Composer Stravinsky Visits Gropius House in Lincoln
On this day in 1940, the German-born architect Walter Gropius and his wife Ise opened their new home in Lincoln to some old friends — the great composer Igor Stravinsky and his wife Vera. Gropius had designed the house according to the principles of the Bauhaus, the European school of architecture that he founded in 1919. Modest but graceful, the house integrated modern industrial materials with elements of traditional New England buildings. But the house was more than an architectural attraction — it was a warm home. In the words of daughter Ati Gropius, there was "a never-ending parade of visitors, far-away friends, strangers and students marching through the house at all hours of the day."
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