A noteworthy Weston home has been added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service, singled out for its significance in the history of American architecture.

Photo: Stacey Vairo

The Morris and Rose Greenwald House at 11 Homeward Lane, owned since 1987 by Richard and Jane Wolf, was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), the last director of the Bauhaus, the legendary German school of modernist art, design and architecture.

The house is one of only three residences completed by Mr. Mies in the United States, the only one on the east coast, and the only one still occupied as a private residence.

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The single-story home designed by Mr. Mies for Morris and Rose Greenwald is a flat-roofed brick, steel and glass building on over five wooded acres on the Saugatuck River. It was built in 1955, then extended in 1960 with a design by Mr. Mies. It was sold to new owners in 1981, who in 1982 added two pavilions and a pool designed by the architectural firm Peter L. Gluck and Associates.

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In 1989, Mr. and Ms. Wolf added an extension to the main structure, transforming the original plan into an L-shape and adding a master suite and enlarged kitchen and dining spaces. The addition was designed by Peter Gluck and Partners (a successor to the original Gluck firm) in keeping with the Mies philosophy.

Photo: Stacey Vairo

Photo: Stacey Vairo

The late Michael Sorkin, a prominent architectural and urban critic for the Village Voice, wrote that the addition “succeeds by not being exactly Mies while always being about Mies, an absorbing gloss in steel and glass. It’s exactly the deference the master deserves.”

A MoMA bio describes Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as “one of the leading lights of modernist architecture” who “created a body of work ranging from tubular steel furniture to iconic office buildings that influenced generations of architects worldwide.”

Aerial perspective. 1955-1963, Mies van der Rohe Archive, Museum of Modern Art, New York.