{"nrhp_refnum":"00000709","name":"Gropius House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"68 Baker Ridge Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lincoln","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.42689581700006,"lon":-71.32648412218845,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-05-16","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2000-05-16","areas_of_significance":[],"significance_levels":[],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, flat-roofed wood-frame house at 68 Baker Bridge Road in Lincoln, Massachusetts, built in 1938 as the home of architect Walter Gropius and his family, with a remodeled garage used as a visitor center and a designed landscape on a 5.51-acre site.","why_significant":"The house was the home of Walter Gropius, a founder of the modern movement and leader of the Bauhaus. It was a highly influential early Modern house in America, widely publicized, and it brought commissions to the Gropius and Breuer practice. It also holds the largest assemblage of Bauhaus furniture outside Germany and has a landscape reflecting early modern design.","narrative":"Built in 1938 on a hill in Lincoln, Massachusetts, this house was the home of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and a leader of modern architecture, and his family. The two-story, flat-roofed building has white vertical redwood siding, steel-framed ribbon windows, glass brick, and a spiral stair to an upper deck. Nearly all materials were stock items from catalogs, chosen for economy and to show that ordinary American products could produce elegant modern design. Gropius, his wife Ise and their daughter Ati all contributed to the design, and the landscape was planned in the same collaborative way. Inside, the largest collection of Bauhaus furniture outside Germany is displayed. Press coverage made it one of the most influential early Modern houses in America and led to further house commissions for Gropius and Marcel Breuer. The property passed to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities in 1980 and now operates as a museum with a visitor center in the former garage.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, Associate Architects; contractor Casper J. Jenney of Concord","architectural_style":"Modern Movement; International Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Operated as a house museum open to the public year round; the garage has been remodeled as a visitor center.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.448318-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/7937/63793739/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/00000709_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000709/06746b9a6e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000709/06746b9a6e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"The original uploader was Daderot at English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gropius_House,_Lincoln,_Massachusetts_-_Front_View.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">The original uploader was Daderot at English Wikipedia.</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gropius_House,_Lincoln,_Massachusetts_-_Front_View.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"88000956","name":"Woods End Road Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/woods-end-road-historic-district-88000956/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793739","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropius_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4179781"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/gropius-house-00000709/"}