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Josephine Wiggs - Artist In Residence, 2011

2012-01-23T09:29:00.006-05:00

Josephine Wiggs was a founding member of The Breeders. She collaborated with Vivian Trimble (Luscious Jackson) to make the album Dusty Trails (which includes a song written for and sung by Emmylou Harris), and music for the film Happy Accidents by Brad Anderson. Recent work includes the soundtrack for a short film by internationally acclaimed choreographers chameckilerner, commissioned by

Landscape Architect James Royce On His Stay at the Kugel Gips House

2011-10-10T16:28:00.011-04:00

James Royce, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based landscape architect, participated in the CCMHT scholar-in-residence program this past May, which included a week-long stay at the Kugel/Gips house in Wellfleet. He documented his experience, in text and photographs, and shared it with us. In mid-May I was fortunate to spend a week living in the Kugel/Gips House as part of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust’s Scholar-in-Residency program. Currently pursuing a Master of Science in Historic Preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, the reason for my stay was two-fold. My first objective was to research the

Summer Events - Save the Dates!

2011-05-06T10:18:00.013-04:00

Save the Dates! CCMHT Invites You to Save The Dates for Summer 2011 Events. Some of these events arenʼt completely scheduled yet, and more will be added. To find out about updates and additions, follow the Trust on Facebook or keep an eye on our blog - (ccmht.blogspot.com) *Please see below for bios of our featured speakers. May 16 Lecture with Peter McMahon

CCMHT Membership

2011-04-20T08:29:00.000-04:00

Join us! Become a member this spring, and encourage your friends to.Go to: http://www.ccmht.org/membership.html We have made great progress in the last 4 years, but to continue we need your help.And please take a look at the membership incentives.

Kugel/Gips fix up first 2 weeks of May

2011-04-17T21:25:00.002-04:00

CCMHT is looking for a few people with some construction skills or aptitude to stay at Kugel/Gips for the first 2 weeks of May in exchange for working on the house. It's mostly carpentry, painting, sanding, and landscape workWe are preparing the house for two artist residencies in late May.If you are interested in this opportunity to watch Spring transform the pond and woods while helping support

Thank you to our winter interns

2011-04-11T21:11:00.003-04:00

Thank you to Patty Lomando and Jing Wu, our great interns over 2011 winter break.They worked unflinchingly on our database and braved persistent and unreasonable blizzards to get here from RISD every week.

Residency Applications Available

2011-02-26T20:36:00.003-05:00

photo: K. Landry and A. WakefieldApplications for the CCMHT Artist/Scholar Residency are now available at http://www.ccmht.org/residency/ or go to ccmht.org home page and click on the link. Applications are due April first so don't delay.For questions or clarifications contact Cyndi Wish at cyndi@ccmht.org

Wentworth Students work with CCMHT

2011-02-08T11:02:00.003-05:00

The Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT) is collaborating with Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) this semester with the help of Chris Kilbridge, an architect who recently moved to Truro from the Pacific Northwest. Killbridge is teaching an advanced topics class with 16 architecture graduate students. The students are coming to Wellfleet this January and February to measure modern houses in

Happy Holidays

2010-12-18T09:22:00.002-05:00

Enjoy a short film of the Kugel/Gips house in the snow.Our friend Chris Szwedo made this film with his high-def camera and wrote and performed the music.The Cape Cod Modern House Trust wishes you a happy, healthy, peaceful and creative holiday season.

Smudge Studio, 2010 Artists in Residence's Piece Geologic City

2010-12-18T09:12:00.004-05:00

Smudge Studio's exciting new project "Geologic City" is featured in Urban Omnibus.For more on Smudge Studio's current and past projects visit their website.

Call for Committee Members

2010-11-22T10:34:00.004-05:00

The Cape Cod Modern House Trust is looking for volunteer committee members for: Development CommitteeMembers will oversee the formulation and execution of fundraising strategies. Experience in local and/or national fundraising and development opportunities and grant application processes is a plus. Events Committee This committee will oversee the planning, promotion,

Tour the Breuer Designed Scott House in a Program Presented by the Cape Cod Museum of Art

2010-09-27T17:23:00.008-04:00

Lecture & House Tour with Peter McMahon, CCMHT Executive DirectorSaturday, October 9, 2010, 1 - 3 pmMembers: $60 Non-members: $75Limited to 35 peopleMarcel Breuer, the Bauhaus Diaspora & the Scott HouseBeginning in the summer of 1937, a small group of the modern era’s most important designers and thinkers chose the Cape as a place to congregate and eventually build experimental homes for

September 26 Modern House Bike Tour

2010-09-16T19:49:00.010-04:00

To make the Modern House Bike Tour more accessible (an easier ride, no biking after dark, etc.) we've made a few changes to the September 26th event. Please see the details below: The bicycle tour will view four houses in the Cape Cod National Seashore (ocean side) and will conclude with a carpool to the Hatch Cottage (bay side) at sunset (five houses total). Participants should bring a bike

CCMHT August Events

2010-08-15T13:02:00.004-04:00

John Pawson: Lecture and Book Signing When: August 21, 2010 at 8pmWhere: Wellfleet Public Library, Tickets $10 The famed British minimalist architect will discuss his projects, past and future, and sign copies of his current publication John Pawson, Works, Phaidon Press. CCMHT is pleased to welcome him as an artist in residence in the Kugel/Gips house. See John Pawson's work at http://

John Pawson Lecture - August 21

2010-08-03T09:47:00.007-04:00

On August 21, 2010, British Architect John Pawson will deliver a lecture as part of the artist-in- residence program of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust. Pawson’s talk will be a visual journey through the landscape projects, monasteries, international residences, yachts, products and spaces recently designed by him. It will allow an unprecedented,

Smudge Studio at the Wellfleet Library

2010-06-25T15:07:00.004-04:00

On June 30th the artist collaborative smudge (Jamie Kruse and Elizabeth Ellsworth) will present a slide show of two "Pleistocene" site-based residencies that they undertook in 2010 for their current project entitled: Friends of the Pleistocene.Their presentation (Coming Home to the Pleistocene) will weave a visual tale of inhabiting two modern structures--the Kugel/Gips house on Northeast Pond in

Architect's Art - and Exhibition at PAAM

2010-06-23T13:44:00.003-04:00

Architects' ArtArtworks by esteemed architects John Hejduk, Serge Chermayeff, and John M. JohansenOn view June 25 - August 29, 2010Opening reception July 9, 2010, 8-10pmExhibition of paintings and drawings by three pioneers of contemporary architecture featuring works by John Hedjuk, Serge Chermayeff and John M. Johansen, offering new insights into the creative minds of designers who changed the

Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism

2010-06-14T18:45:00.003-04:00

The Cape Cod Modern House Trust presents: A lecture by Bryan Bell, founder and director of Design Corps. Friday, June 18 at 8pm at the Wellfleet Public Library Design Corps provides architecture and planning services including initiatives to provide affordable housing in poor, rural communities including hurricane resistant housing for migrant workers in Florida.

Book Launch - Ira Rakatansky: As Modern As Tomorrow

2010-06-07T18:17:00.003-04:00

Ira Rakatansky: As Modern As Tomorrow, A survey of mid-century houses, furniture, and public projects by the Providence architectEdited by John Caserta and Lynnette WidderThis book is now available, and there will be a book launch on Thursday, June 17th from 5 - 8pm at the RISD Museum - risd|works Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903 For more

Douglas Padget reports from his residency at the Kugel/Gips House

2010-05-28T18:56:00.011-04:00

"Being in a kayak on the pond or walking in the woods is a very different experience than looking at these places through the windows from inside the house. A similar combination of attachment and remove happens in landscape painting. You’re not really in the place the painting depicts yet you somehow can go there mentally."Douglas Padgett was an artist in residence at the Kugel/Gips house this

Vacation on Cape Cod

2010-05-28T18:46:00.001-04:00

It's not too late for YOU (this means YOU) to spend a week in a modern house this summer!!!Yes, there are weeks being auctioned in 3 fabulous modern houses starting June 13th, P-town film fest week. The minimums are low and they will go to the highest bid, which may be well below market rate. Go to http://www.ccmht.org/dev/auction.php for details.Time in these houses was kindly donated by friends

Summer 2010 Events Schedule

2010-05-13T10:26:00.004-04:00

Smudge Studio “Coming Home to the Pleistocene” June 30, 8pm, Lecture, Wellfleet Public Library, The artist collaborative smudge (Jamie Kruse and Elizabeth Ellsworth) will present a slide show of two "Pleistocene" site-based residencies that they undertook in 2010 for their current project entitled: Friends of the Pleistocene. Their presentation will weave a visual tale

2010 Vacation Weeks in Modern Homes Available for Auction

2010-05-12T17:04:00.009-04:00

Lechay HouseFlato HouseTwo local modern house owners have kindly donated a week in their houses which we are auctioning as part of our 2010 fundraising effort along with a week in the Kugel/Gips house. This is an opportunity to vacation (possibly for below market value) in an iconic example of modern architecture while supporting the Cape Cod Modern House Trust's mission and programming.Please

Funding Approved for Hatch Cottage Restoration

2010-05-12T16:58:00.003-04:00

Funding for the Hatch Cottage restoration was approved in Wellfleet town meeting on April 26th.$100,000 in Community Preservation Act funds for Historic Preservation are now available to CCMHT upon reciept of a lease from the National Park Service. The lease is in the works and expected by spring 2011. CCMHT plans to restore the building and open it for artist/scholar residencies as soon as

Spring Open House at Kugel/Gips

2010-04-09T20:34:00.006-04:00

photo by Joshua McHugh Many thanks to those of you who tried to attend the December Open House which got snowed out.And thank you to those who inquired about when it

Town Meeting Vote on Hatch House, April 26

2010-04-09T19:48:00.003-04:00

Wellfleet's Community Preservation Committee has approved $100,000 for the restoration of the Hatch House (Jack Hall, 1960-61) one of the endangered modern homes owned by the Park Service. Approval in Wellfleet's Town Meeting on April 26th is also required. Since CCMHT has successfully restored the Kugel/Gips house in collaboration with the town and Park we should have significant support for

Upcoming Lectures by Peter McMahon

2010-04-09T19:35:00.009-04:00

Peter McMahon, CCMHT's Executive Director, will be lecturing this month in Boston and New York.Harvard's Graduate School of Design Monday, April 19 at 4:00 pm,Modernist Summer-cottage prototypes on Outer Cape Cod, 1945-1965Harvard GSD Room 109Admission is free and open to the public.For info: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/weekly.cgiMuseum of the City of New York Wednesday, April

In Memoriam - Marianne Simmel

2010-04-09T19:19:00.004-04:00

We are sad to report that Marianne Simmel passed away recently after a long illness. Marianne survived the Holocaust in Europe, grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side, went to Smith Collage, got a PhD at Harvard and taught psychology for many years at Brandies University. As she said in an interview, she started doodling in faculty meetings with graph paper around the same time she was getting

Report on Spring 2010 Artist Residencies at Kugel/Gips House

2010-04-06T12:05:00.011-04:00

The Cape Cod Modern House Trust hosted two week-long artist residencies in March. Film maker Ericka Beckman and Tara Merenda Nelson, one of her graduate students at Mass Collage of Art, made a film using the house and its environment and natural and projected light. When we first discussed Ericka being a resident the house was a vacant hulk. She adapted her concept to the new reality of the

Kugel/Gips Modernist Home Available for Summer Rental

2010-01-05T16:16:00.011-05:00

Interior, Kugel/Gips House (c) k. schoenfelder 2009Kugel Gips House Viewed from the PondDesigned by Charlie Zehnder in 1970, the newly restored Kugel/Gips house is available for weekly rental during the summer 2010 season. Secluded in the privacy of the Cape Cod National Seashore, this significant example of the Outer Cape's modernist architecture is nestled in the pine woods, hovering above the

Photographer Katherine Schoenfelder

2010-01-04T12:31:00.012-05:00

Hall House Addition (c) k. schoenfelder 2009 The Trust would like to thank Katherine Schoenfelder for the many volunteer hours she has donated to the CCMHT. Her photographs have been used in much of the recent publicity celebrating the restoration of the Kugel/Gips House, and we appreciate the time, effort, and skill that went into these photos.When I attempt to

Furniture, Parties, Modernism Magazine, Hatch Cottage

2009-12-22T10:23:00.010-05:00

CCMHT has partnered with Reside, the wonderful modern furniture store in Cambridge MA, to furnish the Kugel/Gips house. A consignment store with reasonable prices, Reside has generously offered their time and resources to get the right furniture for the house. It includes pieces by Bertoia, Saarinen and Bellini. Many thanks, Reside.We've had a series of parties in December for volunteers and

OPEN HOUSE CANCELLED TODAY

2009-12-20T09:21:00.000-05:00

We are sorry to say the Open House at the Kugel/Gips house is cancelled due to an impassable road and weather related safety issues. We will be having another one some time in the new year.See you in 2010.

Open House, Sunday, December 20

2009-12-17T12:30:00.002-05:00

The Cape Cod Modern House Trust invites you to an Open House celebrating the completed renovation (well....very close) of the Kugel/Gips House.Sunday, December 20 from 10am - 4pm at the Kugel/Gips House in Wellfleet.Directions:From Orleans - Take a right on Lecount Hollow Road just past the South Wellfleet General Store and South Wellfleet Post Office. Bear left onto Ocean View Drive. Go about

Put CCMHT On Your Holiday List

2009-12-11T08:16:00.019-05:00

By now you may have received CCMHT's first fundraising letter in the mail. Work completed thus far, including the restoration of the Kugel/Gips house, has been completed without directly soliciting funds from private individuals. The project's budget was supplemented with countless hours of volunteer labor and many donated materials.The next building CCMHT's hopes to preserve is the Hatch Cottage

Kugel/Gips Project in NYTimes

2009-09-10T22:23:00.004-04:00

The Kugel/Gips house restoration made it to the front page of the NYTimes Home Section on August 27th-- and in the letters page a week later.We also appeared twice in the Design Within Reach, Design Notes in the last week.

2009 Tour/Symposium a Success

2009-09-10T22:11:00.006-04:00

Everyone seemed to enjoy the tour and our first symposium. We're sorry so many people could not get tickets. Next year we are looking to do a bike tour as well, and possibly a film night.

CCMHT in the Boston Globe

2009-08-14T09:10:00.001-04:00

This Thursday's Boston Globe featured an article by Jaci Conry on the development, past and present, of Modernist architecture on Cape Cod. She sat down with Executive Director Peter McMahon to discuss CCMHT's preservation efforts and the upcoming Tour/Symposium. Click here to see the full text.

Kugel/Gips house approaches 50% finished mark

2009-08-10T10:48:00.005-04:00

Work is progressing quickly at Kugel/Gips thanks to the participation of many local businesses as well as volunteers from all over. All interior demo, new roof, new chimney, rough electric, septic design and approval of septic by the Park are complete. Insulation, rebuilt decks, floor refinishing and exterior painting will be finished in the next two weeks. Volunteers are still needed through

Article on Marianne Strengell, Wellfleet Resident, in Dwell Magazine

2009-07-21T10:45:00.003-04:00

Christine Cipriani, friend of CCMHT and '08 tour-goer has an article in Dwell magazine's July/August issue on Marianne Strengell, the seminal Finnish-American textile designer, leader of the Cranbrook Weaving department and long time Wellfleet resident. Click here to see images from the article, or pick up a copy at your local newstand for the full text.

Check out CCMHT in Architectural Digest Germany

2009-07-01T13:35:00.008-04:00

We are happy to have received a great deal of press since our inception, with features in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Design Within Reach's Design Notes. We are very excited about our most recent piece, a 5 page spread in Architectural Digest Germany. Click here to link to the full text, images, and an English translation. Many thanks to Lee Desrosier for her help with the

2009 Modern House Tour and Symposium

2009-06-29T18:35:00.009-04:00

Hidden Village, John "Rudd" Falconer 1960Our 2009 Modern House Tour, in collaboration with Castle Hill, will be Sunday August 23rd at 11:00 am, with a beach bonfire at the conclusion of the Tour at Balston Beach in Truro. Our first annual Symposium will be the night before (Saturday, August 22nd) at

Weekend Volunteers Still Needed!

2009-06-03T13:57:00.010-04:00

Work is underway at the Kugel/Gips House and CCMHT is looking for weekend volunteers throughout July and August to help with landscaping, cleaning, and painting. No experience is necessary, and you can donate as little or as much of your time as you can. Please contact danielle.travers@gmail.com to sign up.

RISD Lecture May 13

2009-05-01T21:36:00.004-04:00

Peter McMahon (CCMHT Executive Director) will be giving a lecture, Homasote Manifestos: Documenting + Preserving Modernist Architecture on the Outer Cape, on Wednesday, May 13, 6:30pm at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. The lecture is in conjunction with the exhibit, Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture (April 16-July 20, 2009). Click here for more details.

At Last! Kugel/Gips House Lease Signing, Monday April 27

2009-04-24T16:36:00.022-04:00

We are happy to announce that at long last, we have received the lease for the Kugel/ Gips house and will have an official signing ceremony on Monday, April 27th. We will then receive our funding from the town and begin the work of restoring the house in early May. We would like to thank: The Superintendent and staff of the Cape Cod National Seashore, the town of Wellfleet's Historical Commission

Board Members Needed

2009-04-24T16:34:00.014-04:00

CCMHT is looking for people with non-profit experience for the position of Treasurer (with quickbooks skills), a Secretary/Clerk and those with fund raising expertise.

Volunteers Needed Summer 2009

2009-04-24T16:34:00.013-04:00

CCMHT is looking for volunteers. We need four people per week May 24th - Sept 12th to work on the renovation. Some construction experience would be nice but not required. Work will range from demo of ceilings and decks to installation of homasote interiors, construction of new decks, painting and assembly of built-in furniture. For a tax deductable donation of $200, CCMHT will provide lodging and

Tour/Symposium August 22nd and 23rd, 2009

2009-04-24T16:32:00.008-04:00

We are in the midst of planning our "09 Modern House Tour in collaboration with Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. We are planning a Saturday evening symposium with two speakers, a Sunday tour and a bonfire on the beach Saturday night. Details to follow.

Outer Cape Modern Houses in Architectural Digest Germany

2009-04-24T15:44:00.006-04:00

There is an article about the Cape's modern houses and CCMHT in the May issue of AD Germany. Transcription and photos to follow.

New Readings

2009-04-24T15:42:00.012-04:00

Please check out new articles here.

Blog Launch

2009-04-24T15:38:00.003-04:00

Many thanks to Danielle Travers for the design and launch of our blog and new articles on our site.