National Register of Historic Places

Hatch, Ruth and Robert Jr., House

Wellfleet, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Listed
February 25, 2014
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
14000018

About this property

The Ruth and Robert Hatch Jr. House is a historic house at 309 Bound Brook Way in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. It is one of a modest number of surviving houses in Wellfleet that combine elements of Modern architecture with traditional Cape Cod architecture. This single story wood-frame house was built in 1961 on Bound Brook Island to a design by local architect Jack Hall. The house was built for Robert Hatch, editor of The Nation, and Ruth Hatch, a painter. Their family remained living there until 2008. Extremely rustic in appearance, its exterior is sheathed in vertical boards and its windows have working shutters but no glass, resulting in a sharply vertical appearance. The structure consists of three rectangular sections of different sizes that are based on modular 7' by 7' squares; the main public living space is 35' by 49', the master bedroom is 7' by 21', and the guest bedrooms are in a block that is 7' by 14' (enlarged from the original 7' by 7' in 1978). The house, which is within the bounds of the Cape Cod National Seashore, was sold by the Hatches to the National Park Service, but they retain occupancy rights. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

Location

309 Bound Brook Way
Wellfleet, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
41.95388, -70.07503

Categories

ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATIONSOCIAL HISTORYARCHITECTURE
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Hatch, Ruth and Robert Jr., House listed on the National Register?

Hatch, Ruth and Robert Jr., House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 2014.

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Hatch, Ruth and Robert Jr., House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Hatch, Ruth and Robert Jr., House is recorded as the industrial era.

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