Samuel and Minette Kuhn House

Historic house in Massachusetts, United States

United States historic place


Samuel and Minette Kuhn House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

NPS image, 2012
41°56′44.6″N 70°4′5.8″W / 41.945722°N 70.068278°W / 41.945722; -70.068278
Built	1961
Architect	Nathaniel Saltonstall
Architectural style	Modern Cape
NRHP reference No.	14000020 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 25, 2014

The Samuel and Minette Kuhn House is a historic house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. It is one of a modest number of surviving houses in Wellfleet that combine elements of Modern architecture with traditional Cape Cod architecture. The single-story wood-frame house was built in 1960 to a design by Nathaniel Saltonstall, founder of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. The Kuhns were exposed to Saltonstall's work when they stayed at The Colony, another property he designed that is located nearby on Griffins Island. The house incorporates Bauhaus design principles of simplicity and economy, and is based around the idea of square modules, which are repeated on small, medium and large scales, affecting the room shapes and sizes, windows, and interior furnishings and decorations. The house, which is within the bounds of the Cape Cod National Seashore, was sold by the Kuhns to the National Park Service in 1973, but they retained right of occupancy for 25 years. The Park Service began using the property for employee housing in 2003.^[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register of Historic Places actions: 2/24/2014 through 2/28/2014". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-03-15.
^ "MACRIS inventory record for Samuel Kuhn House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-15.

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