Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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54 SPRING 2018 W HEN MITCHELL GOLD + BOB WILLIAMS (MG+BW) was called in to stage this mid-century modern split-level home in Lexington's Peacock Farm, the designers knew they were in for a treat. "This was a special house in our minds because of the historical nature of it," says design and trade development director Andrew Terrat. Designed by acclaimed architect Walter Pierce and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the property is part of a 45-acre suburban development whose name was inspired by the birds that once occupied the area. (Interestingly, the developer, Douglas Touart, owner of Touart Design & Construction in Bedford, Massachusetts, grew up in Peacock Farm and began building for Pierce while still in high school.) Initially intended as affordable housing with a mod- ernist bent, the neighborhood was built during the late 1950s and early '60s. (This particular home has since sold for $1,220,000.) The design intent was to merge the houses with the landscape using flat roofs and living spaces surrounded by glass. "When you're in this house, you're in the woods," Terrat muses. The front and back façades present as a single-level ranch, while the side The porch is insulated and closed off, separating it from the living area with a sliding glass wall. Bottom, The front and back facades present as a single-level ranch while the side reveals two stories. inspire nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ views reveal two stories—an effect that helps nestle the house into the hill on which it sits. The 2,000-square-foot house with which Terrat and his team were charged was one of the first in a series of Peacock Farm houses to be custom designed. "It's im- portant from a modernist point of view," he notes in rec- ognition of the architect's renown. "And our furniture is