The Pillsbury Summer House is a historic house at 45 Old Cove Road in
Duxbury, Massachusetts. The two-story wood-frame house was built in 1938, and is a locally distinctive early example of
Modern architecture, as the first major work of architect
Sarah Pillsbury Harkness, and as a rare regional example of a Modern summer house. The house was designed by Harkness for her parents, in collaboration with
Eleanor Raymond
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. The house was built in the same year that
Bauhaus architect
Walter Gropius built
his house
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in
Lincoln, Massachusetts; this house differs from his in that it draws more organically on New England traditional architecture.
The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
See also
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References
Houses completed in 1938
Houses in Duxbury, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
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