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Marcel Breuer House and Studio

Built in 1949 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 202 National Register listings published here for Barnstable County · listed in 2024 · category: Building · built in 1949, modern architecture, by Marcel Breuer.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 634 Black Pond Road, Wellfleet
  • When was it listed? July 2024
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Mid 20th Century Modern Residential Architecture on Outer Cape Cod MPS
  • When was it built? 1949
  • Architectural style. modern architecture
  • Architect. Marcel Breuer
  • National Register reference number. 100010568 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1887 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Marcel Breuer House and Studio, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Marcel Breuer House and Studio, surveyed 1887

Fires near this property

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Marcel Breuer House and Studio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking5
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreLONG POND ROAD FIRE
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreGROSS HILL ROAD FIRE
22 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresCape Cod National SeashoreSHAPIRO
18 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreWIRE FIRE
10 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreWELLWOODS
8 August 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresCape Cod National SeashoreWHITE CREST WILDFIRE

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Maps showing this location

17 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Weidlinger, Paul and Madeleine0.4 miles2014
Rowell House0.6 miles1988
Vera and Laszlo Tisza House0.7 miles2014
Anthony and Allison Sirna Studio0.9 miles2014
Peter Kugel House1.6 miles2014
Ahearn House and Summer House1.8 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100010568 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barnstable CountyAll 202 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.