Real Estate in the Boston Area : Modernism Specialists
Real Estate in the Boston Area : Modernism Specialists
Real Estate in the Boston Area : Modernism Specialists
Expanded and Updated in Turning Mill
30 Partridge Road, Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 02420, United States
Past Listings, Sold
Sold! $1,625,000 $1,599,999
Description
Filled with natural light, this expanded and renovated midcentury modern is what you’ve been waiting for. Perfect for entertaining, the open floor plan with an efficient chef’s kitchen makes up the heart of the home and opens to a two-level deck, which leads to a bluestone patio and the huge fenced-in backyard bordered by woods. The kitchen was remodeled in 2022 with custom cabinets and high-end appliances. A separate bedroom wing features a master suite with a 2022 bath, three more large bedrooms, a second bath, and the laundry. The dramatic foyer leads to the first level, with a playroom, a workshop, an office, a second laundry area, a half bath, and the large heated two-car garage with an electric car charger. Ductless mini splits AC and HyperHeat (to handle -20F weather) added in 2023. But there’s an oil-fired boiler for backup heat. Enjoy membership in the beloved Paint Rock neighborhood pool. Close to Estabrook & Diamond schools and conservation trails.
Updates
- Family room above workshop was added in 2005 by previous owners.
- All windows on main floor are Pella and from 2005 (except for older Andersen windows in primary bedroom).
- Pella windows in lower level and primary bath new in 2022.
- New membrane roof with insulation in spring of 2018.
- Six new skylights and one solar tube (primary bathroom) installed in 2018.
- New water heater in 2018.
- New oil tank fall of 2018.
- Smart NEST thermostats in every room to control oil hot water baseboards in 2018.
- Primary ensuite bathroom was redone in spring 2019.
- Backyard was leveled and patio put in summer of 2021.
- Front walkway with stairs also summer of 2021.
- Retile in the foyer summer of 2021.
- Basement family room flooring put in summer of 2022.
- Kitchen was redone with custom cabinets and high end appliances in summer 2022.
- Ductless mini splits (HyperHeat to handle -20F weather) in spring of 2023.
- Basement family room was wired with high quality speaker cables and the back wall is reinforced for mounting of large TV for a home theater surround sound system by previous owner. All wiring remains intact. Family room ceiling is also sound insulated to isolate theater noise to basement and prevent noise from upstairs.
- The entire house is wired with gigabit level network cable (Cat 5e) for those who are tech savvy and want crazy fast internet.
Located in the Turning Mill Neighborhood Conservation District.
The Turning Mill Neighborhood
Residents love the area due to its proximity to the highly desirable 2015-built Estabrook School (adjacent — many kids walk or bike) and because it offers membership in the country-club-like Paint Rock swimming pool, which was improved and updated in 2012. It also borders the vast Paint Mine conservation area, with beautiful walking trails. The Lexpress bus runs through. And a quick zip takes you down backroads to Whole Foods, Super Stop & Shop, Marshall’s, and so on in Bedford, or back the other way into the center of Lexington. And it is not far from Route 128.
Below is the swimming pool from summer 2012:
Paint Rock Pool
The land for the Turning Mill neighborhood was purchased by the Techbuilt Corporation. There were three model homes. The first one built was 4 Turning Mill. Most people in Lexington know the area as Turning Mill, but it started out being referred to as Middle Ridge. Though it is now a large area of eight or nine streets, it started around Turning Mill Road and Demar Road, with Techbuilt houses designed by Carl Koch, before growing further north and west and incorporating other modern designs, most notably, the Peacock Farm-style house plan designed by Walter Pierce, who along with Danforth Compton founded Lexington’s Peacock Farm neighborhood on the other side of town. This design was licensed out to other developers, as was the case here in Turning Mill. There have also been some Deck Houses and custom homes built. The expanded part of the area is now referred to as “Upper Turning Mill.” There are now Facebook and neighborhood web pages for Turning Mill.
Research in part via Lexington Historic Survey, which notes:
Of the 95 homes in Middle Ridge, thirty-five are prefabricated “Techbuilt” homes.
Middle Ridge was originally conceived and designed in 1955 by architect Carl Koch as a neighborhood of “Techbuilt” homes. After receiving his architectural training at Harvard under Bauhaus founder, Walter Gropius, Koch taught architecture at MIT and created the first planned community of modern houses in the region at Snake Hill Road in Belmont in 1941. Prior to building in Lexington, he also designed and constructed Conantum, Concord’s first residential housing development (1951) and Kendal Common in Weston (1950). First introduced in 1953, the Techbuilt house was a low-cost, semi-factory-built modern style house which used modular construction.
Features
Floor Plans
Main floor
Lower level
Property Video
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