The Paul and Madeleine Weidlinger House, also known simply as the Weidlinger House, is a historic house at 54 Valley Road in
Wellfleet, Massachusetts. It is one of a modest number of surviving houses in Wellfleet that combine elements of
Modern architecture with traditional
Cape Cod architecture. The single story wood-frame house was built in 1954 by designer
Paul Weidlinger (founder of
Weidlinger Associates, a design firm) for his family's use. It is located on a steep grade overlooking Higgins Pond, with one end projecting over the grade. A deck wraps around three sides of the house, and large glass doors give views of the surrounding landscape. The house, which is within the bounds of the
Cape Cod National Seashore, was donated to the
National Park Service in 1973 by Madeleine Weidlinger.
The house is the subject of a 2012 lease agreement between the Park Service and the
Cape Cod Modern House Trust
The Cape Cod Modern House Trust is a non-profit historic preservation organization working to preserve and interpret Modern period houses built on Cape Cod in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The organization describes its mission to ''promote the ...
.
The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Cape Cod National Seashore
References
Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Modernist architecture in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Cape Cod National Seashore
Houses completed in 1954
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
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