Built in 1938, it was the first building in the United States commissioned from Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius, who collaborated with Marcel Breuer on its design.

[1] The Hagerty House is set on a point of land overlooking Massachusetts Bay on the north shore of Cohasset, west of Sandy Beach.

The building has undergone a number of minor alterations, primarily in response to the harsh conditions imposed on the original materials used.

It was commissioned by John Hagerty, a student of his at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as a home for his mother, and was completed in collaboration with Marcel Breuer.

Like his own house, Gropius emphasized simple lines and the use of native materials (wood and local stone) in its construction.