Waldenmark


Waldenmark
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Waldenmark, Guesthouse and outbuilding. November 2012.
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Location	1280 & 1300 Wrightstown Rd., Wrightstown Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°16′25.7″N 74°58′07.6″W / 40.273806°N 74.968778°W / 40.273806; -74.968778
Area	17 acres (6.9 ha)
Built	1939, 1948
Built by	Large, Roy
Architect	Gropius, Walter; Breuer, Marcel
Architectural style	International Style
NRHP reference No.	01000924^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 30, 2001

Waldenmark, also known as the Edward Fischer House, is an historic, American house, studio, garage, and guesthouse complex that is located in Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1]

History and architectural features

The house, studio, and garage were designed by architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer and built in 1939. The guesthouse was completed in 1948 and was designed by Breuer. The main house is a two-level, flat roofed dwelling in the International Style. A frame structure with redwood and stone sections, it features curved walls, ribbon windows, and a freeform stone patio. The studio is a frame structure with redwood siding with a saltbox and shed roof profile. The guesthouse is a long, two-story building with a cantilevered second floor and uneven gable roof. The complex was built for artist Edward L. Fischer and his wife Margrit, who were friends of Gropius and Breuer through Bauhaus.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Jeffrey L. Marshall (December 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Waldenmark" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-10-07.

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Buildings and structures	Fagus Factory (1911–1913) (with Adolf Meyer) Bauhaus Dessau (1925–1926) Kurt Weill Centre (1925–1926) Monument to the March Dead (1922, destroyed, 1936; reconstructed, 1947) (with Fred Forbát) 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea (1935–1936) (with Maxwell Fry) Gropius House (1938) Josephine M. Hagerty House (1938) Impington Village College (1938–1939) (with Maxwell Fry) Waldenmark (with Marcel Breuer) The Alan I W Frank House (1939–1940) (with Marcel Breuer) Aluminum City Terrace (completion, 1942) (with Marcel Breuer) Walter-Gropius-Haus (Berlin) (1957) (with The Architects Collaborative and Wils Ebert) Michael Reese Hospital (original plan for 8 buildings, 1946–1959; demolished 2009-2013) University of Baghdad (1957–1960) Gropiusstadt (buildings complex, completion, 1960) Embassy of the United States, Athens (1960–1961) MetLife Building (1959–1963) (with Richard Roth and Pietro Belluschi) John F. Kennedy Federal Building (1963–1966) (with The Architects Collaborative and Samuel Glaser) Tower East (completion, 1969) Huntington Museum of Art (enlargement project, 1968–1970, with The Architects Collaborative) Porto Carras (original project, 1973–1980)
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Family and relationships	Martin Gropius (oncle) Alma Mahler (first wife) Manon Gropius (daughter) Ati Gropius Johansen (stepdaughter) Adolf Meyer (collaborator) Maxwell Fry (collaborator) Marcel Breuer (collaborator)

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