Marcel Breuer House and Studio

Marcel Breuer House and Studio
Marcel Breuer House and Studio is located in Cape Cod
Marcel Breuer House and Studio
Location within Cape Cod
Marcel Breuer House and Studio is located in Massachusetts
Marcel Breuer House and Studio
Location within Massachusetts
Marcel Breuer House and Studio is located in the United States
Marcel Breuer House and Studio
Location within the United States
Location634 Black Pond Road, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Coordinates41°57′53″N 70°0′35″W / 41.96472°N 70.00972°W / 41.96472; -70.00972
Area4.2 acres (1.7 ha)
Built1949
ArchitectMarcel Breuer
Architectural styleModern
NRHP reference No.100010568[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 29, 2024

The Marcel Breuer House and Studio, initially known as the Breuer Cottage in his official papers[2], is a historic property at 634 Black Pond Road in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Built in 1949 and enlarged in 1962 to designs by Marcel Breuer, it served as a summer retreat and experimental architecture landscape for the architect until his retirement in 1976. The property remains in the Breuer family, and includes an extensive collection of art and design works collected by Breuer. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.[1]

Description and history

The Marcel Breuer House and Studio stand in a remote area of the Cape Cod National Seashore in eastern Wellfleet, on 4.2 acres (1.7 ha) overlooking Williams and Higgins Ponds. The house and studio form an L shape joined by a covered breezeway, and stand near the northern end of the predominantly wooded property. The house is a single-story woodframe structure, designed in a "long house" form Breuer used for a number of other houses he designed. The exterior is clad in vertical tongue-and-groove siding with a weathered silver coloration. The north and west walls are largely devoid of windows, while the east and south sides have expansive windows providing views of the nearby ponds. An open porch projects eastward over the landscape. The interior is divided into an open-plan public space to the east, with private rooms and facilities to the west.[3]

The house was built in 1949, and was the third of four houses Breuer designed and built for his family. In 1962 Breuer and on the studio, like the house a rectangular single-story structure. Breuer used the studio until he retired from professional work in 1976, and his descendants continue to own the property, which is an inholding within the Cape Cod National Seashore. Breuer designed three other homes in the area using the same basic "long box" form.[3] After the house was threatened with demolition, the Cape Cod Modern House Trust acquired it in 2024[4][5] and restored it the next year.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "WEEKLY LIST OF ACTIONS TAKEN ON PROPERTIES: 7/26/2024 THROUGH 8/2/2024". National Park Service. Retrieved November 30, 2024.
  2. ↑ Breuer Cottage (Wellfleet, MA, USA, 1948-1949), Marcel Breuer Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries, accessed April 20, 2026.
  3. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Marcel Breuer House and Studio". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved November 30, 2024.
  4. ↑ Conklin, Emily (August 1, 2024). "Cape Cod Modern House Trust acquires the Breuer Long House in Wellfleet after successful fundraising drive". The Architect’s Newspaper. Retrieved March 29, 2026.
  5. ↑ Goukassian, Elena (July 31, 2024). "Marcel Breuer's Modernist cottage on Cape Cod sold to local trust, paving way for restoration". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. Retrieved March 29, 2026.
  6. ↑ Bilis, Madeline (November 21, 2025). "Marcel Breuer's modernist Wellfleet summer cottage was brought back to life and opened to the public". Boston.com. Retrieved March 29, 2026.
  7. ↑ Cochran, Sam; McHugh, Joshua (March 20, 2026). "Endangered No More, Marcel Breuer's Own Beach Retreat Is Now Restored". Architectural Digest. Retrieved March 29, 2026.
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