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- Indian_Hill_House abstract "Indian Hill House is a private residence named for the Indian Hills of Groton, Massachusetts. Designed in 1962-63 by Maurice K. Smith and built by Ralph S. Osmond & Sons, the house was commissioned by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. and Camilla (Cunningham) Blackman who later also worked with architect Smith on Blackman House. The influence of Mid-Century modern architecture is readily discernible here although Smith moves beyond this with an elaboration of his own "Form Language" - an approach to design that he developed throughout his teaching at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. As such, it is very hard to align Smith's work with any stylistic movement per se, a fact that makes his designs all the more interesting. Other aspects that makes this house unique is that the light fixtures were fabricated on site from 4" copper pipe, the windows were site built, and in the modular nature of the house in the original layout not one concrete block or floor tile was cut. The house is set on 7 acres (28,000 m2) at the end of Skyfields Drive. The property complements a nearly 500-acre (2.0 km2) preserve of surrounding woodland under care of the Groton Conservation Trust, Massachusetts Audubon Society, and Groton Conservation Commission.An extensive photographic study of the house, then only a few years old, was taken for the Winter 1967 issue of Harvard Art Review. In it, architect Smith put forth his position that the nature of a building's form follows from its use. Since that use will change over time, buildings can also evolve. In his 1989 work, Architecture and Urbanism, Henry Plummer concluded of this house that it contained "innumerable locales, of fragmentary rooms loosely interlocked, of zones both intimate and grand, created for an almost endless array of eyes, and heads and bodies and voices, an abundance which no longer bears upon the needs of a single person." Not only does the building form evolve but it is never perceived by two persons in quite the same way. In his 1967 work, World Architecture 4, John Donat described this house as "a place that prescribes nothing, an architecture that is intense without imposing itself on you." He goes on to write that this family house is "a place of real options and opportunities [that] can be richly interpreted by whoever is living in it." Indian Hill House was also and formerly known in print as 'House, Groton, Mass.', or 'A House by Maurice Smith', or 'Blackman House, Groton, Massachusetts'. Its Indian Hill Road access was closed when the approach was changed from the southern to its northern side via Skyfields Drive after the original, larger property was subdivided in March 2000.A subsequent pictorial summary of the house was undertaken in 2009 by Nick W. Lane Photo/Graphic Arts of Providence, RI. Click here to see a view from the north, and a view from the south.".
- Indian_Hill_House location Groton,_Massachusetts.
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- Indian_Hill_House architect Maurice_K._Smith.
- Indian_Hill_House architecture Mid-century_modern.
- Indian_Hill_House built "1962".
- Indian_Hill_House caption "Indian Hill House, Groton, MA thumb|View of Indian Hill House looking from the south lawn. thumb|View of Indian Hill House looking from the north woods.".
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- Indian_Hill_House comment "Indian Hill House is a private residence named for the Indian Hills of Groton, Massachusetts. Designed in 1962-63 by Maurice K. Smith and built by Ralph S. Osmond & Sons, the house was commissioned by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. and Camilla (Cunningham) Blackman who later also worked with architect Smith on Blackman House.".
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