{"nrhp_refnum":"01000924","name":"Waldenmark","other_names":["Fischer, Edward, House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1280 & 1300 Wrightstown Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wrightstown Township","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.27564721150006,"lon":-74.96985356078343,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of four International style buildings on a wooded rural site on the north side of Wrightstown Road in Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania: a two-story main house, a one-story studio, a one-story garage and a two-story guesthouse. The main house, studio and garage date from 1939 and the guesthouse from 1948.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the buildings embody the distinctive characteristics of the early International style and represent the work of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, two leading Bauhaus-associated architects. It states the group is the only grouping of buildings by these architects in southeastern Pennsylvania. The buildings were designed for Edward L. Fischer and Margrit Fischer, both artists.","narrative":"Four International style buildings set in woodland in Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, make up this property, completed between 1939 and 1948. The main house, studio and garage were designed in 1939 by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, and Breuer alone designed the guesthouse, finished in 1948. Builder Roy Large constructed each resource. The buildings combine frame construction, redwood boards and native Lambertville stone, with ribbon windows, flat or low-pitched roofs and cantilevered upper floors. The studio features a saltbox-style roof with seven skylights. The buildings were commissioned by artists Edward and Margrit Fischer, who had known the architects in Germany at the Bauhaus. The property is regarded as the only grouping of buildings by these two architects in southeastern Pennsylvania. Its designs also reflect the Gropius House in Lincoln, Massachusetts, begun in 1938, and the firm's early American residential work.","period_of_significance":"1939-1948","architect_builder":"Gropius, Walter and Breuer, Marcel (architects); Large, Roy (builder)","architectural_style":"International style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The buildings retain their integrity; the guesthouse is still occupied by a family member of the original owners.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:35.980573-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/01000924.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000924/02c6be0185-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000924/02c6be0185-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waldenmark_Guesthouse_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Waldenmark_Guesthouse_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998802","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldenmark","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7961492"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/waldenmark-01000924/"}