KOHLBERG HOUSE
Wellfleet, MA
Built in 1961 by Luther Crowell and abandoned for almost two decades in the Seashore, the Kohlberg house was restored by the Cape Cod Modernist House Trust in 2019. The landscape design is only what is needed to carve out space for access, the septic leach field, and utilities within the dense and changing woodland thickets.
To do this, we continuously mow areas to exclude woody trees and shrubs, allowing plants that are compatible with the restored structures to thrive.
Plant Communities
Trees and shrubs are excluded from areas adjacent to structures through annual mowing, maintaining existing beneficial perennials, grasses and sedges.
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium - Sweet Everlasting
Solidago puberula - Downey Goldenrod
Solidago sempervirens - Seaside Goldenrod
Planting
Areas disturbed by construction are replanted with native species to seamlessly integrate the structures with the surrounding landscape.
Planting in front of the main house
Planting the septic meadow
