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1929 - The Rex T. and Pola Stout House, aka High Meadow,
10 High Meadow Hill Road, Danbury CT. Designed by A. Lawrence Kocher and Gerhard Ziegler. Photo by F. S. Lincoln. Featured in the July 1933 Architectural Record. Deeded to Stout's grandson, Chris, as of 2013.
1930 - The Sherman Pratt House, Niagara Island, Gananoque, Ontario, Canada. Designed by John (Jack) Walter Wood III. One of the first concrete-reinforced houses. B/W photos by Palmer Shannon, as featured in Architect Magazine, 1932. Featured in Town and Country, April 1932. Subject of the 2010 book, The House That Jack Built. Deeded to Deming Pratt Holleran, Pratt's daughter. In 2004, she donated all the drawings to Queen's University. She is still owner as of 2011.
1932 - The Frances Taussig and Elinor Blackman House, off Whortleberry Road, Ridgefield/West Redding CT. They worked together at the Jewish Social Service Association. Designed by Herbert Lippmann. Elinor Blackman died in 1942, Taussig in 1981. Status unknown.
1932
- The Winslow Ames House 1, aka House on 130 Mohegan, aka
Steel House, aka Rusty, 130 Mohegan Avenue, New London CT.
Ames had this built built after attending the Century of
Progress Exposition in Chicago. Prefab International
Style house designed by Howard T. Fisher, who founded
General Houses, Inc. Ames sold the house in 1949 to
Connecticut College, which used it as a rental until the
structure deteriorated and was slated for demolition in
2004. The push to restore the house is credited to Doug
Royalty, who worked with the college's Abigail Van Slyck.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places in
2009.The building was dismantled, transported to
Philadelphia for restoration, and reassembled on the campus
by Milner + Carr. Restoration was finished in 2013.
1933 - The Winslow Ames House 2, aka American Motohome, 130 Mohegan Avenue, New London CT. Designed by architect Robert W. McLaughlin Jr. for American Houses Inc. B/W photo by Samuel Gottscho. An international style steel prefab house. Added to the National Register in 1995. Ames lived in the house for a few years. Connecticut College acquired it in 1949 for faculty housing until 1986. It was in a state of disrepair by 1989 and was up for demolition. A restoration led by preservationist Mary Henderson was designed by Russell Sargent and Michael Pray and completed in 1994.
1934 -
The William Stix Wasserman House, aka Square Shadows,
6024 Butler Pike, Chestnut Hill PA.
Designed by George Howe. Became a Montessori Children's House.
1934 - aka American Motohome, White Plains NY. Designed by architect Robert W. McLaughlin Jr. for American Houses Inc. Built as an exhibition international style steel prefab house. By 1935, two other motohomes were on display in New York City, one in Wanamakers Department Store in April 1935. Needs more research. There were about 56 Motohomes built between 1932 and 1936. Status unknown.
Motohome at Garden City, Long Island NY.
1936 - The Ernest and Helen Eggiman House, 857 South Shore Drive, Madison WI. Designed by architect Robert W. McLaughlin Jr. for American Houses Inc. An international style steel prefab house. One of the last, as Motohomes ceased production in 1936 when the company switched to Cape Cod houses. Still standing as of 2025. Status unknown.
1935 - aka House in Willoughby OH, Nela Grounds on Noble Road, just east of the Nela Park Buildings, Willoughby OH. Designed by Hays and Simpson. B/W photo by Carl Waits. They built similar houses at 2400 and 2404 Derbyshire Roads, and one for Vincent K. Smith in Gates Mills on Mayfield Road in late 1935. Status unknown.
1936 - The William Lowe Jr. Weekend House, Woodside CA. Designed for Lowe's son by architect Gardner Acton Dailey. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1937. Status unknown.
1936 - The William Lowe House, Woodside CA. Designed by architect Gardner Acton Dailey. Featured in House Beautiful, January 1938. Dailey's archives are at UC Berkeley. Status unknown.
1936 - The Robert L. Davison House,
22 Wood Hollow Lane, East Northport NY. Designed by Davison and John Caliender. Davison was director of research at the John B. Pierce Foundation. One of four modernist houses built on 20 acres by a group called the Fort Salonga Colony. Appears this is the only one left.. Sold in 1963. Sold to Brett and Shakira Coulter. For sale in 2025.
1936 - The Professor Tryon House, Berkeley CA. Designed by Michael Goodman. Featured in
Architectural Record May 1938. Status unknown.
1936 - The Alfred J. Bromfield Jr. House,
4975 South University Boulevard, Denver CO. Designed by Burnham Hoyt. Significantly altered over time. Updated in 2004. Sold in 2021 to Ernst Boetzelen. Last photo by Hedrick-Blessing.
1937 - aka Willis Wonderland House,
11576 Otsego Street, Valley Village CA. Designed by William Kesling, an architect known for "Streamline Moderne" designs across Los Angeles and San Diego. Originally built in 1937 as an MGM party house, it was purchased by Allee Willis with her royalties from Earth, Wind, and Fire's “Boogie Wonderland." Willis converted the house into a bold and colorful tribute to mid-century kitsch and creativity. A pop-up book celebrating the house was published in 2025. For sale in 2025.
1937 - The Walter J. and Celeste Kohler Jr. House, aka Windway,
2311 County Road Y, Kohler WI. Designed by William F. Deknatel. Walter lived in the home with his second wife, Charlotte, until his death in 1976. Charlotte remained in the home until 1988. The Vollrath Company. owned the home at that time, but Charlotte lived there. Sold to the Windway Capital Corporation and used as a residence for artists participating in the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Residency.
1937 – The H. Stanley Marcus House,
10 Nonesuch Road, Dallas, TX. Originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, but after exceeding the budget, Wright was dismissed, and Roscoe DeWitt completed the design. 10,000 sf. A catwalk connects to a 1,200 sq. ft. two-bedroom, two-bath guest house above the three-car garage. Sold around 2008 to Mark and Patricia Lovvorn, who initially planned demolition but decided to restore it with W2 Studio. Published in Architectural Forum. As of 2024, still owned by the Lovvorns.
1937 - The Greely
Stevenson Curtis Jr. House, Belmont MA. Designed by George Washington Wales Brewster Jr. Status unknown.
1937 - The Chapman Young Jr. House, Denver CO. Designed by C. F. Hegner. Status unknown.
1937 - The Margaret, Countess of Suffolk House,
625 East Magee Road, Tucson AZ. Designed by Richard Morse. In the early 1930s, she purchased land just east of Oracle Road, north and south of Magee Road. There would be five master bedrooms, servant’s quarters, and a four-car garage. Chauffer’s quarters was a separate cottage near the garage, and the building was air-conditioned. She modeled the house after her home in England, calling the 293-acre estate Forest Lodge. In 1956, the estate was sold to three men including Herman Rasche, manager of the St. Lukes-in-the-Sesert tuberculosis sanatorium. The following year, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary bought part of the estate. They turned the 20 acres of land and its buildings into a boarding school, kindergarten and nursery, which became part of the Immaculate Heart Academy. The main house is now a convent and the group of buildings is the Immaculate Heart School.
1937 - The Frank J. Barrett House,
4350 53rd Avenue NW, Seattle WA. Designed by Paul Thiry and Alban A. Shay. New deck and unknown alterations completed in 2013. Sold in 2009 to Jill Geary and Neil Beaton. Frank Barrett was the manager of the local Portland Cement Association. Due to this, Thiry took advantage of his client's connections to design the house with more reinforced concrete than ever before in his work. The house contained 3 bedrooms plus maid's quarters and occupied a 7,575 sq. ft. (0.17 acres) lot. The Barrett House contained, in 2009, 3,090 square feet. Outdoor rooftop decks were enclosed at some point (this may be the work that was done in 2013). Featured in Architectural Record. First photo by Roger Sturtevant.
1938 - The Clyde T. Lloyd House, Lake Sherwood, Ventura CA. Designed by Stanley Vallet. Sold to Lawrence Caswell. Sold in 2015 to Tim and Lorraine Viole and Matthew and Jill Clark. Sod in 2018 to David and Stephanie Drimmer. Sold in 2021 to Jared Fowler and Annie Milsson. First two photos by Fred Dapprich.
1938 - aka House in Lewisboro, Lewisboro NY. Designed by Herbert Lippmann. Published in Architectural Forum. Status unknown.
1938 - The Philip B. Maher House, Lake Bluff IL. Designed by Philip B. Maher. House and pool house were located north of Shoreacres Country Club as a summer residence. Destroyed. Published in Architectural Forum.
1938 - The Harold V. Manor House,
7 Charles Hill Road, Orinda CA. Designed by Clarence W. W. Mayhew. Sold in 2020 to Raymond and Deborah Hearey.
1938 - The Jonathan Rowell House,
255 the Uplands, Berkeley CA. Designed by Clarence W. W. Mayhew. House was remodeled in 1945. Sold to Charles Fox. Sold in 1997 to Jeffrey Heller.
1938 - aka House in Delaware. Designed by Victorine and Samuel Homsey. Photo by
Robert M. Damora. Status unknown.
1938 - The Jennings F. Sutor House, Portland OR. Designed by Pietro Belluschi as one of his first commissions while working for A. E. Doyle. Sold in 1961 to Carl and Esther Jantzen after Sutor's death. He requested it be sold to the highest bidder. Sold in 1972 when the Jantzen's moved to Hawaii. Sold to Andre Stevens. Sold in 2013 to Aric A, Wood. The home had been altered over the years. 2017 by Anthony Belluschi, Pietro's son. Published in Architectural Record. First two photos by W. Boychuk.
1938 - The Edward Dane
Summer House, Rowley MA. Designed by George Washington Wales Brewster Jr. North side of Long Hill Road. Published in Architectural Forum.
1938 - The G. Holmes Perkins House,
265 Goddard Avenue, Brookline MA. Designed by G. Holmes Perkins. Sold around 1942 to Serge Koussevitsky. Sold to Robert Wexler. Sold in 2003 to J. Talbot Young and David Bryant.
1938 - The Willard V. King House, Madison WI. Designed by Jan Ruhtenberg. Project architect, E. Tuthill. Status unknown.
1938 - The Alfred De Liagre House, Woodstock NY. Designed by William Muschenheim. Published in Architectural Forum. Status unknown.
1939 - The Walter F. Bogner House,
9 Woods End Road, Lincoln MA. Designed by Walter F. Bogner. The Woods End Road Historic District is a residential district at 68 Baker Bridge Rd., 1, 5, 9, and 10 Woods End Road. The district consists of five houses, one of which is Colonial Revival in style, and the other four are in International Style. Helen Storrow, a wealthy philanthropist who owned the land, also funded the construction of the houses, which were among the earliest of their style to be built in the United States. Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer designed the others, all of which are listed under their individual pages. House is still in the Bogner name, owned by Eric and Evelyn Bogner, Walter's wife and son. First three photos by Percival Kestreltail.
1939 - The Andreas S. Andersen House,
2830 East 3rd Street, Tucson AZ. Designed by Richard Morse and Arthur T. Brown. House has been expanded and renovated many times. By 1958, it includes at least two bathes. Appears to be an addition to the west end of the house past the small window on the original design where the car port had been, as well as on the back of housel. Originally six rooms and a bath, now 1788 sf. Sold in 1986 to the Linda Poverman family.
1939 - The Clara Fargo Thomas House,
7 Thomas Way, Mount Desert ME. Designed by George Howe. Sold in the 1980's to the Berwind family who undertook a sympathetic restoration and redecoration. Unfortunately the dining room mural painted by Clara, a well known artist, was gone by that time. Still owned by the Berwind family as of 2014. Color photos from Portland Monthly Magazine 2010.
1939 - The James L. Goodwin House,
1631 Alabama Drive, previously addressed as 1311 Via Tuscany, Winter Park FL. Designed by Philip L. Goodwin. James Goodwin was Philip's brother.Sold to Bill Saxon. Sold in the early 1980's to Michael Mennello. Sold in 2023 to HLJ Northstar as a teardown and destroyed.
1939 – The
Martha Nash and Robert Gibson McNelly House, aka Fort Nash,
1946 - The Marilyn and Stuart R. Nerenberg House, aka the Airform House,
1097 South Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena CA. Designed by Wallace Neff. Built 15 feet into the ground as a bomb shelter. Sold in 1998 to the Roden Steven and Sari Roden Family Trust.
1949 – The Eugene Weston III House,
5117 Stoneglen Road, La Canada CA. Designed by Eugene Weston III. Initially 900 sf. Published in Arts + Architecture magazine. Sold to Richard Keller and K. Timary. Sold in 1996 to Jennifer Essen Trust and expanded. Sold in 2025 to Choi Heuijeong and Kim Shanghyub.
1952 - The Herbert Payson House,
48 Thornhurst Road, Falmouth ME. Designed by Serge Chermayeff as his only Maine commission. It replaced their aging Victorian estate, "Thornhurst." Chermayeff’s son, Peter, expanded the house in 1972, staying true to the original design. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, the home was still in the Payson family as of 2023.
1955 - The Foster R. and Florence C. Jackson House -
5000 Live Oak Canyon Road, La Verne CA. 3,628 sf. Designed and built by Foster Jackson. Has a striking bell tower. Inspired by Foster Jackson’s mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright. Sold for the first time in 2003 to Lisa L. Cobert. Sold in 2017 to Hiday Baca Lisa Company / Hiday Baca Family Trust. Featured in Alan Hess’s Forgotten Modern.
1958 - The Robert and Amelia Frost House,
3215 Cleveland Avenue, Michigan City, Indiana. Designed by Emil Tesser. Interiors curated by Paul McCobb and Florence Knoll in 1964. Sold in 2016 to Bob and Karen Coscarelli. Sold in 2021 to Frost LLC. Sold in 2022 to Jennifer Long. Sold in 2024 to Matthew Charles Meyers.
1960 - The Kamensky House,
2300 N. Edgemont Street, Los Feliz, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Neil M. Johnson. Sold in 1993 to Warren Dewey. Sold in 1997 to Kevin Reilly. Sold in 2001 to the Carson Trust. Sold in 2004 to Gladys Vaughn and Allen Voigt. Sold in 2006 to James Valentine (lead guitarist for Maroon 5). Sold in 2019 to Aileen Getty (granddaughter of the Getty folks) under the name Dowtown Tara LLC. Sold in 2023 to Brad Pitt; he and Getty swapped houses. Pitt's ownership is listed as Kimberly Chaffin Trustee, Palmline Trust. Pitt bought 2 houses in Carmel CA in 2022 under the same name. First photo from Arts & Architecture July 1961.
1979 - House of the Future, 3713 East Equestrian Trail, Ahwatukee, Phoenix Arizona. Designed by Charles Schiffner. Commissioned by Randall Presley, a California real estate developer.Clad in approximately two-and-a-half tons of copper, the 3,100-square-foot house was partially built below grade for thermal efficiency and organized around a central open atrium. Interior spaces were designed as interconnected alcoves rather than enclosed rooms. Its defining feature was a centralized system of five Motorola MC6800 microprocessors, known as “Tukee,” which controlled lighting, climate, windows, and blinds and could respond to spoken commands. Sold in 1993. Sold in 1998.
1982 - The Joseph McCann Residence, aka Cliffside Partners LLC House, 112 Turtle Point Road, Tuxedo Park NY. Designed by Weiss/Manfredi. Sold to Leon Kirsch. Sold in 1999 to Bruse and Osa Lyne. Sold in 2004 to Cliffside Partners. A 2016 Architectural Record house.
1992 -
147 Old Northwest Road, East Hampton NY. Designed by Russell Blue. For sale or rent in 2025.
2016 - The James Jannard House, aka The Most Extreme House in Beverly Hills,
410 Trousdale Place,, Beverly Hills CA. James Jannard founded Oakley. Designed by Yo-ichiro Hakomori of Studio Why. Structural engineer, William Koh. An 18,000sf brutalist-meets-steampunk fortress features retractable walls, a sci-fi bathtub, and panoramic views. For sale in 2025-2026.
2017 - The Julie and Robert (Bobby) Taubman House, aka Blue Dream, aka Double Diamond House, 41 Two Mile Hollow Road, East Hampton NY. Designed by Diller Scofidio and Renfro. 10000 sf. Photos by Iwan Baan. Built by Bulgin; landscape design, Michael Boucher; interiors, Michael Lewis. Bobby Taubman's father, Alfred Taubman, purchased a house by Alden B. Dow, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most prominent disciples. In 1977, Alfred Taubman commissioned Richard Meier to build him a house along the inland waterway in Palm Beach—a modernist residence at 958 North Lake Way that Taubman dubbed Camelot. The project, completed in 1979 with Stephen Lesser as project architect, would later become contentious when Taubman sued Meier and the builder, Robert Gottfried, over structural defects; the suit was settled mostly in Taubman's favor. Around the same time, Taubman also commissioned Meier to design a penthouse apartment at 834 Fifth Avenue in New York City, though this project was never built. The Taubmans interviewed several prominent architects before deciding on Diller Scofidio and Renfro: Shigeru Ban, Peter Gluck, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and Thomas Phifer, whose design was chosent before being cancelled. Brad Dunning was an advisor to the Taubmans. Julie Taubman died a few years after the house was completed. Paul Goldberger wrote a book about it.
2022 - The Nina and Andreas Grueter House, 6068 Mulholland Highway,, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Yo-ichiro Hakomori and Kulapat Yantrasast of Studio Why. Hakomori left the firm during the decade it took for the house to be built but continued to work on it at his new firmm, StudioHau. The 4,455 sf four-story home includes a two-car elevator, a sauna, an office, a walk-in wine cellar, and a cantilevered wading pool.
2023 - The Doug Cummings House, 312 Tobrurry Way, Folsom CA. Designed by Bruce Whitelam and built by Cummings. Sold in 2024 to Ravi Chopra and Yashoo Yada.
Sources include: The Modern House in America, by James Ford and Katherine Morrow Ford; Michael Goodman Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley. Research by Catherine Cramer and Bobbie Morris.