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Helen Storrow, a wealthy Boston-based supporter of modern art and architecture, financed four houses on Woods End Road in Lincoln, MA, including this house for the Harvard sociologist James Ford and his wife, Katherine Morrow Ford, an author and architectural editor at House and Garden. The house was a narrow rectangular volume with a large brick chimney. It was clad in vertical wooden siding painted white. A stair tower projected from the north elevation while a glass-enclosed dining room extended from the south elevation. The entrance door opened directly from the paved stone terrace into the dining room. The terrace was shaded by a canopy of wooden slats and a sunshade made from redwood boards protected the upper-story windows. While the house was attributed to the Gropius and Breuer partnership, Isabelle Hyman reports that Breuer did not contribute to its design.