Living in Walter Gropius’s First U.S. Commission

When the Bauhaus founder built the 1938 Hagerty House in collaboration with Marcel Breuer, he sited the structure a precarious 20 feet from Massachusetts’s shoreline and let the setting dictate the design.

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This story was originally published in Dwell’s December/January 2009 issue.

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