Tag: wellesley
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Wellesley Green Condominiums
Wellesley, MA, 1970-72 by Samuel Glaser Associates Designed as a development for the Spaulding and Slye Corporation, these four story condominium buildings sit along the serene Fuller Brook Park in Wellesley. To fit in with this natural setting, architect Samuel Glaser kept the buildings dense and separate, fitting 170 units into just 25% of the…
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47 Church St, 1 Abbott St, & 34 Central St
Wellesley, MA, 1961, by Mary Ellen (Marilyn) Fraser, AIA In many ways, Wellesley Square is a prototypical New England downtown -a tight street lined with shoppers and restaurants and sprinkled with churches and municipal hubs. Most of the town’s modern and contemporary architecture has been carefully locked behind the gates of Wellesley College. But tucked…
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Wellesley Housing Authority
Wellesley, MA, 1951, Hugh Stubbins Jr. For this week we’re looking at Hugh Stubbins’ veterans housing for the town of Wellesley. After World War II, cities and towns were rapidly building new, affordable homes for the returning GIs. Stubbins’ design for Wellesley focused on bringing low density living to the townhouse typology. Apartments were built…
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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…