SOLD: This is an expanded and updated five-bedroom Peacock Farm house. The original Walter Pierce design of this now-modern-classic style has been…
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I follow the great Harry Shearer on Twitter (@theharryshearer). He has made New Orleans his home away from home for many years. He tweeted a link to this beautiful film, alerting the public to DOCOMOMO Louisianna’s efforts to stop the demolition of the Phyllis Wheatley Elementary School, designed by Charles Colbert.
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Our friends at Reside have branched out into Boston’s South End, at 1409 Washington Street. I love the Cambridge store in Huron Willage, because it is a 15-minute drive from my house and I can grab slices of what might be Boston’s best pizza west of Santarpio’s, at the Village Kitchen. While it is…
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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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Here is a great appreciation of this landmark from Randall Ross, who runs the modernism101.com site. He and his wife are rare book sellers based in Shreveport, Louisiana specializing in rare and out-of-print 20th-century design books and periodicals.
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UNDER CONTRACT 4/14. Our Deck House listing has dropped today from $769,000 to $699,000. Use the contact link above to let us know if you would like to see it.
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Ben Thompson in front of his house on Moon Hill Road. Photograph by Phillip A. Harrington used by permission. Ben Thompson was one of the key partners of The Architects Collaborative and one of the founding residents of the Six Moon Hill neighborhood here in Lexington. Then he went on to become a “shaper…
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