MassachusettsThe Vera and Laszlo Tisza House at 2 Deer Trail in Wellfleet is a Modern-style residence designed by the Finnish emigre architect Olav Hammarstrom in 1960, one of the minimalist, informal Modern houses set among the kettle ponds and coastline of the Outer Cape. It was built for Laszlo Tisza, an MIT physicist, and is a characteristic example of Hammarstrom's residential design; Hammarstrom completed at least 21 Modernist commissions on the Outer Cape. Documented under the Multiple Property listing 'Modern Residential Architecture on Outer Cape Cod, 1929-1979,' the house is significant under Criterion A in Recreation and Social History for its association with the postwar, progressive intellectual community that commissioned Modern houses in the area, and under Criterion C in Architecture. Its period of significance is 1960-1979, and it was listed with Criteria Consideration G as a property of exceptional importance from the recent past.
Tisza, Vera and Laszlo House
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Tisza, Vera and Laszlo House is a landmark in Wellfleet, Barnstable County. It is one of 6,558 landmarks documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 41.9607, -69.9972 near Wellfleet. The nearest cataloged historic site is Sirna, Anthony and Allison Studio (landmark), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Weidlinger, Paul and Madeleine House, Newcomb, John House, and Breuer, Marcel House and Studio.
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The Vera and Laszlo Tisza House at 2 Deer Trail in Wellfleet is a modernist dwelling built within what is now the Cape Cod National Seashore. It was designed by Olav Hammarstrom, a protege of Eero Saarinen, for the physicist Laszlo Tisza and his wife Vera, and it blends Modern architecture with traditional Cape Cod forms in a one-story, T-shaped plan organized around a central breezeway. Vera Tisza sold the property to the National Park Service in 1974, retaining a right of use, and the Park Service now maintains it. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
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