Six Moon Hill
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Six Moon Hill Historic District
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Six Moon Hill house, designed by Norman Fletcher
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| Location | 4, 8 Bird Hill & 1-40 Moon Hill Rds, 16, 24 Swan Ln., Lexington, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°25′23″N 71°12′42″W / 42.42306°N 71.21167°WCoordinates: 42°25′23″N 71°12′42″W / 42.42306°N 71.21167°W |
| Architect | The Architects' Collaborative |
| Architectural style | Modern |
| NRHP Reference # | 15000981 |
| Added to NRHP | January 19, 2016 |
Six Moon Hill is a residential neighborhood that was designed by The Architects' Collaborative (TAC) and is located in Lexington, Massachusetts. It consists of a collection of Modern houses on Moon Hill Road and neighboring streets in eastern Lexington, designed and built between 1948 and 1950. The area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
With a focus on collaboration rather than individualism, the TAC approach was applied to all aspects of the community: design, development, construction, and operation. TAC established a nonprofit corporation and bought 20 acres (81,000 m2) on which to build, which was divided into 29 equally-priced lots of about one-half-acre each. Original house costs were between $10,000 and $22,000. The first houses were designed and built in a modernistic way. The method of design was rectangular, flat-roofed, timber-sided homes, which was typical for residences designed by TAC. The houses are situated on a sloping hill lining a small road that forms a cul-de-sac.
Six Moon Hill runs as a consensus-based, collective community in which each member family pays dues and holds two voting shares. Among the original architects (and residents) were Benjamin C. Thompson, Norman C. Fletcher, Jean B. Fletcher, John C. Harkness, Sarah P. Harkness, Robert S. McMillan, Louis A. McMillen, and Richard S. Morehouse. Other notable residents included Nobel chemist Konrad Bloch, Nobel physicist Samuel C.C. Ting, Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers (past president of the Mount Sinai Medical Center), Wallace E. Howell (New York City's first official "rainmaker"), Robert Newman, (co-founder of Bolt Beranek and Newman), and John C. Sheehan (the first chemist to synthesize penicillin). Art historian Simon Schama lived on Moon Hill between 1981 and 1993, and described it as "a great place for kids and historians" in a 2010 interview with the Times of London.
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