Saving Historic Modern Homes

CCMHT is about to embark on the restoration of its forth historic modern house –The Kohlberg House. Once restored our homes become platforms for new creative work. When completed, this house will be made available to supporters for weekly stays, for tours and as a location for our annual artist/scholar residencies.

The house, which is now eligible for the National Registry of Historic Places, was the home of Lawrence Kohlberg the prominent Harvard professor who pioneered a theory of the moral development of children. He did much of his writing in the house surrounded by many other prominent thinkers and academics who lived nearby, many of them in modern houses built around the same time.

About the Modern Architecture Movement on Cape Cod:

Starting in the late 1930s, the Outer Cape attracted Bauhaus luminaries and prime movers of modern architecture who believed in the power of design to improve the…