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Snake Hill

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140946_sv.jpg

Size

1.6 MB

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JPEG

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6aac32950466081a455d5c6ea813f529

Creator(s)
architect: original group of houses by Carl Koch (American, 1912-1998), landscape architect: Christopher Tunnard (Canadian, 1910-1979)
Time period
creation date: 1940-1950
Location
Site: Belmont (Massachusetts, United States)
Cultural context
American
Description
Snake Hill Road, Belmont, Mass.Cooperative development with experimental modular design houses by the founder of Techbilt houses, Carl Koch.
Boston Suburbs Project (Final, October 1988)
general view, one of the original Snake Hill houses and its carport, 1987
Work type
Housing development
Medium
wood (plant material)
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Image
Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by Julie Johnson
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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