Modern Cape Cod
America may not have been ready for Modernism in the 1930s and
1940s, but the Cape was. This area was soon the favored vacation spot
for the said architects and their associates in the modern art world.
They set up there own little villages secluded from the every day realities.
They would sit here and discuss the most pertinent issues of the day,
while drinking cocktails and enjoying the spectacular views of the
Cape.
Eric Marvin, 2004
Partial List of Projects
Breur, Marcel and
Constance Cottage (1948)
on Williams Pond in Wellfleet, MA
Designed by Marcel Breuer
Marcel Breur came to Cape Cod in 1948, built his house next to Chermayeff
Residence. Breuer also designed an unrealized settlement of 5 to 7
homes based on this cottage design nearby.
Bultman, Fritz
Art Studio (1945)
Provincetown
Designed by Tony Smith
Cape Codder Offices
5 Namskaket Rd, Orleans, MA
Designed by Serge Chermayeff (1900-1996)
Chermayeff,
Serge Residence (1947)
Wellfleet, MA
Designed by Serge Chermayeff
"...he designed two variations nearby and did many other residential
projects in the area."
Chermayeff, Serge
Painting Studio (1952)
Wellfleet, MA
Designed by Serge Chermayeff (1900-1996)
Comfort Residence
(1951)
Wellfleet, MA
Designed by Saltonstall & Morton
Corey Resdence
(1968)
Designed by Charles Zehnder (d.1985)
"...by 1959 Zehnder had designed and built his first of over two dozen
outer Cape homes..."
Goldman Residence
(1975)
264 King Phillip Road, Wellfleet, MA
Designed by Charles Zehnder
Great Island House
At end of Griffin Island Road, Wellfleet, MA
Designer Unknown
Hammarstrom Residence
Wellfleet, MA
Designed by Olav Hammarstrom
Hatch, Robert and
Ruth Residence (1960)
309 Bound Brook Island Road
Truro, MA
Designed by John "Jack" Hughes Hall (1937-2003)
Hidden Village
(Five "Summer Homes")
(1960)
1700 Bridge Road, Eastham, MA
hddvill@c4.net
Designed by John P. R. Falconer
Kepes, Gyorgy
Cottage (1948-1949)
Wellfleet, MA
Designed by Marcel
Breuer
Krueger, Paul Residence
Truro, MA
Kuhn House (1960)
Wellfleet, MA
"The Kuhn House is a late 1950’s modern movement house designed
by Nathaniel Saltonstall & Peter Morton (colleagues of Breuer and Gropius)
with an extensive collection of intact period furnishings. The house is under
the jurisdiction of the National Park Service at the Cape Cod National Seashore.
The BSA/HRC recently wrote a letter to strongly discourage its proposed use as
a summer dormitory for lifeguards, and to recommend more gentle and sympathetic
usage and maintenance."
Mark Residence
(1973)
Truro, MA
Designed by Paul Krueger
Mayo Hill Colony
Club (now the Colony at Wellfleet) (1948)
Chequessett Neck Road, Wellfleet, MA
Designed by Nathaniel Saltonstall (1903-1968) and Oliver P. Morton
(who built
"...a number of houses on the outer Cape as well..."
thecolonyofwellfleet.com
Murchison, Carl
Residence (1956-59)
2 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA
Designed by The Architects Collaborative (TAC)
In 1945, Gropius founded The Architects' Collaborative (TAC) based in Cambridge
with a group of younger architects. The original partners included Norman C.
Fletcher, Jean B. Fletcher, John C. Harkness, Sarah P. Harkness, Robert S. MacMillan,
Louis A. MacMillen, and Benjamin C. Thompson. TAC would become one of the most
well-known and respected architectural firms in the world. TAC went bankrupt
in 1995.
O'Conner, Edwin
Residence (1966)
Designed by Serge Chermayeff (1900-1996)
Private Residence
375 King Phillip Road
Designer Unknown
Private Residence
810 Ocean View Drive, Wellfleet, MA
Designer Unknown
Private Residence
800 Ocean View Drive, Wellfleet, MA
Designer Unknown
Private Residence
300 block of Ocean View Drive, Wellfleet, MA
Designer Unknown
Private Residences
"...cluster of houses along the beach on Bywater Road in Falmouth."
Designed by Gunnar
Peterson
Saint James the
Fisherman, Church
Wellfleet, MA
Designed by Olav Hammarstrom
Saarinen Family
Residence
Wellfleet, MA
Designed by Olav Hammarstrom
Stillman, Edgar
Cottage
(1953-1954)
Wellfleet,
MA
Designed by Marcel
Breuer
Surfside Colony
(18 Cottages)
40 block Ocean View Drive, Wellfleet, MA
Box 937, South Wellfleet, MA, 02663 www.surfsidevacation.com.
Closed
Nov.-Mar.
Phone: 508-349-3959
Designer Unknown
Weidlinger, Paul
(1953)
Wellfleet, MA
Designed by Paul Weidlinger
Wise Cottage (1963)
Very end of King Phillip Road, Wellfleet, MA
Designed by Marcel Breuer
See A Chain of Events: Modernist Architecture on the Outer Cape;
Marcel Breuer to Charles Jencks published by Provincetown Art
Association and Museum, 2006
