{"nrhp_refnum":"88000956","name":"Woods End Road Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"68 Baker Bridge Rd., 1, 5, 9, and 10 Woods End Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lincoln","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.42689800000005,"lon":-71.32777527749995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A seventeen-acre residential historic district of seven buildings (five houses and two detached garages) along the Woods End Road cul-de-sac off Baker Bridge Road in Lincoln, Massachusetts, laid out in 1938 with buildings constructed in 1938 and 1939.","why_significant":"The district contains five architect-designed houses showing different solutions to designing a modern home in the late 1930s, including three of the earliest US houses by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, among them Gropius's own home. It was funded by Helen Osborne Storrow and housed a Harvard-centered tenant community that served as a precedent for later cooperative communities. The form cites Criteria B and C and Criteria Consideration G.","narrative":"Woods End Road is a small enclave of seventeen acres in Lincoln, Massachusetts, set in the remains of an apple and cherry orchard between a low hill and a ledge. Its cul-de-sac was laid out in 1938, and five houses with two garages were built there in 1938 and 1939. Four houses are two-story International Style designs with flat roofs and vertical board siding: the Gropius, Ford, Breuer and Bogner Houses. The fifth, the Loud House, is a Federal Revival copy of a Cape Cod house designed by Constance Mumford Warren. Gropius and Breuer designed three of the houses shortly after arriving in the United States, and Gropius lived in his own home for thirty-one years. Helen Osborne Storrow funded the development and kept ownership of the properties until her death, and the tenants were largely Harvard professors. The district is notable for its architecture, its relation of buildings to landscape, and its influence on later cooperative communities of architect-designed houses.","period_of_significance":"1938-1945","architect_builder":"Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, Associated Architects; Walter F. Bogner; Constance Mumford Warren; built by Casper Jenney, Jr. (Gropius House) and Langille Brothers of Lincoln (Loud House)","architectural_style":"International Style; Federal Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"All houses remain occupied; four are private homes and the fifth is maintained as a house museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.133063-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/7958/63795830/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/88000956.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000956/2ee480c63a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000956/2ee480c63a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5_Woods_End,_Lincoln_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5_Woods_End,_Lincoln_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795830","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woods_End_Road_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8033261"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/woods-end-road-historic-district-88000956/"}