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For years, when the houses of Six Moon Hill were first built, people drove from all over Boston to see the community and its unique architecture. By the entrance, at the side of the road, was a sign that read, "Welcome." Across the street, seen as people left the community, another sign read, "and we don't like your houses either!"
—Unknown
"It's a belief in honesty and directness, necessity, purism of intent… so much of Moon Hill was Gropius' ideas."
—Sally Harkness
Walter always said, "We had to wipe the slate clean. How could we get there using the technology of our time?"
—Ati Gropius Johansen
"An architect friend of ours who is also a very severe critic felt that the houses were not rationalized enough, that they were much too individual. Another severe critic, a local milkman, once asked us, 'Why do all the houses look the same?'"
—Norman Fletcher
"The name sounds [Native American], but it isn't. It came from the fact that we found six Moon automobiles on the site."
—Chip Harkness
"Both children and their pets responded to the same calls. Mothers at the end of the hill had particularly shrill ones. Simone used a moose call, Maria a duck call, Bettie Clark a clipped hooting sound and Lee was downright operatic. Who was it that used a cow bell?"
—Jamien Morehouse
"My mother would give out a quarter for every article of clothing that was returned which belonged to my sister, who tended to undress and grow naked as the day progressed."
—Pogo
"No Six Moon Hill children would ever marry eachother. It would have been too incestuous."
—Lee Morehouse
Design & Photography 2023 © Andrea Quagliata (1950's Black & White photos with kind permission of Richard Morehouse, RIP)