Waldenmark

The story

Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com

Waldenmark is a house at 1280 and 1300 Wrightstown Rd. in Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, with a main house of 1939 and a guesthouse of 1948, in the International style. It was listed in the National Register in 2001.

Why it's listed

Waldenmark was listed under criterion C, with national-level significance in architecture, and a period of significance from 1939 to 1948 covering the main house and guesthouse. Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer are named as its architects; Breuer alone designed the guesthouse in 1947, and Roy Large served as builder.

Physical character

The walls are wood and stone on stone foundations. The roofline is nearly flat with metal coping, and the design includes a cantilevered second floor and ribbon windows. A curved stone fireplace wall, a freeform stone patio and a gambrel roof are present. Stone steps lead to a roof terrace that was expanded and given a simple metal railing in the 1990s. Other 1990s changes included storm doors, updated bathrooms and kitchen, and glass-enclosed guesthouse porches; the kitchen had been replaced in kind in 1988.

Historical context

About 93 acres were purchased as a building site in 1938. About 84 acres were sold in 1969; the rest was divided into two parcels in 1987.