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FORM B - BUILDING R 528
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
i Lexington
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k oric Name Leonard J. Currie House
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Show property's location in relation Style International Style
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect Leonard J. Currie
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric fir plywood
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
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Approx. acreage 27010 ft..2
Anne Grady
Recorded by R.S. Morehouse Setting In community of architect-
Organization Lexington Historical Corc¢nission designed contemporary homes; set back
Date April, 1976; January, 1984 from quiet street.
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ARCHITECITURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This house shares with its neighbors the International Style feature of
rectilinear massing, flat roof, horizontal bands of windows, and large areas of
glass. Siting takes advantage of natural landscape features and orients house
toward the sun. The long axis of the house is parallel to the slope; all major
rooms face south. The maximum span of 2-by-10 joists determined the width of
the house and allowed for open-plan living areas. Distinctive features of the
house include the wooden ramp suspended from the house by cables to provide
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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
Part of The Architects Collaborative (TAC) planned community of Moon Hill
Road, this house was designed c. 1948 as his own residence by Leonard J. Currie
who worked closely with TAC (see Moon Hill area form) . The house was later
occupied by Konrad E. Bioch who won the Nobel Prize -
1►', Iq(�� �o✓ Phys►v�ooly' or Medlcio-e-.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Architectural Forum, June 1950, p. 120.
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L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, February 1950, pp. 38, 111.
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No:
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCY+MISSION Lexington 528
Office of the Secretary, Boston
Property Name: 16 Moon Hill Road
Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
access to the kitchen without altering the natural slope of the site; the use of
an upper level balcony off the living area hung by 2-by-4s bolted to the roof to
shade lower level bedrooms; the use of light crossed cables as a decorative motif
throughout the house; and the heavy granite curbstone fireplace.
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