Lincoln House (Lincoln, Massachusetts)
The Lincoln House was an architecturally significant residence in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The house was designed by noted architect Mary Otis Stevens along with her partner and husband Thomas McNulty. It was completed in 1965; the McNulty family lived there for the next 13 years. It then became home to noted opera conductor and stage director Sarah Caldwell, who sold it in 1999. The house was demolished that year, and another was built on the site by 2000. Site The Lincoln House had an address of 71 Weston Road. It was situated along Beaver Pond. Several other notable Modernist houses are nearby in Lincoln, including the Gropius House, Ford House, and Breuer House I. The McNultys chose the site because Gropius had built his house there, and it seemed safe to construct three decades after Gropius's work. Walter Gropius, on a visit to the Lincoln House, relayed that the residents disliked his house, likening it to a chicken coop. Design The house utilized concrete, an essential element to the architects' design. The design rejected more conventional postwar suburban designs, like those in the nearby Six Moon Hill neighborhood. The house was 150 feet long, with a width varying from 10 to