Furniture, Parties, Modernism Magazine, Hatch Cottage

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 trades people, staff of the National Seashore and members of Wellfleet town board s who worked on the Kugel/Gips restoration. Our snowed-out open house will be rescheduled for the early Spring.

There is a write up on Outer Cape Modernism and CCMHT in the current issue of Modernism Magazine. Here is a link to a teaser. http://www.modernismmagazine.com/feature_02.html You need to buy the magazine to see the entire story. Its author, Christine Cipriani, wrote the article in Dwell in 2009 on Marianne Strengell and her years spent on the Outer Cape.

On Dec. 16th Wellfleet's Community Preservation Committee enthusiastically approved CCMHT's application for $100,000 to restore the Hatch Cottage. For the project to move forward we must come to an agreement with the National Seashore for a second lease and have the application approved by Wellfleet's town meeting in April.

OPEN HOUSE CANCELLED TODAY

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

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 a mile and take a left on Long Pond Road. Take the first dirt road on the left. Look for a sign that says K/G.

From Provincetown -

Take a right at the light onto Main Street in Wellfleet (just before PJ's). Take a right on Long Pond Road. Go past the public beach for the pond. Take the first dirt road after Wiles Lane on the right. Look for a sign that says K/G.

Parking -

There is limited parking at the K/G House. If the lot is full, you can drop off passengers, then take Long Pond Road to Ocean View Drive. Make a right on Ocean View, then a left into the Cahoon Hollow/Beachcomber parking lot. A shuttle will run from there to the house every 15 minutes.

Put CCMHT On Your Holiday List

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 on Bound Brook Island. Once a gathering place for many of the artists, writers, and political thinkers who helped establish Wellfleet's creative and intellectual reputation, the Hatch Cottage is currently vacant and deteriorating. If you have not seen the Hatch Cottage, please contact the Trust to arrange for a visit to experience the building and site first hand.

We need your help with this project and to continue our mission and programming. In addition to the physical preservation of the houses, the CCMHT is curating a comprehensive database of resources on modern architecture on the Outer Cape, and is planning more educational programming including tours, a lecture by renowned British architect John Pawson, and artist/scholar in residence programs.

Your tax-deductible donation to the Cape Cod Modern House Trust will not only help physically preserve our heritage of modern architecture, but also help develop Wellfleet as a cultural destination, and diversify our off season economy.

Donations can be mailed to the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, PO Box 1191, S. Wellfleet, MA 02663.

Thank you.

Kugel/Gips Project in NYTimes

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

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

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.