Dedicated to cataloguing and preserving Modern Architecture in the Western suburbs of Boston.
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Duplicon Headquarters
Westborough, MA, 1969, Pierce & Pierce Architects The Duplicon Co. was a metal stamping company founded in Westborough, MA by Johan and Thomas Andersen. The brothers originally founded the company in an old cement block theater located at the intersection of Route 9 and 495. The company saw rapid growth and in 1969 expanded their…
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Memorial Elementary School
Natick, MA, 1969, Flansburg Architects Students and visitors enter this South Natick elementary school through a scenic path between a promenade of aged trees and a historic stone wall. This decision to set the building at the rear of its plot is actually one of many choices the architects made in order to create a…
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Fellowship Hall, Trinity Church–Presbyterian
Natick, MA, 1953, the Architects’ Collaborative (TAC) Built in 1956, the Fellowship hall for Natick’s Trinity Church – now known as Hartford Street Presbyterian Church – was designed as the first of a four building complex designed to reflect the four pillars of Church life: fellowship, education, meditation, and worship. The original plan would have…