15 Dewey Road, Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 02420, United States
Past Listings, Sold
Sold! $1,195,000
Wonderful Peacock Farm-style midcentury-modern home filled with natural light located on a huge wooded lot in the beloved Turning Mill neighborhood. The original post-and-beam modern design by pioneering architect Walter Pierce has been updated with an open kitchen/living area and a new energy-efficient heat pump for central AC and heat. Sparkling modern kitchen (2016) with an island/breakfast bar. Soaring ceilings and a fireplace in the living room. Flexible space on the first level, with a large family room and half bath. Full bath was renovated 2016. Newly painted inside and out. With such a large lot, there is expansion potential. So close to Estabrook Elementary School. Residents treasure the private neighborhood Paint Rock swimming pool. The roof was replaced circa 2014.
Showings begin Friday, April 28. Open houses Saturday and Sunday 1-3 (to be confirmed).
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 and biking trails. The Lexpress bus runs through. And a quick zip takes you down backroads to Whole Foods, Super Stop & Shop, Marshall’s, etc. 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:
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.
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