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WALTER ADOLPH GEORG GROPIUS (1883-1969)
SIX MOON HILL, LEXINGTON MA
The Six Moon Hill community originally encompassed 28 houses which were built between 1947 and 1953, most were designed by The Architects' Collaborative (TAC) staff. Norman Fletcher, one of the founders of TAC and Six Moon Hill, described the young architects as having been influenced in their ideas by utopianism and socialism. After house sites had been drawn up, they were all priced the same. The first twelve sites were assigned to participating families by drawing numbers from a hat. Members of TAC, including Gropius, had equal shares in the company. Of the original TAC founders, only Gropius did not have a house on Moon Hill, having already built a home in Lincoln MA. Featured in Architectural Forum in 1950.
Among the original architects (and residents) were Benjamin C. Thompson, Norman C. Fletcher, Jean B. Fletcher, John C. Harkness, Sarah P. Harkness, Robert S. McMillan, and Louis A. McMillen, who were all TAC founders. Additional associated architects and founding community members included Richard S. Morehouse, William Haible, Leonard Currie, and Chester Nagel. Other well-known original residents included mathemaeticiana W. T. Martin, Irving Segal; meteorologist Wallace E. Howell; Nobel chemist Konrad Bloch, Nobel physicist Samuel C.C. Ting, medical researcher Thomas C. Chalmers, researcher Robert Newman, and chemist John C. Sheehan. Added to the National Register of Historic Places list in 2016.
1946 - 16 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 1687 sf, 1 bedroom and 2 baths. Designed by Leonard Currie. Sold around 1956 to the Kelley family. Sold in the early 1960s to Konrad Bloch. Deeded in the early 2000s to Peter Bloch. Sold in 2010 to Neelanjana Bhowmik and Jean Philippe Belleau.
1948 - The Sills House, 10 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 1990 sf, 4 bedrooms and 2 baths. Designed by Robert S. McMillan. Sold to James and Louise Davidson. Southern extension designed in 1980 by Richard Morehouse. Sold in 2010 Rajive Chaudhry and Janis McClinch.
1948 - The Louis McMillen House, 17 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2403 sf, 4 bedrooms and 4 baths. Sold in the early 1970s to Lora Green. Sold to Simon Schama and Virginia Papaioannou. Sold in 1993 to Steven Blumenthal and Joan Forman.
1948 - The Donald T. Clark House, 25 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 1604 sf, 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. Sold around the late 1950s to Irving and Martha Segal.
1949 - 1 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2040 sf, 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. Sold to Randolph K. Martin. Sold to Stephen M. Brown. Sold in 1987 to Benjamin Littauer. Deeded in 2002 to Benjamin Littauer and Kathy L. Kerby. Sold in 2006 to Jon and Virginia Chomitz.
1949 - 14 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 3577 sf, 4 bedrooms and 4 baths. Sold to Robert G. Gallagher. Sold in 1988 to S. Tucker Taft and Phyllis Yale.
1949 - The Arthur and Joan Kipp House, 33 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 3183 sf, 3 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. Sold to Jack and Nona Dreyer. Sold in 2014 to Patrick Loustau. Sold in 2021 to Nicolas Valenzuela and Marianela Lavena.
1949 - The John and Sarah Harkness House, 34 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2861 sf, 5 bedrooms and 2 baths. Sold in 2014 to Liudmila Gavrilova and Aaron Roth. Sold in 2018 to Ann Nguyen and Marcus Wilzek. Renovated by Tim Techler.
1949 - The Christine and Wallace Howell House, 35 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 3506 sf, 6 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. Sold to James E. Cravens. Sold in 1996 to Jack and Margaret Raffel. Sold in 2019 to Heinz and Susanna Remold.
1949 - The Robert S. McMillan, 38 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2001 sf, 3 bedrooms and 3 baths. House has a T-shaped plan with a one-story butterfly roof, vertical matched board siding, brick chimney, and concrete block foundation. Addition built in 1975 includes a wing and integral two-bay garage. A modern open deck replaced the original canopied, two-story open porch on the south elevation. Sold to Anna Maria Quagliata. Sold in 1998 to Louis Quagliata. Sold in 1999 to Karen Schiff and Steven Varga-Golovcsenko.
1949 - The Benjamin and Mary Thompson House, 40 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 3460 sf, 5 bedrooms and 4.5 baths. The two-story house has a T-shaped plan with a flat roof, natural-stained, vertical matched-board siding and a one-story wing extending to the north. The house has horizontal bands of narrow windows, as well as several larger expanses of glass. Sold in 2007 to Lucy and Jason Boyer. Sold in 2021 to Imad and Susan Jureidini.
1949 - The Donald and Mabelle Tucker House, 24 Swan Lane, Lexington MA. 1787 sf, 3 bedrooms and 5.5 baths. Sold in 2005 to Kimberly and Kristin Kaplan. Sold in 2012 to David P. Alexanderian and Alexandra Elliott.
Around 1949 - The William and Lucy Martin House, 16 Swan Lane, Lexington MA. 3794 sf, 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. Master suite added in 1998. Sold to Gabor and Theresa Huszar. Sold in 1997 to George and Lucinda Jackman. Sold in 2010 to Bertrand and Benedicte Renaud. Sold in 2020 to Jed Lippard and Todd Zinn.
1950 - 5 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 1951 sf, 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. Sold to George and Louisa W. Valley. Sold in 1989 to Paul Corrigan, et al. Sold in 2016 to Juan M. and Kathleen H. Stella.
1950 - 29 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2001 sf, 3 bedrooms and 3 baths. Sold to Eric Clarke. Deeded in 1993 to heirs. Sold in 1998 to Josiah Slack and Mary Meltaus.
1950 - 31 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2124 sf, 3 bedrooms and 3 baths. Sold to Edwin and Ruth Wheeler. Sold to Anne Saunderson. Sold in 2012 to Michale Fee and Natalia Denissenko.
1950 - The Herbert and Mary Louise Stewart House, 32 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2220 sf, 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. Sold to Peter Van Etten. Sold in 1991 to Lawrence Berkowitz and Ellen Cohn.
1950 - The Norman and Jean Fletcher House, 36 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2722 sf, 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. Sold to Alice K. Walsh. Sold in 2008 to David and Monica Goldfinger. Sold in 2013 to Susan Greenhalgh. Sold in 2014 to Victoria Moule and Ignacio Mendoza Bemposta.
1950 - The Richard and Harriet Morehouse House, 37 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 1884 sf, 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. Sold in 2004 to Peter Piela and Barbara Katzenberg.
1951 - The Norman Fletcher House, 4 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2380 sf, 2 bedrooms and 3 baths. Sold to James J. Feeney. Deeded in 2010 to James J. and Leonora Stubbs Feeney. Sold in 2010 to Paula Cobb and Christine Edmonston. Sold in 2013 to Imad and Susan Jureidini.
1951 - The Fletcher and Joan Ashley House, 6 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 3659 sf, 3 bedrooms and 3 baths. Fletcher Ashley (1926-2004) was a student at the time this was built, completing his master's degree in 1954. Sold in 2004 to Alessandro Pagani and Lin Dabrowski-Pagani.
1951 - 11 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2464 sf, 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. Sold to Oswald Stewart. Sold to Thomas and Suzanne Manzi. Sold in 1998 to Peter G. Warren and Sandra Galejs.
1951 - 15 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2554 sf, 5 bedrooms and 4 baths. Sold to Barbara and Dana Atchley. Sold to Kay Matson. Sold in 2017 to Samuel and Susan M. Ting.
1951 - The Walter D. Elmer House, 28 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 1981 sf, 5 bedrooms and 3 baths. Sold to Carl and Simone Faflick. Sold in 2016 to Patricio Whitney and Maria Schinca.
1952 - 4 Bird Hill Road, Lexington MA. 1157 sf, 3 bedrooms and 1 bath. Sold in 1992 to Philip Matson and Eve Brandel.
1952 - 7 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. Sold to Harold and Muriel Mann. Sold to Robin Cooper, et al. Sold in 1993 to Susan Jones and Kenneth Arnold. Sold in 2011 to Brabo Gorka and Monica Dohnert.
1952 - The Saul and Doris Cohen House, 39 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2574 sf, 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. Two stories with flat and butterfly roofs. The center portion has the entrance, surrounded by glass, within an eight- by-twelve foot projection; a one-story flat roofed wing extends to the west. Another wing on the east side is two stories high with a butterfly roof. A freestanding, two-bay, wood-sided, flat-roofed garage is situated between the house and the Moon Hill Road turnaround. Sold in 1973 to Arthur P. Dempster. Sold in 1995 to Robert and Judith Scherzer.
1953 - The William E. and Alice Haible House, 21 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 2934 sf, 6 bedrooms and 3 baths. Sold in 1998 to Talbot and Pradeepa S. Crowell. Sold in 2013 to Richard Keaveny and Margaret Lanca.
1963 - 12 Moon Hill Road, Lexington MA. 3522 sf, 5 bedrooms and 4 baths. House, garage, and apartment designed by Charles Harkness. Ben Thompson may have designed an addition. Sold to Walter and Renee Juda. Sold in 2011 to John and Laurelyn Roberts. Sold in 2019 to George C. and Paige Simpson Hamilton.
Sources include: Wikipedia.