HomeMy WebLinkAboutbarberry-road_0017 AREA FORM NO.
FORM B - BUILDING U 569 `
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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DESCRIPTION:
to 1960
Source Allison P. Goodwin (architect)
SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Contemporary
to nearest cross streets and/or Allison P. Goodwin
geographical features. Indicate Architect (The Architects Collaborative'
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboard
Indicate north.
Outbuildings garage (c. 1970)
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Approx. acreage 3373 ft.
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes Setting In contemporary housing community
Organization Lexington Historical Commission on quiet street serving only 30 homes in
Date February, 1984 this neighborhood; next to a pond and
abutting 7 acres common (open) land.
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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 deisgned and developed
by The Architects Collaborative (TAC) , this house has many Japanese influences in
recognition of the nationality of the client for whom it was designed. The plan was
derived from a traditional New England center-chimney rectangular house, but in this
case the corners were cut out to form Japanese-style courts. The views thus framed
into other rooms and courts are another Japanese element. The roof line, with its
distinctly Japanese appearance, was the result of trying to accommodate two
pitched-roof end wings with a flat-roofed central section.
HISTORICAL SIGNNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
This house was designed by Allison P. Goodwin of The Architects Collaborative
(TAC) for a well-known landscape architect and is one of about 10 custom-designed
houses in Five Fields (see Five Fields area form) .
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Proaressive Architecture, November 1960,
10M - 7/82