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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) Part of Five Fields, a community of contemporary houses designed and developed by The Architects Collaborative (TAC) , this house is built on a split- level plan designed to give houses on gently sloping lots the advantage of inexpensive, windowed basement space. On the entrance level is an open living/ dining area and a kitchen; bedrooms are a half level up and a playroom and laundry area a half level down. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) This house is an example of Type E, one of the original Five Fields models offered by The Architects Collaborative (TAC) (see Five Fields area form) . The origins of this split-level plan were two houses TAC had designed in Moon Hill (see 32 Moon Hill Road and 36 Moon Hill Road forms) and one in Rhode Island. Some TAC architects still feel this model is the best looking of the Five Fields plans (Norman Fletcher, Richard S. Morehouse, personal communications) , though recognizing it is difficult to add on to. Six Type E houses were built in Five Fields; others are at 8 and 15 Field Road and at 3, 33, and 35 Barberry Road. All except this house and the one at 3 Barberry Road have had subsequent additions. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Gropius, Walter and Sarah P. Harkness, editors. 1966. The Architects Collaborative: 1945-1965, pp. 52-53. Teufen, Switzerland: Arthur Niggli Ltd. House and Home, August 1952, p. 93. McCall's, January 1953, pp. 79-81. 10M - 7/82