Cape Cod Modern House Trust
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The Cape Cod Modern House Trust is a non-profit historic preservation organization working to preserve and interpret Modern period houses built on Cape Cod in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.[1] The organization describes its mission to ''promote the documentation and preservation of significant examples of Modernist architecture on the Outer Cape."[1]
Founded by Peter McMahon in 2007, the trust has worked with the National Park Service on cataloging and documenting, stabilizing, or restoring modernist Cape Cod homes by the architects Marcel Breuer, Serge Chermayeff, Jack Hall, , , and .[2]
The trust is currently working on a three-year project restoring the Kugel-Gips House, designed in 1970 by Charles Zehnder and located within the National Park Service's Cape Cod National Seashore.[3] The Kugel-Gips House and other modernist houses lying within the Cape Cod National Seashore are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
References[]
- ^ Rimer, Sara (2009-08-27). "Preserving a Modernist Way of Life". New-York Daily Times. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
- ^ Rimer, Sara (2009-08-27). "Preserving a Modernist Way of Life". New-York Daily Times. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
- ^ Rimer, Sara (2009-08-27). "Preserving a Modernist Way of Life". New-York Daily Times. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
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- Modernist architecture in Massachusetts
- History of New England
- Non-profit organizations based in Massachusetts
- Heritage organizations
- Massachusetts culture
- Historic preservation organizations in the United States
- Organizations established in 2007
- 2007 establishments in Massachusetts