Dedicated to cataloguing and preserving Modern Architecture in the Western suburbs of Boston.
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Joseph P. Keefe Regional Technical School
Framingham, MA, 1973, Ellerbe Associates The Joseph P. Keefe Technical School was designed for the South Middlesex Regional Vocational School district for students from of Framingham, Natick, Holliston, Hopkinton, and Ashland looking for an alternative to the traditional high school experience. The vocational model allows students to receive hands on training in specialized shops such…
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Sherborn Library
Sherborn, MA, 1971, James A.S. Walker, A.I.A. The Sherborn Library is a modernist gem sitting on a small hill overlooking the Town Hall and police station creating a municipal complex along the town’s tree lined Main Street. The building blends the traditional New England one room library typology with modern flair, breaking the pitched roof…
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Wellesley Office Park Building No. 4
Wellesley, MA, 1970, Pietro Belluschi and Jung/Brannen Associates Built in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Wellesley Office Park has a uniquely singular vision for most of its buildings. Most of the original buildings share the same palette of exposed steel, orange brick and tiles, and mirrored glass windows and landscape elements such as…
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Leonard Morse Hospital
Natick, MA, 1969 by Markus, Nocka, Payette & Associates, Inc. Natick’s Leonard Morse hospital was founded in 1891 through a donation to the town from the late Mary Ann Morse, a prominent local figure who’s husband Leonard owned a profitable shoe factory downtown. Initially acting mainly as a maternity ward and nursery, the hospital would…
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Cardinal O’Connell Science Building Addition, Regis College
Weston, MA, 1970, by Sasaki, Dawson & DeMay Associates To blend in with the primarily Georgian Revival architecture of Regis College, Sasaki, Dawson & DeMay Associates combined traditional brick materials with modern forms. The most iconic facade of the building is a series of massive triangular shafts which play two roles by both housing the…
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Marian Central High School
Framingham, MA, 1954-56, Whelan & Westman Marian High School’s monolithic facade towers over the small yard created by the building’s setbacks. The front features a series of vertically banded windows punched into the buff brick structure that forms a U shape around a rear courtyard. In order to get light into the garden level classrooms,…
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Framingham Centre Library
Framingham, MA, 1963 by Richmond & Goldberg While the current Framingham Historical Center is the more famous former Framingham library, this building was home to the central branch from its construction in 1963 until the current downtown branch was built in 1978. The large circular main reading room defines the facade, bowing out from the…
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Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman Tennis Center
Weston, MA, 1970, Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates The Wightman Tennis Center sits on a 16 acre plot of land overlooking the Massachusetts Turnpike in Weston. The site includes an exterior pool and tennis courts as well as interior courts and club space designed by Kenneth DeMay of Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates (now Sasaki). To account…
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Broomstones Curling Club
Wayland, MA, 1968, by The Architects Collaborative (TAC) Tucked in the woods of Wayland is this unassuming modern cabin-like structure, but hidden inside is the beautiful home of the Broomstones Curling Club. The building was commissioned after both the Wellesley and Weston Country clubs rejected petitions to include a rink in their facilities. The new…
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Westborough High School
Westborough, MA, 1968, by the Architects Collaborative (TAC) Westborough High School was originally designed by The Architects Collaborative under founding partner John “Chip” Harkness who had overseen many of the firm’s local high school projects including the famous Wayland High School. The planning committee’s report on the new high school praised Harkness for his focus…