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Do realtors really have to market a style like "modern farmhouse" or "mid century modern." I mean, people will look at the listing photos, and then go take a closer look and they’ll either like how it looks or not – regardless of how it’s categorized. Then again, some people do actually want to live in a Craftsman, for example, and maybe the description gives them reason to check out the property.

These are basically all better value-for-money than the $4K apartments from last time. They must assume that once you get past mid-market, people are more careless with their money.

Just being slightly pedantic, but I think this is an early to mid 70s model : the windshield was a split-pane in the 60s (until 1967 according to wikipedia), and I seem to recall that particular pop up top is from the post-67 area.
Again, just nitpicking
too bad it doesn’t actually run on a electric engine, with a fake lego engine block in the hatch, that would have been beyond extraordinary.
A former V-dub bus owner (1974 orange/terracotta pop up top)

The shift away from that late mid century mindset is one that cannot happen soon enough. Essentially, the 1950’s – 2000, was a large scale, long term disaster for American cities. Goodbye Cobo.. your name, and certainly your legacy, won’t be missed.

Great. Another Stenger classic utterly ruined by needlessly contemporary renovations.

While I obviously understand the necessity of updating mid-century architecture to a degree to reflect the realities of 21st-century lifestyles, this particular house was updated in nearly every wrong way conceivable. Instead of a classic kitchen style with at least a hint of mid-century style, the one here looks like it was ripped directly from a Bulthaup catalog. Adding insult to injury, the owners added utterly cliché faux-Viking stainless-steel appliances; a Moroccan-style tile floor that’s very au courant … in ultra-contemporary houses; and put the (latest state-of-the-art) washer & dryer INSIDE the kitchen! The bathrooms weren’t spared, either: their frameless shower doors et al could be transplanted into any generic luxury home constructed over the past decade with ease.

To be fair, the owners made some positive changes, including ripping out an even more ghastly, wholly unsympathetic earlier renovation (which you can see on its archived 2011 listing on Redfin – oh, and btw it sold for under $400K then). They also opened up the main living area to a considerable degree by adding veritable walls of windows on both ends of the space. Further, the before-and-after pics of the back yards then versus now are night and day; the new one is both inviting and secluded, though adding a huge green lawn instead of xeriscaping seems silly in a climate that’s far more likely to experience long-term drought in the coming decades (even if the past year has been exceptionally wet).

But still: it’s mind-boggling that the owners opted to gut nearly all of the home’s interior charm — or at least the parts that weren’t already destroyed by its last renovation — and replace it with expensive but entirely banal updates. Considering the likely six-figure expense required for the reno, why didn’t they instead add useful additions like sympathetic expansions to the house itself? (In a similar vein, I’m curious how many Westlake buyers exist for a house that’s been exhaustively renovated but remains under 1,400 sq ft in size.) It sits on a good-sized lot, with ample privacy out back, so why not add a second living area or a real laundry room?

This place has plenty of potential. It’s a pity the owners barely embraced an ounce of it. The fireplace appears to be the lone remaining interior element not destroyed…

Skylines are for those viewing from afar, would rather have blocks of mid-sized towers with great street-level interaction.

Is it just me, or are OTHER people SICK AND TIRED of the FUCKING NIMBYISM which seems to pervade this anti-development, anti HIGH RISE little back water know as BOSTON (Long term BORN IN BOSTON NATIVE by the way before the shit starts to fly). It is true that the anti high rise NIMBY HEIGHT WHINERS are already champing at the bit over this proposal, and as well, the next door residents residing within the ugly as all shit Brutalist mid rise residential building directly adjacent to the site are probably having massive strokes (that’s OK as they have the BIDMC right down the street, and hopefully they will all get hospital rooms situated no higher than the fourth or fifth floor as any higher will worsen their high rise apoplexy). As well, as stated in the comments above, John Henry of RED SOX fame will more than likely try to see this proposal go down swinging after a mere three pitches – OH HEAVENS, a shadow over the shrine known as Fenway Park??? – NO, NO NO, SAY IT AINT SO JOE!!!! Well, I for one am NOT ANTI HIGH RISE, but it is more than likely that this proposal, like the Harbor Garage Proposal, will be met with so much antipathy and threats of law suits (BLOCK MY VIEW FROM MY BALCONY? HOW DARE YOU) that this high rise (WHICH AINT THAT TALL) will be quashed by the opposition.

Pretty cool stuff….NOW!!!..Please ANYTHING BUT MidTown(what a BS monicker!)..Cass Corridor?..Something else?..Anything BUT Mid-Town!!!!!

"I’m sorry but we must insist on words still have meaning even in the MAGA era…"

This from the person who routinely and incorrectly uses post modern to describe mid century.

I guess these splashy condo apartment projects are good but it seems like they cater to a lot of foreign buyers and wealthy people who keep a condo as a second residence etc. There isn’t much development downtown that addresses average Joe folks who make 150k a year or less which has to be the majority of residents. They put up a new apartment rental at Wilshire and Crescent Heights and the studios rent for $3500 a month – who pays that?