Real Estate in the Boston Area : Modernism Specialists
Real Estate in the Boston Area : Modernism Specialists
Real Estate in the Boston Area : Modernism Specialists
Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] Photos by Lara Kimmerer (interior) and John Tse (exterior) (Sale pending) We are thrilled to offer this listing of a classic Five Fields TAC (The Architects’ Collaborative) house, the first time this house has been available since it was designed and built in 1953. Expanded since, it strikes…
Read MorePhotos by Lara Kimmerer (interior) and John Tse (exterior). Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] 53 Peacock Farm Road. Offered at $760,000. Use the Contact button to schedule a private showing. Pictured in the 2013 New York Times last month, this is only the second Peacock Farm listing to be put on the market since our listing…
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Every 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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Photos by Lara Kimmerer. Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] “The Swanson House” is an updated and extremely well-maintained Walter Pierce-custom-designed mid-century modernist classic in Brown’s Wood, built in 1956. Expansive open floor plan, clean and soaring architectural lines, gleaming hardwood, and treetop views from walls of glass. Lower level offers home office…
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It has been a super busy spring and summer in our little world of real estate. Almost everything we have listed sold very quickly and handling the subsequent details for closings, as well as a badly needed vacation, kept us from posting a lot of extra fun stuff. But here are two such fun…
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Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] 35 Peacock Farm Road, Lexington List Price: $475,000 (Sold) Rare opportunity to own and restore a classic mid-century modern Peacock Farm house, designed by Walter Pierce (see interview here), a design that won the 1957 AIA Better Homes and Gardens/NBC “Homes for Better Living” prize. Nestled in a wooded…
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We have listed another Peacock Farm classic. UNDER AGREEMENT Bright and updated mid-century modern: Five bedroom, three full bath original Peacock Farm house designed by noted architects Walter Pierce (see interview here) and Danforth Compton, updated and well-maintained by the original owners and improved extensively since 2010 by the current owners. Nestled thoughtfully into the 1/3-acre…
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Weston — known for its New England vernacular architecture and newer palatial interpretations of Shingle Style, Georgian, and other traditional themes — also has a less-familiar history of modernism. Beginning in the 1950s, Carl Koch and his Techbuilt company undertook a development on Spruce Hill Road in the King’s Grant neighborhood. The project was…
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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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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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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…
Read MoreBill collected posts on Boston Magazine’s site Our blog about more traditional homes and neighborhoods. Most of the photography on this blog has been done by Lara Kimmer. Check here great site and blog here. The website was set up with great assistance from Hamilton Hughes Design MODERN RESOURCES: LEXINGTON: Lexington Historic Survey —…
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