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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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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 intersection. Exterior wall fabric redwood _
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
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El Major alterations (with dates) two-story
living room/bedroom wing (1965)
Moved Date
EiEl Approx. acreage 58300 ft.2
Recorded by idancy S. Seasholes Setting In a planned community of
Organization Lexington Historical Commission contemporary homes; on a quiet cul-de-sac
Date February, 1984 on a wooded lot overlooking a swamp.
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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 an example of TAC's
attempt to provide more opportunities for each custom design in a standard house
(see Five Fields area form) . The houses uses post-and-beam construction and is
built on a 12-foot by 12-foot module. There is a central core of a kitchen and
_ two bathrooms, set back-to-back, around which modules could be arranged to suit
the client. In this case, as in all other examples of the Mill House, the living/
dining area and kitchen are in one wing and the bedrooms and bathrooms in another.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
Built in 1955 and designed by The Architects Collaborative (TAC) , this house
is in the second section of Five Fields to be developed (Stonewall Road was not
built until 1954) and, as explained above, is an attempt by TAC to make standard
houses more capable of custom design. Four other Mill Houses were built in Five
-_ Fields: at 1, 3, 4, and 6 Barberry Road. All vary somewhat in room arrangement
while preserving the central kitchen-bathroom core, and most have been added to:
this house has a two-story living room/bedroom addition next to what was the patio.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Gropius, Walter et al. , editors. 1966. The Architects Collaborative: 1945-1965,
p. 48. Switzerland: Arthur Niggli Ltd.
46iise and Garden,;, May 1956,
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