Woods End Road Historic District

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.