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FORM B — BUILDING U
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
wn Lexington
- � - dress 1 Field Road
"Type E" Five Fields
StoriC Name
C3use (see Five Fields area form)
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e: Present residential
Original residential
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DESCRIPTION:
to 1951
r = Source present owner
SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Contemporary
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect The Architects Collaborative(TAC)
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest int section. Exterior wall fabric redwood
Indicate north. °`
? Outbuildings storage shed (1974)
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QQ Q Major alterations (with dates)
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Moved Date
Approx. acreage 15600 ft.2
Recorded by Nance S. Seasholes Setting In community of contemporary
Organization Lexington Historical Commission homes sited for privacy and to take
Date February, 1984 advantage of southern exposure and view.
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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.
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