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Building History

Architect Raphael Soriano (1907-1988) designed a store, large lath house and a greenhouse for the Hallawell Seed Company, with a staggered series of lath shelters, called "plant bars," on one west side of the property. The building was his first realized steel structure, a type of architecture that we would pioneer for residential use.

Building Notes

Curator Elizabeth Mock (1911-1998) selected the Hallawell Seed Garden Center for inclusion in the Museum of Modern Art's Built in USA: 1932-1944 exhibition, a show designed to showcase American Modern architecture since Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson's The International Style: Architecture Since 1922.

PCAD id: 1517