The Cape Cod Modern House Trust is a non-profit
historic preservation
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organization working to preserve and interpret
Modern
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* Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century
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period houses built on
Cape Cod
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in the U.S. state of
.
The organization describes its mission to
''promote the documentation and preservation of significant examples of Modernist architecture on the Outer Cape
Founded by Peter McMahon in 2007, the trust has worked with the
National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propertie ...
on cataloging and documenting, stabilizing, or restoring modernist Cape Cod homes by the architects
Marcel Breuer,
Serge Chermayeff
Serge Ivan Chermayeff (born Sergei Ivanovich Issakovich; russian: link=no, Сергей Ива́нович Иссако́вич; 8 October 1900 – 8 May 1996) was a Russian-born British architect, industrial designer, writer, and co-founder of ...
,
Jack Hall,
Olav Hammarston,
Oliver Morton
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, and
Charles Zehnder.
The trust is currently working on a three-year project restoring the
Kugel-Gips House, designed in 1970 by Charles Zehnder and located within the National Park Service's
Cape Cod National Seashore.
The Kugel-Gips House and other modernist houses lying within the Cape Cod National Seashore are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
References
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External links
Website of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust
Wellfleet, Massachusetts Community Preservation Committee
Modernist architecture in Massachusetts
History of New England
Non-profit organizations based in Massachusetts
Heritage organizations
Massachusetts culture
Historic preservation organizations in the United States
Organizations established in 2007
2007 establishments in Massachusetts