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NATIONWIDE MODERNIST HOUSES
1929 - The Rex 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.
1931 - The Edward X. Tuttle House, 24 Merwood Drive East, Battle Creek MI. Designed by Edward X. Tuttle. The architect's own home, built to rear a family 'privately, comfortably, efficiently.' With only himself to please, he used brick in a severely simple house that strives for an expression of lightness and space while its masonry gives it solidity. The Tuttle family lived here until 1941. A contributing house in the Merritt Woods Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1935.
1932 - The Frances Taussig and Elinor Blackman House, 36 Whortleberry Road, West Redding CT. Designed by Herbert Lippmann. Elinor Blackman died in 1942, Taussig in 1981. Sold in 2022 to Jarrett Fisher and Annmarie Sitar. Standing as of 2024.
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 after attending the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. Designed by Howard T. Fisher, who founded General Houses. 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 in 2013. Connecticut assessor records show no building at 130 Mohegan Avenue among New London’s 7,242 parcels, consistent with the house having been dismantled and re-erected on the Connecticut College campus.
1933 - The George T. Creech Residence, Middletown OH. Designed by O. Kline Fulmer. Honorable Mention, two-story class. A steel house whose 20-gauge rolled steel wall and floor units were factory fabricated and field assembled, faced with porcelain enamel sheets joined by horizontal stainless steel clips; rectangular basementless plan for economy. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1934.
1934 - The William Stix Wasserman House, aka Square Shadows, 6024 Butler Pike, Whitemarsh Township (Blue Bell) PA. Designed by George Howe. Became a Montessori Children's House. Owned since 1996 by Gloria Dei Lutheran Church; aerial imagery shows the flat-roofed building in school use with a playground. Standing as of 2025.
1934 - The John and Isabel Burnham House, 2602 Lake Shore Drive, Long Beach IN. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. Designed by John Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright's son on the shore of Lake Michigan. A house of steel, stucco and copper standing on stilts. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1935.
1934 - A Small Concrete House, Indianola IA. Designed by Oren Thomas. A flat-roofed Modern house built almost entirely by local mason mechanics. Walls and partitions are standard cinder concrete block units, with upper floors and roof of cinder concrete slabs on precast concrete joists left exposed on the underside. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1935.
1934 - The Kereszturi House, Carmel NY. Designed by Clements Horsley. A summer house, reasonably well built so it would also be suitable for winter week-ends. The gable roof demanded by the community's architectural committee was extended into simple, direct forms. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1935.
1934 - The Christian Harry (C. H.) Hecker Jr. House, Miami Beach FL. Designed by Carlos Schoeppl & Arnold Southwell. A Florida seaside house dominated by the horizontal lines of the old adobe houses, with unadorned lawn and the customary close planting that originally protected foundations from rainwater falling from the roof. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1935. The 1939 Miami directory lists Hecker at 6650 Brevity Lane on La Gorce Island; the lot has since been renumbered.
1934 - The Dr. Henrietta V. Race House, 106 River Drive, Appleton WI. Designed by Willard Russell. The architect concluded, and his client agreed, that a traditional style would not satisfactorily exploit the fine river view at the rear of the property; the result is a flat-roofed steel-framed Modern house with generous closet and storage space. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1935. Lot sold in 2015 to Mary Beth Maudsley et al. and the John & Ann Lindstrom Trust (owners of the neighboring house at 100 River Drive). Apparently demolished; the lot at 106 River Drive is now assessed as vacant land with no building and was sold in 2015 to the owners of the adjoining property.
1934 - The Thorsten Sigstedt House, Rose Lane, Bryn Athyn PA. Designed by Dominique Berninger. A servantless house for three satisfying many unusual requirements: a large high-ceilinged studio with north light and its own entrance as far as possible from the rest of the house, and a library opening into the studio so the two can be used together for social purposes. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1935.
1934 - The John S. Preston House, originally at 222 Jordan Street, Shreveport LA. Moved to College Street in 2018. Designed by William B. Wiener. In parts of Louisiana the ground forbids any considerable excavation; the load rests on concrete piers, the construction staunch but light. In a thoroughly modern vein, the house is refreshingly straightforward. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1935.
1934 - The Per K. Frolich House, 930 Mountain View Circle, Westfield NJ. Designed by William Wilde. In reasonable conformity with the manner of the neighborhood yet stamped with individuality: metal casement windows painted warm maroon give an agreeable color accent against white exterior walls. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1935.
1934 - House at Willoughby, Willoughby OH. Designed by Hays & Simpson. The first unit of a speculative group near Cleveland: a square weather-boarded wooden structure devoid of any pretense to the graces of 'style,' devised for the least laborious and most inexpensive scheme of housekeeping for a small family. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1935.
1934 - House in Catalina Foothills, Tucson AZ. Designed by Joseph Th. Joesler. Built by Catalina Foothills Estates, Inc. Built by the Catalina Foothills Estates in the desert near Tucson, patterned after the Mexican type house indigenous to the region and in harmony with the gaunt, cactus-studded landscape; adobe bricks, not coated with adobe plaster, furnish the structural material. FHA-insured mortgage. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1935.
1934 - The Edgar Taylor House, 1615 La Vereda Road, Berkeley CA. Designed by Michael Goodman. A house of contemporary design for an artist, with full working facilities plus the normal amenities for living, on an irregular lot with a steep approach. Esthetically it acknowledges that raw wood in a natural setting is a suitable material. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1935. Sold in 2022 to Jerzy W. Wollak.
1934 - The Robert M. Little House, Miami Beach FL. Designed by Robert M. Little. The architect's own house on a small lot of irregular shape: the problem was to fit house and garage without building from property line to property line while keeping a desirable exposure. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1935.
1934 - The S. Graves House, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Winchton Risley. The living room wall with its sweeping projecting eave is a splendid foil for the foreground planting, one in sunshine, the other in shadow; a large pepper tree purposely dominates and shades the approach, typical of the excellent landscaping done in the architect's office. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1935.
1935 – The General Electric Experimental House, Nela Park, 1975 Noble Road, East Cleveland OH. Designed by J. Byers Hays as an experimental modular house for family living, prompted by the Depression. Destroyed.
1935 - The T. W. Frech Houses, 2400 and 2404 Derbyshire Road, Cleveland Heights OH. Designed by J. Byers Hays of Hays & Simpson. A pair of flat-roofed modern houses built as a rental experiment on a vacant 100-foot lot in an older residential neighborhood, with redwood siding, brick garage walls, and front garages carrying second-floor living room terraces. The pleased owner moved into one and kept the other as a guest house. 2400 sold to Charles J. Druesedow and Katarina Brkic. 2404 sold to Christopher W. McGlinchey. Photo by Carl Waite. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1936.
1935 - The Willard V. King House, Convent NJ. Designed by Jan Ruhtenberg for his father-in-law, a New York banker and Columbia University trustee. A modern flat-roofed house kept economical by Homasote building board used in full-height 8 x 14 ft. sheets for both exterior and interior walls, with carefully studied large window areas under a wide protecting roof overhang. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1936.
1935 - The C. F. Cori House, 1080 North Berry Road, Glendale MO. Designed by Harris Armstrong. A suburban residence typically modern in the geometrical severity of its interlocking blocks, enlivened by patterns of re-used common brick and California redwood. Roof decks and corner windows; brick walls finished in white cement paint. Photo by Alexander Piaget. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1936. Owned by Michael A. and Lisa Heintz as of 2026.
1935 - The Mrs. George Daub House, Harvey Cedars NJ. Designed by George Daub for his wife. A shore house planned for ocean views from its rooftop deck, designed for an individual owner yet planned to meet the requirements of an average family. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1936.
1935 - The Dr. Harry H. Schlomovitz House, Barron WI. Designed by Klinger & Becker. An informal, easy-to-clean stone and wood house for a bachelor who wanted something different, up-to-date and friendly, with as much built-in furniture as possible. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1936.
1935 - The Helen Clarke House, Madison WI. Designed by Planning Associates. A servantless modern house for a single lady whose sharply sloping site concentrates the living quarters on the second floor, with a sheltered terrace below. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1936.
1935 - The Dr. Harold Reese House, 562 East Seminary Street, Richland Center WI. Designed by Planning Associates. A servantless modern house for a couple, its living quarters placed on the upper floor of the sloping site with clearly defined dining space and facilities for entertaining. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1936. Sold in 2025.
1935 - The Hamilton Beatty House, 5907 Winnequah Road, Monona WI. Designed by Hamilton & Gwenydd Beatty. The architect's own rugged, individualistic modern house near Madison, attacked in the contemporary manner for a family of four without service quarters. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1936. Standing as of a 2022 Wisconsin Historical Society survey.
1935 - The Dr. Gustave F. Weinfeld House, 401 Woodland Road, Ravinia, Highland Park IL. Designed by James F. Eppenstein. Rated significant in the Highland Park architectural survey. Sharply defined brick masses with windows in long rows and roof decks for outdoor living; a full-height window of glass blocks lights the stair hall, and wood veneers relieve the spacious interiors. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1936. Owned by David and Julie Baum as of 2025.
1935 - The D. Berryhill House, San Antonio TX. Designed by Adams & Adams. A stucco house combining living and dining rooms plus a breakfast alcove; large windows leave uninterrupted wall space for furniture, and the roof is finished for use as a deck. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1936.
1935 - The R. S. Holmgren House, Lincoln MA. Designed by Edward R. Wait. Reinforced concrete used honestly, both structurally and as a pleasing surface texture, with a two-car garage incorporated in a small house and large steel casements proving that window scale need not shrink in the small house. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1936.
1935 - House at Lake Delavan, Lake Delavan WI. Designed by Howard T. Fisher. Built by General Houses, Inc. A prefabricated lakeside house built of stock unit panels, windows and four-foot Celotex squares, designed primarily for summer use but insulated throughout for the severest weather. Two large living rooms command views of the lake. Photo by Trowbridge. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1936.
1935 - House at Punta Gorda, Montevideo, Uruguay. Designed by Etchebarne, Ciurich & Bomio. A seaside house whose sweeping concrete overhangs and rugged stone base reflect the Latin distrust of the glass facade bred by centuries of sunlight, a striking illustration of modern architecture conditioned by climate and tradition. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1936.
1935 - House in Alexandria, Alexandria VA. Designed by A. K. Waterval. A flat-roofed modern house departing from stylistic precedent, with generous fenestration and terrace space. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1936.
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 Motohomes as they ceased production in 1936 when the company switched to Cape Cod houses. Still standing as of 2025. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1936 – The William Lowe Jr. Weekend House, Woodside CA. Designed by Gardner Acton Dailey as a week-end house on the Lowe family's country estate, for the use of the owner's son, sited on a level area beside the estate's tennis court. Won First Prize in House Beautiful's 1936 Small House Competition. Featured in American Architect, March 1937, Architectural Forum, April 1937, Architectural Record, August 1937, House Beautiful, January 1938, and Architectural Forum, April 1941. The client is likely William L. Lowe (1915–2000), Stanford 1936, later Woodside's first mayor. Dailey's archives are at UC Berkeley. Status unknown.
1936 - The Robert L. Davison House, 22 Wood Hollow Lane, East Northport NY. Designed by Robert Davison and John Caliender. 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 Robert Choate Tryon House, 1196 Keith Avenue, Berkeley CA. Designed by Michael Goodman. An experimental modular plywood house. Featured in Architectural Record May 1938. Garden by landscape architects H. Leland and Adele Vaughan. Tryon, a UC Berkeley psychologist, was in residence by 1938. Greatly enlarged over the years and rebuilt down to the studs by Levitch Associates, last photo. Sold in 2005. Sold in 2026.
1936 - The Morris and Barbara Sanders House, 219 East 49th Street, New York NY. Designed by Morris Sanders. After his death, the triplex unit was rented to Frederick Hurd and Carr F. Pross, who in turn leased the apartment to Maximilian Simon. Sold in 1949 to Anna D. Wiman. Sold in 1980 to Donald Wise. Designated a NYC landmark in 2008. Sold in 2021 to East 49th Street LLC.
1936 - The Alfred J. Bromfield Jr. House, 4975 South University Boulevard, Denver CO. Designed by Burnham Hoyt. Last photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Significantly altered over time. Updated in 2004. Sold in 2021 to Ernst Boetzelen.
1936 – The Casper Forman Hegner House, 2323 East Dakota Avenue, Denver CO. Designed by Casper F. Hegner. Listed on the National Register in 2023.
1936 - The Prof. Robert C. Tryon Guest House, 1196 Keith Avenue, Berkeley CA. Designed by Michael Goodman. A small modern guest house entered at an intermediate stair landing on its steeply sloping site, with a high living space sheathed in mahogany plywood and windows grouped at the corners. Photo by N. Richardson. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1937. Held by Michelle H. Sweeney as trustee after a 2014 trust transfer; sold again in 2026 (buyer not yet identified). Renovated down to the studs, with a new slab foundation, before a 2026 sale; the house was once the home of the founder of Peet's Coffee. Standing as of 2026.
1936 - The Barry M. Goldwater House, 3002 North Manor Drive West, Country Club Manor, Phoenix AZ. Designed by H. H. Green. Built by Del Webb. A curious blend of early Southwestern and modern architecture in solid brick, with small windows against the intense desert light, glass blocks lighting the reception hall, and a striking curved stair wall. Photo by Bate. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1937. Sold in 2020 to Tyvon Branch. Standing as of 2026.
1936 - The Bertha K. Hammond House, Wichita KS. Designed by Melton P. Johns. Built by American Houses, Inc. A fireproof, air conditioned house for a widow living alone, prefabricated by American Houses, Inc. of steel joists and insulated wall panels, with a ground floor utility room replacing the basement. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1937.
1936 - The V. M. S. Kaufmann House, 20 Park Lane, Minneapolis MN. Designed by Wessel, Brunet & Kline. A flat-roofed modern weekend house for a couple with no children, its large windows opening the entire lake side to the view; originally designed for reinforced concrete, it was built in wood. Photo by Charles W. Howson. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1937. On Cedar Lake; a designated Minneapolis landmark. Renovated with an addition around 2014.
1936 - The Helen L. Crandall House, 5726 Nottingham Drive, Oakland CA. Designed by Michael Goodman. A dark, severe hillside box of native redwood boards, partly surfaced and partly rough-sawn, with sharp overhangs and white trim in a manner more familiar in Scandinavia than in the U.S. Cubage 10,500; Photo by N. Richardson. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1937. Sold in 2018.
1936 - The Cloyd Head House, 4176 Ingraham Highway, Coconut Grove FL. Designed by Chester Hart with Marion I. Manley, associate. A budget house for a family of three built of vibrated concrete blocks exposed inside and out, with trim eliminated wherever possible; both husband and wife are writers and each has a separate study, and a dining porch takes advantage of the year-round mild climate. Photo by Richard B. Hoit. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1937. Built for Cloyd Head and his wife, the poet Eunice Tietjens.
1936 - The Allen Breed Walker House, 818 Hot Springs Road, Montecito CA. Designed by Lutah Maria Riggs. A modernized French design with a flat roof, an 18 x 40 ft. living room and an elliptical dining room, all on one level; the strung-out plan follows a natural alley of live oaks and the contours above a view of the sea, with extensive use of space-saving sliding doors. Photos by Fred R. Dapprich. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1937. Sold at auction in 2020; buyer not identified. Built 1934-35 for Allen Breed and Katherine Walker and originally called Les Chenes. Standing as of 2020.
1936 - House in Wood (The K. H. Holden House), Birchwood Beach MI. Designed by John Lloyd Wright. A compact three-story square of cedar shingles and Silver fir plywood concentrated on a highly irregular ravine site, tied to its surroundings by terraces and a wooden bridge spanning the ravine to bathing houses and the lake 60 feet below. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1937.
1937 – The Chapman and Mary H. Young Jr. House, 720 South Milwaukee Street, Denver CO. Designed by Casper Forman Hegner. Featured in Architectural Record, November 1937, and The Modern House in America (1940). Standing as of 2016.
1937 - aka Willis Wonderland House, 11576 Otsego Street, Valley Village CA. Designed by William Kesling. 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, under an agreement with the Vollrath Company, which owned the home at that time. 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, 283 Prospect St, Belmont MA. Designed by George Washington Wales Brewster Jr., made shortly after he worked in William Lescaze's office and a year before he opened his own practice on Newbury Street. A two-story flat-roofed house of native stone and narrow clapboard, with metal strip casements and a glass-block stair hall, sited on Belmont Hill for a view over Boston to the ocean with every room facing south. The Curtises lived here until about 1944. Published in Ford & Ford, The Modern House in America (1940), and House & Garden, November 1941. The house on the lot was later replaced or remodeled beyond recognition (carded 1950), and it was razed after Belmont Hill School acquired the property in 2023. Demolished.
1937 - The Pietro Belluschi House, 3728 South Beaverton Avenue, Portland OR. Designed by Pietro Belluschi, working for A. E. Doyle. Sold in 1993 to John and Janet Day, still owners as of 2023. Renovation in 2025 by John Weil Architects for a new kitchen, family room, and guest suite. Published in Architectural Record.
1937 - The Margaret, Countess of Suffolk House, 625 East Magee Road, Tucson AZ. Designed by Richard Morse. 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. Luke's-in-the-Desert 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. Became 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. Sold in 2009 to Jill Geary and Neil Beaton. New deck and unknown alterations completed in 2013. Featured in Architectural Record. First photo by Roger Sturtevant.
1937 - The Henry B. Robertson House, aka House in Delaware, Centreville DE. Designed by Victorine and Samuel Homsey of Wilmington, one of the first husband-and-wife architectural firms in the US. Built by Rupert & Fulenwider. Published in Architectural Forum, February 1938, photos by Robert M. Damora early in his career. Selected by the Museum of Modern Art to represent the International Style in Three Centuries of American Art, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, May–July 1938. The site was reached by Pavilion Drive, off Kennett Pike. Destroyed.
1937 - The F. Morse Archer Jr House, Barnegat City NJ. Designed by George Daub. A dune-top beach house designed to withstand moisture-laden salt air, sun and wind, sheathed in asbestos shingles with roof decks overlooking the ocean. Photo by Robert M. Damora. Featured in Architectural Forum, September 1938.
1937 - The Dr. Isolde T. Zeckwer House, Harvey Cedars NJ. Designed by George Daub. One of a number of beach dwellings by Daub on the Jersey shore, a boxy two-story cottage of rough-sawn pine built on 8-in. diameter piles jetted 15 ft. into the dunes, with a railed roof deck facing the sea. Photo by Robert M. Damora. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1938.
1937 - The Georges Wilmet House, Roslyn NY. Designed by Allen Tuttle and George Kosmak. A flat-roofed modern house of whitewashed brick veneer, cited as evidence of the rapidity with which the modern house has eliminated its objectionable features and gained wider acceptance. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1938.
1937 - The Professor C. J. Finney House, College Station TX. Designed by Clarence J. Finney. A flat-roofed modern house of conventional wood stud construction faced with yellow pine lapped siding and brick, with a massive central chimney and corner windows, built for a Texas A&M professor. Photo by Zismon. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1938.
1937 - The Thomas H. Mullen House, 3200 Harrison Street, Evanston IL. Designed by Bertrand Goldberg. A small suburban house of unusual interest, noteworthy for its plan, interior and exterior design, and details: an admirably thought out living-dining room and highly compact service unit, an all-wood exterior, and window sash carried up to the ceiling line. Cubage: 13,500. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1938. Also featured in American Home, July 1939. Originally numbered 2501 Central Park.
1937 - The Alvin Greif House, Miami Beach FL. Designed by Igor B. Polevitzky and T. Trip Russell. An open-plan house on Rivo Alto Island demonstrating the merits of the open plan in the Florida climate: view and ventilation are provided in all important rooms, a curved glass dining bay overlooks Biscayne Bay, and the plain white surfaces and low-pitched roof give ample terraces on both floors for outdoor living. Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1938.
1937 - House in North Kessler Manor, Indianapolis IN. Designed by American Dwellings Corp., Frank Watson, President. A prefabricated plywood house extending shell-system experiments carried on at Purdue University: walls of 4 x 8 ft. box beam panels of phenol-resin glued plywood, floor panels up to 24 ft. long. Of 12,000 visitors, fewer than 10 per cent objected to its flat-roofed modern appearance; Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1938.
1937 - Beach House at Hobe Sound, Hobe Sound FL. Designed by Henry Corse, with furnishings by Walter Dorwin Teague. A flat-roofed white beach house whose formal plan provides an excellent balance between indoor and outdoor living, opening through a glazed living room to a rear terrace and patio facing the ocean. Photo by Frank Turgeon Jr. Featured in Architectural Forum, September 1938.
1937 - The Robert F. Smith House, Coconut Grove FL. Designed by Robert F. Smith. The architect's own one-story residence, typical of the combination of modern features with conventional southern practice in recent Florida houses: concrete block and stucco walls, bedrooms and bath grouped around a small private passageway, a generous porch for year-round outdoor living, and a solar water heating system. Photo by Gerecke - Pan American. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1938.
1937 - The Alfred and Frida DeLiagre Sr. House, Woodstock NY. Designed by William Muschenheim for his aunt and uncle, parents of Broadway producer Alfred de Liagre Jr., as a modern vacation house after they sold their earlier Zena estate. Low-pitched roof with deep-blue trim over concrete-block and asbestos-shingle walls, with a stone fireplace in the living room. Published in Architectural Record, April 1938, and Architectural Forum (Plus), December 1938. Listed in William Rhoads's Ulster County architectural guide (2011). Original drawings (Job 43) survive in the Muschenheim drawings at Avery Library, Columbia University; his later papers are at the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. At Byrdcliffe, near Woodstock. Status unknown.
1938 - The Clyde T. Lloyd House, 103 Lake Sherwood Drive, Ventura CA. Designed by Stanley Vallet. Sold to Lawrence Caswell. Sold in 2015 to Tim and Lorraine Viole and Matthew and Jill Clark. Sold 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 NY. Designed by Herbert Lippmann. A house built largely of precast concrete units, its painted cinder block walls giving the design its strongly rectilinear character. Precast concrete floor joists by the Bedford Hills Concrete Products Company, a central bearing wall, an open exterior stair to a roof deck, five bedrooms, a separate dining room, and a basement studio with a kiln room. Cubage: 41,000. Published in Architectural Forum, March 1939, photo by John Gass. 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. Published in Architectural Forum. Destroyed.
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 - The Jennings F. Sutor House, 1100 SW Skyline Boulevard, Portland OR. Designed by Pietro Belluschi while working for A. E. Doyle. Sold in 1961 to Carl and Esther Jantzen after Sutor's death. Sold in 1972. Sold to Andre Stevens. Sold in 2013 to Aric A Wood. Altered over the years. Renovated in 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. A house in a tradition as old as New England, its dark-painted walls forming an effective background for white-trimmed doors and windows; shed roofs vary the modern flat roof, and the main interior finish is solid wood and plywood. Featured in Architectural Forum, January 1940. Destroyed. Massachusetts assessor records for Long Hill Road in Rowley show no surviving structure of this period: the road holds two eighteenth- and nineteenth-century houses and otherwise nothing earlier than 1978, when the land appears to have been subdivided.
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. Assessor records confirm the 2003 sale: owner of record is the J. Talbot Young Jr. trust; built 1938, 8,637 sf.
1938 - The Willard V. King House, Madison NJ. Designed by Jan Ruhtenberg, with Elmer Tuthill as architect, for a member of the family of his wife, Polly King. A one-story house of fieldstone and stucco with Homasote and plywood interiors, designed for a family of four, with a den convertible into a guest room. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1940. Elaine Freed, a Colorado Springs preservationist, has done extensive research on Ruhtenberg. Status unknown.
1938 - The Dr. James B. Graeser House, 201 Pershing Drive, Oakland CA. Designed by Michael Goodman. A modern house on an irregular sloping view lot in the San Francisco Bay manner, with the garage at street level on the top floor and living quarters below; walls are redwood rustic and colored California stucco, and the slope allowed an above-ground basement with playroom and maid's room. Photo by Esther Born. Featured in Architectural Forum, January 1939. Sold in 1989.
1938 - The Wade Lane House, Harvey Cedars NJ. Designed by George Daub. A modern seashore house built on piles and sheathed in Dutch lap asbestos shingles, its informal character emphasized by a curved, window-banded living room with three exposures whose projection carries a useful second-floor deck; the dining room is part of the general living space yet removed enough for privacy. Photo by Robert M. Damora. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1939.
1938 - The William Roger Stoll House, Hayward CA. Designed by George Patton Simonds. A long plan on a narrow strip between street and creek, with high windows on the street facade for privacy and the living room opening to the rear; walls are channel redwood boards on Douglas fir studs. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1939.
1938 - The Philip Will, Jr House, 2949 Harrison Street, Evanston IL. Designed by Perkins, Wheeler & Will. The architect-partner's own modern house, a low horizontal composition of brick and wood siding with a broad sheltering roof. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1939. Will and his family lived here until 1980. Sold in 2017. Standing as of 2026.
1938 - The Porter Butts House, 2900 Hunter Hill, Shorewood Hills WI. Designed by William Kaeser. A strikingly modern hillside house whose cantilevered upper deck and horizontal boarding recall Wright's Usonian work in neighboring territory. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1939. Sold in 2019 to Ryan P. and Emily C. Bohochik. Standing as of 2026.
1938 - The Dr. Ugo Morano House, Stapleton NY. Designed by Matthew Robert Leizer. A three-story flat-roofed modern house on Staten Island, its smooth white walls stepped back over a garage base. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1939.
1938 - The A. Rosenfield House, Palm Springs CA. Designed by Paul Laszlo. An interesting one-story desert scheme deriving much of its character from the garden wall that completely encloses house and grounds; a curved glass bay bows out of the living room. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1939.
1938 - The Dr. Harold Carter House, 10 East Parnassus Court, Berkeley CA. Designed by Michael Goodman. The central feature is a two-story living room screened from the stairs by a bookcase and cabinet, with bedrooms opening off a balcony above and redwood disciplining the exterior; Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1939. Carter was a UC Berkeley educational psychologist.
1938 - The Jay Greenwald House, Miami Beach FL. Designed by Polevitzky & Russell. A streamlined modern Florida house with cantilevered sun shades and ribbon windows, planted with tropical hedges. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1939.
1938 - Remodeled Town House in New York, New York NY. Designed by Herbert Lippmann. A Manhattan brownstone remodeled into a modern town house, its facade reworked with large studio windows. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1939.
1938 - House in Princeton, Princeton NJ. Designed by Kenneth Kassler. Landscape architect: Daniel M. Lenker. A white-walled modern house under a copper-covered roof now weathering from dark brown to green, with terraces and steps of exposed yellow bank gravel aggregate; the master bedroom is lined in prima vera Flexwood. Photos by Robert M. Damora. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1939.
1938 - House in Greenburgh, Greenburgh NY. Designed by Paul Doering. Engineers: H. G. Balcom & Associates. A fireproof house of hard-fired face brick bonded to cinder block on a high ridge between Long Island Sound and the Hudson Palisades, with both visible from the second floor terrace; interior walls of flush teak veneer run from floor to ceiling. Photo by Robert M. Damora. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1939.
1938 - Two Houses in Princeton, Princeton NJ. Designed by Evans, Moore & Woodbridge. Two houses which indicate that sober respectability is not incompatible with intelligent small-house planning. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1939.
1938 - House in Atlanta, Atlanta GA. Designed by W. Montgomery Anderson. An A.G.A. competition house, a low brick Georgia house with wide eaves shading its terrace. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1939.
1938 - House in Stillwater, Stillwater OK. Designed by A. Richard Williams. An A.G.A. competition house, a long low stone-walled house of distinctly modern horizontal character for Oklahoma. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1939.
1938 - House in Menlo Park, Menlo Park CA. Designed by John Ekin Dinwiddie. An A.G.A. competition house, a two-story redwood modern with continuous balcony rail across the garden front. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1939.
1938 - The Samuel G. Wiener House, 615 Longleaf Road, Shreveport LA. Designed by Jones, Roessle, Olschner and Wiener. An uncompromisingly modern flat-roofed house of reinforced concrete frame and stucco for architect Samuel G. Wiener, a partner in the designing firm, featuring a two-story glazed stair wall, a neon-lit cove light and a projecting flower window in the living room. Photo by Marcus D. Weeks. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1939. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 as the Samuel Wiener House. Standing.
1938 - The Joseph Henry Jackson House, 2626 Buena Vista Way, Berkeley CA. Designed by Michael Goodman. Designed for a very irregular hillside site, the house takes advantage of the slope to get three levels above ground, with an interesting use of textured redwood siding to give interest to the exterior; the generous living facilities include a large living room and a playroom of equal size on the floor below. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1939. Sold in 2014 to Matthew B. and Charlotte E. Skinner.
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. Five houses, one of which is Colonial Revival in style, and the other four are Modernist. Helen Storrow owned the land and 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 pages. Deeded to Eric and Evelyn Bogner, Walter's wife and son. First three photos by Percival Kestreltail. Still in the family: the Massachusetts assessor lists the owner as the Eric P. Bogner trust; built 1938, 2,024 sf, classified Eclectic.
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. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1939.
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, 522 Oak Street, Decatur AL. Designed by Edwin Bragg Lancaster who taught architecture at Auburn. Wedding gift to the daughter of Roy and Ruby Nash. As befitting a Coca-Cola bottling executive, each floor of the home had fountains that dispensed Coca-Cola. The fountains are still operational, however they dispense water. The home's blue prints have survived, and clearly show the family room's "Coca-Cola" fountain bar. Sold in 1999 to Michael Twente. Sold in 2010 to Vivian C. Turner. Sold in 2016 to Joseph and Kenyala Hicks. Sold in 2017 to Marcus E. and Cole Carl Wynn III. Sold in 2020 to Carl A. and Katherine Klepper.
1939 - The Seymour-Tanner House, aka Little Switzerland House B, 433 Little Switzerland Road, Knoxville TN. Designed by the husband-and-wife architects Alfred and Jane West Clauss. He worked for Mies van der Rohe (including on the 1929 Barcelona Pavilion), she for Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Built for Walton Seymour, a TVA colleague of Clauss's. One of the best-preserved of five modern houses the Clausses designed and built in their own ridgetop subdivision, Little Switzerland, between 1939 and 1945, where deed restrictions required contemporary design. Restored by architect John Sanders. Photo by Denise Retallack.
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. 1788 sf. Sold in 1986 to the Linda Poverman family.
1939 - The James B. Ayer House, Wareham MA. Designed by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott. A seaside cottage adapted from William Wurster's design in the last series of LIFE houses, retaining the original patio as an adjunct to shore living; living and dining rooms are combined, with an open garage and maid's room in a wing by the entrance. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, January 1940. On Long Beach Road at Indian Neck.
1939 - The Henry R. Shepley House, Wareham MA. Designed by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott. A summer house built by the architect for his own use adjoining the Ayer cottage, with fir flooring used for both exterior and interior finish, stock double-hung windows filling almost the entire second-floor wall area, and exposed joists inside. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, January 1940. On Long Beach Road at Indian Neck.
1939 - The Dr. Hans Schiff House, 6624 Whitley Terrace, Whitley Heights, Hollywood CA. Designed by Paul Laszlo. A stucco house on a steep hillside with garage and bedrooms at street level and living quarters below; a retaining-wall light well brings light and air to the lower service rooms, and all important rooms face south to the view. 2,980 square feet; Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1940. Named in the 2010 Whitley Heights Historic Preservation Overlay Zone preservation plan. Standing as of 2026.
1939 - The Roger Kent House, Kent Woodlands CA. Designed by Hervey Parke Clark. Landscape architect: Garrett Eckbo. A small Marin County house, rare among houses built for sale in the completeness and imagination of its landscaping and the close integration of garden and house. The chief material is redwood plywood stained a driftwood color, used both inside and out, and living and dining spaces can be separated by a curtain. Photo by Esther Born. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1940.
1939 - The John L. Bradley House, Hillsborough CA. Designed by Hervey Parke Clark. Landscape architect: Butler Sturtevant. Built on a rather steeply sloping lot, with interiors kept as plain backgrounds for the owner's many fine pieces of old furniture; the living room fireplace wall is Canadian spruce stained to match an antique carved mantel. Decorator: Mrs. Frances Murphy. Photo by Esther Born. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1940.
1939 - The Harrison Dibblee Jr House, Marin County CA. Designed by Hervey Parke Clark. An interesting house in the Del Mesa Tract whose modest shingled front gives no indication of its actual size: a full two stories with the main entrance on a mezzanine level, all main rooms oriented to the south, and street walls kept blank or high for privacy, accented by the unusual entrance and a painted brick chimney. Photo by Esther Born. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1940.
1939 - The Karl Kamrath House, 3448 Locke Lane, Houston TX. Designed by MacKie & Kamrath. The architect's own house, providing space for informal living at minimum cost with proper orientation to prevailing summer winds. Texas limestone and pine are used for practically all walls inside and out, a large screened porch catches the breeze, and the space above living room and porch serves as a parapet-screened deck. Photo by Elwood M. Payne. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1940. Owned since 1988 by Kane C. and Randa S. Weiner. Apparently replaced: the appraisal district dates the present 6,200 sq ft house to 2007, and 2024 aerials show a large hip-roofed house rather than the flat-roofed limestone original.
1939 - House in St. Charles, St. Charles IL. Designed by Chester Sig Anderson. A radically different small house on the Swedish model, with a handsome kitchen-dining room in its well-lighted, well-insulated basement under a wire glass skylight; the five-room, 1,150 sq. ft. house was built speculatively in Anderson's home town. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1939.
1939 - House in Palm Springs, Palm Springs CA. Designed by John Porter Clark. A low desert house set among boulders, its principal view to the north orientation which simplifies sun control in the Palm Springs climate. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1940.
1939 - The Hilary Belloc House (House on De Silva Island), Mill Valley CA. Designed by Mario Corbett. A compact hillside house lifted above its sloping site on a raised deck, with continuous windows wrapping the living corner. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1940. De Silva Island is a wooded peninsula in Richardson Bay; the adjoining lagoon is still called Belloc's Lagoon.
1939 - House in Hollywood, Hollywood CA. Designed by Paul Laszlo. A hillside modern house stepping down its site on two levels, with a broad terrace and glazed living rooms overlooking the canyon. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1940.
1939 - House in Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Gregory Ain. A plan for a completely level lot on a hillside overlooking the city, with a badminton court below and glazed living spaces opening to the view. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1940.
1939 - House in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City UT. Designed by Lowell E. Parrish. Sliding windows and panels mark this stone-based modern house with cantilevered deck. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1940.
1939 - House in San Francisco, San Francisco CA. Designed by John Ekin Dinwiddie. Cited by the Forum as perhaps the most encouraging single factor of the current small-house scene, a Bay Region modern house whose living rooms angle toward the view. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1940.
1939 - House in Auburn, Auburn AL. Designed by Sidney Wahl Little. Designed for a college professor and his wife whose academic work is play production and whose hobbies are photography and music: the combined living-dining room houses the record player and recording collection, and the whole lower floor is devoted to hobby and study space. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1940.
1939 - House in Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM. Designed by John Gaw Meem, the leading exponent of the Santa Fe regional style. Adobe is used throughout, and every surface except the kitchen and bathroom walls is finished in adobe plaster. The roof follows local practice with exposed round beams, but cantilevered overhangs replace the customary exposed parapet and protect the walls below. The plan is arranged around a large porch, with the three bedrooms forming a more or less self-contained wing. Photo by Ernest Knee. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1940.
1939 - House in Davenport, Davenport IA. Designed by Stanhope Blunt Ficke. A brick house on a city lot divided into three self-contained zones for living, sleeping and service, with no side windows except in the service quarters; a modern version of the front porch — a simple slab on lally columns with a masonry screen wall — is of particular interest. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1940.
1939 - House in Glencoe, Glencoe IL. Designed by Dubin and Dubin. A brick house remarkable for the thoroughness with which its style, an outgrowth of that developed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is carried through in every detail. The plan centers on a sinuous, interconnected dining-living-study space on two levels, with a screened terrace and outdoor fireplace open on three sides. Photo by Steven Heiser. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1940.
1939 - House at Setauket, Long Island, Setauket NY. Designed by William R. Huntington. Designed for a couple with no children and no servants, with exceptionally generous living quarters for its single bedroom; the second floor porch and the diagonal placing of the brick veneer house were dictated by the view of the water. Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1940.
1939 - House in Redding, Redding CT. Designed by Henry N. Wright with Hornbostel & Bennett. Built of Hudson River common brick in 10 in. cavity walls on a rocky knoll facing a lake to the south, with all major rooms assigned to the view side. The house is an early case history of radiant panel heating, with pipe coils embedded in the concrete floor slabs. Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho. Featured in Architectural Forum, September 1940.
1939 - House in Darien, Darien CT. Designed by A. Musgrave Hyde. A long low building bridging the hollow between two outcropping rock knolls, with the lower level used for main entrance, garage and service quarters. The marked horizontality is accented by a black slate roof and horizontal V-jointed siding painted gray down to the window sills, white below. Photo by Rodney McCay Morgan. Featured in Architectural Forum, September 1940.
1939 - House in Hillsborough, Hillsborough CA. Designed by James H. Mitchell; Frederick C. Frey Jr., Collaborating. A stucco hillside house dropping down its wooded site on two levels, with curved window bays, a planted garden passageway under a long trellised gallery, and main rooms placed above the bedroom floor to catch the view. Photo by Esther Born. Featured in Architectural Forum, September 1940.
1939 - House in Ojai, Ojai CA. Designed by Emrich Nicholson and Douglas Maier. Few small houses of recent years show a fresher or more personal approach: built of stone and redwood on the edge of a steep hill in Ojai with magnificent views of hills and valleys, the house is separated into two structural units with a porch between, serving as a retreat from the summer sun and a shelter for the entrances. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1940.
1939 - House at Tappan Landing, Tarrytown NY. Designed by Robert A. Green. A thoroughly straightforward design admirably planned for convenient use and economy, with an open arrangement of living room, dining room and hall and four bedrooms above; the chief interior finish is plywood, used with excellent decorative effect on both walls and ceilings. Photo by Robert M. Damora. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1940.
1939 - House in Cleveland Heights, Cleveland Heights OH. Designed by George B. Mayer. A house in which special attention was given to wall and roof textures: built in heavily wooded surroundings, it was made as inconspicuous as possible with masonry walls and a wood shingle roof, window and door trim painted out rather than accented. Interiors feature indirect lighting and built-in furniture. Photo by C. W. Ackerman. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1940.
1939 - The Jesse R. Stone House, Houston TX. Designed by MacKie & Kamrath. A reasonably small and compact brick veneer house for two, built on a concrete slab adjoining the Kamrath house by the same architects; the north bedroom doubles as guest room and studio, a screened porch gives protection from the hot afternoon sun, and a separate garage includes maid's quarters. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1940. On Locke Lane in River Oaks, next to the Kamrath house at 3448 Locke Lane.
1940 - House in Denver, Denver CO. Designed by Thomas E. Moore. A very attractive and dignified modern design in brick with roof decks, notable for probably the first second-floor laundry in the small house field and a recreation room that functions as open or enclosed space. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1941.
1940 - House in Williams Bay, Williams Bay WI. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. A house that includes a complete photographic studio and darkroom while keeping a modest residential character, its low horizontal lines of siding and stone looking toward Lake Geneva. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1941.
1940 - House in St. Louis County, St. Louis MO. Designed by Murphy & Wischmeyer. A one-story house of brick and single-light casement windows whose two-story ingenuity is an excellent use of the entrance at the half level; the living room, as shown in the interior view, has an unusually high ceiling. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1941.
1940 - House in Madison, Madison WI. Designed by Beatty & Strang. A three-story modern house on a wooded slope, walled in Rostone panels on steel shelf angles with aluminum sash and glass block, its maid's room, recreation room and decks stacked with the terrain. Photo by Charles Bradley. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1941.
1940 - House in Mountainside, Mountainside NJ. Designed by Kenneth Kassler. A definite attempt to relieve severity of form by emphasis on texture, as in the narrowly spaced clapboards enclosing the upper story and the high pipe trellis at the east end; crisp, orderly plans arranged on half-levels developed from the contours of the land. Photo by Robert M. Damora. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1941.
1940 - House in Linden, Linden NJ. Designed by Andre Halasz. Erected to accommodate the offices of a physician whose residence is next door, this brick house was designed so that in case of resale it is readily re-converted into a five-room dwelling without structural alterations, the entire finish being dry construction. O'Hara-Edson, associates. Photo by Adolph Studley. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1941.
1940 - House in Linden, Linden NJ. Designed by Harry Maslow. A compact modern two-bedroom house with dining alcove and basement, very well worked out, thoroughly livable and exceedingly compact. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1941.
1940 - House in Poundridge, Poundridge NY. Designed by Moore & Hutchins. A vacation house using the widespread U.S. tradition of exposed stud framework, structurally adequate and capable of producing thoroughly pleasing interiors, with a second-floor deck open on both sides and sheltered by a cantilevered roof. Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1941.
1940 - House in Stonington, Stonington CT. Designed by John W. Lincoln. A small two-bedroom house of red cedar bevel siding, built on a concrete slab with an above-ground utility room in place of a basement, which was unusual for New England. The front hall is planned to lead to a future wing, and an oversize bathroom suits a family with very small children and can later become a bath-dressing room. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1941. Status unknown.
1940 - House in Spring Hill, Spring Hill WV. Designed by Donald Thompson. The owner, who was also the designer and builder, submits this residence as an example of the 'hand-made house': the structure consists chiefly of 4 x 8 plywood panels over a stone base, with a wide hipped roof sheltering the living-dining room and porch. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1941.
1940 - House in Newtown, Newtown CT. Designed by Evans, Moore & Woodbridge. An unconventionally designed country residence in which site contours and view were the controlling factors: the main living rooms, with maid's room, studio and deck, are on the upper level above a walled terrace. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1941.
1940 - The L. D. Owens House, aka House in Sausalito, 39 Atwood Avenue, Sausalito CA. Designed by Gardner A. Dailey. Landscape architect: Marie Harbeck. From the Forum's portfolio of Dailey's work, called California residential architecture at its distinctive best: a hillside house of redwood boards over fir studs whose glazed two-story stair wall floods the interior with light. Maurice Sands, decorator. Photos by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1941.
1940 - House in Woodside, Woodside CA. Designed by Gardner A. Dailey. Landscape architect: Thomas D. Church. A narrow shelf in the hillside provides the base for this house, whose elongated redwood plan was arrived at to reduce excavation and give every room the superb view over the valley. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1941.
1940 - The Dr. Richard S. Hiatt House, aka House in Modesto, 602 Magnolia Avenue, Modesto CA. Designed by Gardner A. Dailey. Landscape architect: Thomas D. Church. A single-story house turned inward to a brick-paved garden court shaded by redwood louvers, its bedroom wing screened for privacy. Frances Elkins, decorator. Photos by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1941.
1940 - House in Monterey, Monterey CA. Designed by Gardner A. Dailey. Landscape architect: Thomas D. Church. A long white house among the Monterey pines, its south elevation opened by fixed glass panels with ventilating transoms, an elegant demonstration of Dailey's blend of modern planning and California tradition. James K. Mills, decorator. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1941.
1940 - The Koch House, 77 Snake Hill Road, Belmont MA. Designed by Carl Koch. The architect's own house, one of five modern houses Koch built for five owners on Snake Hill near Boston, arranged on three main levels with the lowest built into a ledge of stone, its interiors reduced to the simplest details and materials without sacrifice of warmth. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1941. Sold in 1994 to Jacob White.
1940 - The Wissmann House, 89 Snake Hill Road, Belmont MA. Designed by Carl Koch. One of the five modern houses on Belmont's rocky Snake Hill, a crisp two-story box with band windows perched above the ledges, its owners bringing a number of requirements which the flexible plan absorbed with ease. Photos by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1941. Sold in 1953 to Ottavio Siani; still in the Siani family as of 2025.
1940 - The Hartshorne House, 83 Snake Hill Road, Belmont MA. Designed by Carl Koch. With three bedrooms, a maid's room and study, the largest of the five Snake Hill houses, its plan to a large extent established by the steep site conditions and its vertical-boarded walls rising directly from the rock. Photos by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1941. Sold in 2008 to Alan Savenor, trustee.
1940 - The Gardner Cushman House, 69 Snake Hill Road, Belmont MA. Designed by Carl Koch. The Cushman house adjoins that of Mr. Koch, and an effort was made to relate the two, a mezzanine plan stepping down the hill with a studio-like living room and generous storage. Photos by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1941. Sold in 2002 to Shiva Ayyadurai. Standing as of 2024.
1940 - The A. Lincoln Gordon House, 68 Snake Hill Road, Belmont MA. Designed by Carl Koch. An important part of the designing technique on all five Snake Hill houses was the elimination of needlessly complicated details and the reduction of expensive finish, demonstrated in this sunporch-fronted house of plain boarded walls. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1941. Owned by Jane E. Minasian since 1989. Standing as of 2024.
1940 - House in Middletown, Middletown NJ. Designed by Michael M. Hare; Livingstone Elder, associate. An unusual adaptation of the carpenter architecture of the early 1900s, a broad-eaved five-bedroom house with large second-story deck recalling the shingle era while planned to thoroughly modern standards. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1941.
1940 - House in Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH. Designed by Hubert M. Garriott & John W. Becker. A large white International Style house of cinder concrete units demonstrating that size can be important in the design of a modern house, the play of mass replacing to a considerable degree the interest normally provided by conventional decorative features. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1941.
1940 - House in Pasadena, 464 Bellefontaine Street, Pasadena CA. Designed by Winchton Leamon Risley. Both owners are enthusiastic gardeners, and their one 'must' was a home closely related to a well-organized garden; the porch and living rooms open across a broad southeast terrace to the planting. Photo by Miles Berne. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1941. Built in 1937.
1940 - House in Miami Beach, Miami Beach FL. Designed by Polevitzky & Russell. The high ceiling, traditionally a part of warm-country architecture, is given dramatic expression in a full two-story living room, with dining room, library and screened porch treated as part of the same space and bedrooms divided between the two floors. Photo by Ernest Graham. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1941.
1940 - Bywater Court Houses, Falmouth MA. Designed by Ernest Gunnar Peterson. Built by George B. Cluett II. Ten speculatively built modern houses in that hot-bed of Colonial tradition, Cape Cod: five-room basementless houses with 10 ft. living room ceilings, clerestory windows and big triple-sash windows facing the water, eight of them sprung from four sets of plans used in reverse. All ten houses rented at once. Photo by Fred S. Howard. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1941.
1940 - House in Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills CA. Designed by Douglas McFarland. Rooms are strung in a loop around a tiny court on a limited hillside site, with a ramp from entry to bedrooms replacing stairs. Frame construction with plaster and redwood, sloping windows, removable sliding doors and a screened-over patio. Photo by Ralph E. Knowles. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1941.
1940 - House in The Highlands, Seattle WA. Designed by J. Lister Holmes. Recent contemporary work of the Pacific Northwest, presenting blank walls and small windows to the street and generous glass areas opening to the view. Vertical grain cedar exterior; a Hawaiian-inspired lanai links garden, living room and hall. Photo by Richard Garrison. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1941.
1940 - House in Columbus, Columbus OH. Designed by T. W. Brooks. A one-story plan whose exterior casts more than a passing glance at the work of Wright, combining brick and cypress siding with a slate roof and high windows above a row of bookcases in the hall. Sloping ground permitted a garage under the main level. Photo by Everett Wood. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1941.
1940 - House in Klamath County, Klamath County OR. Designed by Office of Howard R. Perrin. An uncommonly clean design beautifully adapted to its wooded site, with an elongated ground floor only partly covered by the four bedrooms above and a curved garden wall relating the building to the ground. The extended plan gives many rooms three exposures. Photo by Erven Jourdan. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1941.
1940 - The Paul Laszlo Residence, 1601 Lindacrest Drive, Beverly Hills CA. Designed by Paul Laszlo. For his own hillside house the designer used several spectacular features, notably a pronounced change of levels and floor textures in the living room, where gray walls meet a natural oak ceiling and lally columns finished in baked red enamel. A terrace or balcony adjoins each level, and all furniture was designed by the architect. Photo by Julius Shulman & Fred R. Dapprich. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1941.
1940 - House in Seattle, Seattle WA. Designed by J. Lister Holmes. The West Coast steep-site house given a new twist: an attenuated rectangle set perpendicular to the street, adjusting to the change in level while preserving a southern exposure for the main rooms. Cedar and brick, with the texture of the retaining walls echoed in the design inside and out. Photo by Richard Garrison. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1941.
1940 - The Otto King House, aka House in Oakland, 6700 Estates Drive, Oakland CA. Designed by Mario Corbett. The effect of spaciousness is all out of proportion to its size, produced internally by all-glass walls and an exposed shed roof, and outside by sharply defined masses. Natural redwood and white trim make a handsome exterior, and the slanted living room wall catches more sun. Photo by Philip Fein. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1941. Sold in 2004 to Hector and Xochitl Salazar. Standing as of 2026.
1940 - House in Montgomery County, Montgomery County MD. Designed by Francis Palms, Jr. & Lewis E. Stevens. An imposing modern design based on the use of masonry, with extended glass areas concentrated at the rear and a change of material marking the shift from wall-bearing to frame construction. Garage and service rooms form a long buffer between entrance and main section. Photo by Orville K. Blake. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1941.
1940 - House in Rome, Rome GA. Designed by Richard L. Aeck. A one-story brick veneer house with a clay shingle tile roof, planned with two bedrooms, den, separate dining room and a generous terrace for outdoor dining. Featured in Architectural Forum, September 1941.
1940 - House in Madison, Madison WI. Designed by William Kaeser. A good example of the 'prairie' school originated by Frank Lloyd Wright, essentially a single-floor scheme of redwood siding set on a sloping site to provide a ground-floor garage, maid's room and playroom. The back faces south with generous windows for all main rooms. Featured in Architectural Forum, September 1941.
1940 - Raymond Farm, 6370 Pidcock Creek Road, New Hope PA. Designed by Antonin Raymond. The architect's own farm, office and residence, rebuilt from the venerable stones of a 1725 Pennsylvania farmhouse. Inside partitions and the south wall came down to bring in sun and view, a dining-kitchen wing and glass vestibule were added, and cedar ceilings, oak floors, horizontal sliding panels and translucent paper screens show Raymond's Japanese years. Photo by C. V. D. Hubbard & Stanley H. Goldsmith, Jr. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1941. Held by the Raymond family (Claude, Victor, Susan Raymond et al., d/b/a a Raymond family partnership). Still owned by the Raymond family. Standing as of 2025.
1940 - House in Frenchtown, Frenchtown NJ. Designed by Antonin Raymond. An addition to an old stone house, built by two local carpenters from materials salvaged from a barn on the property. Living room and master bedroom open wide to the views and make effective use of the great stone wall to the east; most striking of many handsome details is the circular wood stair set against a background of glass. Photo by C. V. D. Hubbard. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1941.
1940 - The Ancell House, Chicago IL. Designed by Bertrand Goldberg. An interesting solution to a narrow 55 by 125 ft. lot: a completely glazed wall opens the dining area to the street while the folding glass wall of the living space opens to the rear terrace. Five areas flow together in one uninterrupted space around a circular fireplace; it was erected on bearing walls in 1940. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1946.
1941 - Desert Cottage in Scottsdale, Scottsdale AZ. Designed by George L. Ellis. A desert cottage built for a musician, with 12 in. adobe walls banded by horizontal redwood strips and a central chimney containing fireplace and air conditioning unit. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1942.
1941 - House in Klamath Falls, Klamath Falls OR. Designed by Howard R. Perrin. An interesting example of the regional house type developed in the Pacific Northwest, set on a sloping lot with a basement above ground. Photo by Erven Jourdan. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1942.
1941 - House in Madison, Madison WI. Designed by William Kaeser. A stucco house clearly indebted to Frank Lloyd Wright but far removed from mere imitation, with a realistic and imaginative plan and cypress-ceilinged living room. Photo by Fritz Kaeser. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1942.
1941 - House in Ottawa Hills, Ottawa Hills OH. Designed by E. P. Lockart. A very orderly redwood-sided design notable for its efficient allocation of space, with glass block used extensively inside and out including a two-story panel in the stair hall. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1942.
1941 - House in Demarest, Demarest NJ. Designed by Harrison, Fouilhoux & Abramovitz. Designed for ultimate use as a garage and caretaker's cottage but occupied by the owner until a larger house can be built; rubble masonry and red cedar, with a southeast balcony on pipe columns, built dry and completed in 100 days. Photo by James Ogle. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1942.
1941 - The Victor Civkin House, aka House in Fairfield, 12 Ermine Street, Fairfield CT. The architect's own house and studio. Designed by Victor Civkin. An attractive California redwood design incorporating a two-car garage as an integral part of the two-story house, compensating for the first floor's limited outlook with a studio and generous deck above. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1942. Owned by Jean Ames Sturges since 2001. Standing as of 2024.
1941 - Beach House in Mantoloking, Mantoloking NJ. Designed by Vincent Kling. Set comfortably on a stretch of dunes between Barnegat Bay and the Atlantic, designed by Kling while still a graduate student at M.I.T.; Weldtex plywood walls, with high ventilators and views of both ocean and bay from the living room. Photo by Robert M. Damora. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1942.
1941 - Remodeled House in San Francisco, San Francisco CA. Designed by Francis E. Lloyd. A San Francisco town house reconstructed in the modern manner with redwood and Douglas fir plywood walls, a striking demonstration of the possibilities inherent in thousands of outmoded dwellings; interiors by decorator Frances Mihailoff. Photo by Philip Fein. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1942.
1941 - House in Syosset, Syosset NY. Designed by William Hamby. A small Long Island house, one of the few in the East to achieve the informality and elegance of the best modern California work, with a series of shed roofs and a convertible guest alcove. Photo by Richard Garrison. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1942.
1941 - House in St. Louis, St. Louis MO. Designed by Joseph P. Richardson & Huson Jackson, with Diedrich F. Rixmann. A one-story plan with service rooms at the front and bedrooms at the back, an L-shaped living-dining room in the middle, and a paved terrace and swimming pool screened by split-sapling fencing. Photo by Bennett Tucker. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1942.
1941 - Hillside House in San Francisco, San Francisco CA. Designed by John Ekin Dinwiddie, with Albert H. Hill and Phillip E. Joseph. Landscape architect: Garrett Eckbo. Designed for a steeply sloping site with garage and bedrooms on the upper floor and living rooms a floor below the street; redwood siding stained gray-green, with continuous plate glass framing a panoramic downhill view. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1942.
1941 - House in San Francisco, San Francisco CA. Designed by Phillip Joseph of the Office of John Ekin Dinwiddie, with Albert H. Hill. Landscape architect: Henry Sanders Jr. & Edward Williams. A large redwood-sheathed house occupying most of a small city lot yet achieving spaciousness through expert design; the two-story body sits snugly in one corner of the plot, leaving maximum room for a patio enclosed by the projecting living room wing. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1942.
1941 - House in Morristown (Architect's Own House), Morristown NJ. Designed by Ernst Payer. The architect's own house on a small hilltop, planned as a three-dimensional entity for informal country living with a second-floor deck. Weyerhaeuser 4-square frame construction with plywood used extensively for interior finishes, closets and even the main stair. Photo by Rodney McCay Morgan. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1942.
1941 - House near Wernersville, Wernersville PA. Designed by Penrose K. Spohn. A compact house built on a steep wooded slope, wood-sheathed above a stone lower story with a continuous band of windows and plywood interior finishes. Photos by C. V. D. Hubbard. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1942.
1941 - The Morton D. May House, aka House in Ladue, 2222 South Warson Road, Ladue MO. Designed by Samuel A. Marx with Noel L. Flint & C. W. Schonne, Associates; Study & Farrar, resident. Landscape architect: Franz Lipp. One of the last of the prewar crop of contemporary private houses: a large flat-roofed residence in rolling, wooded suburban St. Louis County with continuous glass along the south-facing living and dining areas, a floor-recessed plant pocket dividing the great living space, and broad stone garden steps. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1942. Demolished in 2005.
1941 - Three-Level House in Glenview, Glenview IL. Designed by Arthur Purdy, with Sydney Dickens, designer. Built by Howard Sloan. The Forum judged this version of the three-level scheme the most interesting in plan and general design of the Glenview development houses, with ceiling levels that change to provide clerestory lighting in the living room. Sold on a half-acre lot. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing Studio. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1944.
1941 - House in Seattle, Seattle WA. Designed by Bliss Moore, Jr. Built by D. J. Loughran. A lakeside house dominated by its site, designed in 1941 as the permanent home of a professional man on a lot sloping down to Lake Washington. The angles and curves of the plan follow the contours of the site; the exterior is brick veneer under a hand-split shake roof, with large south windows shielded by roof overhang and a cantilevered balcony. Photo by P. A. Dearborn. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1945.
1941 - The Dr. Evarts A. and Helen Tredway Graham House, 18 Jamestown Acres Lane, Florissant MO. Designed by Harris Armstrong. A luxurious modern home completed as the war began for a surgeon and his scientist wife, ardent gardeners, on a rural site with sweeping views of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Local stone and brick fit it to its environment, with hand-hewn entrance canopy supports and totem-pole-like carving at the main door by Enrique Alferez. Photo by Tom Leonard. Featured in Architectural Forum, September 1945. Owned by Michael P. and Carolyn N. Walsh. Standing as of 2026.
1941 - The Wernicke House, Palos Park IL. Designed by Bertrand Goldberg. Built by Fred Lindholm. A small steel-framed house for a school teacher, combining living, dining and kitchen areas in one big room only partially divided by a storage wall. Walls are unadulterated brick, plywood and glass; built before the war, the house was financed with an FHA-insured mortgage. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1946.
1941 - The Clarence Mayhew House, 330 Hampton Road, Piedmont CA. Designed by Clarence Mayhew and Serge Chermayeff. Believing two good heads better than one, California architect Mayhew asked famed British architect Serge Chermayeff to collaborate on a home for Mrs. Mayhew, begun in 1941 on a steep grove of live oaks in a suburb of Oakland. The result subtly blends California's rustic redwood tradition with the crisp white lines of the International Style, its masterly wooden construction producing wide windows and spacious interiors. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1946. Sold in 2009.
1941 - Downhill House in Seattle, Seattle WA. Designed by John T. Jacobsen. Built by Frank A. Martin. Only a one-story ranch house from the road, this home perched on the side of a hill has basement rooms with a view. 2,212 sq. ft. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948.
1942 - House in Centralia, Centralia IL. Designed by F. E. Rixmann with Diedrich F. Rixmann. A medium-sized redwood-clad house with an excellent two-story plan, integrating the carport into the mass of the house with a sheltered passage to the entrance. An unusual splayed kitchen wall opens up the typical U-shaped arrangement of fixtures. Photos by Bennett Tucker. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1943.
1942 - House in Chappaqua, Chappaqua NY. Designed by Joseph Douglas Weiss. A contemporary house using the modern idiom with discrimination, relying heavily on natural materials for warmth and intimacy. The owner, an industrial architect, applied factory design know-how throughout: large south windows double as solar heating, and well water run through a duct coil provides summer cooling. Photo by Damora. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1943.
1942 - House in Danville, Danville CA. Designed by Clarence W. W. Mayhew. A sprawling open-plan house in the established California trend, built of simple traditional materials on a three-acre site. The living area is treated as part of the site, with a north wall of floor-to-ceiling glass screens and a virtually free-standing fireplace possible only in a mild climate. Photos by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1943.
1942 - House in Cos Cob, Cos Cob CT. Designed by Pomerance & Breines. Engineers: Wolff & Munier (radiant heating). An interesting large modern country house combining old-fashioned stone and advanced techniques. Its complete radiant panel heating system of the Crittal type, with warm-water steel pipes embedded in the plaster ceilings, keeps the most exposed rooms comfortable at 70 degrees in the coldest weather. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1943.
1942 - House in Torresdale, Torresdale PA. Designed by Oscar Stonorov and Edmund Bacon. Executed in glass, native stone and natural wood, this house reconciles a magnificent view of the Delaware River with proper orientation. An abundance of glass on both levels, a downstairs terrace and a cantilevered second-floor balcony place the emphasis on the south side of the house. Photo by C. V. D. Hubbard. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1943.
1942 - House in Weston, Weston MA. Designed by Eleanor Raymond. An extremely economical and compact dwelling built largely of hurricane lumber the owner had on hand. A central heater room and ample utility spaces distinguish the thoughtfully considered plan, whose neatness is reminiscent of a compact housing unit. Photo by Paul Davis. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1943.
1942 - House in Denver, Denver CO. Designed by Burnham Hoyt. An unorthodox plan dictated by the access road to the north and the view west to Mt. Evans: the entrance door and a large facing window are on axis with the mountain. Upstairs bedrooms open to a generous sleeping deck with a fireplace for outdoor cooking and the fine mountain panorama. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1943.
1942 - House in Seattle, Seattle WA. Designed by Paul Thiry. A plan almost naive in its simplicity, using nearly identical layouts on both levels of an unusual sloping site so that both floors gain direct access to the garden. The family's private quarters sit on the upper level with a level service entrance to the kitchen, while the lower playroom serves informal entertainment. Photos by Ernst Kassowitz. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1943.
1942 - House in Knoxville, Knoxville TN. Designed by Mario Bianculli. An unusual and very successful plan by a TVA architect for an awkwardly sloping site, ignoring the established hillside-house patterns. The entrance faces downhill away from the street for privacy, and main rooms on both levels face an extensive view through stock window frames dictated by wartime material restrictions. Photo by Billy M. Glenn. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1943.
1942 - The John W. Lincoln House, aka Stonington Waterfront, aka Stonington/Lincoln Renovation, 348 North Main Street, Stonington CT. Designed by John W. Lincoln for his own family. Lincoln, a former Architectural Forum staff writer, also worked as a senior Navy architect at Quonset Point. Lincoln reported that his heat was the last in the neighborhood to go on each fall and the first to go off each spring. B/W photos by P. A. Dearborn. Featured in Architectural Record, May 1943 and Architectural Forum, November 1946. Sold in 2012 to Michael McDonald. Renovated in 2013 by Joeb Moore & Partners, who kept the central granite wall as the organizing element of the plan and re-clad the second floor in corrugated metal. Built by Prutting; landscape design by Reed Hilderbrand; color photos by David Sundberg. Won a 2016 AIA New England design award. Standing as of 2024.
1942 - The Walter Horn House, 339 Western Drive, Point Richmond CA. Client: Prof. & Mrs. Walter Horn. Designed by Serge Chermayeff with Ernest Born. Built by Enoch Tranmal. Landscape architect: Garrett Eckbo. Perched on the brink of a 60 ft. cliff almost opposite the Golden Gate, the house was pushed to the cliff edge of its 50 x 90 ft. lot to act as a windbreak for the street-side terrace. The contract was signed a week after Pearl Harbor and wartime economies pared the design; open interdependent living-dining areas eliminate corridors, and the owner, a University of California history professor, works in the living room corner. Photos by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, January 1947.
1943 - Three Builder's Houses in New Canaan, New Canaan CT. Designed by Charles E. Tilton. Built by Philip Hanson Hiss III. Three speculative houses built for sale, part of a five-house group the Forum hailed as a first break with the past in operative building. The most modern of the three sits on high land facing west and south, with a generous deck over its basement garage and a corner stairwell entry lit by a glass block panel. Featured in Architectural Forum, January 1944.
1943 - The Joan Harrison House, 874 Birchwood Drive, Holmby Hills, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Office of Paul Laszlo. A U-plan hillside house sandwiched between three-story buildings on a constricted lot, designed for a Hollywood producer-writer. The entrance door opens onto a generous patio with a view beyond, dissolving the division between interior and exterior living areas; Laszlo also designed the interiors and furniture. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1944. Built for Joan Harrison, Alfred Hitchcock's screenwriter and later a producer. Sold in 2011.
1943 - The de Strakosch House, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Office of Paul Laszlo. A compact hillside house for Mr. and Mrs. de Strakosch whose covered terrace overlooks Santa Monica and the Pacific Ocean beyond. A bar and breakfast room between dining and living areas draws them together into a single space, and the bedroom wing has liberal closet space. Photo by Maynard L. Parker & Julius Shulman. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1944.
1943 - House on a Corner Plot, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Office of Paul Laszlo. Built in the same block as the de Strakosch house on a corner plot facing the street on three sides, the house is divided lengthwise: the garden side is taken up entirely by the common living area, with a swimming pool beyond. The Forum called it one of Laszlo's best-planned houses. Photos by Maynard L. Parker. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1944.
1943 - Curved Hillside House, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Office of Paul Laszlo. A hillside house overlooking Los Angeles, curved in plan to fit the road and catch ocean breezes, with a deep south overhang and a small central patio for ventilation against the heat reflected from the dry hills. The naturalistic landscaping maintains the character of the arid setting. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1944.
1943 - The Ernest Peterson House, Falmouth MA. Designed by Ernest Peterson. The architect's own flat-roofed modern house, built on a little knoll overlooking Vineyard Sound to prove that flat roofs and radiant heating work even on conservative Cape Cod. Carport, entrance and drafting room occupy the lower level, giving the living and sleeping floors full privacy. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1944.
1943 - Hunting Lodge in Henry, Henry IL. Designed by James F. Eppenstein. A luxury vacation lodge raised on concrete piers above swampy ground, praised by the Forum for simplicity without fake rusticity. Four minimum bedrooms are linked to compact dressing and bathing facilities, each dressing room with its own lavatory. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1944.
1943 - House in Oakland, Oakland CA. Designed by Clarence W. W. Mayhew. A roomy modern plan in the California manner surrounding a southeast-facing court. Two sets of sliding doors pocket away to turn dining room, living room and a daytime study into one 48-foot-long entertaining space, and most rooms have generous windows on opposite sides. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1944.
1943 - The Oscar Stonorov House, aka Avon Lea, 1779 Pickering Road, Charlestown Township, Phoenixville PA. Designed by Oscar Stonorov. A large country home the architect designed for his own family, built on the stone foundations of an old farmhouse. The 1780s farmhouse walls became the nucleus of the two-story living room, and the studio, connected by a balcony-level passageway, sits over a vaulted root cellar. Photos by C. V. D. Hubbard. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1944.
1943 - The Karl and Ruth Terzaghi House, aka House in Winchester, 3 Robinson Circle, Winchester MA. Designed by G. Holmes Perkins. The lakeside home of a Harvard professor on a narrow lot running down to the shore of Mystic Lake, with living rooms and bedrooms enjoying views over the water. Garden terraces gain complete privacy from a protecting children's wing on one side and evergreen planting on the other. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1944. Built for the Harvard soil-mechanics pioneer Karl Terzaghi. Destroyed; a new house was built on the site in 1988.
1943 - Film Writer's House in Hollywood, Los Angeles CA. Designed by J. R. Davidson. Placed on the narrow ridge of a steep Hollywood hillside overlooking the city with distant views of the Pacific, the house takes advantage of the natural topography to avoid excavation and retaining walls. Main rooms, patio, balcony and porch face west and south, with the living room enjoying three exposures. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in Architectural Forum, September 1944.
1943 - The Oren Thomas House, Des Moines IA. Designed by Oren Thomas. The architect's own house on a wooded knoll in northwest Des Moines, designed as living space that changes with the weather: except for kitchen and bath, one outside wall of every room is movable, with overhead doors opening bedrooms to screened walls and the living room to a continuous screened porch. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1944.
1943 - The John Renshaw Carson House, aka House in New Hope, 157 North Main Street, New Hope PA. Designed by Antonin Raymond. A low-cost all-wood house for a young and active couple, raised above a river highway for privacy and views and connected with road level by two flights of stairs. The L-shaped living area opens onto a porch overlooking the river valley. Photo by C. V. D. Hubbard. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1944. Enlarged in the 1950s and altered beyond recognition around 2000.
1943 - House in Falmouth, Falmouth MA. Designed by Gunnar Peterson. Gunnar Peterson's compromise with modern results in a well-equipped home for owners of special tastes and a clever handling of a hillside site, with the garage excavated into the slope below a roof deck. Horizontal windows set in walls of cypress siding look out over the landscaped grounds. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1944.
1944 - The Joseph Esherick, Jr. Residence, 200 Wellington Avenue, Ross CA. Designed by Joseph Esherick, Jr. Built by C. W. Monk. The architect's own house on a steep hillside lot passed over since 1925, a tall, almost square design on reinforced concrete foundations with post supports over the garage. Grained hemlock siding and a redwood-block terrace fit the site's madrona trees, with open planning giving the compact interior a roomy look. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, January 1945. Sold in 2023 to Alan Frederick Hill. Standing as of 2023.
1944 - The John and Jane Kerr Platt House, aka House in Portland, 4550 SW Humphrey Boulevard, Portland OR. Designed by Pietro Belluschi. Built by Dan Schuh. Engineers: J. Donald Kroeker (mechanical). A small L-shaped house set on a hill crest in three acres of old apple orchard overlooking the Tualatin Valley, planned for indoor-outdoor living with rough vertical pine siding, a cedar-shingle roof and a wide overhang forming a long sunny porch off the living and dining rooms. Photo by P. A. Dearborn. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1945. Built in 1941. Jane Kerr Platt's garden here became widely known.
1944 - The Alfred B. Parker Residence, 2921 SW 27th Avenue, Coconut Grove, Miami FL. Designed by Alfred B. Parker. A young Navy architect and his wife built this wartime cottage themselves, using rough Miami oolite stone from an old building on the site, salvaged lumber and tropical hardwoods ferried from nearby keys. Roof-high living room glass and an open plan integrate the living space with the outdoors. Photo by Alfred B. Parker. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1945. Sold in 2023 to Cuprite Properties LLC. Standing as of 2026.
1944 - Hillside House, San Francisco, San Francisco CA. Designed by Gardner Dailey. Built by C. Stockholm & Sons. Landscape architect: Thomas D. Church. A ten-room house fitted to a 30 ft. hillside lot with the conventional plan inverted: main living area on the top floor, bedrooms below. Douglas fir frame with resawn redwood siding, a plywood street facade painted cream white, and a garden planted over the garage roof for the gardening-minded owner. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1945.
1944 - The Hildreth Meiere Residence, 82 Erskine Road, Stamford CT. Client: Hildreth Meiere. Designed by Bimel Kehm. Built by Bimel Kehm. A country house designed and built by a fellow artist for the well-known mural painter, with a two-story studio living room finished in rough materials under exposed cypress timbers and a sky-blue ceiling. Fieldstone, common brick and knotty pine on a compact 25 by 50 ft. plan, the 3.5-acre plot left virtually unlandscaped. Photo by Robert Damora. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1945.
1944 - House in Seattle, Seattle WA. Designed by Paul Thiry. A compact two-level dwelling built under FHA restrictions on a bank 20 to 30 ft. above the street, its west side almost entirely glass for a grey climate where sun is at a premium. A splayed wall between living room and kitchen opens the view northwest; the daylight basement doubles as playroom and utility area. Photos by P. A. Dearborn. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1945.
1944 - The Dr. John Peabody Monks House, aka House in Lincoln, 58 Bedford Road, Lincoln MA. Designed by G. Holmes Perkins. Built by Cheny-Rice, Inc. Landscape architect: Christopher Tunnard. A luxurious, truly modern country house crowning the highest point of a 50-acre estate with views for 50 miles around the compass. Planned for cold New England winters, every room receives sunshine all day and nearly all have fireplaces, behind an ambitious wall of continuous fenestration. Photo by Cushing-Gellatly; Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1945. Built in 1938-40. Added to the Lincoln historic district in 2023.
1944 - The Sy and Mildred Nash House, aka House near Olympia, 7608 Cooper Point Road NW, Olympia WA. Designed by Paul Thiry. Engineers: Erwin Weber. An interpretation of the seaside villa on a fifteen-acre site outside Olympia with a baby orchard, clams on the beach, and a view of Mt. Rainier across Puget Sound. A rigidly formal design of cedar siding and glass whose theme is the central circular oak stairway, constructed with mediaeval craftsmanship by George Nakashima, connecting three tightly-packed floors with travertine halls and ceiling panel heating. Photo by P. A. Dearborn. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1945. Thurston County assessor records date the house now on the parcel to 2013.
1945 - The Abrahms House, Glencoe IL. Designed by Bertrand Goldberg. A Miesian steel post-and-beam house whose living, dining and hall areas occupy one 26 by 35 ft. rectangle divided only by shiftable glass and plywood partitions and a concrete staircase. The client's large orchid collection dictated the 26 ft. conservatory that dominates the street facade; an FHA-insured mortgage covered the entire construction. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1946.
1945 - The Heimbach House, 13020 Greenwood Avenue, Blue Island IL. Designed by Bertrand Goldberg. Designed for a physician, his wife and son, with a doctor's office and X-ray wing shielded from the living quarters and corner-lot streets by blank brick walls. Living and recreation areas face south and east, and a combination second-floor living-bedroom opens on a large screened deck. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1946. Built 1939-40 for Dr. Aaron Heimbach and his wife Lucile Gottschalk Heimbach. Owned since 1997 by Tom Hawley and Tom Mantel, whose restoration received a Landmarks Illinois preservation award in 2009; a Blue Island local landmark. Standing as of 2026.
1945 - The Jacobs House, Glencoe IL. Designed by Bertrand Goldberg. Nine rooms stretched 120 ft. along a block-through lot for an advertising executive, with a semicircular plywood-finished library-living room focused on an extraordinary fireplace whose tempered glass flue shows sparks through a copper grille depicting a phoenix. Masonry bearing-wall construction. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1946.
1945 - The Pietro Belluschi Farmhouse, 1080 SW 197th Avenue, Aloha OR. Designed by Pietro Belluschi. Unable to obtain wartime priority for a new house, Belluschi remodeled a nondescript wooden farm bungalow he bought for its orchard, adding a large covered loggia connecting the house with its woodshed and a rear entry for country living. The result, he says, is so livable and free of architectural pretense that he has become quite attached to it. Photo by P. A. Dearborn. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1946. Known as the Aloha Farmhouse, a ca. 1915 bungalow remodeled by Belluschi beginning in 1944; the Belluschis moved out in 1948 and sold it. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
1946 - The Andrew Neff House, aka the Airform House, 1097 South Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena CA. Designed by Wallace Neff for his brother. Built 15 feet into the ground as a bomb shelter. Sold to The Marilyn and Stuart R. Nerenberg. Sold in 1998 to the Steven Roden and Sari Roden Family Trust. As of 2020, it's the last surviving Airform house in the US.
1946 - The William Haines and Betty Hall House, 405 Goodhill Road, Kentfield CA. Designed by Hillmer and Callister — the first collaboration between Jack Hillmer and Charles Warren Callister Sr., who opened their San Francisco practice together in February 1946 — for the painter and illustrator William Haines Hall (1903-1977) and his wife Betty. Built 1945-46 by the Henry C. Arian Construction Company with Bernard and Feinstein, general contractors; civil engineer Arnold Olitt. Published as “Hillside house of unfettered design darts off toward the views” in Architectural Forum, September 1949, pp. 62-67. Catalogued in PCAD as id 645, which gives the address as 405 Goodhill Road; this page previously carried it as 383. Sold in 2013 to Allan W. and Lisa B. Whitescarver.
1946 - The Charles A. Lawrence Jr. House, aka House in Seattle, 9744 Lake Shore Boulevard NE, Seattle WA. The architect's own house. Designed by Charles A. Lawrence. A split-level, two-building home on a steeply sloping site overlooking Lake Washington, designed for privacy from neighbors and separation of living and working quarters. A rear service building provides an outdoor stairway and side entrance court connecting with the lower house. Photo by K. S. Brown. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1946. Sold in 1992 by Martha Jean Lawrence to Glenn A. and Joan M. Yamada. Sold in 1992 by the Lawrence family to Glenn A. Standing as of 2026; the assessor records a renovation in 1994.
1946 - Florida Farmhouse, Everglades FL. Designed by Igor B. Polevitzky. The owner's year-round residence on a large modern farm, set on a hammock in the Everglades thirty miles northwest of Miami and turned to the prevailing southeast breezes. Built of surplus Navy timbers and planking with walls of Crab Orchard stone, it features screens, louvered jalousies, sliding glass doors and a swimming pool off the porch. Photo by Hinman Photography. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1946.
1946 - Veteran's House in Oregon, Portland OR. Designed by Van Evera Bailey. Completed near Portland this year, built entirely of wood with vertical tongue-and-groove fir siding in natural finish. Radiant heating comes from electric resistance coils imbedded in the ceiling plaster, and the shed roof yields greater ceiling height and larger windows. Photo by F. A. Dearborn. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1946.
1946 - House in Washington, WA. Designed by Paul Thiry. Built by Alfred Danielson. A one-story and basement house ingeniously tailored to a sloping lakeside site, with grade entrances on two levels and glass front and rear walls shielded by front-yard fencing of brick and wood. The basement recreation room's sliding glass doors open onto a connecting terrace; walls are cedar siding and brick veneer under a cedar shingle roof. Photo by P. A. Dearborn. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1946.
1946 - House in Virginia, Alexandria VA. Designed by Charles Goodman. A vigorous remodeling of a fire-ravaged two-story Colonial farmhouse whose second floor was knocked off brick by brick, the foundation and shell reused for economy. A low gable roof rests on columns set well inside the walls, creating frankly decorative frame overhangs on all four sides; old roof slate reappears at the hearth and red tile parquet from a former porch floors the nursery. Photo by Rodney McCay Morgan. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1946.
1946 - House in Seattle, Seattle WA. Client: Mr. & Mrs. Philip Moore. Designed by Philip Moore. Built by S. E. Wedwick. The architect's own two-story house on a 50 x 120 ft. lot atop Magnolia Bluff, planned to save land for gardening and outdoor living; from the second floor the entire city of Seattle plus the Cascade and Olympic ranges are visible. Exterior is rough-sawn cedar bevel siding stained light reddish beige with white trim. Photo by P. A. Dearborn. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1947.
1946 - The Sidney N. Shurcliff House, aka House in Ipswich, 207 Argilla Road, Ipswich MA. Designed by George W. W. Brewster. Built by Connolly Bros. Landscape architect: Sidney N. Shurcliff. Skillful remodeling expanded an existing summer camp for its owner, himself the landscape architect: a new living room wing with generous glazing overlooking the marshes, a dining room fireplace and a full second story were added while retaining the original cubage. The seven-acre grounds include formal terracing, a sweeping drive and a cut-flower garden. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1947.
1946 - House in Ross, Ross CA. Client: Mr. & Mrs. L. E. David. Designed by Gardner A. Dailey. A low, rambling hilltop house on a wooded Marin County slope, graded so little that floor levels rise and fall with the hill under an interlacing roofline reminiscent of early California mining towns. The living room roof is one of the first internally braced roofs in a residence, built and tapered on the same principle as an airplane wing. Photo by Maynard L. Parker. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1947.
1946 - The Lambert H. and Ellen Newby Ennis House, aka House in Evanston, 200 Dempster Street, Evanston IL. Designed by William F. Deknatel. Engineers: Samuel R. Lewis. A large Prairie-tradition residence for a Northwestern professor on a restricted lot in a subdivision of the Daniel H. Burnham estate, with a separate-access study for students and a writing study for his wife. Semi-mill construction with wood beams carried on window mullions replaced scarce steel, and radiant heating runs in the ceiling. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1947. Sold in 1987 to Barry S. Alberts, who transferred it to his trust in 2019. An Evanston designated landmark, in the Lakeshore Historic District. Standing as of 2026.
1946 - Hillside House in Central Valley, Central Valley NY. Designed by Huson Jackson and John Hancock Callender. Built by John Wood. Landscape architect: James C. Rose. Set midway up a steep north slope, this two-level house catches the downhill sun through large windows on the southern uphill exposure under a sharply slanted plank-and-beam roof. A rebuilt stone wall runs straight through the house separating the levels, and economical transite siding contrasts with glass areas and painted wood trim. Photo by Rudolph Leppert Jr. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1947.
1946 - House in Forestville, Forestville VA. Client: Mr. & Mrs. Oscar M. Powell. Designed by Charles M. Goodman. A country house built into a hillside on a 150-acre site near the Potomac, with the conventional plan inverted: living quarters above, bedrooms below, and the main living area facing south toward a view that includes one of the Potomac's waterfalls. Native brownstone from a nearby quarry is used inside and out, contrasting with walnut plywood walls, edge-grain fir ceilings and vertical redwood siding. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1947.
1946 - The Bimel Kehm Residence, 80 Sunset Hill Road, New Canaan CT. Designed by Bimel Kehm. A Connecticut hay barn remodeled by its sculptor-owner into a country house pleasantly free of affectation or cliche. The sound mansard-roofed timber frame was left intact, its cleaned and waxed columns and beams setting the character of the interiors, with glass doors replacing the old wagon doors onto a two-story dining room built around a huge central stone chimney. Photo by Robert M. Damora. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1947. Converted from a barn of the former Child estate. Renovated in 2022.
1946 - The Edwin G. Johnson Residence, Cambridge MA. Designed by Edwin G. Johnson. A compact two-story cedar-clapboard house built largely of materials salvaged from an old carriage house on its 75 x 100 ft. interior lot, standing on the same foundation. The owner-architect acted as his own contractor; the open ground floor faces south, comfort assured by radiant heating, and a corrugated cement-asbestos carport shelters the entrance. Photo by P. A. Dearborn. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1947.
1946 - The Newton S. Noble Jr. Residence, 365 South Bateman Circle, Barrington Hills IL. Designed by William F. Deknatel. A solid, sturdy design typical of the Middlewest, set in several levels on a heavily wooded small hill with wide eaves, frame exterior and heavy masonry within. To catch an impressive northern view the living room wing is turned 60 degrees from the rest of the house, placed over an old gravel pit that furnished the basement excavation. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1947. Begun in 1941. Sold in 2021.
1946 - The George S. Clefton Residence, Portland OR. Designed by Van Evera Bailey. A split-level Oregon house built on four planes that takes full advantage of its view and sloping site, with outside entrances to every room on the three lower floors. Cedar siding and brickwork emphasize its informal yet tailored quality, and wind-shielded deck extensions serve the sleeping and dining levels. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1947.
1946 - House in Weston, Weston MA. Designed by Carl Koch. Built by Hans Tobiason & Bros. A compact, economical Northeastern solar house that relies on architectural restraint to conform to its New England locale, sheltered by five old trees. Among its neat features is a dining table that slides into the kitchen for setting. Photos by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, September 1947.
1946 - House in Alexandria, Alexandria VA. Designed by Charles Goodman. A split-level hillside house on a precipitous site in the heart of urban Alexandria that drops 32 ft. from front to back, reminding its owner of her native San Francisco's Telegraph Hill. Bricks salvaged from the condemned eighteenth-century grain and feed store that once occupied the site were re-used, and a glass bay encloses the two-story stairwell and entrance. Photo by Rodney McKay Morgan. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1947.
1946 - The Jon Konigshofer House, 24805 Valley Way, Carmel CA. Designed by Jon Konigshofer. Built by Jon Konigshofer. When the designer-contractor came home from the war he could not find a rentable home, so, backed by a GI loan, he built this: the site slopes up from the road so the house climbs instead of descending. 990 sq. ft. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948. The designer-builder's own house. Sold in 2021.
1947 - The Robert Motherwell Quonset House, corner of Georgica Road and Jericho Lane, East Hampton NY. Designed by Pierre Chareau. Motherwell bought the land in 1946 and Chareau adapted two army-surplus Quonset huts into house and studio; it was Chareau’s last work before his death in 1950. Sold in 1953 to Barney Rosset of Grove Press. Destroyed in 1985 despite protests.
1947 - House in Madison, Madison WI. Designed by William V. Kaeser. Built by Edwin Nelson. Brick cavity walls help balance the heat loss of large windows in Wisconsin's climate; the brick was carried around corners so each bedroom and the living room could have glass corners. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948.
1947 - House in Brookville, Brookville NY. Designed by Vincent Furno & Bernard J. Harrison. Built by B. W. Hall Construction Co. A straightforward solar design with inverted gable roof and wing walls expressing its plan; heated floors are surfaced in wood block and the living room plaster ceiling follows the line of the inverted gable. 1,992 sq. ft. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948.
1947 - House in Chappaqua, Chappaqua NY. Designed by James F. Eppenstein & Joseph Douglas Weiss. An expansive house for country living, the largest of the Forum's 40 Houses at 3,160 sq. ft., designed by Eppenstein with Weiss supervising construction. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948.
1947 - Two-Court House in West Los Angeles, West Los Angeles CA. Designed by Griswold Raetze. A two-bedroom house wrapped around two courts makes the most of the balmy climate; California's genial weather permits its loose, informal plan. Robert Raetze was associate. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948.
1947 - The Melville Garton Jr. House, Pasadena CA. Designed by Melville Garton Jr. An architect's house for his own family, built on a hill close to the road, of precast concrete Gunite panels reinforcing on the job, plus redwood and masonry, with several sun decks and terraces. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948.
1947 - The Morton H. Caine House, Portland OR. Designed by Morton H. Caine. An architect's own family house on a Portland hillside, with canvas-decked balcony overlooking a long view and mahogany veneer used inside the living room walls. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948.
1947 - The Robert A. Nolan House, 2181 Millvale Road, Louisville KY. Designed by Robert A. Nolan. Built by A. J. Schneider & Co. The owner-architect's house, built on the wall of an old stable as an example of alert site planning, its main entrance on the upper level. 2,323 sq. ft. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948.
1947 - House in Dobbs Ferry, Dobbs Ferry NY. Designed by Robert A. Green. A livable cinder block and fixed-glass house whose owner was his own general contractor and, in part, subcontractor; the deep roof overhang keeps the large expanse of glass fronting the living room clean. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948.
1947 - The Michael Heller House I, aka Screened-Porch House in Miami, 910 North Venetian Drive, Biscayne Island, Miami FL. Designed by Igor Polevitzky. A tropical house whose familiar screened porch is extended to its logical conclusion: an airy 19 x 30 ft. outdoor living room framed in corrosion- and hurricane-resistant aluminum, with a small masonry house at the rear. 1,230 sq. ft. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948. The first of two houses Polevitzky designed for Michael Heller on Biscayne Island. For sale in 2024.
1947 - House in Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs CO. Designed by Jan Ruhtenberg. A Colorado country house for year-round residence on a wooded site, opened to the mountain view and sun by two window walls; the downhill side presents the main approach by exterior stairs. 3,328 sq. ft. Photos by Fred Guild. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948.
1947 - House Among the Trees in Seattle, Seattle WA. Designed by Paul Thiry. Built by Ray McCoy. A small house fitted nicely among the trees on a wooded western hill, an apt contradiction to the custom of clearing the site; the floor below gains exposure from the sharp break of the slope. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948.
1947 - House at Candlewood Lake, Candlewood Lake CT. Designed by William Lescaze. Built by Arthur E. McCollam. A summer and weekend house using traditional summer-colony materials, field stone and unpainted wood, in a contemporary manner; three bedrooms plus a large living area organized for privacy, sun and view, with interiors by Kern Hines. 2,380 sq. ft. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1948.
1947 - The Robert Buckner Guest House, Carmel CA. Designed by Jon Konigshofer. Built by Jon Konigshofer. Landscape architect: Thomas D. Church. A small house proving that distinction is more a matter of brains than money: a bold geometric redwood pavilion on a natural semicircular shelf overlooking the Pacific near Carmel, built as a guest house for a larger place to come, with radiantly heated slab and pebbled-concrete terrace; Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1948.
1947 - The Tafel Residence, Westchester County NY. Designed by Edgar A. Tafel. Built by A. Milano & Sons. A lakeside house Tafel, a nine-year student of Frank Lloyd Wright, designed for his parents on a wood-locked lake within commuting distance of Manhattan. Stone and cypress walls under a cedar-shingle roof, with a truncated-hexagon living room at the intersection of the two wings exploiting the lake view. Photo by Lionel Freedman (Pictorial Services). Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1948.
1947 - The Harold L. Tandy Residence, 403 Main Road South, Hampden ME. Designed by Eaton W. Tarbell & Associates. Built by T. W. Cunningham, Inc. A vertical three-level house at the top of a 20-acre sloping meadow above the Penobscot River, with cedar siding, a massive masonry core carrying fireplaces in study, living room and playroom, and a full-width balcony 'hurricane deck' shading the first-floor windows. Photos by P. A. Dearborn. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1948. Sold in 2023 (buyer not named in the listing data). Standing as of 2025.
1947 - Suburban House in Glenview, Glenview IL. Designed by David Searcy Barrow. Built by Sloan Construction Co. An architect-builder collaboration set well back on a 155 x 240 ft. plot overlooking lawn, meadow and forest. Well-integrated design carried out in redwood siding and Wisconsin Lannon stone, with a south-facing guest alcove off the living room and a step-saving kitchen with built-in dinette. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1948.
1948 – The Joseph and Louise Marlow House, 1190 Oneida Street, Denver CO. Designed by the clients, who were both architects. Featured in Architectural Record, December 1952, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Altered: enlarged master suite, 1980s kitchen, concrete floors tiled over, original fireplace enclosed. Sold in 2010 to Mark R. and Sally B. Otis.
1948 - The Charles H. McDonald Residence, 1217 39th Avenue East, Seattle WA. Designed by Paul Thiry. Built by J. G. Watts Construction Co. A one-story city house designed for urban living on a narrow 60 x 120 ft. lot, covering the maximum land permitted under the Seattle building code. The plan centers around a semi-enclosed patio garden, with a glass-enclosed hallway around the patio serving as circulation and extra living space. Photo by Charles R. Pearson. Featured in Architectural Forum, January 1949. Demolished in 2008.
1948 - The Dr. S. G. Weiss Residence, Harwinton CT. Designed by Joseph Stein. A studio-type bachelor house whose owner had laid the foundation and floors himself before calling in the architect. Fieldstone construction lightened by generous glazing, pine board-and-batten walls, a dramatically sloping slate roof that sheds snow, cantilevered stairs set into the stone wall, and a bedroom clerestory that lights the center of the house. Photo by Lionel Freedman (Pictorial Services). Featured in Architectural Forum, January 1949.
1948 - Revere Quality House, Ridgewood Park, Cleveland OH. Designed by W. D. Riddle. Built by Maurice Fishman, Precision Housing Corp. Model house for Ridgewood Park, an 800-house development on 225 suburban acres near Cleveland, the best example to date of Revere Copper & Brass Co.'s pilot building program. Traditional clapboards and pitched roof combine with large modern windows and long, low lines; assembly-line building kept it economical. Seventy-five thousand Clevelanders visited the model in its first weeks. Photos by R. Marvin Wilson. Featured in Architectural Forum, January 1949.
1948 - The Alexander H. Girard Residence, 222 Lothrop Road, Grosse Pointe Farms MI. Designed by Alexander H. Girard. The architect knit two run-down houses overlooking Detroit's only pine grove into one modern ten-room house for his own family. Acting as his own contractor, he built it economically; an outsized living room with a curved screen dividing off the architect's studio is the hub of the rambling plan. Photo by Elmer L. Astleford. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1949. The designer's own house, closely related to his four-pavilion house nearby: stone-based walls, patterned surfaces, marble chips on the roof and walls of objets trouves, presented through Charles Eames' unorthodox country-fair photo essay. Photo by Charles Eames. Featured in House & Home, November 1952. Destroyed.
1948 - The Robert Chapin Residence, 341 Calkinstown Road, Sharon CT. Designed by Robert Chapin. Built by Edwin J. Baldwin. Sixty-one acres and a view set off this owner-designed hilltop house, built in stages from a 1940 one-room weekend cottage (now the guest house) to the main house begun in 1946. Bright ideas and ingenious planning add value to the small house: children's bedrooms open into a playroom via sliding partitions, and a deep overhang cuts summer sun. Photo by Lionel Freedman (Pictorial Services). Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1949. The owner-architect was Time magazine's chief cartographer.
1948 - The William A. Amenta Residence, Bethayres PA. Designed by E. George Lavino & William A. Amenta. Architect Amenta's own home, with a utility core placed between the living and sleeping areas. Walls of Chestnut Hill stone obtained inexpensively from a nearby sewer excavation and wood siding preserve the rocky wooded atmosphere of the site; a pebbled court with barbecue serves outdoor dining. Photo by Cortlandt V. D. Hubbard. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1949.
1948 - Revere Institute Indiana House, South Bend IN. Designed by L. Morgan Yost. Built by Place & Co. One of Revere Copper & Brass Co.'s nationwide demonstrations of merchant builder-architect teamwork, this house packs a lot of sense within its thrifty 20 x 77 ft. rectangular shell. A shallow corner lot shaped the plan, with a recessed entry under a projecting eave and big plate glass living room windows overlooking a concrete terrace. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1949.
1948 - The Sylvian W. Gamm Residence, Shreveport LA. Designed by Samuel G. Wiener & William B. Wiener. Built by Sandel & Lastrapes. Astute design and orientation produce a distinguished house tucked into the northwest corner of its one-acre suburban lot, opening southward to view, sun, breeze, garden and play yard. Brick and wood construction with a long band of glass under a thin projecting roof; carport and driveway form an entrance court at the rear. Photo by Ulric Meisel (Photo Associates). Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1949.
1948 - The Charles E. and Dorothy Bevelander Residence, 255 Conant Road, Weston MA. Designed by David Fried. Built by Nicolai Construction Co. An unpretentious country house designed to the owner's wife's specification: a modern home behind a conservative exterior. A pitched roof, conservative window placement and natural cedar siding clothe an interior of modern spaciousness. Interior decorator: Lilian E. Kenrick. Photo by Haskell. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1949.
1948 - House in Ithan, Ithan PA. Designed by Carroll, Grisdale & Van Alen. Built by E. Allen Reeves, Inc. Engineers: A. E. D'Ambly. A large, comfortable house circled by a high ribbon window, using inexpensive rough-finished materials to purchase the luxury of plentiful light and space. The usual construction was reversed: moisture-holding cinder block was used on the interior and unmilled lumber, saw marks showing, on the exterior. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1949.
1948 - The Joseph Allen Stein Residence, 16 Laverne Avenue, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Joseph Allen Stein. Built by Bernard & Feinstein. Landscape architect: Eckbo, Royston & Williams. The architect's own low-lying house, built with a low-cost prefabricated concrete panel system on a 4 ft. module. A striking diagonal corridor cuts across the plan, creating a big tri-cornered living room and a free, easy layout of angled rooms. Photo by M. Halberstadt. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1949. Owned by William J. Higgins and Norma M. Rusbar. The last arm's-length sale was in 1987; the 2010 and 2014 recordings were between the two of them. Standing as of 2026. Its mirror-image twin next door at 18 Laverne Avenue, Robert Royston's own house, sold in 2026.
1948 - The Stanley Sharp Beach House, Lido Beach NY. Designed by Stanley Sharp of Ketchum, Gina & Sharp. Built by Murphy Brinkworth. The architect's own small, economical beach house, its plan reversed vertically to lift the 30 x 30 ft. living-dining space above the bedrooms for the sake of the dune view. Cinder concrete block and redwood siding with exposed lightweight steel columns. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1949.
1948 - The Harris Armstrong Weekend House, Jefferson County MO. Designed by Harris Armstrong. The architect's own 'Ozark Fantasy,' a tree-house weekend cottage perched on a Missouri creek bank, its soaring prow-shaped upper level anchored to stone walls salvaged from the ruins of an old barn. Rough-hewn native materials throughout. Photo by Robert Frei. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1949.
1948 - The Mario Corbett Residence, Sausalito CA. Designed by Mario Corbett. Built by Bernard & Feinstein. The architect's own house, set on the fan-shaped saddle of a precipitous ridge and grown from heavy bulwarks of native stone, with sweeping views of open sea, harbor, islands, city and hills. Its 39 ft. living-dining room extends to deck and terrace with no change in level; the house appeared on the issue's cover. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, September 1949.
1948 - House in Swampscott, Swampscott MA. Designed by Carl Koch & Associates. Built by John F. Carey. A compact seashore house on a small lot, enlarged by an open floor plan linked with the outdoors. A wide hall joins the flagstone entry walk to the living room opening on the sea, and five doors plus swing-out windows provide through ventilation. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, September 1949.
1948 - The Dr. D. C. and Genevieve Burkes House, 700 NW Rapidan Terrace, Portland OR. Designed by Pietro Belluschi. 'A house that eats, sleeps and works with the view' — a serene, subtle flat-top on a nearly peninsular dead-end shelf against the west Portland hills, completed just before Belluschi left to head MIT's school of architecture. A series of subtly managed courts leads from turnaround court past the garage-wing barricade, the master bedroom claims a private court with a Roman bath, and living and sleeping rooms all face Mt. Hood. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1951. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025 as the Burkes-Belluschi House. Owned by Anthony and Marti Belluschi since 2009.
1948 - The Dr. D. S. Harris House, 525 Garth Brooks Boulevard, Yukon OK. Designed by Richard A. Kuhlman. A house that makes its own climate, 20% cooler without air conditioning: a ventilated reflective roof, shading overhangs and 65' of wall that opens to summer breezes on the venturi principle. Photo by Maynard L. Parker. Featured in House & Home, February 1955. Sold in 2015.
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.
1949 - The Klumb House, aka Casa Klumb, aka Cody Ranch, 1037 Calle Buenos Aires, Barrio Sabana Llana, Río Piedras, San Juan PR. Designed by Henry Klumb, who remodeled a 19th-century wooden casona on the former Cody Ranch, bought by Klumb and his wife Else in 1947; the remodeling began in 1949. The property had belonged to José Ramón Latimer and Esther C. Cody. Richard and Dion Neutra rented a room here during their time on the island. Klumb was the University of Puerto Rico's architect for nearly 20 years. He and Else lived here until both died in a car accident in November 1984. The house then stood empty and was acquired by the University of Puerto Rico in 1986, after which it deteriorated badly. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 (ref. 97001307) and reclassified as national-level significance in 2012. Placed on the World Monuments Watch list of endangered sites in 2013. A Casa Klumb committee was reactivated in 2018 to seek restoration funding. Destroyed by fire on the night of November 10, 2020.
1949 - aka Dawnridge, 1354 Dawnridge Drive, Beverly Hills CA. Designed by Tony Duquette with architect Casper Ehmcke as the primary residence of Duquette and his wife Elizabeth “Beegle” Duquette. Originally a 30-by-30-foot box of about 900 sf on a ravine, expanded and elaborated by the Duquettes over five decades into painted ceilings, mirrored rooms and theatrical gardens. After Duquette’s death on September 9, 1999, it was bought by his business partner and protégé Hutton Wilkinson, who feared it would be razed for the lot; Wilkinson has since broadened the property, added houses of his own design and continues to live there with his wife Ruth. Standing; serves as headquarters of Tony Duquette Studios and is available for events and filming. Subject of Hutton Wilkinson, Tony Duquette’s Dawnridge (Abrams, 2018), photographs by Tim Street-Porter, foreword by Hamish Bowles.
1949 - Hollin Hills Builder House, Alexandria VA. Designed by Charles M. Goodman & Associates. Built by Robert C. Davenport. Engineers: Charles M. Goodman & Associates. The pace-setting subdivision of the year, combining intelligent land planning keyed to contours and scenic vistas with handsome small houses of brick, glass and wood panels. Floor-to-ceiling windows light the living areas, and 4 ft. increments can be added to living room or bedroom. Photo by Robert C. Lautman. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1949.
1949 - The Milton A. Ryan Residence, 601 Elizabeth Road, Terrell Hills, San Antonio TX. Designed by Milton A. Ryan. Built by Milton A. Ryan. The architect-builder's own house pairs a conventionally private bedroom wing with a Texas-sized 25 x 54 ft. multi-purpose room whose areas are defined only by furniture and a flexible wrap-around screen. Clean brickwork, narrow mullions and a wafer-thin flat roof faced with aluminum panels on slim pipe columns, with a swimming pool. Photo by Ulric Meisel. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1950. The architect's own house, the first of his four houses on Elizabeth Road. Destroyed; a new house was built on the site in 2001.
1949 - U-Shaped Court House, 615 Elizabeth Road, Terrell Hills, San Antonio TX. Designed by Milton A. Ryan. Built by Milton A. Ryan. Third house in Ryan's Elizabeth Road group wraps its rooms around a court open to the street to catch the Texas breeze, with privacy preserved by a 60 ft. setback, a wall and a redwood trellis partially covered with aluminum sheeting. Open-planned living areas with floor-to-ceiling windows, built-in cabinets and wall-to-wall carpet. Photo by Ulric Meisel. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1950. The third of Ryan's four houses on Elizabeth Road.
1949 - Natural Ventilation House, Princeton NJ. Designed by Kenneth Kassler. Built by L. C. Bowers & Sons. A cinder block house with a barn-like full-length ridge ventilator: air admitted under the eaves exhausts at the ridge, keeping the interior 10 to 14 degrees cooler than outside in hot spells. A full-length ridge beam on lally columns frees the attic of trusses, where the owner added an extra bedroom and bath. Photo by Ben Schnall. Featured in Architectural Forum, March 1950.
1949 - Raised New England House, Hanover NH. Designed by E. H. and M. K. Hunter. Built by A. A. Lauziere. Elevated over a half-basement containing garage and utilities, the house spans an open sheltered picnic and barbecue area and turns a continuous window wall under a wide overhang toward the distant view without letting passersby look in. Photo by Richard Garrison. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1950.
1949 - House on Belvedere Island, Belvedere CA. Designed by John Funk. A compact 720 sq. ft. redwood house on a bulldozer-carved hillside lot. The nearly square 21 x 22 ft. living room is fully transparent on both sides, opening to a private rear terrace cut from the hill and to a raised terrace with a distant view over the road. Photos by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1950.
1949 - Plainfield Summer House, Plainfield MA. Designed by Thomas Wright. Built by Thomas Wright. A summer house for an older couple whose plan is opened up by a cross-passage dining area between living room and bedroom wing. Modular interior partitions on 10 ft. 6 in. centers carry the roof, and yellow pine board walls on an open foundation enclose its 15,000 cu. ft.; designed and built by the designer with student partners. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1950.
1949 - Belmont Multi-Level House, Belmont MA. Designed by Carl Koch & Associates (Leon Lipshutz, Associate). Built by Hans Tobiason. For a client who makes pottery, this house negotiates a steep hill on four levels - studio, living room, bedrooms and garage - all covered by a single bold sweep of raking roof. Progressive design with well-bred serenity, open enough to seem easy to heat behind wind-breaking trees. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1950.
1949 - Bird-Cage House (The Michael Heller Residence), Miami FL. Designed by Igor B. Polevitzky. Built by Zenith Builders Inc. Engineers: Riley & Ross. The year's most talked-about house in Florida: living quarters built inside a two-story screen-covered wooden frame beside the Venetian Causeway, tailored to the tropical climate and an extrovert owner who enjoys looking out over the traffic to Biscayne Bay and the Miami skyline. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1950.
1949 - The Eichler California Builder House, Palo Alto CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by Joseph Eichler. FORUM's field survey found no Long Island house that equaled this Palo Alto merchant-builder house in value and quality: 1,044 sq. ft. of glass-walled living space. Planned from scratch by Eichler's architects around 1950 living requirements, his 51-lot subdivision sold out in a fortnight. Photo by Rondal Partridge. Featured in Architectural Forum, July 1950.
1949 - The Robert Daniel House, aka Professor Daniel House, 2701 Woodson Drive, Knoxville TN. Designed by James W. Fitzgibbon. A double Quonset house dug into a wooded Tennessee hillside, its curved prefab ribs framing an imaginative section: a big arched chimney mass, an open mezzanine study and child's bedroom above the living room, and a cool half-buried guest bedroom below. The upper terrace serves for play and sun-bathing. Photos by Billy Glenn. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1950. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 as the Daniel House.
1949 - The Leonora (Nora) Woods House, aka Dome House, aka Dome in the Desert, aka Desert Woods House, aka Desert House, 7199 East Grapevine Road, Cave Creek AZ. Designed and hand-built by Paolo Soleri and Mark Mills, their first commission after both were dismissed by Frank Lloyd Wright from Taliesin West in 1948. Wood's daughter Colly Woods married Soleri before the house was finished. Woods lived here until 1984; since then occupied by architects and artists, including Wendell Burnette. Nora Woods bought the land in 1948 and asked Frank Lloyd Wright first; he was unavailable. Soleri and Mills camped on site and excavated the foundation by hand. The original dome had a movable opaque section that could be rotated for shade; the rotating mechanism later broke and the top was modified to shield the sun. An evaporative cooler was added and no longer functions. The floor is intarsio — colored cement poured into grooves carved in the slab. A Dick Seeger panel was added to the shower at least ten years after construction. A model of the house by Mark Mills is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (ASCM 8, gift of the architect). Photographed by Julius Shulman; those negatives are at the Getty Research Institute. Standing as of 2020 but in need of repair after vandalism. Docomomo has toured the house, led by Paolo Soleri Studios director Roger Tomalty. Note that Cave Creek's preservation office has no authority to deny a demolition permit. Ownership unknown. The house is roofed with a movable half-dome of glass and aluminum that rides on a circular track to shade the main living space in summer and open it to the winter sun; masonry walls of desert stone anchor the two carved living spaces, and a copper water tube cools the air between them. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1951. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
1949 - The Arthur Stockstrom House, 13290 Maple Drive, Sunset Hills MO. Designed by Harris Armstrong. Landscape architect: Thomas D. Church. A sweeping, flowing house planned around its river view, entered past glass-walled stone steps and gardens that reach through the walls. Decorator Eleanor McMillen; a sun deck flattens the hilly site. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, April 1956. Held by Alwal A. (as recorded; c/o a bank trust real-estate department); acquisition year not found. Moore, trustee, et al. Held in trust (Alwal A. Standing as of 2026 on a 12.6-acre parcel.
1949 - The Charles Y. Dusenbury House, aka Fort Apache, Howard Gap Road (now Page Farm Road), Tryon NC. Designed by Henry Hebbeln. Built by Paul Reneau. An 800 sq. ft. vacation cottage for sculptor Charles Dusenbury, his wife, a textile designer, and their two children, among tall pines facing a gap in the Blue Ridge to the west, from which come the prevailing breezes and into which the sun sets. Simple 4x4 posts and 4x8 beams carry a corrugated asbestos roof with electric heating panels for year-round use; walls are glass or vertical pine boards-and-battens creosoted almost black. Planned as the first stage of a larger permanent home. Photo by Richard Garrison. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1951, and in Quality Budget Houses by Katherine Morrow Ford and Thomas H. Creighton, 1954. Burned down in the late 1950s.
1950 - The William W. and Patricia Lue Wessinger House, 321 NW Hilltop Drive, Portland OR 97210. Designed by Walter Lyle Gordon. Inspired by his friend Aubrey Watzek’s house by John Yeon. Gordon worked in Pietro Belluschi’s Portland office and later became dean of architecture at the University of Oregon; he designed both later additions himself. Landscape plan carried out in 1976 by Barbara Fealy. For sale in 2025. Photos by Dearborn-Massar. Published in Architectural Record, April 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954.
1950 - The Alden Mason House I, 2545 Boyer Avenue East, Portage Bay, Seattle WA 98102. Designed by Victor Steinbrueck. 1,400sf. Sold in 2016. Steinbrueck designed a second house for Mason at Richmond Beach, Shoreline, in 1951-52, which won a Washington Chapter AIA Honor Award in 1953 and has been destroyed. Featured in McCall’s Book of Modern Homes. Published in Architectural Record, April 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954.
1950 – The William B. and Babette Levy Wiener Sr. House, 2 Longleaf Lane, Shreveport LA. Designed by William B. Wiener Sr. Built in Pine Park, the subdivision Wiener and his half-brother Samuel G. Wiener designed and developed in 1937, two doors from Samuel Wiener's own 1937 house at 615 Longleaf Road, which is on the National Register. Won an AIA Gulf States Region Award of Merit in 1952. Published in Architectural Record, November 1952, reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses (1954), and featured in Jean and Don Graf, Practical Houses for Contemporary Living (1953). Standing as of 2016.
1950 – The William French Residence, 524 Hunter Drive, Fillmore CA. Designed by Randolph Chalfant Head next door to Head's Bryce residence at 526 Hunter Drive. Published in Architectural Record, February 1953, pp. 153–155, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Stayed in the French family for nearly 70 years, was restored by later owners, and was listed for sale in 2021. Standing as of 2021.
1950 - The McCreless House, San Antonio TX. Designed by Cocke, Bowman & York. Built by George S. McCreless, a South Side San Antonio volume builder, as the model for a Southwest Research Institute Quality House Program subdivision. A roof of odd shape and big size -- twice the area of the house, floating on independent 1.5 in. steel pipe columns with 7 ft. overhangs -- protects a small rectangular plan whose exterior walls are nothing but 2 x 6 in. vertical tongue-and-groove redwood. Sold on completion; the builder planned 27 more with smaller variations, paying the architects a royalty per duplication. Photo by Ulric Meisel. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1950. Status unknown.
1950 - The Walter Lowery Builder House, San Antonio TX. Designed by DeHaven Pitts. Built by Walter Lowery. The most economical of the four Quality House Program houses, a unit that squares good design with low-priced subdivision housing: the carport is angled to the house and connected by a baffle-board fence to create a private outdoor patio off the kitchen, the under-900 sq. ft. interior is open-planned, and a large fireplace wall enlivens the north facade. Builder Lowery has started 27 similar units. Photo by Ulric Meisel. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1950. Built in the Meadowbrook Estates subdivision; the magazine names the builder as Albert A. Lowery of Lowery-Cato-Hubbard.
1950 - Eichler Subdivision of the Year, Palo Alto CA. Designed by S. Robert Anshen & William S. Allen. Built by Joseph L. Eichler. Engineers: George S. Nolte, site. Landscape architect: Hahn, Campbell Associates, land use. FORUM's Subdivision of the Year: some 400 moderately priced houses sold since spring in Eichler's Bay Area tracts, proof of the sales appeal of good contemporary design. Glass-walled living areas, radiant-heated concrete slabs, redwood interiors, open snack-bar kitchens, and curvilinear street plans with fences and plan variations giving each house privacy and good orientation. Photo by Rondal Partridge & Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1950.
1950 - Textured Mansion, Taxco Mexico. Designed by Anshen & Allen. A colorful semi-tropical house on a mountainside near Taxco, built over three years by local craftsmen under Don Antonio Pineda using ancient tools and materials: unglazed village roof tiles, Guerrero cedar, tile grilles, rubble stone retaining walls, and cantilevered cast-in-place concrete 'retort' girders, with locally woven fabrics and rosewood furniture bolted to stone bases. Photo by Arthur Lavine, Maynard Parker, Charles Kassler. Featured in Architectural Forum, January 1951. Built for Sonya Silverstone at the Mil Cascadas waterfall, about 10 km east of Taxco. Abandoned around 1990; only ruins remain.
1950 - Three-Zone House, Miami FL. Designed by Alfred B. Parker. Built by Alfred B. Parker. Really three separate buildings — bedroom, living room and service — all opening to a central screened porch that combines with the living area into one big outdoor living space 42 ft. long. Parker built the 2,200 sq. ft. house himself, with a nearly miraculous amount of living room. Photos by Rodney McCoy Morgan. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1951.
1950 - Three-Level House, Miami Beach FL. Designed by Alfred B. Parker. Built by Albert Hallquist. On a tight 75 ft. lot and budget, Parker stacked three levels to take in the view on the north and the breeze on the south, with awning-type windows and jalousies, a second-story roof shading the western sun, and one of the pleasantest and most spacious living rooms around Miami, designed for almost year-round outdoor living. Photos by Rodney McCoy Morgan. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1951.
1950 - Porch House, Miami Beach FL. Designed by Igor B. Polevitzky. Built by Bradford Builders, Inc. Landscape architect: Frederick Stressau. A Biscayne Bay house that is in effect one tremendous porch 85 ft. long and 26 ft. deep: solid end walls of taupe and salmon-pink cement brick, sides as open as a sieve on 28 ft. stressed-skin plywood trusses, a curved louver wall at the entrance, and screened aluminum windows that slide into concrete pockets. Interiors by Jack Cameron Designs. Photos by Rada, Rodney McCoy Morgan. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1951.
1950 - Ebony, Granite, Steel and Skill, Belvedere CA. Designed by Jack Hillmer. Jack Hillmer's second house, on a beachhead of hilly wooded Belvedere Island in Marin County facing a Golden Gate view, built for a top magazine illustrator and his wife. Two full-length plywood-web 'diamond trusses' carry the roof and double as ducts, light coves and raceways; the living room ends against a vast granite slab, with walls of vertical 2 x 12 in. solid redwood planking and washbowls carved from lignum vitae. Featured in Architectural Forum, April 1951.
1950 - Two Houses on One Small Lot, Dallas TX. Designed by John P. Wilshire & J. Hershel Fisher. Built by William R. McKee. A bright answer to the city's by-passed 'skip lots': two spacious rental houses on a single 50 x 150 ft. lot, each with as much privacy as if it had the lot to itself. The pair totals 1,700 sq. ft., built on a 4 ft. module with common brick and stained fir siding, back-to-back kitchens and baths, fenced patios and an overhead trellis joining the two houses. Photo by Ulric Meisel. Featured in Architectural Forum, May 1951.
1950 - Byles & Weston Builder's Houses, Tujunga CA. Designed by H. Douglas Byles & Eugene Weston III. Built by Victor Sease. Merchant-built houses that exploit the economies of a rigid post and beam exposed structural system, showing how handsome flat roofs can be and proving a contemporary solution to the small house can be a salable item at a price competitive with the conventional house. Photo by James N. Reed. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1951.
1950 - The Vincent J. Scully House, aka One-Room House, 68 Orchard Road, Woodbridge CT. Designed by Vincent J. Scully, Jr. Built by Anthony Concelmo. Architectural historian Vincent Scully's 61 x 31 ft. house near New Haven for a family with three boys: one large, simple and open pavilion divisible by movable storage units, giving up privacy and slick finishes to gain spaciousness and flexibility on a severely limited budget. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1951. Still in the Scully family, held by Daniel V. and Stephen P. Scully individually and as trustees. Standing as of 2024.
1950 - Week-End Lodge, Jackson MS. Designed by R. K. Overstreet. Built by Tillman Sessums. A lakeside lodge 20 miles from Jackson that 'looks like a graceful glider arrested in flight,' by a young architect trained under Bruce Goff. Cooking, dining, sleeping and living areas all face the artificial lake through a large screened porch on the east front, catching the southeast summer breezes. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1951.
1950 - The Julian and Suzanne Underwood House, aka House on Stilts, 1 Old Wharf Road, Nonquitt, South Dartmouth MA. Designed by Julian & Suzanne Underwood. Built by Philip S. Manchester Sons. The architect-couple's own house 300 yards from the beach, raised about 10 ft. on stilts to capture a first-class view of Buzzards Bay, catch maximum summer breezes and rise above the fog, dampness and bugs of June and July — a modern plan finished in the New England vernacular of shingles and corner boards. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1951. Acquired in 2011 by Eric H. Strand, trustee. Standing as of 2025.
1950 - Botanist's Vacation House, Santa Cruz CA. Designed by William F. Hempel. Built by William F. Hempel. A year-round retreat for a botanist who uses it as a base for field trips: a redwood frame filled mostly with glass, with a long clerestory down the spine of the plan and a skylight over the entire northern edge — almost a greenhouse with the plants left standing outside. 980 sq. ft., with untreated redwood siding over a waxed concrete slab. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, August 1951.
1950 - The Albert and Shirley Lustbader House, 905 Hampton Avenue, Brooklyn NY. Designed by William Breger & Stanley Salzman. Built by Albert Lustbader. An oasis in Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach section, faced in vitreous tile on a 100 x 104 ft. corner lot, its owner also the general contractor. For flexibility of plan, compactness as well as spaciousness, and ingenious details, its daytime wing packs a screened porch, living-dining area and family quarters into half a dozen distinct spaces. Photo by Alexandre Georges. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1951. Sold in 1971 to Irving and Estelle Horowitz. Sold in 2009 to Walter Romensky. Apparently altered.
1950 - Thomas Coogan's Builder Houses, Miami FL. Designed by Alfred Browning Parker. Built by Thomas P. Coogan Co. How builder Coogan cut his price, with what may be the year's best new builder house plan by architect Alfred Browning Parker. The long plan on 114 ft. lots offers fresh, livable, attractive space, with alternated and angled siting of two basic plans adding variety to the development. Photo by Brignolo. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1951.
1950 - Joseph Eichler's Builder Houses, Palo Alto CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by Joseph L. Eichler. Big simplifications cut costs and enhance the charm of this house in the San Francisco area, with post-and-beam framing fitted to concrete block, radiant-heated slab and glass walls orienting the house to the rear garden — the latest of the celebrated Eichler-Anshen & Allen collaborations. Photo by Rondal Partridge. Featured in Architectural Forum, October 1951.
1950 - NAHB-Forum Prize House, aka the Better Living Home, 5024 West Northwest Boulevard, Spokane WA. Designed by Bruce Walker. Built by Elmer Nelson. First prize-winner among 2,727 entries in the NAHB-Forum House Design Competition, built as a dressed-up show house for the Home Builders Association in Spokane. During National Home Week some 28,000 visitors voted for its modern planning, perfect floor plan and handsome built-ins — and against its prefab fireplace ('What the hell is that, a television set?'). Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1951.
1950 - The Robert and Joan Sinton House, 1 Raycliff Terrace, San Francisco CA. Designed by Gardner A. Dailey & Associates. Built by Peter Sartorio. 'What a very handsome conventional house,' said one critic; 'What a very elegant house,' said another — Dailey's latest town house, for a family with three children, is entirely modern in its prime characteristics but does everything very well. On a corner lot at the head of the Raycliff Terrace cul-de-sac, its small garden is shielded by an 8 ft. brick wall, with flush tongue-and-groove redwood siding stained slate gray; six plastic domes light the central stair hall. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1951. Sold in 2018 and 2019. Extant.
1950 - Hilltop House Centered on a Court, Portland OR. Designed by Pietro Belluschi. Built by J. C. Anderson. One of four informal houses from a 9,800-mile line stretching from the tropics to the frozen north: a hilltop house centered on a court, finished in the neat wood-building tradition of the American Northwest, with living room windows overlooking valley and distant mountains. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1951.
1950 - U-Shaped Plan House, Honolulu HI. Designed by Vladimir Ossipoff. Built by Yaichi Sato. A court-centered Honolulu house built right after the war whose U-shaped plan gives every room complete cross-ventilation. Visitors pass through the court before reaching the living area, and the master bedroom opens with sliding shoji screens. Photo by R. Wenkam. Featured in Architectural Forum, November 1951.
1950 - The Minoru Yamasaki Farm House, 3077 Livernois Rd, Troy MI. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki. How to rejuvenate a 125-year-old farmhouse without destroying the spirit of the original building: Yamasaki sheltered his large family in the old shell while making its center a living room of Japanese sensitivity and restraint — a faultlessly plastered rectangle 14.5 x 28 ft. with furniture raised off the floor on slim pipes to retain the spacious one-room feeling. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1951. The Yamasakis lived here from the late 1940s until the early 1970s, when they sold it and moved to their new house in Bloomfield Township. The Big Beaver–Livernois corner has since been redeveloped, and the farmhouse is believed demolished.
1950 - The George and Margaret Cottrell House, 1060 SW Skyline Boulevard, Portland OR. Designed by John Yeon. A large hilltop house for a Portland doctor, pulled back from the crest to open a spacious front lawn. Designed on a 3-foot module of glass-louver-plywood panels painted turquoise blue, with blank walls of bleached horizontal cedar. Featured in House & Home, April 1954. Owned by the University of Oregon and operated by its John Yeon Center. Owned by the University of Oregon as part of the John Yeon Center.
1951 – The Thomas David Stimson House, 825 NW 197th St, Shoreline WA (originally 19543 8th Ave NW, Richmond Highlands). Designed by Paul Thiry. Won an AIA Washington Chapter Honor Award in 1953. Published as "A Large House with a Puget Sound Approach" in Architectural Record, April 1953. Featured in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. The Stimsons lived here into the 1970s, when the grounds were subdivided as Stimsons Estates. Standing. Sold in 2009 and 2022.
1951 - The William Wallace Landsberg House, 5 Tianderah Road, Baxter Estates, Port Washington NY 11050. Designed by William Wallace Landsberg. Landsberg studied under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer in Harvard’s first class of graduate architecture students, then worked for Breuer and helped execute Breuer’s House in the Museum Garden. He left Breuer in 1956 to open his own practice. The kitchen and living room were expanded by Landsberg in 1962. He lived here until his death in 2013, aged 98. Renovated and restored by Stephen Moser Architect. Published in Architectural Record, June 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954.
1951 - The Carl Erickson House, Hunts Point WA. Designed by Young Richardson Carleton and Detlie. Sited on the Lake Washington shore of Hunts Point facing Seattle, entered from a carport at road level and stepping down to the house. Photos by Charles R. Pearson. Published in Architectural Record, April 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Status unknown.
1951 – The John Woerner Residence, 101 Crown Road, Kent Woodlands, Kentfield CA. Designed by John C. Funk; Lawrence Halprin, landscape architect; A. Curley Henrickson, general contractor. 3650sf. Published in Architectural Record, May 1954, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Sold in 2011 by Mark Henderson and Mercedes McNab, who located the original plans and photographs and restored the house with architect David Yama and builder Farallon Construction, preserving the plaster ceilings and adding terrazzo floors; the Halprin landscape was reconstructed from his original drawings by his former apprentice Gary Roth, after consultation with Anna Halprin. for sale in 2021.
1951 – The Carleton R. Richmond Jr. House, 22 Follen Street, Cambridge MA. Designed by Carleton R. Richmond Jr. Two stories, about 2,650 sq ft. Published in Architectural Record, April 1954, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Sold in 2013.
1951 - Mezzanine House in Sausalito, Sausalito CA. Designed by Mario Corbett. Built by Cardinal Construction Co. Engineers: Hyman Rosenthal. Landscape architect: Malkin & Sherlock. A study of form in black, white and gray: a larger, more formal mezzanine house built for a doctor and his wife, opening dramatic two-story interior space to the Bay view. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in House & Home, February 1952.
1951 - The George Nakashima House, 1847 Aquetong Road, New Hope PA. Designed by George Nakashima. The master craftsman's own house and workshop, built on a meter module with asbestos-cement panels in oak frames, precise wood joinery and handcraft furniture that set a high mark for mass producers. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, March 1952. A National Historic Landmark, open for tours through the Nakashima Foundation. Owned by the Nakashima Foundation for Peace and George Nakashima, Woodworker. Standing as of 2025.
1951 - Four-Terrace House, Franklin MI. Designed by Edward P. Elliott. Built by Alex Gow. Landscape architect: Edward A. Eichstedt. Cold-climate outdoor living: a Michigan house with four terraces for an extraordinary range of family activity, a flexible in-line plan and a 6' overhang that shades summer sun but lets winter rays into the living room. Photo by Richard Shirk. Featured in House & Home, March 1952.
1951 - Hillside House in Sands Point, Sands Point NY. Designed by Henry Hebbeln. Built by William Oestreicher. Landscape architect: James Rose. A Long Island hillside house with an extraordinary affinity for its land, trees and boulders: local sand-bank boulder masonry, natural cypress siding, reversed roof pitch to save the Sound vista, and a Calder mobile indoors. Photo by Lionel Freedman. Featured in House & Home, April 1952.
1951 - The William Corlett House, aka Hillside House in Berkeley, 50 Panoramic Way, Berkeley CA. Designed by William Corlett. Built by Alfred Hirshfield. Engineers: Walter Steilberg; O. M. Simonson. How to use a useless lot: the architect's own tall redwood house climbs a steep 60' x 200' Berkeley hillside bought cheap because no one else could build on it. Photo by Photography Inc. Featured in House & Home, April 1952.
1951 - The Miller House, aka Mezzanine House in St. Paul, 320 Stonebridge Boulevard, St. Paul MN. Designed by Norman C. Nagle. Built by James Steele. A Minnesota hillside mezzanine house whose living room extension under the dining platform doubles as television alcove or guest room, with a curtained mezzanine for privacy. Featured in House & Home, April 1952. Sold in 2004 to John and Jennifer Shepard. Standing as of 2026.
1951 - Seven-Level House, Rye NY. Designed by Henry Wright. Built by Woodle Construction & Supply Co. Built on a steep bare rock in Rye with no excavation or footings - just one dynamite charge to blast a kitchen shelf - this house rides the boulder on seven levels. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, April 1952.
1951 - Cowpie Ranch House, Vina CA. Designed by Mario Corbett. National AIA honor-award house of only 12,000 cubic feet on a flat 300-acre ranch at the edge of the Sierras: a three-level split plan of stacked open shelves with a bird-cage screened living porch, natural stone, mosaics and viewing platforms that make space flow in three dimensions. Photos by Dean Stone & Hugo Steccati. Featured in House & Home, July 1952.
1951 - Barn-Framed House, Bryn Mawr PA. Designed by Vincent G. Kling. Winner of both New Jersey and Middle-Atlantic States AIA awards, this house expands the post-and-beam frame to double-story height in the manner of a heavy timber barn, giving wide spans, open planning and window walls; its low service wing rests on stone walls salvaged from an earlier structure. Featured in House & Home, July 1952.
1951 - Pennsylvania Farmhouse Remodel, Phoenixville PA. Designed by Oscar Stonorov. Built by Mahlon Rossiter. A contemporary glass-walled living-dining wing angled out from an old Pennsylvania farmhouse, facing south over an apple orchard, showing how remodeling outside the old walls can join old and new without conflict. Photos by Cortlandt V. D. Hubbard. Featured in House & Home, July 1952.
1951 - Flat-Tops in an Orchard, Branford CT. Designed by Peter Powers Hale. Built by The Builders Group. Landscape architect: Technical Planning Associates, land planning. Architect Hale turned builder-developer to prove the public would buy good contemporary houses: flat-roofed models with floor-to-ceiling windows, corner fireplaces and carports, sold in an old Connecticut orchard to buyers from Yale professors to machinists. Featured in House & Home, July 1952. Part of the Orchard Hill development on Orchard Hill Road.
1951 - Seven Remodeled Builder Houses, Alexandria VA. Designed by Charles M. Goodman. Seven case studies in bringing 11-year-old builder houses near Washington, D.C. up to date: Goodman added new glass-walled living rooms, terraces, carports and open plans to ordinary wartime subdivision houses. Featured in House & Home, August 1952. The houses are in Tauxemont, off Fort Hunt Road.
1951 - Hillside House in Marin County, Marin County CA. Designed by Joseph Esherick. Landscape architect: Douglas Baylis. A wood hillside house whose two-story south end steps down its slope on exposed foundation walls, with bedrooms and balcony upstairs and a playroom opening directly to the garden and play yard below. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in House & Home, August 1952.
1951 - The Victor Steinbrueck House, aka 700 Sq. Ft. House, 1401 East Spring Street, Seattle WA. Designed by Victor Steinbrueck. A Washington State AIA Honor Award winner of only 700 square feet, cantilevered around its entire periphery on a steep wooded corner lot; commonplace industrial materials and an almost all-glass west garden facade give it privacy, light and grace. Photo by Dearborn-Massar. Featured in House & Home, August 1952.
1951 - Hawkins Flat-Top House, Denver CO. Designed by Edward B. Hawkins. Built by Edward B. Hawkins. Builder-designer Edward Hawkins made these 855 sq. ft. flat-tops look and live larger: wider 70' lots, long horizontal rooflines, window walls to private terraces and staggered siting give a sense of privacy usually found only in much bigger houses. Photo by Guy Burgess. Featured in House & Home, August 1952.
1951 - Side-Yard Lot-Length House, Seattle WA. Designed by Paul H. Kirk. Built by William R. Croyle. A 1,000 sq. ft. speculative house stretched along its lot line, its whole south side of living, dining, kitchen and master bedroom opening to a big side-yard terrace screened from the street by a high fence. Featured in House & Home, September 1952.
1951 - Lot-Length House, Seattle WA. Designed by Bassetti & Morse with Wendell H. Lovett. Built by Emmett Larson. Built in modular bays with exposed beam-and-plank ceilings, this lot-length builder house turns its principal rooms south to a fenced garden patio, with a windowed basement gained from the sloping site. Featured in House & Home, September 1952.
1951 - Low-Cost House, Seattle WA. Designed by Bassetti & Morse. Built by Caldwell. Among the most advanced low-cost builder houses in the Seattle area, this compact 704 sq. ft. pilot model with carport sold complete with range, washer, dryer and a freestanding fireplace. Featured in House & Home, September 1952.
1951 - Problem-Lot House, Seattle WA. Designed by Arnold G. Gangnes. Built by William Kipple. Designed for a two-slope corner lot combining several site difficulties, with a logical butterfly roof, a low center hall and a two-story bedroom wing turned to the view; a window-washer's catwalk shields the bedrooms from the street. Featured in House & Home, September 1952.
1951 - The Alice Rutherford Erving House, aka Glass Tent, 650 San Ysidro Road, Montecito CA. Designed by Lutah Maria Riggs; Arvin Benjamin Shaw III. Built by George F. Peters. Engineers: Harold F. Shugart. Landscape architect: Thomas D. Church. A simple program translated into poetic design: the tent-like north facade of glass rises 20 feet to take in mountain ranges a mile away, with the main entrance at the end of a covered walk and bedroom wings tucked behind. Featured in House & Home, September 1952. Sold in 2026 according to a Siteline sales report dated 2026; buyer not identified. Standing as of 2026.
1951 - One-Room Split-Level House, Sands Point NY. Designed by Henry Hebbeln & William Diederich. Essentially one 66' x 28' room split over two-and-a-half levels on a knoll near Long Island Sound: a balcony bedroom rides above the tall glass living space, with a rubble stone chimney and fabrics by Marianne Strengell. Featured in House & Home, September 1952.
1951 - Apartment-Size House, Slingerlands NY. Designed by Henry L. Blatner. Built by Charles Wiley. Engineers: George Teeling. A trim little one-bedroom house set in three acres of pine woods near Albany, essentially a studio apartment made into a house by clever storage walls that establish a foyer and zone the open plan. Featured in House & Home, September 1952.
1951 - The Kenneth Welch House, 1110 College Avenue NE, Grand Rapids MI. Designed by Kenneth C. Welch. Built by Fred Gietzen. A controlled environment: the shopping-center designer applied the same analytical detail to the siting, lighting and ventilating of his own deep-gardened house in Grand Rapids that he devotes to his big commercial projects. Photos by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, October 1952. Later the library of the Kendall School of Design.
1951 - Second-Story House, Pacific Palisades CA. Designed by Kenneth N. Lind. A one-story platform house lifted on stilts to command an otherwise invisible ocean view; the open space beneath serves the carport and shaded terrace. Photos by Marvin Rand. Featured in House & Home, October 1952.
1951 - The Dr. George Rieveschl Jr. House, aka Girard Pavilion House, 232 Lothrop Road, Grosse Pointe Farms MI. Designed by Alexander Girard. Really four separate houses linked by glazed passages - a service house, a living-dining house, a guest house and an owners' bedroom house - with paved and planted terraces between them and a picnic pavilion suspended between two posts. Photographed and sketched for House & Home by Charles Eames. Photo by Charles Eames. Featured in House & Home, November 1952.
1951 - The Arthur Q. Davis House, 25 Finch Street, Lake Vista, New Orleans LA. Designed by Curtis & Davis. Built by Connie Tullier. Architect Davis' own Lake Vista house is a 'three-zoner' divided into service, living and sleeping quarters with exceptional clarity and logic, the divisions managed so artfully by passages, walls and ceiling changes that the compact plan feels far larger — complete with air conditioning, fluorescent lighting and the surprise of a patio in the house. Photo by Clarence John Laughlin. Featured in Architectural Forum, December 1951. Sold around 1955. Renovated after Hurricane Katrina. Sold in 2019.
1951 - The Harry Reif House, 906 North Kings Road, West Hollywood CA. Designed by Aaron G. Green. Frank Lloyd Wright associate Aaron Green shows how the right house can make a 50' lot really spacious: long walls and diagonal angles stretch the terrace to 65', floor-to-ceiling glass doubles the apparent living space, and a hexagonal garden court brings light and air to the center of the house. Featured in House & Home, August 1956. Destroyed; condominiums were built on the site in 1980.
1952 - The Kennett L. and Eleanor Rawson Residence, Setauket area, Long Island NY. Needs verification. Designed by Serge P. Petroff and Harvey P. Clarkson. A hilltop country house built for year-round use for the New York publisher Kennett L. Rawson, later president of the David McKay Company. Published in Architectural Record, September 1952, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Sold in 1958 to H. W. Wilcox. Status unknown.
1952 - The David Van Brown House, Hilltop Community, probably 14401 SE 55th Street, Bellevue WA 98006. Designed by Bassetti and Morse. Hilltop is a cooperative of forty lots on sixty-three acres bounded by 148th Avenue SE, 146th Avenue SE and SE 55th Street, founded in 1948 by eighteen families led by Perry Johanson, Fred Bassetti and John Morse, more than half affiliated with the University of Washington; Wendell Lovett, Lionel Pries, Paul Hayden Kirk and Roland Terry also built there. Published in Architectural Record, April 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Sold in 2017 to Adam Sapek.
1952 - The Herbert Payson House, 48 Thornhurst Road, Falmouth ME. Designed by Serge Chermayeff. The house replaced their aging Victorian estate, Thornhurst. Chermayeff's son, Peter, expanded the house in 1972. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Still in the Payson family as of 2023. Built by Casburage Co. Landscape architect: Louise Payson. A simple flat-roofed frame box designed to replace a Victorian mansion in Maine, its crisp white clapboard walls set against old trees and lawn; The Architects Collaborative served as technical assistants, and cheap common materials are redeemed by knowing detail. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, January 1953.
1952 - The John Snyder House, 2 Charlies Lane, Shelter Island NY. Designed by Bertrand Goldberg for the head of the Pressed Steel Car Company, which manufactured Goldberg's Unicel freight cars and Unishelter prefab homes. The house was assembled from prefabricated Unishelter modules complete with bath, kitchen, plumbing, and HVAC fabricated in Chicago, shipped by rail and boat. Expanded in 2002. The house sold in 2023, a record for Shelter Island.
1952 - The Jacques C. Brownson House, 949 South Batavia Avenue, Geneva IL. Designed by Jacques C. Brownson. Photo by Julius Shulman. Was an Architectural Record House 1956. Needs verification. Held in a Baumann family trust: Virginia Baumann, trustee, from at least 2000; Charles Baumann, trustee, since 2018. Long owned by the Baumann family; held since 2018 by Charles Baumann, trustee. Standing as of 2026.
1952 - The Raymond Evans House, 1255 Angelo Drive, Beverly Hills CA. Designed by William S. Beckett. Built by Wallace F. MacDonald. Photo by Julius Shulman. Was an Architectural Record House 1956. Sold in 2014 to 1255 Angelo Associates.
1952 - Levitt Country Clubber, Levittown PA. Designed by Alfred Levitt. Built by Levitt & Sons. The Levitts' new big house for Levittown, Pa., with 29' x 12' living room, play room and open plan, made possible by mass production of the record-breaking Levittowner. Featured in House & Home, February 1952. A model repeated throughout Levittown.
1952 - The Vented House, San Antonio TX. Needs verification. Designed by O'Neil Ford & Jerry Rogers. Built by Bibb Bros. Landscape architect: Arthur Berger. Designed for air conditioning Texas-style: this two-story, H-plan hillside house opens its awning-sash bedroom wing and screened porch to the prevailing east breezes and a valley view, using its air conditioning only when nature fails. Photo by Ulric Meisel. Featured in House & Home, June 1952.
1952 - The Sealed House, Dallas TX. Designed by DeWitt & Swank. Built by Bock Construction Co. The sealed house ignores nature's extremes and creates its own climate year round: fixed double glazing, deep overhangs, and a 7 1/2-ton self-contained air conditioning unit serving the whole two-story house. Featured in House & Home, June 1952.
1952 - Lift Slab House, Birmingham MI. Designed by Warren Platner. Engineers: Severud-Elstad-Krueger. A spectacular tour de force: concrete roof slab cast on the ground and hoisted on columns by the lift-slab system, with an all-glass exterior, tremendous cantilevers and a handsome interior patio plan. Featured in House & Home, June 1952.
1952 - Custom-Speculator Houses, Media PA. Designed by George Hay. Built by Arters Bros., Inc. Builder and architect successfully introduce modern houses into Philadelphia's stronghold of conservatism, saving mature trees and dogwood clumps on deep-set lots with long curving driveways. Featured in House & Home, June 1952.
1952 - Raze, Remodel or Rebuild, San Francisco CA. Designed by Clark & Beuttler. Built by A. F. Mattock & Co. Landscape architect: Thomas D. Church. How to save a white elephant: a sound 50-year-old San Francisco mansion about to be scrapped is remodeled into a crisp modern house, saving several thousand dollars over rebuilding; interiors by Beth Armstrong. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in House & Home, June 1952.
1952 - Gavello Glen, Sunnyvale CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by Gavello & Perego. Fresh design, fast sales: fifteen planning ideas make this 1,450 sq. ft. redwood-sided builder house a best-selling bargain, bigger looking, better looking and easier to live in; interiors by Charles Ackerman Co. Featured in House & Home, October 1952. The tract lies around Gary, Pierino, Gail and Henrietta Avenues.
1952 - H-Plan and V-Roof House, Redwood City CA. Designed by John Funk. Landscape architect: Eckbo, Royston & Williams. John Funk's H-plan separates daytime and nighttime wings with an entrance-lobby link and creates a series of inexpensive outdoor rooms, while the butterfly V-roof opens the living areas toward a valley view, lets in winter sun under a 4.5' overhang, and shelters a free-form swimming pool. Featured in House & Home, November 1952.
1952 - More Space for Less Money House, Beaumont TX. Designed by Howard Barnstone. Built by E. D. Gilstrap. Engineers: Walter P. Moore. A 2,100 sq. ft. custom house built economically with commercial construction methods; the entire rear facade is glass, oriented to the prevailing southeast breeze on a wooded triangular lot, with a central entrance plan that lets traffic flow to any room without crossing another. Featured in House & Home, November 1952.
1952 - Open-and-Closed-Plan House, Houston TX. Designed by Hamilton Brown. Built by Hull & Hull. Winner of a Texas Society of Architects honor award, this pleasant, unpretentious family house combines an open plan for daytime living with a closed bedroom wing for night: deep overhangs shed torrential Texas rains and each child gets a small roofed terrace of his own. Featured in House & Home, December 1952.
1952 - The Randolph and Amalie Rothschild House, aka Family House in Maryland, 2909 Woodvalley Drive, Pikesville MD. Designed by Percival Goodman. Built by Gorn Brothers, Inc. A house on a slope for a family of four - a recorder-playing husband and painter wife - whose open 22' x 44' living area is subdivided by dramatic changes of level: dining on a raised platform, a recording booth behind sliding panels, and the only air conditioning reserved for studio and recording room. Photo by Alexandre Georges. Featured in House & Home, December 1952. Transferred from Randolph S. to Amalie R. Rothschild in 2003; transferred in 2004 to Alice L. Needle, then passed on in 2018 (both non-arm's-length; the current owner's name is hidden in the open data). Remained with the Rothschilds until 2004, then passed to Alice L. Needle; transferred again in 2018. Standing as of 2025.
1952 - The Don Scholz Model House, Toledo OH. Built by Don Scholz. Toledo builder Don Scholz gambled on a California-style house with lower roofs, bigger windows and open plans, and sold 43 in nine days; the three models (1,050 to 1,260 sq. ft. plus garage) proved the fastest-selling houses in town. Photos by James T. Strong. Featured in House & Home, January 1953. Built in the Lincolnshire neighborhood west of downtown Toledo.
1952 - A Carl Koch House, MA. Designed by Carl Koch & Associates, with Margaret M. Ross as associate. Built by John F. Carey. House & Home's cover story measures this rangy New England house against a 10-point check list for comfort, economy and good looks: as clean and conservative as a Yankee barn, with a glass-enclosed corner living room, an indoor garden, cedar siding and green Vermont marble floors. Photos by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, February 1953.
1952 - The Duenke Ridgewood Model House, Crestwood MO. Designed by Ralph Fournier. Built by Burton W. Duenke. St. Louis builder Burt Duenke's post-and-beam, partly prefabricated house in his Ridgewood subdivision proved that fresh modern design sells even in a buyer's market. Featured in House & Home, February 1953. A 1,146 sq. ft. post-and-beam merchant-builder house with prefabbed redwood panels between double posts, letting buyers choose solid walls, window walls or high strip windows. 209 were sold in ten months in the Ridgewood subdivision near St. Louis. Photos by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in House & Home, July 1954.
1952 - The Byles, Weston & Rudolph Prototype House, aka the Kenneth Way Spec House, Pasadena CA. Designed and built by Byles, Weston & Rudolph (H. Douglas Byles and Eugene Weston III). A prototype for builders offering luxury living on a small lot: the house is set at the side of its 45' lot with its narrow end to the street, gaining privacy with entry-court fences, deep overhangs and obscure glass toward the neighbors. One of three houses of this type built in Pasadena. Photo by James H. Reed. Featured in House & Home, February 1953.
1952 - The Maston O'Neal Model House, South Miami FL. Designed by Alfred Browning Parker. Built by Maston G. O'Neal, Jr. Miami builder Maston O'Neal charges off Architect Parker's fees to sales: three fast-selling Pine Tree Estates models in concrete block and stucco, designed one room wide for cross-ventilation with long porches, carports and awning-type windows for the hot climate. Featured in House & Home, February 1953. Built in O'Neal's Pine Tree Estates subdivision.
1952 - House with the Porch in the Middle, Lake Stevens WA. Designed by Bassetti & Morse. Landscape architect: John Fischer. A 1,700 sq. ft. house that reverses the old veranda idea, wedging an airy central living porch into its heart to serve alternately as terrace, dining room and playroom between the sleeping and noisy zones. Photo by Dearborn-Massar. Featured in House & Home, March 1953.
1952 - The Kiyako and Miyako Nishi House, West Los Angeles CA. Designed by Kazumi Adachi. Built by Russell Elam. Landscape by Eckbo, Royston & Williams. A home for two sisters who raised celery seedlings for the trade in greenhouses on the property. A quiet, introspective house ringed with pocket gardens: solid walls and fences terminate each vista so every room looks into its own private outdoor 'room,' giving an inward, almost Oriental composure with high clerestories for light and cross-ventilation. Featured in House & Home, March 1953.
1952 - The Jayhawk Model House, Topeka KS. Designed by James C. Cushing. Built by Jayhawk Construction Co. Three- and four-bedroom, two-bath contemporary houses that turned a soggy market around for Topeka builder Jack Sargent and converted FHA and mortgage lenders to fresh design. Featured in House & Home, March 1953.
1952 - The Kump Project House, University Village, East Palo Alto CA. Designed by Kump Associates (Ernest J. Kump). Built by Barrett & Hilp. A three-bedroom project house planned entirely on a 4' module using dimensional lumber and stock materials; about two dozen were scattered among the conventional houses of Barrett & Hilp's University Village tract, where low cost and fresh Western design were the dividends of the disciplined grid. Featured in House & Home, April 1953. Built in Barrett & Hilp's University Village tract.
1952 - AIA Award House in Marin County, Kentfield CA. Designed by George T. Rockrise. Built by Christensen & Son. Landscape architect: Lawrence Halprin. A small two-bedroom house fitted on a narrow shelf gouged from a hillside, looking east to San Francisco Bay and south to Mt. Tamalpais; it took a top honor award from a jury of Belluschi, Neutra and Stone in the 1953 California AIA chapters program. Featured in House & Home, April 1953. Built for Mrs. P. K. Gilman in Kent Woodlands.
1952 - The Steve Mudge House, Bedford Village NY. Designed by Edgar Tafel. Built by Robert Chuckrow Construction Co. Built for advertising executive Steve Mudge and his wife Constance. A richly detailed wood house near a hilltop on 167 acres of rolling Westchester woods and farmland: strong shelter, selected views and an open plan for a northern climate, its central living-dining space winged by bedrooms and garage. Photo by Lionel Freedman. Featured in House & Home, April 1953.
1952 - The Split Rock Ridge House, Split Rock Ridge (Split Oak Drive and Ridge Rock Lane), East Norwich NY. Designed by Vincent Furno & Bernard Harrison. Built by Vincent Furno & Bernard Harrison. Two New York architects turned merchant builders laid out a loop street of one-acre lots near Oyster Bay and packed their 1,560 sq. ft. Long Island houses with so many custom features they had a custom look, proving buyers will pay extra for individuality. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, June 1953.
1952 - The Henry Hill House, 2995 Dwight Way, Berkeley CA. Designed by Henry Hill. Built by B. J. Tiegland. Landscape architect: Eckbo, Royston & Williams. A Western house with a far eastern flavor: architect Henry Hill expanded and finished out his own old house for relaxed living, with plastic-dipped shoji screens, a pocket-size kidproof pool and Oriental accents celebrating texture, pattern and plant forms. The original hillside house, below the street with a view west over the bay, was designed c. 1941 by John Ekin Dinwiddie with Hill and Phillip Joseph as associates, with a garden by Garrett Eckbo, and was published in Architectural Forum, June 1942. Photo by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, June 1953. Sold in 2000.
1952 - Goodyear Neighborhood House, Charlotte NC. Designed by Emory Holroyd. Built by George Goodyear. Latest model by land developer-builder-mortgage banker George Goodyear, who builds 150 tilt-up-wall houses a year in tree-saving Charlotte neighborhoods; 1,000 sq. ft., or 1,130 sq. ft. with 1-1/2 baths. Photos by A. K. Summerville. Featured in House & Home, July 1953.
1952 - The Walker Field House, Rockland County shore of the Hudson River NY. Designed by Charles H. Warner Jr. and Walker Field. Built by Fred L. Holt. Engineers: Levy & O'Keefe (mechanical). Open-plan house with privacy: an architect builds himself a big strong shelf on the Hudson's steep shore at the up-river end of the Palisades cliffs, with the children's suite at one end, the parents' at the other and the kitchen as the core; bold and rugged in construction, finish and plan. Featured in House & Home, July 1953. Built at Snedens Landing, Palisades, at the upriver end of the Palisades cliffs.
1952 - The Mark Mills House, 25987 Mission Street (Mission Street 2 NW of 13th Avenue), Carmel-by-the-Sea CA. Designed by Mark E. Mills. Built by Einer Hansen. 'Attic on a slab': the architect's first Carmel house, 970 sq. ft., is a tent on top of a cave - a great sheltering A-frame roof rising from an encircling battlement of Taliesin-style desert masonry, with no conventional walls in between; furnishings by Robert M. Kasper. Financed by Della Walker, owner of Frank Lloyd Wright's Walker House, and later bought by Mills's father; Mills lived here 1954-57, and the house then passed to his sister, weaver Marcia Mills. Listed in the Carmel historic survey (2001). Cover house for the issue. Photo by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, August 1953. Sold in 2004, 2022 and 2025. Standing as of 2025.
1952 - House in Coconut Grove, Coconut Grove FL. Designed by Marion I. Manley. Engineers: Norman J. Dignum (structural). 'Second story on stilts': a patio plan up in the air. Raising all the rooms on stilt piers around an open court cost the owner just 10% more, catches the bay breeze and view, and lets the solid, seaworthy house wade through any hurricane. Photo by I. Alex Langley. Featured in House & Home, August 1953.
1952 - The Robert A. and Ann Halle Little House, 5 Pepper Ridge Road, Pepper Pike OH. Designed by Robert A. Little. Built by Anton Hejl. 'A house that works': the architect's own hillside house, planned like a target of concentric circles around a kitchen core so the family can be separated or together at will; shed roofs sweep up to the south and the house is dug into the hillside against north winds; interiors with Garth Andrew. Photo by Lionel Freedman. Featured in House & Home, August 1953. Sold in 2017.
1952 - Rodney Walker Expandable House, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Rodney Walker. Built by Rodney Walker. Custom design at repeat-order prices: the Beverly Hills designer-builder frames and roofs a standard 30' x 30' model on a 3' module so it can expand on three sides to suit each client; 16 versions built and sold, including the 2,400 sq. ft. case-history house shown. Featured in House & Home, August 1953.
1952 - The Dr. Samuel Rossman House, aka Logical House in Wyncote, 418 Randall Road, Wyncote PA. Designed by William W. Eshbach. Built by Harry Murphy's Sons. 'Logical house': plan, framing and detailing of this 2,125 sq. ft. custom house are direct, practical and economical - a clearly expressed structural cage zoned for living; John Glass and Harry Kale, associates. Photos by G. William Holland. Featured in House & Home, September 1953. For sale in 2026.
1952 - The Ernest and Esther Born House, 2020 Great Highway, San Francisco CA. Designed by Ernest Born. Built by Frank S. Marshall. Engineers: A. V. Saph Jr. (structural); Clyde E. Bentley (mechanical). Landscape architect: Douglas Baylis. A new kind of row house: on a San Francisco lot and a half, the architect's own 2,600 sq. ft. house - fondly called 'Born's Barn' - gains the luxuries of spaciousness, indoor-outdoor living, a mezzanine and a kitchen yard; Esther Born, associate. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in House & Home, November 1953. An addition by Aidlin Darling was completed in 2006. Sold in 2021 to the Plaice Family Living Trust. Standing as of 2025.
1952 - House on an In-Town Lot, Aspen CO. Designed by Fredric Benedict. Built by Fredric Benedict. An upside-down plan puts living room, dining area, and kitchen on the second floor and bedrooms at ground level, giving the active living space privacy from the street and a better view on a half-acre in-town lot. Benedict, responsible for much of Aspen's good architecture, designed and built the house of reclaimed brick and stained vertical siding, sweeping the roof down over one end to form a carport. Featured in House & Home, February 1964.
1952 - The Carl Koch House, 52 Holden Lane, Concord MA. Designed by Carl Koch & Associates. Built by Conantum Realty Trust; Joseph Kelley, contractor. The architect's own hillside house, the testing ground for the ideas developed in Techbuilt. Three floors open to a spectacular view through a glass gable end, with stained shingle walls and a terrace below the main living level. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, February 1954. Sold in 2011 to Benjamin Fuller. Standing as of 2025.
1952 - The Olav and Marianne Strengell Hammarstrom House, 1099 Gross Hill Road, Wellfleet MA. Designed by Olav Hammarstrom. Built by Steve S. Daniels. A little Cape Cod summer house built by the architect and his wife, textile designer Marianne Strengell, combining a real breezeway living room with an enclosed sleeping wing, sited between salt-water ponds and the sea. Photo by Ben Schnall. Featured in House & Home, July 1954. Sold in 2010 to Jose M. Ferrer IV. Standing as of 2025.
1952 - The Wilkinson Cottage, 30 Gulch Road, Wellfleet MA. Designed by Serge Chermayeff. A 56'-long vacation cottage of seven 8' bays framed by bow-tie trusses of stock lumber, its wall panels crisscrossed by 1 x 4 bracing boards and painted in vivid pennant colors. One of several fragmented bow-tie houses Chermayeff built on Cape Cod, including his own studio and the Sigerson cottage. Photos by Ben Schnall. Featured in House & Home, July 1954. Sold in 2023 to Katherine K. Rothschild, trustee. Standing as of 2025.
1953 – The Norton Polivnick Residence, 2475 South Jackson Street, Denver CO. Designed by Norton Polivnick as his own home; Gerald F. Kessler, landscape architect. Published in Architectural Record, January 1954, and American Home, March 1955. Featured in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Sold in 2013 to Sue Ann Baird.
1953 - The Albert W. and Charlotte Duvel Residence, Omao, Kauai, Hawaii. Designed by Lemmon and Freeth. Built for Albert W. Duvel, Kauai's chief territorial forester from 1925 to 1963. Photographed by Robert Wenkam. Published in Architectural Record, September 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Status unknown.
1953 - The Russell and Marjorie Day House, 436 View Ridge Dr, View Ridge Neighborhood, Everett WA. Designed by Harold W. Hall, with Arthur A. Graves and David W. Dykeman, associates. Built for artist and jeweler Russell Day, founder of the art program at Everett Junior College, where his students included Chuck Close, and his wife Marjorie, who taught English there. A glassy house with koi ponds, strolling peacocks, and a 30-foot stained-glass wall by Day. Published in Architectural Record, November 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Standing. Sold in 1985 and 2001.
1953 - The George J. (Pete) and Janet Wimberly House II, 3288 Huelani Drive, Honolulu HI. Designed by George J. Wimberly. Published in Architectural Record, November 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Nominated to the Hawaii and National Registers of Historic Places in 2018, when it was still owned by the Wimberly family and retained its integrity; toured by Docomomo US in 2019. Standing as of 2019. The original house dates from 1945, with additions in 1951 and 1953.
1953 - The Edward Riley Residence, Miami FL. Designed by Alfred Parker. Published in Architectural Record, May 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Parker's papers and drawings are at the University of Florida, with additional material at the University of Miami. Status unknown.
1953 - The Warren Wilson Weaver Residence, Thornwood NY. Designed by Warren Wilson Weaver. Small flat-roofed rectangle on a central utility core, sided in cedar painted brick red, with a screened porch linking the house to a garage workshop; built-ins designed and built by the architect-owner. Published in Architectural Record, May 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954.
1953 - The Homer E. and Marjorie Lunken Residence, Cincinnati OH. Designed by Carl A. Strauss; Henry Fletcher Kenney, landscape architect. Hillside house overlooking the Ohio River, with carport above and a deck cantilevered along the south front. Published in Architectural Record, February 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Photos by Bill Hedrich of Hedrich-Blessing. Status unknown.
1953 - The Paul Von Bergen House, 4200 SW Greenhills Way, Portland OR. Designed by John W. Storrs (credited as designer), one of his earliest Oregon commissions. Published in Architectural Record, April 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Still owned by the Von Bergen family. His drawings are at the University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections.
1953 - The Thomas L. and Margaret Dixon House, 3136 SW Fairmount Boulevard, Portland OR. Designed by Van Evera Bailey. Robert E. Kremers, structural engineer. Built in 1951–52 on a very steep lot on the Council Crest loop. The one-level house, its carport and a semicircular driveway stand on steel-pipe columns, an early version of Bailey's later stilt houses. Roman brick and vertical cedar face the street, and a glass rear wall opens onto a cantilevered porch over the view. Published in Architectural Record, April 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Drawings and photographs, dated 1951, are in the Van Evera Bailey papers at the Oregon Historical Society. Sold in 2017.
1953 - The Jack Wolf House, 2737 68th Avenue SE, Mercer Island WA. Designed by Robert H. Dietz, later dean of the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Won the Seattle AIA Chapter's first honor award, for best contemporary house, in 1950. Published in Architectural Record, April 1953, photos by Dearborn-Massar. Reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Demolished; the lot now holds a house built in 2000.
1953 - The William J. Bain House, 1540 Parkside Drive East, Broadmoor, Seattle WA. Designed by William J. Bain and Harrison Overturf. Bain held Washington State architect license No. 1 and was a founding principal of NBBJ. 3,480 square feet, four bedrooms. Published in Architectural Record, April 1953, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Sold in 2004.
1953 - The William L. and Joyce Fletcher House, 10803 South Riverside Drive, Dunthorpe, Riverdale, Portland OR. Designed by William L. Fletcher. H. L. Wooley, mechanical engineer; Fred McCarroll, contractor for the original construction; Ellis-Andrews, contractors for the addition. Interior design consultant George Schwartz. Fletcher founded his practice from the basement of this house and later joined the Fourteenth Street Gang with Saul Zaik, Donald Blair, John Reese, Alex Pierce and Curt Finch. Won an Oregon AIA chapter award and an Architectural Record award. A primary bedroom and bath were added along the north side a few years after completion. Featured in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Was an Architectural Record House 1958. Owned by the John Chatfield and Flower Field trusts as of 2025.
1953 - The Ben K. Graves House, 309 Fairview Avenue, Mount Airy NC 27030. Designed by Cecil D. Elliott and Marvin R. A. Johnson. Built by Nichols and Snyder. Was an Architectural Record House 1956. Owned by Mark and Sheila Spencer as of 2025.
1953 - The Robert L. Oshins House, 6519 Lakeview Drive, Falls Church VA. Designed by Charles M. Goodman. Built by Robert Davenport. Landscape architect Lou Bernard Voight. Photo by Robert C. Lautman. Was an Architectural Record House 1956. Sold in 2021 to James Hazelton Mulligan and Marika Heller. Standing (renovated) as of 2026.
1953 - The W. C. Muchow House, 618 South Monroe Way, Denver CO. Designed by W. C. Muchow. Built by Warren Williams. Structural engineer Ketchum & Konkel. Photo by Dale Healy. Published as "Codes Inspire Fresh Design". Was an Architectural Record House 1957. Sold in 2006 to Peter M. Buttrick.
1953 - The Asher White House, 1407 June Ave South, Golden Valley, MN. Designed by Norman C. Nagle. Built by Ronald Anderson. Photo by Warren Reynolds, Infinity Inc. Published as "The Main Floor Is Upstairs". Was an Architectural Record House 1957. Sold in 2007 to Todd R. Paulson and Lisa M. Fredrickson Paulson.
1953 – The Millard Ruud Residence, 3414 Foothill Terrace, Austin TX. Designed by Roland Gommel Roessner. Published in Architectural Record, January 1954, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Roessner's papers are at the Alexander Architectural Archives, University of Texas. Destroyed.
1953 - Techbuilt House in West Concord, West Concord MA. Designed by Carl Koch & Associates. Built by Techbuilt Inc. 'Attic on a basement': careful space planning plus prefabricated 4' x 14' roof and wall panels put good modern design on the mass market; interiors by Charles Mansfield. Featured in House & Home, August 1953.
1953 - Burke & Wyatt Builder House, Palo Alto CA. Designed by Burton A. Schutt. Built by Burke & Wyatt. Builders' tract house has rich relations: Hollywood's society architect gives a 1,300 sq. ft. tract house the romance, warmth and glamour of his movie-star customs - elaborate grilles, patios and radiant-heated slab - in a 192-house tract across the street from Joe Eichler; interior colors by Peggy Galloway. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, September 1953.
1953 - Curtis & Davis House in New Orleans, Metairie LA. Designed by Curtis & Davis. Built by Fred C. Loucks. Cool and contemporary in New Orleans: conservative Delta country gets a group of modern builder houses designed for its sopping 102-degree summers, with wide overhangs and shop-prebuilt storage walls; land planning by Texas Land Planning Institute. Featured in House & Home, September 1953. One of 23 houses in the Laux Manor subdivision, Laux Manor Drive.
1953 - GE Wonder Home, Dallas TX. Designed by Wiltshire & Fisher. Built by James D. Crow Co. 'Don't forget the children': GE's Dallas Wonder Home fits a medium-big family into a medium-small 1,680 sq. ft. house with a three-zone plan - adults' side, service core and a children's side with its own 12' x 18' family room; one of the first builder houses with a heat pump. Featured in House & Home, September 1953.
1953 - Park Forest Contemporary Model, Park Forest IL. Designed by Joe Goldman. Built by American Community Builders. Park Forest goes contemporary: in the Midwest's biggest subdivision, Nate Manilow samples public reaction to good design with new models turned the long way on the lot, kitchens at the pivot of the plan and window walls justified by deep setbacks. Featured in House & Home, November 1953.
1953 - The Bird-Cage House, Sherman Oaks CA. Designed by Lucille Raport. Built by Nathaniel Bliss. How to merchandise a model house: seven sales-promotion ideas - starting with the catchy name, for the plastic screen where live birds were kept and the slatted wood screen at the street end - put this house at the head of a 21-house Parade of Homes in the San Fernando Valley. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, November 1953.
1953 - Turner Hillside Houses, Upper Providence Township PA. Designed by George Hay. Built by E. J. Turner. How to hit pay dirt on a hillside, lesson one: dig into the slope for expansion. On a steep ten-acre site outside Philadelphia that other builders had passed up, the builder-architect-realtor team of Turner, Hay and Dave Pomeroy sited 27 houses - the more scenic the lot, the more salable the house. Featured in House & Home, December 1953. Part of the 27-house Edgewold tract on Edgewold Lane, built by Seal & Turner.
1953 - Rahlves Hillside Houses, Castro Valley CA. Designed by David H. Horn. Built by Louis and August Rahlves. Landscape architect: Osmundson & Staley. Face the house toward the slope: on downhill hillside lots, these two-level houses turn their backs to the street and open to controlled, intimate rear patios terraced into the hill; 40 houses sold; Walter D. Lucas, associate architect. Photo by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, December 1953. Part of the Rahlves brothers' tract on Rahlves Drive.
1953 - Rancho Monterey Terrace Houses, Monterey Park CA. Designed by Burge & Roach. Built by Kenbo Corp. Bulldoze the slope into giant steps: at Rancho Monterey, modern earth-moving equipment cut wide, well-compacted terraces into steep, treeless suburban Los Angeles hills, making lots deep enough for outdoor living behind 'flatland' houses; land planning and engineering by Fair, Wekall & McIntire. Featured in House & Home, December 1953. Part of the 625-house Rancho Monterey tract in the Coyote Hills.
1953 - P&H Contemporary Prefab, Port Washington WI. Designed by John Normile. Built by Harnischfeger Corp. Harnischfeger brings out a contemporary four-bedroom, 1,100 sq. ft. flat-top prefab to spur winter sales; under design consultant John Normile, P&H sales jumped from 1,100 to 1,800 houses a year. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in House & Home, December 1953.
1953 - Breezeway House, Key Biscayne FL. Designed by Robert M. Little. Built by Headley Construction Co. One-room-thick house on Biscayne Bay turned into one big breezeway: louvers and jalousies on one side, walls of bronze screening on the other, four-foot overhangs, and a lanai plan designed to resist hurricanes. Photo by Rudi Rada. Featured in House & Home, January 1954.
1953 - Service-Core House, Hollin Hills VA. Designed by Charles M. Goodman Associates. Built by Robert C. Davenport. Called the most advanced builder house in the US: a compact, nearly square 1,100 sq. ft. post-and-beam plan whose central utility core zones the house into living, sleeping and service areas. Photos by Robert C. Lautman. Featured in House & Home, January 1954. One of ten or more of this model built in Hollin Hills.
1953 - Tropical Pavilion House, Tampa FL. Designed by Mark Hampton. Built by Ostie Miller. Steel-and-glass pavilion making a cool, simple shelter in the Florida woodland; winner of the 1953 Florida AIA architectural honor award. 1,180 sq. ft. plus carport and covered terraces. Photo by Rudi Rada. Featured in House & Home, January 1954.
1953 - Outdoor Living Room House, Tampa FL. Designed by Mark Hampton; Murphey Pound, associate. Built by Robert Carter. Second Hampton house with a 600 sq. ft. outdoor living room formed by a staggered-board fence that continues into the house; 1,275 sq. ft. plus carport and covered terrace. Photos by Rudi Rada. Featured in House & Home, January 1954.
1953 - The Fisher and Nancy Pearson House, aka Techbuilt House, aka Excursion House, 351 North Avenue, Weston MA. Designed by Carl Koch & Associates. Built by Techbuilt, Inc. Cover story: a brand new kind of two-story house offering builders 2,000 sq. ft. of prime space. Completely flexible inside - only the stairs, bathrooms, chimney and four bearing posts are fixed - with a livable lower level and a fully usable, well-lighted attic. Photo by Ben Schnall. Featured in House & Home, February 1954.
1953 - Pebble Beach House, Pebble Beach CA. Designed by Gardner A. Dailey & Associates. Built by Harold Geyer. A one-story California house with a two-story bedroom wing looking to the ocean. Dailey accents the vertical with thin, tall, narrowly spaced battens and repeats simple wall and glass panel patterns to give the small two-story house elegance. Featured in House & Home, February 1954.
1953 - Deercroft Model House, Whitemarsh Township PA. Designed by Robert von Gerbig. Built by Deercroft Builders. Flat-top contemporary houses that sold in staid Philadelphia, on third-acre lots angled 30 degrees to the street for solar heat. Removable redwood panels let the houses expand in a Z pattern into front and back yards. Photo by Lawrence S. Williams. Featured in House & Home, February 1954.
1953 - Rollin E. Meyer Model House, Hillsborough CA. Designed by George T. Rockrise. Built by Rollin E. Meyer & Son. A four-point program sells luxury builder houses: fine land in an excellent location, fresh architectural design tailored to four basic plans with numerous variations, careful merchandising and financing that includes hidden costs. Photo by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, February 1954.
1953 - Diagonal House, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Warren Callister. Built by Loyal M. Nerdahl. A diamond plan angles a small square house to the view near San Francisco, giving spaciousness and privacy - 1,111 sq. ft. plus 650 sq. ft. of terrace. Featured in House & Home, February 1954.
1953 - Indoor Garden House, Dallas TX. Designed by Enslie O. Oglesby Jr. Built by C. V. Sumner. Perhaps the first house ever air conditioned around an indoor garden: a center-court plan with a greenhouse garden under a south-facing skylight whose motor-adjusted aluminum blinds turn back summer sun, all rooms sealed with fixed windows. Featured in House & Home, March 1954.
1953 - The Herman Blum House, 5303 Waneta Dr, Dallas TX. Designed by Hidell & Decker. Engineers: Herman Blum. A low brick 2,300 sq. ft. house cooled by a 5-hp chilled-water air conditioning system designed by its engineer-owner; insulation, overhangs and shading kept summer operating bills low despite constant entertaining. Featured in American Home, January 1953, and House & Home, March 1954. Designed by 1951; Second Honorable Mention in the Texas Architect residential awards, October 1951. In Greenway Parks, backing on the greenbelt; renovated by Bodron+Fruit in the 21st century.
1953 - The Evans W. and Helene Van Buren House, 4273 SW Council Crest Dr, Portland OR. Designed by John Yeon. On a city lot, the most formal of three Yeon houses, with modular wall panels painted gunmetal blue against rosy red brick, a pergola and garden, and a complex living room with partly concealed light sources over brown flagstone floors. Designed c. 1948, built 1949-50. Featured in House & Home, April 1954. Still owned by the Van Buren family as of 2026.
1953 - The Swan House, 4645 SW Fairview Boulevard, Portland OR. Designed by John Yeon. Built on a 12-inch board-and-batten module and sheltered by a complex roof whose forms suggest continuous movement, the house hangs back over the edge of its hilltop in typical Yeon fashion to free the land for a generous lawn. Featured in House & Home, April 1954. Sold in 2015 to Nathan Overmeyer, trustee; listed for sale in 2026.
1953 - The Arthur and Joan Kip House, aka Hillside Split-Level House, 775 San Diego Road, Berkeley CA. Designed by Donald Olsen. A neat 1,500 sq. ft. split level showing how well the type fits a true hillside: entrance from uphill into the intermediate level, living room half a flight up for a view across the treetops, bedrooms half a flight down. Photo by Randal Partridge. Featured in House & Home, April 1954. The Kips owned it from 1952 until 2013.
1953 - Mackay Model House, Palo Alto CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by Mackay & Associates. Four-bedroom houses that solved the space squeeze for bigger families: a phenomenal 118-house sellout in four months, turned narrow end to the street to fit 50-foot lots with roof lines carried over the carports. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in House & Home, June 1954.
1953 - Honolulu Windbreak House, Honolulu HI. Designed by Philip Clark Fisk. Built by E. K. Susuki. Landscape architect: Wilbur Choy. A hot-weather house whose street side is just a privacy screen and a windbreak, opening its living rooms wide to the outdoors on the sheltered lee side. Interiors by decorator Beth Gregory of Ansteth Associates. Photo by R. Wenkam. Featured in House & Home, July 1954.
1953 - Surf City Breezeway House, Surf City NJ. Designed by Leo S. Wou. Built by William Thomas. A speculative beach house one room thick with six screened and slat-fenced outdoor rooms for privacy on a 50' x 80' resort lot. Post-and-beam frame with double posts throughout. Photo by Jean Lam. Featured in House & Home, July 1954.
1953 - Ten-Rooms-in-One House, Bristol TN. Designed by A. L. Aydelott with Chia-Yi Jen. An elegant stone, plaster and glass house in the Appalachians whose long in-line plan opens southward like the teeth of a comb toward the valley. Its central living zone is subdivided into ten distinct spaces, from indoor garden and music room to library-office, a glassed-in version of the traditional Southern veranda plan. Photo by Lionel Freedman. Featured in House & Home, July 1954.
1953 - The Diedrich F. Rixmann House, St. Louis MO. Designed by Diedrich F. Rixmann. The architect's own transitional house, designed to ease the shift from two-story colonial to one-story contemporary without looking conspicuous in a conservative neighborhood, with an open- or closed-plan kitchen-dining arrangement behind a folding door. Photos by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in House & Home, July 1954.
1953 - Jupiter Island Patio House, Jupiter Island FL. Designed by Peter Fraser Jr. A 4,200 sq. ft. house with more than 2,000 sq. ft. of its floor area outdoors: living room and patio form a single integrated 1,200 sq. ft. indoor-outdoor space separated only by sliding glass walls, entered through an outdoor foyer. Fraser designed both house and landscaping. Photos by Rada. Featured in House & Home, August 1954.
1953 - Loveladies Harbor Beach House, Long Beach Island NJ. Client: Long Beach Island Development Co. Designed by Sidney M. Shelov. Landscape architect: A. Martin Funnell & Clara Coffey. Model house for a beach colony where dredged canals give every site water on at least two sides. Its projecting lanai porch has full-length glass jalousies on all three walls to catch breezes from any direction; exterior planking is stained cypress. Featured in House & Home, August 1954. Built in the Loveladies Harbor subdivision.
1953 - Eichler Homes Model House, Palo Alto CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by Joseph L. Eichler & Sons. Award of Merit, merchant builder $15,000-$20,000: a 1953 design for famed Joe Eichler with his trademark window wall sliding open to a fenced rear patio, a hall-less plan and a family room watchable from the kitchen. Featured in House & Home, June 1956.
1954 - The James Parton Residence, aka Marble Hill House, 134 Cross Road, South Dorset VT. Designed by Carl Koch. Sold in 2015. Standing as of 2025.
1954 – The Mrs. Edward Pearson Residence, Mamaroneck NY. Designed by Richard Gordon, who also acted as contractor. One-story L-shaped house on a 4-foot module, closed to the road behind a carport and white brick wall and glazed on the garden side, facing a river that runs through the property. Published in Architectural Record, May 1954, p. 158, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Status unknown.
1954 - The Samuel P. Baum Residence, Montgomery AL. Designed by Sherlock Smith and Adams; Charles M. Kelley in charge; Edward L. Daugherty landscape architect; Bear Brothers, contractor. Published in Architectural Record, March 1954, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Status unknown. Edward Daugherty's project files date the job to 1951.
1954 - The David and Catherine Fromkin House, Westport CT. Designed by Joseph P. Salerno; James Fanning landscape architect; built by David Hall Faile and Company of Westport. Published in Architectural Record, March 1954, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Photos by Pedro E. Guerrero, who worked with Frank Lloyd Wright for some twenty years. Sited on a rock ledge in the woods overlooking a small wooded park to the south. Status unknown.
1954 - The Fredric Wieting House, 24 Atlantic Road, Swampscott MA. Address confirmed: the Massachusetts assessor records 24 Atlantic Road as Contemporary, built 1954, 5,153 sf. Designed by Carl Koch; Frederic L. Day Jr. associate. The plot commands a sweeping view of the ocean to the south and east. Published in Architectural Record, February 1954, and reprinted in A Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1954. Sold in 2002.
1954 - The Paul and Madeleine Weidlinger House, 54 Valley Road, Wellfleet MA. Designed by Paul Weidlinger. Donated to the National Park Service in 1973 by Madeleine Weidlinger. Leased in 2012 to the Cape Cod Modern House Trust. Public ownership confirmed: the assessor lists the owner as Cape Cod National Seashore; built 1953, 1,398 sf, Contemporary.
1954 - The Joseph and Dorothy Arons House, 65 Moncada Way, Green Valley Country Club, San Rafael CA. Designed by Robert Anshen and William Allen. Built by Herbert A. Crocker. Structural engineer Robert O. Dewell. Was an Architectural Record House 1956, photos by Roger Sturdevant. Sold in 2000 to Dean and Sharon Edell, and in 2003 to Roger and Linda Smith. Project files and photographs are in the Anshen & Allen Collection at the Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley, filed as “Arons, J.J. (Country Club Tract), San Rafael, 1954-1956”. First Honor Award, merchant-builder class: smart design for a narrow lot, 3,016 sq ft, with a broad roof extending over a paved terrace and long loggia and structure used skillfully as decoration. Featured in House & Home, June 1956. The plain exterior works like a shield: closed, low and simple to the street, the house opens up inside with floor-to-ceiling glass along most of the rear wall. Featured in House & Home, October 1956. Herbert A. Crocker and Company was developer as well as general contractor; the house was bought on completion by Dr. and Mrs. J. Arons. Reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Since enlarged to about 4,580 sq ft. Standing as of 2023.
1954 - The Truett H. Coston Addition, 1012 NW 166th Street, Edmond OK. Designed by Truett H. Coston. Built by Smiser Construction Company. Structural engineer Coston-Frankfort-Short. Was an Architectural Record House 1956. Held by the Russ L. and Natalie Godfrey Revocable Trust (transferred into the trust in 2016; re-recorded 2021). Transferred to the Russ L. and Natalie Godfrey Revocable Trust in 2016. Standing as of 2026.
1954 - The Dunbar Carpenter House, 801 North Foothill Road, Medford OR. Designed by George T. Rockrise. Built by Dunbar Carpenter. Structural engineer William B. Gilbert. Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin. Photo by Ernest Braun. Published as "A House Around An Atrium". Was an Architectural Record House 1958. Owned by Laurence Z. Rubenstein, trustee, as of 2025. Reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959, and in Mid-Century Architecture in America. Won an AIA Award of Merit in 1959. Also listed elsewhere at 2881 Hillcrest Road, Medford OR.
1954 - Scholz Homes Model House, Toledo OH. Built by Scholz Homes, Inc. Don Scholz's 1954 panelized contemporary models for half a dozen Ohio cities add a double-service second bathroom, luxurious open living kitchens and family recreation space in three price brackets. Featured in House & Home, January 1954.
1954 - Howard Grubb Model House, Tulsa OK. Designed by Donald Honn. Built by Howard Grubb. Cover story: Tulsa's biggest builder takes to glass walls with contemporary models in three subdivisions; 63 of the first 65 medium-priced houses sold in two months without advertising. Photo by Hawks-Terrell, Inc. Featured in House & Home, January 1954.
1954 - San Diego Home Show House, San Diego CA. Designed by Lloyd Ruocco. Built by Garden Villas. Landscape architect: Harriet Wimmer. Interiors by Design Center. Built in Balboa Park for the San Diego home show: an economy all-wood structure on shop-welded steel posts with a prefabricated roofing and ceiling system, two long sides of glass and fenced patios. Erected in a month and later dismantled undamaged. Photos by Ed Sievers. Featured in House & Home, June 1954.
1954 - Home for All America Pilot House, Stamford CT. Client: Joseph Peltz. Designed by Robert Little & Associates. Built by Homecraft Builders. Landscape architect: Joseph Dietrich & Edward Connell. The pilot model of Better Homes & Gardens' 'Home for All America,' built and promoted by Stamford lumber dealer Joseph Peltz. The stone-walled, low-gable design with detached carport can be built nine ways, and 96 other builders across the country used the plan; interiors were by Bloomingdale's. Featured in House & Home, September 1954. Built on Hoyclo Road, off High Ridge Road.
1954 - Terra Linda Model House, San Rafael CA. Designed by W. F. Severin. Built by Cal Wheeler & John P. Boswell. Modern merchant-builder house for Terra Linda, California's newest planned town in Marin County. Post-and-beam construction with heavy 2 x 12 beams and 2 x 6 T&G plank ceilings, glass gable ends, and patio bedrooms behind privacy fences; houses turn their backs to the street and their best sides to private patios. Land plan by Hammond & Woodbury. Photos by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in House & Home, September 1954.
1954 - Woodshed Living Room Remodel, Scipio Center NY. Designed by Daniel W. B. Warner. Built by T. R. Beardsley. The woodshed of a 95-year-old farmhouse was transformed into a dramatic two-story living room whose tall glazed gable and porch now face the garden and overlook a lake. Featured in House & Home, October 1954.
1954 - The J. Gordon Gibbs House, 10 Lewis Street, Marion MA. Designed by George W. W. Brewster. Winner of the top award at this year's Boston Arts Festival, praised by the judges as 'a good example of straightforward modern architecture with dignity and beautiful proportions' that avoids the tricky cliches of many modern houses. Built for James Gordon Gibbs, president of the Katharine Gibbs Schools, on the site of the razed 1907 Stanley McCormick cottage, whose brick wall and gate house survive. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in Architectural Record, August 1954, and House & Home, November 1954. On Sippican Harbor, Buzzards Bay. The guest house was moved to 68 Front Street in 1989. Sold by the Gibbses in 1985. Much altered: the house was remodeled in a Neo-Victorian Shingle Style with a 2009 addition.
1954 - Wichita Parade Research House, Wichita KS. Designed by Harold Himes. Top design-award winner of Wichita's million-dollar quality Parade of Homes and the first parade house to sell. Builder-judges liked its open plan, clean appearance and good traffic flow around the kitchen-family area; a high wall extending as a fence makes the front look wider than it is. Featured in House & Home, November 1954.
1954 - Richmond New Horizon. Designed by Small & Wirth. Built by Richmond Homes. A three-bedroom, 1,280 sq. ft. prefab with vertical board walls, attached carport and fenced private yard, shown as evidence of prefabrication's rising design standards. Featured in House & Home, December 1954.
1954 - Packaged Homes Westway. Designed by Herman Muller. Built by Packaged Homes Corp. A two-bedroom, 720 sq. ft. prefab, its crisp gable, window band and vertical siding showing how well even the smallest packaged houses were beginning to meet the market. Featured in House & Home, December 1954.
1954 - Scholz Young Modern-B. Designed by Don Scholz. Built by Scholz Homes. Glass-gabled prefab with three bedrooms, two baths and 1,268 sq. ft. (1,590 with garage), sold complete with heated swimming pool in Toledo. Scholz's move upmarket showed prefabrication starting to tackle the high-priced house. Featured in House & Home, December 1954.
1954 - Techbuilt Two-Story House. Designed by Carl Koch. Built by Techbuilt, Inc. Koch's two-story prefab of about 2,000 sq. ft., priced according to the number of bedrooms, brought custom-architect quality and flexible panelized construction to the factory-built house. Featured in House & Home, December 1954.
1954 - National Homes Broadmore. Designed by Charles Goodman. Built by National Homes Corp. Goodman's three-bedroom, 1,536 sq. ft. Broadmore, the top of National's architect-designed line, shown with the two-level five-bedroom Customline as prefabrication reached for the high-priced market. Featured in House & Home, December 1954.
1954 - AIA Prize House in Bellingham, Bellingham WA. Designed by Bassetti & Morse. Built by Walker & Florence. An AIA prize winner framed with double posts, beams and planks that open the house in all directions; each double post is raised 2 in. off the ground on a neat steel footing to keep the wood dry. Photo by Dearborn-Massar. Featured in House & Home, January 1955.
1954 - Kaye Investment Corp. Builder House, Strongsville OH. Designed by Hart & Weiss. Built by Kaye Investment Corp. Landscape architect: Victor Sheldon. Billed as the most advanced builder house in Ohio: a 66'-long redwood-and-glass flattop framed with double posts and laminated beams on 6' modular wall panels. Photo by Joe Munroe. Featured in House & Home, January 1955.
1954 - High Country House, Morris Plains NJ. Built by Cyril Farny. Farny's adaptation of Carl Koch's Techbuilt idea opens a 500-acre development: a 1,920 sq. ft. two-story house set 4' below grade on two sides so it keeps the long, low lines of a one-story house. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, February 1955.
1954 - Three Experiments in One House, Princeton NJ. Designed by Kenneth Kassler. Built by L. C. Bowers & Sons. Engineers: Norman Sollenberger; Kraemer Luks. An experiment in space, structure and materials: a circular 26'-diameter living room under a 2 1/2 in. concrete cone cast on the ground and lifted into place, ringed by low 7' eaves and lit by a plastic skylight at the apex. Featured in House & Home, February 1955.
1954 - Daley & Prows Double-Decker House, Salt Lake City UT. Designed by Richard Prows. Built by Daley & Prows. Frank Lloyd Wright's double-decker flat-top idea adapted in a Utah builder house: 1,740 sq. ft. of living space and 3,400 sq. ft. of covered area including lot, landscaping, built-ins and carpets — an NAHB merit award winner with double-decked patios to match. Featured in House & Home, April 1955.
1954 - Steiner Flat-Roof House, Atlanta GA. Designed by Andrew Steiner. With this flat roof, no costly valleys: Steiner's T-shaped, two-zoned Atlanta house covers 1,480 sq. ft. without cutting light from the patio. Photo by Gabriel Benzur. Featured in House & Home, June 1955.
1954 - Patio House in New Orleans, New Orleans LA. Designed by Victor Bruno. A house wrapped around a garden patio on a small, shallow but wide city lot: the flat roof lets all major living areas and two of three bedrooms face the inner patio behind blank street walls. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Featured in House & Home, June 1955.
1954 - Grover Odd-Lot Houses, Lafayette CA. Designed by Garry Grover. Built by Garry Grover. Success on odd lots: designer-builder Grover adapts four basic plans — from a 912 sq. ft. two-bedroom to a 1,680 sq. ft. four-bedroom — relocating windows, carports and fireplaces to fit 66 individual hillside and leftover sites a year. Featured in House & Home, June 1955.
1954 - Pine Meadows Model House, St. Louis MO. Designed by Russell Hughes. Built by Londoff Brothers & Robert Disch III. Biggest seller in the Londoff brothers' Pine Meadows subdivision, with a stone chimney holding built-in range and oven, exposed plank ceilings, redwood siding and half-acre lots. Featured in House & Home, August 1955.
1954 - The Floridian, St. Louis MO. Built by Todd Construction Co. Glen Todd gave up colonial houses for contemporary built of prefabbed panels on a 4 ft. module. His most popular model, the Floridian, sold 16 in one Sunday from drawings, with fireplace, radiant heat and an optional do-it-yourself swimming pool. Featured in House & Home, August 1955.
1954 - The Adrian Weiss House, Locust Valley NY. Designed by Richard Snibbe. Built by Adrian Weiss. A 96 ft. long, low-slung 5-in-12 roof belies the tall living room under it and fits the house into the Long Island landscape. Every room opens into the tall central living room, generally through sliding shoji screens; built by Weiss for his own family. Photo by Ben Schnall. Featured in House & Home, September 1955.
1954 - Charlottesville Hillside House, Charlottesville VA. Designed by Frederick Doveton Nichols & Roger C. Davis. Three levels fitted into a hillside give each floor direct access to outdoors. Balcony bedrooms overlook the two-story living room through shoji screens, above a tall brick fireplace wall; interiors with Taylor Simmons of Knoll Associates. Featured in House & Home, September 1955.
1954 - Del Monte Construction Model House, Phoenix AZ. Designed by Charles and Arthur Schreiber. Built by Del Monte Construction Co. Award of Merit: big, mechanically air-conditioned house whose handsome rear glass wall helped the architects escape the 'typical tract look' on 80' to 90' lots. Featured in House & Home, June 1956.
1954 - The Charles M. Goodman House, 510 North Quaker Lane, Alexandria VA. Designed by Charles M. Goodman. The prolific production-house architect's own experimental house, built with shop-fabricated wall panels requiring no finish carpentry on the site, joined to a remodeled older wing. Goodman used it as a test bed for cost-cutting ideas he expected to reach the mass builder market. Photo by Robert C. Lautman. Featured in House & Home, January 1956. A panelized addition to Goodman's 1870s farmhouse. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
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.
1955 - The Ira Harkey, Jr. House, Beach Boulevard US 90, Pascagoula MS. Designed by Curtis and Davis. Built by Otis W. Sharp & Son. Structural engineer Curtis and Davis. Photo by Ulrich Meisel; Frank Lotz Miller. Likely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina 2005. Was an Architectural Record House 1956.
1955 - 12-16 West Lane, Maplewood NJ. Designed by Kramer & Kramer (Allen and Edwin Kramer). Built by William Brandstater. Landscape architect Lionel Freedman, who took the photos. Interiors by Claire Kramer. Was an Architectural Record House 1956. Standing. New Jersey MOD-IV records the parcel at 12-16 West Lane, Maplewood Township, as a single-storey frame house with a two-car garage, year of construction 1957 — two years later than the date given here. Last deed recorded in 2008 (owner name redacted in the public MOD-IV file). Last sold in 2008.
1955 - The Francis Brownell, Jr. House, 116 NW Highland, Shoreline WA. Designed by Paul Thiry. Built by H. E. Pettijohn. Landscape architect Kubota Gardens. Photo by Harry Callahan. Published as "Entrance Court Dramatizes Seattle House". The east-facing patio at the center of the U-shaped plan nearly doubles the living room for much of the year, screened by translucent glass, with large windows toward Puget Sound and the Olympics. Also published as the Seattle Patio House, photo by Art Hupy, in House & Home, August 1956. Was an Architectural Record House 1956. Sold in 1999 to Gabriel S. Aldea.
1955 - The John F. Stambaugh House, 240 East Main Street, Plymouth OH. Designed by Robert A. Little. Built by August Bauerle. Photos by R. Marvin Wilson. Sold to Bob and Deborah Hanline. Was an Architectural Record House 1956. Status unknown.
1955 - The Gerald S. and Lillian Gordon House, 2307 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Houston TX. Designed by Preston Bolton and Howard Barnstone. Published in Architectural Record and reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Landscape design by Thomas D. Church. Won the 1956 AIA Houston Medal of Honor and 1956 Texas Society of Architects Honor Award. Sold and faithfully restored. Built by Van Cleve Construction Company, D. S. Rogers. Structural engineer Walter P. Moore. Photo by Frank Cinche; interiors by Knoll. Was an Architectural Record House 1956. Sold in 2001 to George B. Filak and Diane R. Tanking.
1955 - Houston Parade of Homes House, 5107 Jackwood Street, Meyerland, Houston TX. Designed by L. B. Wooters. Built by Krist Hubert. Outdoor living was the dominant feature of all 30 houses in the 1955 Houston Parade of Homes - every one fully landscaped, air conditioned and furnished. Huge sliding glass doors open the living areas onto planted, screened terraces. Featured in House & Home, September 1955. Acquired in 2019 by the Richard and Mary Chaumier Trust. Owned since 2019 by the Richard and Mary Chaumier Trust. Standing as of 2026.
1955 - Luxury House Around an Oak Tree, Memphis TN. Designed by Robert Martin. Built by Dan W. Allen. A 2,185 sq. ft. custom-order house built around a giant oak shading the front of the lot. The L-shaped plan opens to the terrace around the tree, screened from the street by a 5 ft. brick wall; completely air conditioned. Photo by Wilbur Curtis. Featured in House & Home, October 1955.
1955 - The Harold Forgotston House, aka Private Patios on a City Lot, 29 Pelham Drive, Metairie LA. Designed by Curtis & Davis. Built by Haase Construction Co. A 3,500 sq. ft. house whose interior rooms sweep gracefully into gardens and courts behind patterned brick walls: an al fresco court between master bedroom and game room holds a pool that carries through into the house. Featured in House & Home, October 1955.
1955 - National Homes Ridgewood, Lafayette IN. Designed by Charles M. Goodman. Built by Price & Price. Landscaping: House Beautiful. The largest prefabber's bid for the quality market: a 1,704 sq. ft. prototype with big living room, family room and efficient circulation around a central kitchen. About 20 Ridgewood models were displayed across the US, each furnished as House Beautiful decorated this one. Featured in House & Home, October 1955.
1955 - Living for Young Homemakers House, 5127 Jackwood Street, Meyerland, Houston TX. Designed by Harwood Taylor. Built by Bert Williams. The magazine house at the Houston Parade of Homes, where 75,000 visitors lined up to see it: daytime and nighttime zones clearly separated, sliding screens and panelized walls forming special-purpose patios, and a covered entrance court joining garage to front door. Featured in House & Home, October 1955. Sold in 2021 to Isabella R. Pepe and Joseph M. Magro. Standing as of 2026.
1955 - Scholz Glass-Gable Model, Toledo OH. Built by Scholz Homes. Star of H&H's year-end prefabrication review: Scholz Homes' new 1,040 sq ft glass-gable contemporary, its whole gable end opened up with floor-to-ceiling glass onto a planted terrace - proof that the prefab look has all but disappeared. Photos by James T. Strong. Featured in House & Home, December 1955.
1955 - Ray Wright Model House, Columbus GA. Designed by Wilbur D. Talley. Built by Ray Wright. A clean-cut contemporary model set among pines, with double fireplace, wrap-around terrace and kitchen built-ins, one of the fresh 1955 designs that helped the young Columbus builder triple his sales. Featured in House & Home, February 1956.
1955 - The Dr. Howard F. Pfister House, 7705 Indian Hill Rd, Cincinnati OH. Designed by Tweddell & Wheeler. Built by Jacob Boettcher. Landscape architect: Hans J. Wachtel. Built for surgeon Dr. Howard F. Pfister and his wife. Good Housekeeping's 'nice new house on the corner,' a livable one-story contemporary with panels of deep bright blue on the exterior and a terrace planned for both sun and shade; the terrace, later planted by landscape designer Charles Perin, appeared in Better Homes & Gardens in 1959. Featured in Good Housekeeping, March 1956, and House & Home, March 1956. Sold in 2023.
1955 - Rogers Investments Contemporary, Birmingham AL. Designed by Caldwell & Harmon. Built by Rogers Investments Inc. Restrained contemporary on a wooded site in an 80-acre tract of rolling woodland; its glass-walled open-plan model proved a big hit in a conservative market. Contractor J. S. Ellard. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - Orinda Waterfront House, Orinda CA. Client: Howard B. Allen and E. Russell Rice. Designed by George T. Rockrise. Built by Sharp & Robinson. Engineers: J. E. Hayes. Speculative waterfront house whose one big room is divided into living and dining areas by caster-mounted cabinets; a two-level deck embraces a wading pool, sand box and boat dock. Photo by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - Wilmington Contemporary House, Wilmington DE. Designed by Samuel and Victorine Homsey. Built by Ernst Di Sabatino & Sons. Landscape architect: Victorine duPont Homsey. A friendly house that makes room for children: bedroom and guest wings angled off a glass-walled living rectangle, connected by a screened porch, with a slate floor unifying entrance hall and living room. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - Indianapolis Concrete Block House, Indianapolis IN. Client: The Spickelmier Co. Designed by Fran E. Schroeder & Associates. Built by Riley McGraw. Demonstration house of lightweight concrete block with insulation-filled cores, its entry outlined by a masonry wall of standard blocks laid on their sides to expose the cores. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - Nucolls Pilot House, Tulsa OK. Designed by Joseph Wilkinson. Built by Nucolls Construction Co. A 1,250 sq ft tract pilot house with popular natural stone facade whose fast sales taught the team that Tulsa buyers want two full bathrooms, each with a tub. Photo by Skipper-Moncrief. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - San Rafael Hillside House, San Rafael CA. Designed by Francis Joseph McCarthy. Built by Lund Building Co. A hillside split with a tower-like two-story bedroom section and a glass-walled living wing whose full-length balcony commands a view downhill to an arm of San Francisco Bay. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - Garden Grove Patio Model, Garden Grove CA. Designed by Russell E. Collins. Built by Davies, Keusder & Brown. Turned away from the street for private indoor-outdoor living, with the brick garage wall enclosing the patio; the builders' 60-house project sold out almost immediately. Land planning by Walter W. Keusder. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - Miami Beach Fashion House, Miami Beach FL. Designed by Wahl Snyder. Built by Ed Ricke. Landscape architect: Frederic B. Stresau. A Florida house with a flair for fashion: white vermiculite roof, walls and paving of Tennessee cragmar stone, louvered glass walls along a long gallery, and a screened semiroofed patio to beat sun and glare. Photo by Ronny Jaques. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - Yokeko Point House, Anacortes WA. Designed by Tucker & Shields. Built by A. Nelson & Son. Sun, sea and sky are part of the plan of this view house on Puget Sound, its living room almost entirely glass except for a massive stone fireplace, with twin sun decks so sunbathers can always avoid the wind. Photo by Dearborn-Massar. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - The Frederick Greenberg House, aka Ridgefield House, 36 Saw Mill Hill Road, Ridgefield CT. Designed by Edgar A. Tafel. Built by Daniel Tobin. Ship-shape, many-angled house of eastern stone and polished cypress with clean-cut built-ins throughout, its sleek trimness contrasting with the wooded setting. Special millwork by John T. Lyman. Photo by Gottscho-Schleisner. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - American Homes Model House, Broderick CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by American Homes Co. An 800 sq ft square house that packs in a floor-to-ceiling fireplace wall, window wall to a paved terrace, beamed sloping ceiling and built-in kitchen appliances. Photo by Cartwright & Co. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - Gamble Model House, Colorado Springs CO. Designed by Joseph Marlow. Built by Gamble Building Co. Panelized house with 'everything' below Pikes Peak: 1,450 sq ft including gas-fired incinerator, all-copper plumbing, electronic perimeter-heat controls and a recreation wing. Photo by Guy Burgess. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - Port Chester Split-Level, Port Chester NY. Designed by Joseph Salerno. Built by Nicholas Del Torto. Split-level with the garage moved out of the basement to the kitchen level, giving a long low silhouette, garden access from the living areas and none of the usual drainage and insulation problems. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - Seattle Multipurpose-Room House, Seattle WA. Designed by Gene Zema. Built by Barth & Watchie. A small 23' x 52' house with a big multipurpose room opening through sliding glass doors to a paved terrace, plus two full baths and excellent traffic flow. Photo by Art Hupy. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - The John Alger House, 2320 Delmar Drive East, Seattle WA. Designed by Terry & Moore. Hilltop U-plan house of rough-cut, gray-stained cedar overlooking the Seattle Yacht Club and Cascade Mountains, wrapped around a garden court common to all rooms, with a red-lacquered front door edged in acid-aged copper. Featured in House & Home, April 1956. Sold in 2014 to Stephen M. Rothrock and Tessa Keating. Standing as of 2026.
1955 - Platt Construction House, Lafayette CA. Designed by Hewitt H. Clark. Built by Platt Construction Co. A 1,756 sq ft post-and-beam house planned on a 6' grid, with board-and-batten walls repeated in its terrace and patio fences and an open ceiling spanning living and family rooms. Photo by Rondal Partridge. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - Albert Balch Small House, Seattle WA. Designed by John Ridley. Built by Albert Balch. Three-bedroom small house that borrows big-house ideas: extensive glass to the wooded tract, a house-wide living-dining room with corner fireplace, and an L-shaped plan shielding outdoor living from view. Photo by Kenneth S. Brown. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - The Paul Laszlo House, 520 North Bristol Avenue, Brentwood CA. Designed by Paul Laszlo. Built by Lester E. Gibson. Landscape architect: Mrs. Paul Laszlo. The designer's own high-style house encircling a pool, every room making fashion news; the street side guards privacy while an impressive portico and stone wall hint at the luxurious interior. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, April 1956. Originally built in 1947 and remodeled in 1953-54. Heavily altered. Sold in 2010 to Hersel and Lisa Bani-Esraili. Standing, heavily altered, as of 2026.
1955 - Little Rock Stone-Wall House, Little Rock AR. Designed by Ginocchio, Cromwell & Associates. Built by Fred Parrot. Landscape architect: Wiley Jones. Small house made to act big by fieldstone walls turned at right angles to the house as outdoor dividers, with a sheltered patio of redwood-edged concrete and crushed white stone. Decorator Victor Vanovitch. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1955 - Carmel Truss-Frame House, Carmel CA. Designed by Mark Mills. Built by A. De Vries. Experimental two-bedroom house on a hillside lot facing the Pacific, built of eight identical two-story-high truss frames assembled flat on the ground and tilted up, with flower boxes hung between the structural frames. Featured in House & Home, May 1956.
1955 - Cincinnati Studio House, Cincinnati OH. Designed by Tweddell & Wheeler with John Garber. Built by David Kugler. Dramatic studio house composed almost entirely of wood trusses and trussed girders traditional in US farm structures, enclosing a modular volume with clerestory strips at remarkably low cost. Featured in House & Home, May 1956.
1955 - Byrd Realty Family-Plan House, Birmingham AL. Designed by Harmon & Caldwell. Built by Byrd Realty Co. A 1,400 sq ft house whose family plan lets the housewife supervise every major area from the central kitchen; the cantilevered main floor rests on a concrete block base holding utilities and storage. Photo by Joe Winters. Featured in House & Home, May 1956.
1955 - The Carl Jones House, Shreveport LA. Designed by Short & Murrell. Built by E. A. Tharpe & Co. A handsome Louisiana H-plan house on a corner lot, divided into daytime and nighttime wings, with a two-way rotisserie fireplace, a formal entrance patio garden and a car patio leading straight to the kitchen. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Featured in House & Home, May 1956.
1955 - The Isabel Chesnut House, 223 Currey Lane, Sausalito CA. Designed by John Hoops. Built by Gardner & Johnson. Engineers: John E. Brown. Post-and-beam pavilion overlooking Sausalito by a senior designer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: all rooms center on a compact utility core, and daytime areas group around a small central patio. Photo by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, May 1956. Sold in 2000 to Terri L. Tyminski. Standing as of 2026.
1955 - The Neal C. Lakenan House, Hidden Valley Road, Beverly Hills CA. Designed by Dorman & Morganelli. Built by Neal C. Lakenan. Landscape architect: Robert Carter. Award of Merit: a 'Japanese pavilion' in two zones, a handsome glass-walled house on a 7' beam module whose textured fireplace wall and fine detailing impressed the AIA jury. Featured in House & Home, June 1956. A 2,200 sq ft post-and-beam pavilion opening onto a raked-gravel Japanese garden, with a guest house at the edge of the pool. Also featured as the Los Angeles Japanese Garden House in House & Home, October 1956, and as an AIA Award of Merit in the AIA Journal, July 1958. Status unknown, possibly demolished.
1955 - Tahoe City Ski House, Tahoe City CA. Designed by George T. Rockrise. Built by L. A. Van Wetter. Engineers: William B. Gilbert. Award of Merit: a teepee-like ski lodge of 1,425 sq ft whose steep roof directs snow away from the major windows, decks and entrances, with a sleeping balcony looking across the valley through the tall glass end. Featured in House & Home, June 1956.
1955 - Tacoma Lake House, Tacoma WA. Designed by Robert B. Price. Built by Swen Johnson. Landscape architect: Lawrence Halprin. Award of Merit: a two-level house fitted to a narrow lot 35 feet above a lake, pushed as close to the water as possible for the view from its big windows and for supervision of swimmers. Featured in House & Home, June 1956.
1955 - John C. Mackay Double-Patio House, Palo Alto CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by John C. Mackay & Associates. First Honor Award, merchant builder under $15,000: two patios front and rear create privacy, with a second fireplace-barbecue facing the enclosed patio and a glass gable end giving the small living space unusual spaciousness. Featured in House & Home, June 1956. This two-patio sandwich proved a surprise best seller: sandwiched between two patios, the glass-walled tract house gives buyers privacy and light at the same time. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Elmer Gavello Model House, Sunnyvale CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by Elmer Gavello. Award of Merit: a small house with a big-house look built in an old cherry and apricot orchard whose trees were saved wherever possible; a wide overhang on all four sides makes the tight plan seem larger. Featured in House & Home, June 1956.
1955 - Belvedere Island Waterfront House, Belvedere CA. Designed by George T. Rockrise. Built by Sharp & Robinson. First Honor Award, merchant builder over $20,000: one of a group of waterfront houses whose fine siting and individuality drew buyers; a massive brick wall with barbecue and copper flues divides family room-kitchen from living room. Photos by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, June 1956.
1955 - A. Janssen Jr. Model House, Atherton CA. Designed by Arthur Janssen, William Daseking and Walter Keller. Built by A. Janssen Jr. Landscape architect: Thomas Church. Award of Merit: decorative structure indoors and out on a big, well-wooded one-acre site, with an integrated porch created by extending the roof on three posts and a family room as large as the formal living room. Featured in House & Home, June 1956.
1955 - The William M. Corns House, 72 Baywood Avenue, Ross CA. Designed and built by William M. Corns, assistant chief engineer of Soule Steel Co. An experimental 2,500 sq ft house at the top of the Baywood Avenue hill. It hangs from five symmetrical Y-shaped steel frames set in concrete piers and is sheathed in a lightweight aluminum curtain wall borrowed from industrial construction; the whole house weighs only 32,000 lbs furnished. Featured in House & Home, June 1956, and The Architects' Journal (UK), January 1957.
1955 - The Dr. Lyman K. Richardson House, 7 Glenwood Avenue, Harahan LA. Designed by Curtis & Davis. Experimental house combining the warmth of tile, brick and wood with the grace of glass and an exposed welded steel frame; glass walls on the open living-room side look out on a garden court under a steel trellis. Featured in House & Home, June 1956. Destroyed around 2010.
1955 - The Will and Diane Howard House, aka Greensboro Three-Zone House, 3905 Henderson Road, Greensboro NC. Designed by Hayes & Marshall. Feature house of the month: a contemporary house with three zones indoors (formal living, family living, private) matched by three zones outdoors (entrance court, sun terrace, play space), planned for privacy on a corner lot flanked by streets on two sides. Photo by Joseph Molitor. Featured in House & Home, July 1956. Owned by Michael J. Felsen (acquisition year not in the state layer). Felsen. Standing as of 2026.
1955 - Armonk Lakeside Summer House, Armonk NY. Designed by David Henken. Cover house of the summer-houses feature: a wood-sided vacation house cantilevered over the water's edge of a lake, with a boat dock tucked below its broad deck. Photos by Guerrero. Featured in House & Home, July 1956.
1955 - The Dr. Ernest N. Moore House, aka Carmel Diamond-Shaped Summer House, 5 Yankee Beach Way, Carmel CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Perched on the Pacific cliffs, this diamond-shaped vacation house is pointed straight at its dramatic ocean view; two full baths, two dressing rooms, utility room and kitchen are packed into a 500 sq ft core. Featured in House & Home, July 1956. At Yankee Point in the Carmel Highlands. AIA Award of Merit, 1955. Later owned by former Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank.
1955 - Catskill Mountains Summer House, Hunter NY. Designed by Bartos & Klein. Mountain vacation house with a central glass-walled living room oriented toward the distant Catskills, plus a big outdoor storage bin for vacation gear. Featured in House & Home, July 1956.
1955 - Fire Island Dune House, Fire Island NY. Designed by Peter Copeland. Beach house built on short posts driven into the sand dune, with a screened breezeway living room at its center and canvas panels in bright colors for shading and privacy on the deck. Featured in House & Home, July 1956.
1955 - Waveland Screened-Porch House, Waveland MS. Designed by Lawrence, Saunders & Colongne. Mississippi delta vacation house conceived as one long, narrow screened porch: every room faces the 60' screened gallery to catch the breeze. Photos by Frank Lotz Miller. Featured in House & Home, July 1956.
1955 - Southern California Beach House, Southern California. Designed by George Vernon Russell. Beach house with a sunbathing deck facing the ocean: built-in benches form part of the railing, the open slat floor lets sand trickle through, and a free-standing end panel gives privacy and wind protection. Photos by George de Gennaro. Featured in House & Home, July 1956.
1955 - New Orleans Patio House, Jefferson Parish LA. Designed by Victor Bruno. Glass-walled, flat-roofed patio house in the New Orleans and Charleston tradition, built on a typical 60' x 114' suburban lot: three bedrooms and 1,250 sq ft, with most of the outdoors turned into a private garden. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Featured in House & Home, August 1956.
1955 - Baltimore Patio House, Baltimore MD. Designed by Daniel Schwartzman. Built by Pasarew Construction Co. Engineers: John D. Dillon. A formal entrance for a formal house: a pitched-roof trellis on two rows of tall columns spans the spacious entrance patio, which divides the plan into bedroom, library-living-dining and service wings grouped in a logical U-shape. Featured in House & Home, August 1956.
1955 - Kenwood Park Split-Level, 5848 Marbury Road, Bethesda MD. Designed by Keyes & Lethbridge. Built by Bennett Construction Co. House 1 of the '57 Houses for a Better '57' portfolio: good design makes this 2,810 sq ft split handsome from any angle, with a big roof sloping out over the terrace and a balcony extending an inside balcony. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Erdman Wright-Inspired Model, 5513 Raymond Road, Madison WI. Built by Erdman Homes. Look how this builder borrows from Frank Lloyd Wright: massive roof and chimney, grouped windows, native materials and an 8' square fireplace mass, priced well below most splits this big in Madison. Featured in House & Home, October 1956. Built for the 1956 Madison Parade of Homes in the Meadowood neighborhood.
1955 - Gerholz 1957 Model, Flint MI. Designed by William K. Davis. Built by Gerholz Community Homes. Landscape architect: Carl L. Gardner. Every year Bob Gerholz makes a good house even better: the 1,949 sq ft 1957 model, evolved step by step from a conventional 1-1/2-story 1953 house, adds a wider living-kitchen-bedroom wing, garden room and other improvements. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Fleeman Indoor-Outdoor House, Miami FL. Designed by Polevitzky, Johnson & Associates. Built by Fleeman Brothers. You can have three stages of indoor-outdoor living: an 810 sq ft outdoor living area added little to the cost of this Miami house, with built-in furniture designed by Farkas & Griffin. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Stowe Curtain-Wall House, Stowe VT. Designed by Dan Kiley. Built by Wayne Ayers. This 2,800 sq ft two-story house borrows its walls from a skyscraper: Kiley hung a curtain wall of sliding sash, double glass, flush doors and asbestos board from a structural skeleton, strong enough to act as both skin and structure through harsh Vermont winters. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Tiburon Inside-Kitchen House, Tiburon CA. Designed by Robert B. Marquis. Built by P. A. Bates. Here's the case for an inside kitchen: a skylit kitchen at the heart of this 1,650 sq ft house frees the perimeter for two patios and a greater sense of spaciousness. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Gavello Steep-Roof Model, Sunnyvale CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by Elmer Gavello. A steep pitch roof makes an arresting exterior for this 1,460 sq ft merchant-built model. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Gavello Modern Expansion Attic, Sunnyvale CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by Elmer Gavello. A high and steep roof is used to create a modern version of the expansion attic in this 1,350 sq ft companion model. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Mequon Masonry-Pier House, Mequon WI. Designed by Maynard W. Meyer & Associates. Masonry piers give this 1,888 sq ft Wisconsin house its texture and rhythm: everything above the datum line of concrete block is either glass or wood. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Gladwyne Family-Plan House, Gladwyne PA. Designed by William W. Eshbach. Built by G. J. Supplee. Associate architects: John Glass & Harry Kale. Today's family-needs shaped this simple 1,820 sq ft plan, cited by the AIA's Philadelphia chapter for design excellence. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Manley Burnt-Adobe House, Tucson AZ. Built by E. J. Manley. Five counts make this house a success in Arizona, starting with an impressive exterior of ruddy burnt adobe brick and year-round air conditioning as standard equipment; 1,750 sq ft with half-acre lot. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - The Olindo Grossi House, Port Washington NY. Designed by Olindo Grossi. Engineers: McGuinness & Duncan. How to face a view to the north and still trap plenty of southern sun: Pratt architecture dean Grossi gave this 5,000 sq ft hillside house of native stone and glued-laminated beams a two-story south-side sun-well that pours daylight into living room, dining room, play room and library. Probably the Sands Point residence (1954-55) listed among Grossi's principal works. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - The Kenji and Kimi Ota House, aka McAdoo Hillside Corner House, 10300 61st Avenue South, Seattle WA. Designed by Benjamin F. McAdoo Jr. Built by Saylor Black. Custom house turns a hillside corner to advantage: about 2,450 sq ft, by the Seattle architect who was among the first Black FAIA-track designers in the Northwest. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Shreveport Concrete-Block House, Shreveport LA. Designed by Tom Scott Dean. Built by R. P. Farnsworth Company. The architect detailed the cost down, block by block: 939 sq ft three-bedroom houses, sponsored by Texas Industries and starting a 1,000-house development for Black families. Featured in House & Home, October 1956. Part of the Hollywood Heights development.
1955 - Shrader Expansion-Basement House, Pleasantville NY. Designed by Roy Johnson. Built by The Shrader Co. This house puts an expansion basement into the hillside: buyers get a complete 1,500 sq ft house on the upper level plus a 1,500 sq ft bonus downstairs with space for guest bedroom, bath, utilities, playroom and two-car garage; Interiors by Emily Malino. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Smoot Flat-Roof House, Dallas TX. Designed by Tom Scott Dean. Built by Lloyd Smoot & Son. Look what you can do with a flat roof under the trees: a 1,900 sq ft Dallas house that keeps its cool under a wide-spreading canopy of shade. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Hollin Hills Square-Plan House, Hollin Hills VA. Designed by Charles M. Goodman Associates. Built by Robert C. Davenport. What can the square plan do for a hillside lot? Goodman's near-square 2,600 sq ft two-level house makes all the downstairs space fully usable, a secret of the celebrated Hollin Hills development. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - NBC 'House That Home Built', Lattingtown NY. Designed by Eldredge Snyder. Built by Daniel B. Grady. You can face this show house front or back: the 2,085 sq ft split-level sponsored by NBC-TV's 'Home' show looks almost equally handsome from street or rear terrace; Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Kemp Fresh-Approach House, St. Louis MO. Designed by Wahlmann & Kemp. Built by Fred Kemp. In St. Louis a fresh approach boosts today's sales: Kemp extras like a big rear terrace, floor-to-ceiling windows and post-and-beam construction in a 1,500 sq ft house. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Winston Hills Two-Story, Minneapolis MN. Designed by Elizabeth & Winston Close. Built by Pearson Bros. Two ideas make this two-story house a Minnesota pioneer: a ground-level entrance halfway between floors with the first floor a half-story below grade, and a glue-nailed kingpost truss—firsts for this huge 2,600-house tract; Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Tyler Trade Secrets House, Tyler TX. Designed by George Hicks. Built by Home Builders Association of Tyler. Slit windows in the west wall help keep this house cool: a 1,550 sq ft demonstration house built by the Tyler builders' association to show off hot-climate design. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Providence Five-Way Split, Providence RI. Designed by Cull, Robinson & Green. Built by Louis Kolodziej. This new five-way split works well for a big family: 3,200 sq ft on five levels puts four bedrooms on top for the children, with vertical board walls and paneled windows giving a Scandinavian flavor; Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Atlanta Tree-Shaded House, Atlanta GA. Designed by Henry D. Norris. Built by Boyd-Jackson Corp. People in Atlanta like the trees and the outdoor living: by saving almost every tree, the builders shaded these 1,270 sq ft houses, and nearly every house in the subdivision is different. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - The Charles E. Barnes House, Rockford IL. Designed by C. Edward Ware. Built by Alfred Scott. To get a good view, try a second-story living area with inside walls angled back to open up the rooms: a grandstand seat for the view in 2,663 sq ft on a 100 by 200 ft lot, the upper floor carried on steel over the carport. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Portman Flat-Roof House, Atlanta GA. Designed by John Portman. Built by Henry R. Jackson Corp. You couldn't put this luxurious house under anything but a flat roof: 1,900 sq ft enclosed (2,800 with terraces) of free-flowing living areas around a central fireplace mass—an early house by Atlanta's future atrium-hotel master. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Peacock Farms Split-Level, Lexington MA. Designed by Compton & Pierce. Built by Harman White & Edward Green. A fireplace screens the entrance in this split level at the Peacock Farms development near Boston: 1,825 sq ft with 1/3 to 2/3 acre of land, its rolling site making the split a natural. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - Hotpoint Utility-Core House, Mt. Prospect IL. Designed by Norman C. Nagle. Built by Town Development Co. This popular 1,500 sq ft model, promoted by Hotpoint and Living for Young Homemakers, is planned around a central utility core that controls the house and buffers bedrooms from living areas; lighting by Richard Kelly. Featured in House & Home, October 1956.
1955 - The Aydelott Remodeled Bungalow, Memphis TN. Designed by A. L. (Alfred Lewis) Aydelott. This is NOT a new house—it just looks like one: architect Al Aydelott bought a very ordinary 1931 front-porch clapboard bungalow on a 48-ft lot in an old midtown neighborhood near his Peabody Avenue office and modernized it for his own use, writing the best remodeling primer of the year; ten major design changes brought it fully up to 1956 standards. Aydelott later built his own hyperbolic-paraboloid house (1961). Featured in House & Home, November 1956.
1955 - The Hollis M. Baker Jr. Summer House, Lake Macatawa MI. Client: Hollis M. Baker Jr. Designed by Obryon & Knapp. Built by Ray Metzger. Landscape architect William H. Pries. A Japanese house in Michigan: furniture manufacturer Hollis Baker commissioned an American summer cottage based on the traditions of Japan—an entirely American two-zone plan in an entirely Japanese structure, with glass-faced shoji and a traditional Irimoya roof; sole US concessions are insect screening and an American kitchen. Second Award, Western Michigan Chapter AIA Honor Awards, 1957. Photos by Holland Illustrative. Featured in House & Home, November 1956, House & Garden, June 1957 and February 1960 (photos by Ezra Stoller), and in Clay Lancaster's The Japanese Influence in America (1963). Status unknown.
1955 - Admiral Glass-End Ranch, Pittsburgh PA. Built by Admiral Homes. This glass-end ranch is big news in a conservative market: for 1957 Admiral breaks with tradition-loving Pittsburgh's past, opening the whole daytime area to the terrace through a big glass wall under a 6'-8" overhang; the 1,232 sq ft house has a basement. Featured in House & Home, December 1956.
1955 - Knox Brick-Veneer Model. Designed by John McCabe. Built by Knox Corp. Conventional brick veneer covers this frame prefab, designed by Knox staff architect John McCabe to give the 1,285 sq ft model a custom masonry look; carport and storage are separated from the family entrance by a covered walkway framing a patio. Featured in House & Home, December 1956.
1955 - National Homes 1957 Models, Lafayette IN. Designed by Charles M. Goodman. Built by National Homes. Goodman's design for outdoor living goes full circle in National's 1957 line: an old-fashioned latticed front porch is matched by a rear terrace off the dining room's sliding glass doors (1,126 sq ft), joined by a stripped-down model aimed at the low-income market. Featured in House & Home, December 1956.
1955 - The John T. King House, Lafayette IN. Built by New Century Homes. This glamorous house belongs to New Century's John King: the largest house the factory ever turned out, with a nonstock terrace wing and glass-gabled family room and outdoor kitchen—yet all parts are now regular catalogue items. Featured in House & Home, December 1956.
1955 - The Charles Travers House, 227 S 17th St, Richmond IN. Designed by John Gerard. Built by Richmond Homes. Richmond Homes' Charles Travers prefabbed this handsome long L-shaped house from Richmond parts for himself and his wife Carol, its narrow end to the street and a porte-cochere acting as a second carport; the plan separates living and sleeping areas. Featured in House & Home, December 1956. In the Reeveston Place Historic District. Standing.
1955 - The James R. Price House, 3500 Cypress Ln, Lafayette IN. Designed by Charles M. Goodman. Built by National Homes. Biggest prefabber Jim Price of National Homes proudly leads visitors around his Goodman-designed house in Vinton Woods, sited to save every possible tree and built of prefab components in just over two months; its 5,200 sq ft are divided into three zones, with Goodman-designed island cooking. Photos by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in House & Home, December 1956. Rated Notable in the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory. Standing.
1956 - The James Muslow House, 6025 Arden Street, Shreveport LA. Designed by Samuel G. Wiener and William B. Wiener, who did planning, designing or selecting every detail, grounds, landscaping, furnishings and accessories. Robert Neff, contractor. Published in Architectural Record and reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Was an Architectural Record House 1956. Documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS LA-205) in 2015; a pool house by William B. Wiener was added in 1956. Standing as of 2021.
1956 - The R. D. McGranahan House, 210 Hampton Road, Fox Chapel PA. Designed by John Pekruhn. Built by Garrett-Murrell. Landscape architect Simonds and Simonds. Photo by Joseph W. Molitor. Was an Architectural Record House 1956. Reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Sold in 2002. Standing as of 2025.
1956 - The Langdon S. and Anne Simons House, 10 Nickerson Lane, Darien CT. Designed by John Hancock Callender. Built by Sam Grasso; structural engineer McGuinness & Duncan; landscape architect Charles Middeleer. Photo by Ben Schnall. Was an Architectural Record House 1957. Destroyed.
1956 - The Philip M. Tiller Jr. House, 129 Mulberry Drive, Metairie LA. Designed by John W. Lawrence, George A. Saunders and Bill Calongne. Keller Construction Corporation, contractors; structural engineers Ellzey & Estopinal. Photograph by Frank Lotz Miller. Published in Architectural Record and reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Sold in 1983. Was an Architectural Record House 1957. Status unknown.
1956 - House That Looks to Nature, near Cleveland OH. Designed by Robert A. Little and Associates. Built by Elmer Yaxley. Photo by C. W. Ackerman. Was an Architectural Record House 1957. A country retreat for unnamed owners on a wooded hilltop.
1956 - Better Homes & Gardens Idea House. Designed by Ralph Fournier. The magazine's 1956 Idea House, a ranch-fronted two-level design of 1,414 sq ft plus basement with central kitchen, family room and three outdoor living areas, built by cooperating builders in communities across the country. Featured in House & Home, April 1956.
1956 - Sheffield Building House, Selden NY. Designed by William L. Landsberg. Built by Sheffield Building Corp. A flat-roofed Long Island house that young builders Eugene Farrow and Phillip Kallenberg sold complete with tiled bath, floor-to-ceiling windows and poured concrete foundation on FHA terms. Photo by Louis Reens. Featured in House & Home, May 1956.
1956 - The George Goodyear 1957 Model House, Charlotte NC. Designed by R. Emory Holroyd. Built by George Goodyear. Builder's model patterned on an old Carolina farm homestead, with an exterior of scored plywood and native bluestone laid in random sizes. The 1,440 sq ft three-bedroom, two-bath house was the most popular entry in Charlotte's fall 1956 Parade of Homes. Photo by A. C. Summerville. Featured in House & Home, January 1957.
1956 - The John F. Long Patio Model House, Phoenix AZ. Designed by Ragnar C. Qvale. Built by John F. Long. Flat-roofed patio model in Long's huge Maryvale tract, built of concrete block and enameled hardboard with a polished mahogany entrance door, trellis and big glass areas. It became the first flat-top best seller in Phoenix. Photos by Bob Markow. Featured in House & Home, February 1957. Built in Long's Maryvale tract.
1956 - AIA First Award House, Lake Wales, Lake Wales FL. Designed by Mark Hampton. Built by L. F. Martin, Inc. First Award, Class A (under 1,600 sq ft), in the AIA-House & Home Homes for Better Living awards: a luxurious lakeside pavilion for a bachelor, with a curved concrete-masonry turret holding the top-lighted kitchen, a sunken living room with built-in seat, and a pool separating the glass walls from the living areas. Photos by Alexandre Georges. Featured in House & Home, June 1957.
1956 - AIA Award of Merit House, Lake Wales, Lake Wales FL. Designed by Mark Hampton. Built by L. F. Martin Builder, Inc. Award of Merit, Class B, Homes for Better Living: an all-screen front given character by a single light blue door, with everything else gray or white. The plan rambles down the sloping site to the lake, with an entrance court pool, sunken living room and a screened outdoor area as big as the indoor living space. Photos by Alexandre Georges. Featured in House & Home, June 1957.
1956 - AIA Award of Merit House, Washington, Washington DC. Designed by Charles M. Goodman Associates. Built by Marvin J. Duncan & Co. Award of Merit, Class C, Homes for Better Living: walls of glass and precast concrete panels set in modular wood frames, with bedrooms screened by latticed brick and a skylit central court at the core of the plan. The jury praised the simple modular panel system and its variations. Photo by Robert C. Lautman. Featured in House & Home, June 1957.
1956 - Menefee & Montgomery Textured Look House, Houston TX. Designed by M. Arthur Kotch. Built by Menefee & Montgomery. Story of the Month exemplar of the South's new emphasis on pattern and texture: a wood-shingle roof with every fifth course doubled for shadow lines, walls of used brick and grooved redwood, and a foyer of grooved rosewood plywood panels over a white marble tile floor. 2,034 sq ft. Featured in House & Home, July 1957.
1956 - The Lon Gammage Speculative House, Columbus GA. Designed by Lewis A. Scarbrough Jr. Built by Lon Gammage. Built on speculation to wake up a sluggish market, with the architect given a free hand: a native rock wall painted white encloses a front patio, and natural textured materials give the house its character. The house caused a lot of talk; its entrance patio and private bedroom patio led the issue's exterior-detail ideas. Featured in House & Home, July 1957.
1956 - The Mackle Brothers Model House, Miami FL. Designed by James E. Vensel. Built by Mackle Bros. One of the new models Vensel designed for the Mackles, the south Florida giants shooting for 25,000 houses a year. Vensel opened the houses up to the Florida air with 300 sq ft of glass, heat-absorbing glass in the Florida room, jalousies and sliding glass doors, bettering design and salability without adding cost. Photo by Fleming's Photo Center. Featured in House & Home, July 1957.
1956 - The Paul Thiry Weekend House, 4581 Wilson Creek Road, Ellensburg WA. Designed by Paul Thiry. AIA-Sunset honor award, custom built: a simple weekend house in a valley facing a mountain-fed creek, giving maximum shelter with minimum housework. The indoors has only three parts - a kitchen-sitting area, a cleanup-dressing area and a small sleeping balcony - under an exposed wood roof, with ceramic tile floors and a large terrace as the real outdoor living room. Photo by Art Hupy. Featured in House & Home, October 1957. The architect's own cabin. Sold in 2020; county owner of record is George Ras. Sold in 2020 to George Ras. Standing as of 2026.
1956 - AIA-Sunset Award House, Belvedere, Belvedere CA. Designed by Henrik Bull. Built by Alexis Tellis Assoc. AIA-Sunset honor award, merchant built: a dramatic hillside house on a 64% slope. A two-story plan keeps both floors completely off grade, with carport and living areas at street level on the upper floor and three bedrooms and a large private deck below; black-stained framework and battens form a striking pattern. Photo by Stone & Steccati. Featured in House & Home, October 1957.
1956 - Menefee & Montgomery Custom House, Houston TX. Designed by M. Arthur Kotch. Built by Menefee & Montgomery. House No. 1 of the 24 New Houses for 1958 portfolio: more than 2,600 sq ft in a rambling L-plan with an impressive entrance, a warm textured look of brick and wood inside and out, well separated bedrooms, indoor-outdoor living from both living room and master bedroom, and air conditioning. Photo by Victor M. Helm. Featured in House & Home, November 1957.
1956 - The Shroder Hillside Model, Pleasantville NY. Designed by Kramer & Kramer. Built by The Shroder Co. A lesson in hillsides: use the outdoors at every level. A 10-foot overhang shelters the 10 x 32 terrace, balconies open off the bedrooms, and the open family-room-kitchen and cathedral ceilings give the main floor an open feeling. It is outselling less expensive models in the same development. Interiors by Emily Malino. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, November 1957. Built in Shroder's Old Farm Hill development.
1956 - The Mary Burrell Development House, Tiburon CA. Client: Mrs. Mary Burrell. Designed by Charles Warren Callister with H. B. Reid Jr. Built by Nicolaisen Brothers. Hawaiian tradition inspired this handsome builder house: a low hip roof with a louvered, vented center section, every fifth row of cedar shingles doubled, and a free-standing garage and storage shed forming patios for the master bedroom, entrance and family room-kitchen. Every room opens wide to the outdoors through sliding glass. Featured in House & Home, November 1957.
1956 - The John F. Long Four-Patio Model, Phoenix AZ. Designed by Ragnar C. Qvale. Built by John F. Long Home Builder, Inc. Long's model is magic in concrete block: 1,809 sq ft of living area plus 1,310 sq ft of roofed patios and a big carport, descended from his thousands of low-cost block houses. Blocks laid in a basketweave pattern break the long sweep of the front elevation and give the walls a handsome geometric texture. Featured in House & Home, November 1957. Built in Long's Maryvale tract.
1956 - The Burton Duenke Two-Patio Model, Kirkwood MO. Designed by Ralph Fournier. Built by Burton W. Duenke Building Corp. This merchant-built two-patio house sold fast: both patios are so much a part of the house that they work like rooms, thanks to the skillful placement of the garage. The 504 sq ft family patio faces the rear, is enclosed on two sides, and gets overhead light through a roof opening over its planting. Featured in House & Home, November 1957.
1956 - The Bell & Valdez Hillside Two-Story, aka The Rivera (Riviera), Lake Hills, Bellevue WA (published as Seattle). Designed by John M. Anderson. Built by Bell & Valdez. This low-cost split-entry two-story fits a hillside site, with 1,725 sq ft, three bedrooms, two baths and a two-car garage. Translucent plastic panels in a 2x4 frame dramatize the entry, set halfway between the two levels. A builder's model rather than a single house: more than a hundred sold within six weeks, and a later survey counted 141 Riveras in Lake Hills. Photo by Art Hupy. Featured in House & Home, November 1957.
1956 - Scholz Mark 58C Model, Toledo OH. Built by Scholz Homes. Flagship of H&H's fifth annual prefabrication review: Scholz's big contemporary Mark 58 luxury model, designed for indoor-outdoor living with five rooms opening outside through sliding glass doors. The 3-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath house will be advertised in a series of network TV appearances; Scholz's target is 500 Mark 58s across the country. Photo by James T. Strong. Featured in House & Home, December 1957.
1956 - The Franklin E. Schaffer House, 72 Butternut Hollow Road, Greenwich CT. Designed by Designers and Builders (Fred Mahaffey, David B. V. Travers, and Howard Perry). Leonore Baronio, landscape architect. Published in Architectural Record and reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Was an Architectural Record House 1957. Standing, and held by the Hadjipateras family trusts; Greenwich assessor records give an actual year built of 1956, 4,423 sf on 2.24 acres.
1957 - 1234 Woodland Drive, Santa Paula CA. Designed by John Stroh. For sale in 2026.
1957 - The Elmer Gavello House, aka House With a Floating Roof, 65 Irving Avenue, Atherton CA. Designed by Anshen and Allen. 3,650 sf with five bedrooms. Sold in 2014 then destroyed.
1957 - The Julian Steinberg House, 1201 Conery Street, New Orleans LA. Designed by Curtis & Davis and Associated Architects and Engineers (Walter J. Rooney, Jr.). Built by Otis W. Sharp & Son. Structural engineer Villot, Sullivan and Vogt. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Published as "Split-Level Opens Vistas in Confined Lot". Was an Architectural Record House 1959. Merit Award, large-house class, Homes for Better Living: a floating roof plane gives the main rooms a 13' ceiling, with 8' walls and fixed glass above to extend the view in all directions. 'This house creates great privacy, but the raised roof and the use of glass make it airy and well-lighted.' The split-level plan fits a 4,500 sq ft house on a 75'x100' lot without dwarfing the site. Featured in House & Home, June 1959.
1957 - The Dean L. and Barbara Gustavson House, 2044 East Hedgewood Court, Holladay UT. Designed by Dean L. Gustavson; built by Tagy Nyman. Photo by William Deal. Was an Architectural Record House 1960. Gustavson (1924-2011) was born in Salt Lake City, flew B-17s and B-24s in the Second World War, took a graduate architecture degree at Berkeley on the GI Bill, and led Gustavson Associates; he became an AIA Fellow in 1970 and designed the University of Utah Engineering Center and the 1970s redesign of the University of Utah Medical Center. Dean and Barbara Gustavson lived here from 1957 until his death in 2011; the house has been kept largely original. Standing as of 2024.
1957 - The A. J. Farfel House, 18 West Lane, Houston TX. Designed by Bolton and Barnstone. Built by Ray D. Wilson and D. S. Rodgers. Structural engineer Walter P. Moore. Landscape architect Thomas D. Church and Associates. Photo by Clarence Laughlin; Fred Winchell. Was an Architectural Record House 1957. Honorable Mention, large-house class, Homes for Better Living: 'This house very successfully creates its own privacy from the street by putting a solid brick wall across a court.' The jury thought the house well done but too static in form to merit a higher award. Featured in House & Home, June 1959. Sold in 1992 to Russell and Diana Hawkins. Standing as of 2026.
1957 - The Randall P. McIntyre House, Hunting Hollow Farm, Deer Park NY. Designed by William W. Landsberg. Built by Martin Wuttke. Photo by Joseph W. Molitor. Landsberg also did a house for Angus McIntyre. Both houses destroyed. Was an Architectural Record House 1957.
1957 - The Allison T. Wanamaker House, 2238 Waverly Way, Seattle WA. Designed by Paul A. Thiry. Built by Bertil Mortenson & Company. Landscape architect Prentice Nursery. Was an Architectural Record House 1958. Sold in 1997 to Charles F. and Jeannie H. Gravenkemper. Recorded in the Paul Thiry project list compiled by Michael Houser, Washington State Architectural Historian, from a master list by Larry Johnson AIA, and in Docomomo WEWA.
1957 - The Lawrence T. Harbine Monroe House, 3904 Horsehead Bay Drive NW, Gig Harbor WA. Designed by Robert Billsbrough Price. Built by Allen Hampton. Landscape architect Halprin. Photo by Dearborn-Massar. Was an Architectural Record House 1959. Sold in 1995.
1957 - Seidenwurn & Schwartz Round House, Roslyn Hills NY. Designed by Michael L. Radoslovich. Built by Seidenwurn & Schwartz (Country Estates). A partly round 2,400 sq ft development house on a third-acre in Roslyn Hills, Long Island, with living areas fanning out from a central plastic-domed rotunda and bedrooms in a rectangular wing. Not just a merchandising gimmick, say the builders, who have averaged four sales a month since September. Featured in House & Home, January 1958.
1957 - Clayton Powell Lowslung Contemporary Model, Savannah GA. Built by Clayton Powell. Top builders from across the country flew to Savannah to watch Clayton Powell, the fastest builder in the US, turn a finished slab into a finished house in 14 working days using shop-built panels on a 4' module. His line ranges from this lowslung contemporary with porch and carport to a split level. Photos by Andrews Studio. Featured in House & Home, February 1958.
1957 - The Worthman 1958 Trend House, Fort Wayne IN. Built by John & Jack Worthman. The Worthmans' idea house drew winter crowds with a 16'x21' Florida room—screened roof and walls, sliding glass to the living room, foyer and family room-kitchen, and a 2x6 slat floor that lets rain fall through—bringing tropical indoor-outdoor living to snow-covered Indiana. Photos by Assoc. Commercial Photographers. Featured in House & Home, March 1958.
1957 - Curtis & Davis New Orleans House, New Orleans LA. Designed by Curtis & Davis. Built by Haase Construction Co. H&H called this big and handsome house a fine example of today's trend toward richer textures, warmer colors and smaller patterns: its concrete grilles do triple duty as ornament, sunshade and windbreak, screening a court plan that separates the formal areas from the bedrooms. Contemporary thinking made to work harmoniously with ideas—screened terraces, the wide veranda—that go back a long way in the region's architecture. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Featured in House & Home, June 1958.
1957 - The Shwayder House, aka Meathe, Kessler & Associates Franklin House, 27551 Fairway Hills Drive, Franklin MI. Designed by Meathe, Kessler & Associates. Honor Award winner in the large-house class of the 1958 AIA Homes for Better Living awards, cited for its exciting use of form and space: a floating curved vault over the living room that juror Grossi said gives it 'a little baroque richness,' plus a skylighted garden room the jury called 'an absolute gem of a room.' Featured in House & Home, July 1958. On the edge of the Franklin Hills Country Club.
1957 - Porter & Kelly East Liverpool House, East Liverpool OH. Designed by James Nessly Porter & John Terence Kelly. Honor Award, large-house class, 1958 AIA Homes for Better Living awards. The jury praised the way the architects shaped the house into its wooded hillside instead of applying it on top, its honest stonework and cabinet-work detailing—'the height of simplicity, sophistication, and elegance'—and a 24' square master suite divided by a two-sided fireplace. Photo by Jay-Bee Photographic Studio. Featured in House & Home, July 1958.
1957 - The Honn-Perkins Bartlesville House, Bartlesville OK. Designed by Donald Honn. Built by Perkins Construction Co. Honor Award in the small-house class (under 1,600 sq ft) of the 1958 AIA Homes for Better Living awards. The jury was most impressed by so much space in a small house: a 16' x 21' living room with floor-to-ceiling glass on two sides, superb cabinet work and what Burchard called 'the American dream amount of storage.' Photo by Bob Hawks. Featured in House & Home, July 1958.
1957 - Joseph L. Cyr Inkster House, Inkster MI. Designed by Joseph L. Cyr. Built by Evan Bissell. Merit Award, medium-house class, 1958 AIA Homes for Better Living awards. Planned to fit a 45-degree hillside, it is entered through the carport with living areas on the upper floors and a deck running along the glass-walled side; the jury admired its light, well-detailed construction and quiet Japanese influence 'done here with restraint.' Featured in House & Home, July 1958.
1957 - The Jack Mayes House, aka the Round House, aka Don Erickson Glen Ellyn House, 1000 Clifton Avenue, Glen Ellyn IL. Designed by Don Erickson. Merit Award, small-house class, 1958 AIA Homes for Better Living awards: a house of interlocking brick circles—kitchen and stair in one, the circular living area in another opening to a wide balcony. The jury commended its restrained handling of unusual forms 'so conspicuously in the Wright tradition,' predicting the architect 'is really going to get someplace.' Photo by Herrlinn Studio. Featured in House & Home, July 1958. Destroyed around 2001.
1957 - The Donald E. Hustad House, aka The Hustad-Peterson Wayzata House, 3739 Fairlawn Dr, Minnetonka MN. Designed by Donald E. Hustad for his own family. Built by Joe Peterson. Honor Award, medium-house class, 1958 AIA Homes for Better Living awards. The jury delighted in the playful rhythm of its six barrel vaults—glass-filled where the two-vault-wide living room overlooks a wooded slope—and in the way the roof was made part of the whole design: 'a joy to see any time.' Sold in 2015. Featured in House & Home, July 1958, and Northwest Architect, September-October 1958.
1957 - Meathe, Kessler & Associates Detroit House, Detroit MI. Designed by Meathe, Kessler & Associates. Merit Award, medium-house class, 1958 AIA Homes for Better Living awards: a nearly symmetrical square plan around what the jury agreed is the minimum center court that can be successfully used—just 8' x 14', yet enough to add openness and visual space to the surrounding rooms. Featured in House & Home, July 1958.
1957 - John Randal McDonald Racine House, Racine WI. Designed by John Randal McDonald. Built by Contemporary Builders. Honorable Mention in the medium-house class of the 1958 AIA Homes for Better Living awards, sponsored by the AIA with House & Home and Life and picked from 150 custom-house entries. Featured in House & Home, July 1958.
1957 - The Kenneth and Elizabeth Patterson House, 1605 Harbal Drive, Ann Arbor MI. Designed by Robert C. Metcalf. Built by Lawrence A. Larson. Honorable Mention in the small-house class of the 1958 AIA Homes for Better Living awards: a crisp flat-roofed box with a long open carport wing, by the Ann Arbor architect-professor who built a series of admired modern houses there. Featured in House & Home, July 1958. Owned in 2014 by Audra Wenzlow and Dave Hollinden (acquisition year not found). Owned by Audra Wenzlow and Dave Hollinden, who opened it for an a2modern tour in 2014.
1957 - Garber, Tweddell & Wheeler Cincinnati House, Cincinnati OH. Designed by Garber, Tweddell & Wheeler. Built by Jacob Boettcher. Honorable Mention in the medium-house class of the 1958 AIA Homes for Better Living awards, its angular roofs spreading pinwheel-fashion over a hillside plan. Featured in House & Home, July 1958. Shown in McCall's, May 1958, as a house to dramatize indoor-outdoor living: the outdoors is brought indoors with a garden at the very center of the house for year-round gardening whatever the weather, behind a street side blank except for the living room window and glass gable ends finished in ceramic tile; the unusual roof is a series of triangles. Featured in House & Home, December 1958.
1957 - The Dr. David and Barbara Feld House, aka the Butterfly House, aka Meathe, Kessler & Associates Detroit House No. 2, 1470 Strathcona Drive, Detroit MI. Designed by Meathe, Kessler & Associates. Honorable Mention in the large-house class of the 1958 AIA Homes for Better Living awards—the third Meathe, Kessler house recognized by the 1958 jury, a long pavilion behind a patterned-block garden wall. Photos by Lens Art Photographers. Featured in House & Home, July 1958. In the Palmer Woods Historic District.
1957 - Jaspar D. Ward Two-Story House. Designed by Jaspar D. Ward. A house to whet the taste for two-story space, from Ladies' Home Journal, October 1958: four stone bearing walls divide the house into three modular bays, the dining room rises the full two-story height, and a split-level entrance takes advantage of the gently sloping site with terraces on three sides. Photo by Haanel Cassidy. Featured in House & Home, December 1958.
1957 - Leavitt, Henshell & Kawai Garden-Wall House. Designed by Leavitt, Henshell & Kawai. A house to show the appeal of privacy, from Living for Young Homemakers, August 1958: a garden wall of natural grey asbestos-cement panels framed in redwood encloses a large garden at one side, entered through an adaptation of a Shinto shrine gate—a design heavily influenced by traditional Japanese architecture, with exposed rafters on a 3' module. Photo by Ernest Silva. Featured in House & Home, December 1958.
1957 - The Peter Klaussen House, aka Klaussen House at Belvedere, 19 Belvedere Avenue, Belvedere CA. Designed by Henrik Bull. Built by Alexis Tellis. Merit Award, over-$25,000 class, 1960 Homes for Better Living awards. Built for developer Peter Klaussen on a steep problem lot, the narrow two-story redwood house steps down its hillside on decks and bridges; 1,600 sq ft. Photo by Stone & Steccati. Featured in House & Home, May 1960.
1957 - The Arthur Witthoefft House, 11 Tallwoods Road, Armonk NY. Designed by Arthur Witthoefft. Built by Arthur Witthoefft. Engineers: Harry Kaufman; G. L. Smith & Assoc. Homes for Better Living honor award (custom, 1,600 to 2,800 sq ft): precision in a steel frame. Exposed steel framing painted black with fill-in panels of white glazed brick in Flemish bond accents the modular design of this long, low 2,370 sq ft house; steel bents on 10' centers leave the 25'x32' living-dining area column-free, and glass doors open every room to a 90' rear terrace. Interiors by Ellie Witthoefft. Photos by Alexandre Georges. Featured in House & Home, September 1962. Restored in 2007. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
1957 - The Gustave E. Rosenau House, 345 Moredon Road, Huntingdon Valley PA. Designed by Davis, Brody, Juster and Wisniewski. Published in Architectural Record and reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Was an Architectural Record House 1957. Status unknown.
1957 - The J. T. Upton House, 7424 Hampson Street, New Orleans LA. Designed by Curtis and Davis. Huger-Geer, Inc., contractors. Published in Architectural Record and reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Was an Architectural Record House 1957. Sold in 2016. Standing as of 2026.
1957 - The Russell R. Klein House, 8 Vineyard Way, Kentfield CA. Designed by Malone and Hooper. Wilson and Wedekind, contractors; Buonaccorsi and Murray, mechanical engineers. Published in Architectural Record and reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Was an Architectural Record House 1957. Standing as of 2023.
1957 - The Leo Frediani House, 14665 McDonough Heights Road, Healdsburg CA. Designed by Mario Corbett. Leo Frediani, contractor. Published in Architectural Record and reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Was an Architectural Record House 1957. Sold in 2005 and again in 2019. Standing as of 2026.
1958 - The Harwood Taylor House, 9606 Meadowglen Lane, Houston TX 77063. Designed by Neuhaus and Harwood Taylor. Economy in a courtyard house. Built as one of twelve houses in the Electri-Living Program sponsored by Living For Young Homemakers magazine. Landscape architect Fred Buxton. Sold in 1962. Published in Architectural Record and reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Was an Architectural Record House 1958. Standing as of 2006 and in need of restoration. Documented by Houston Mod.
1958 - The Robert and Amelia Frost House, 3215 Cleveland Avenue, Michigan City IN. Designed by Emil Tesser. Interiors 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.
1958 - The Nathaniel A. and Margaret Wentworth Owings House, aka Wild Bird, 47320 Highway 1, Grimes Point, Big Sur CA. 55 acres. Designed by Nathaniel A. Owings of Skidmore Owings and Merrill. Designed with Mark Mills. Built to withstand 80 mph winds, high rainfall, and earthquakes, the house rests on a reinforced concrete saddle anchored by eight caissons sunk directly into bedrock. Following Margaret Owings’ passing in the late 1990s, the home underwent a meticulous restoration and sensitive update led by Fletcher + Hardoin Architects. Damaged by fire in 2012. Sold in 2000. Standing as of 2017.
1958 - The H. George Foster House, 9204 Playhouse Road, Petersburg PA. Designed by John E. Pekruhn. Built by H. T. Reynolds Company. Structural engineer Joseph E. Spagnulo. Photo by Joseph W. Molitor. Was an Architectural Record House 1958. Sold in 2024. Standing as of 2024.
1958 - The Howard H. Callaway House, 17617 US-27, Pine Mountain GA. Designed by Richard Aeck Associates. Built by Newman Construction Company. Structural engineer T. Z. Chastain. Landscape architect E. L. Dougherty. Photos by Gabriel Benzur. Was an Architectural Record House 1958. Also known as the Howard Hollis (Bo) Callaway House, at Callaway Gardens. Reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Standing as of 2020.
1958 - The Ben Freedman House, 1321 Frankfort Street, New Orleans LA. Designed by John Lawrence, Saunders and Calongne. Built by Richard W. Goodyear. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Was an Architectural Record House 1958. Standing as of 2025. Honorable Mention, medium-house class, Homes for Better Living: 'This is the only entry which used the central garden court to such good purpose.' The overall design was considered well-handled, with the planted court bringing light and outlook to the middle of the plan. Featured in House & Home, June 1959.
1958 - The Kenneth McClave House, 820 Harbor Drive, Key Biscayne FL. Designed by Robert B. Browne. Built by Robert B. Browne and G. Cory Millican. Structural engineer Warren S. Burkholder. In the tropical tradition, with deep shade and cross ventilation. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Was an Architectural Record House 1958, and reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. The Robert Bradford Browne Collection is at the University of Miami Libraries. House & Home's hot weather case study No. 3 and the issue's cover house: the exterior wall surrounding the whole house is a roof-to-floor screen, so breezes blow right through it—and under it, since the house is raised 2' on concrete posts. Two enclosed areas, one for living and one for sleeping, sit freely under the huge pitched roof, separated by a 15' lanai that serves as entry. Featured in House & Home, February 1959. Honorable Mention, medium-house class, Homes for Better Living: 'a very straightforward plan... the roof is in a form that unites the whole house and adds to its simplicity of structure.' The jury admired its execution but found the concept 'too traditional' for a higher award. Featured in House & Home, June 1959. Destroyed.
1958 - The Chard F. Webb House, Merlin Road, Phoenixville PA. Designed by Chard F. Webb. Built by Irvin Smerly. Photos by Ben Schnall. Was an Architectural Record House 1958. Status unknown. Reprinted in The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses, 1959. Also listed elsewhere as the Richard F. Webb House at 2 Robin Lane, Malvern PA; Architectural Record, May 1958, credits him as Chard F. Webb, architect and owner.
1958 - The Stanford R. Gamm House II, 1631 Sunnyside, Highland Park IL. Designed by Richard E. Baringer. Built by Arnold Peterson. Landscape architect Robert Zion. Photos by Richard Nickel. Was an Architectural Record House 1958. Honorable Mention in the medium-house class of the 1958 AIA Homes for Better Living awards: a low glass-walled pavilion stepped into its wooded ravine site. Featured in House & Home, July 1958. Destroyed.
1958 - The Samuel E. Hale House, 201 Shell Beach Drive, Lake Charles LA. Designed by Burk, LeBreton and Lamantia. Built by Earle Ginhey. Structural engineer Burk, LeBreton and Lamantia. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Was an Architectural Record House 1958. Status unknown.
1958 - The 1958 Honn-Jennings Model, Lubbock TX. Designed by Donald Honn. Built by Cecil Jennings. H&H's lesson in sticking with a good plan: Architect Honn has improved the same low-cost contemporary plan every year since 1955 for Lubbock's biggest home builder, and the 1958 version—1,230 sq ft with two full baths—was outselling everything in town, with 35 sold in the first two months of the year. Featured in House & Home, April 1958.
1958 - Sunstate Face-Lifted Model, Tampa FL. Designed by Betty Wild. Built by Sunstate Builders (Matt Jetton). Designer Betty Wild gave one of Sunstate's old stucco models a fresh new face—cypress siding, white ceramic-faced brick, floor-to-ceiling windows and a flat roof on the same basic plan. Too modern for Tampa? 'Not if it's priced right,' said President Matt Jetton: both new models sold before completion. Featured in House & Home, May 1958.
1958 - 1959 Preview House, 1340 Zurich Drive, Florissant MO. Designed by Earl Fey. Built by Norman Schuermann. Wiring and lighting designed by Norman Raab. A 2,600 sq ft builder's model packed with 25 new-product ideas and designed around GE's new Thermoline heat pumps, which free furnace space, eliminate ductwork and give room-by-room zonal control. One of the electrical industry's Gold Medallion homes, it was a joint promotion of Builder Schuermann, GE, Union Electric and Famous-Barr, with interiors by George Nelson; Schuermann planned to build others like it in his 1959 tracts. Photos by Mac Mizuki. Featured in House & Home, June 1958. Built in the Walnut Grove Hills subdivision.
1958 - James Lawrence Jr. Medford House, Medford MA. Designed by James Lawrence Jr. (Child, Lawrence & Shannon). Built by Hollett Building Corp. Quality House No. 1 of H&H's '24 Quality Houses for 1959' and the issue's cover house: a straightforward rectangle under one big 4-in-12 pitched roof, its rear oriented to focus on a huge oak, with redwood siding and a buttressing utility shed. Photo by George M. Cushing. Featured in House & Home, November 1958.
1958 - Satterlee & Smith Washington Hillside House, Washington DC. Designed by Satterlee & Smith. Built by Stirling Construction Co. Quality House No. 3, a fresh idea for hillsides: the uphill side presents carport and entry walk to the driveway while the downhill side opens a big ground-floor playroom and a second-floor band of windows to the yard; a rooftop box encloses fans and a skylight. Photo by Robert C. Lautman. Featured in House & Home, November 1958.
1958 - Philip Hiss Sarasota Model, Sarasota FL. Designed by Philip Hiss. Built by Philip Hiss. Quality House No. 5, designed and built by Sarasota's Philip Hiss on a 12'x18' module: an L-shaped Florida house whose screened patio flows smoothly from solid wall into Fiberglas screen wall. Featured in House & Home, November 1958.
1958 - Eichler Homes Atrium Model, Palo Alto CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by Eichler Homes. Quality House No. 8: Eichler's celebrated atrium model turns the house inward around a central open-air patio behind a nearly solid street front, with a flat roof simplifying the framing and Philippine mahogany paneling inside. Photo by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, November 1958.
1958 - Sunstate Builders Tampa House, Tampa FL. Designed by Betty Wild. Built by Sunstate Builders (Matt Jetton). Quality House No. 11: designer Betty Wild's custom house for Tampa builder Matt Jetton, who prices his custom work at or near his speculative houses—a low brick-and-frame pavilion with a breezeway carport. Photos by Ben Rose. Featured in House & Home, November 1958.
1958 - Gerholz Community Homes Model, Flint MI. Designed by Eldredge Snyder. Built by Gerholz Community Homes. Quality House No. 20: rear living sells this trim 1,440 sq ft builder house—its open rear elevation is a rhythm of glass and vertical redwood panels onto a concrete terrace with redwood dividers. Photos by Frank Fulkersin. Featured in House & Home, November 1958.
1958 - The Russell F. Williams House, aka Irion & Reinke Oshkosh House, 1416 Menominee Drive, Oshkosh WI. Designed by Irion & Reinke. Built by Albright & Son. Quality House No. 22: raising the foundation a few feet gave this 3,000 sq ft lakeside house a daylight basement—1,365 sq ft of bright lower-level living space with a 25'x19' recreation room, study, workshop and bath. Featured in House & Home, November 1958.
1958 - John F. Long Model House, Phoenix AZ. Designed by Malcolm McPherson. Built by John F. Long Home Builder Inc. Quality House No. 23: Phoenix volume builder John Long sells this long, low 1,570 sq ft model—entry and planter tucked under the deep overhang of its 64' facade—including the lot. Featured in House & Home, November 1958.
1958 - Ukiah Sloping-Roof House, Ukiah CA. Designed by Mario Corbett. Corbett used the gently pitched roof for more than shelter: ceilings follow its slope, skylights pierce it over the family room, and instead of chopping the roof to fit every offset in the rambling plan he let it sweep out to a nearly continuous eave line, covering indoor and outdoor living in one unbroken plane. Low decks intersect each room to give human scale to the high ceilings of this rustic but highly sophisticated redwood house. Featured in House & Home, January 1959.
1958 - Matt Jetton Built-for-Sale Model, Tampa FL. Designed by Betty Wild. Built by Matt Jetton. 'From custom houses you can borrow ideas to help you sell built-for-sale models like this,' says Tampa's Matt Jetton, who with Designer Betty Wild carried ten ideas from a flat-roofed custom house into this low-pitched 3-bedroom model: contemporary styling, masonry walls, split levels on a gentle slope, floor-to-ceiling glass, deep overhangs, covered terrace and kitchen skylights. Featured in House & Home, January 1959.
1958 - Fox & Jacobs Accent Best-Seller, Dallas TX. Designed by Tony Pereira & Parker Folse. Built by Fox & Jacobs. Star of H&H's report on how much better Dallas builds today: Dave Fox and Ike Jacobs offered four designs in their new Accent tract, and this contemporary—designed with Los Angeles designer Tony Pereira and F&J's Parker Folse, who went all-out on contemporary design and decoration inside the 1,700 sq ft house too—was the best-seller by far, somewhat to the partners' surprise. Photo by I. B. Lindenthal. Featured in House & Home, March 1959.
1958 - Roxbury Six-Sided Vacation House, Roxbury NY. Designed by William Breger. Engineers: McGuinness & Duncan. Off-beat design that makes sense: the six-sided living area is open on four sides for a view most of the way around the surrounding hills, and in dreary weather a big round central fireplace becomes the center of attraction. Stone buttresses gathered on the site take the thrust of the sloping roof, so the exterior wall is just a skin. With wall-hung refrigerator and year-round heating. Photos by Hal Berg. Featured in House & Home, March 1959.
1958 - Orcas Island Vacation House, Orcas Island WA. Designed by Carl Gould. Rugged natural materials make this vacation house easy to live in and easy to maintain: stone gathered on the site anchors the fireplace and wall bases into the slope, cedar walls are split-faced inside and out, and oak floors and counters wear a clear plastic finish. The living area seems extra large because it has big windows on three sides and opens to dining area and kitchen on the fourth. Photos by Charles R. Pearson. Featured in House & Home, March 1959.
1958 - Burton Duenke Pacific-Style Display House, St. Louis MO. Designed by Robert Krieckhaus. Built by Burton W. Duenke. Cover house of H&H's report that Pacific style is making news from coast to coast: over 10,000 people came to see this house, and one family bought it before it was finished. A windowless 78' front wall of rough-sawn red cedar connects house and garage to enclose a private court and swimming pool—'like stepping into another world,' said the lookers. Photo by Hutchinson Photographers. Featured in House & Home, April 1959.
1958 - House in the True Japanese Idiom, Honolulu HI. Designed by Wimberly & Cook. Designed for an American who lived in Japan, this L-shaped house on posts above its sloping site is meant to be lived in much as the Japanese live: shoes come off at the sunken stone entry, the house wraps around its garden so every room opens to it through shoji screens, and unornamented cedar walls and ceilings carry the space. Main concessions to American living are the modern kitchen and bath and a higher ceiling. Photo by R. Wenkam. Featured in House & Home, April 1959.
1958 - Japanese-Tradition House in Hillsborough, Hillsborough CA. Designed by Gardner Dailey. Japanese ideas in a Western setting: this 5,000 sq ft California house needs three landscaped courts to give every major room a garden view, with a garden room linking the daytime and nighttime wings. A strong line of trim runs through every room to suggest the lower Japanese scale, while brick, stucco and plate glass adapt the tradition to American living. Photo by Roger Sturtevant. Featured in House & Home, April 1959.
1958 - The Arthur Q. Davis House, aka New Orleans Garden-Court House, 5 Bamboo Road, New Orleans LA. Designed by Curtis & Davis. Built by Haase Construction Co. Honor Award, large-house class, Homes for Better Living: 'one of the most consistently well-handled houses we've seen here, handsome in detail.' A garden court separates the living wing—with its own 776 sq ft adult living room—from the sleeping wing, and the jury found the vaulted-roof guest house an excellent contrast to the main house. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Featured in House & Home, June 1959. The architect's own house. Acquired by Longue Vue House and Gardens in 2025.
1958 - Alfred Browning Parker House in Coconut Grove, Coconut Grove FL. Designed by Alfred Browning Parker. Honorable Mention, small-house class, Homes for Better Living: 'enjoyable because the two plan elements are imaginatively handled, and there is a playful quality to the roof line.' Main house and guest house share a pool terrace, with a deck over the carport linking the two roofs. Photos by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, June 1959.
1958 - St. Petersburg Diamond Cottage, St. Petersburg FL. Designed by David Tudeen. Built by Master Mode Homes. Honorable Mention, small-house class, Homes for Better Living: 'This little house is charming, and it has an informality that suits its site. It is one of the biggest bargains we've seen.' The diamond-shaped, two-level screened box rides on posts among the trees. Featured in House & Home, June 1959.
1958 - The Cecil and Hermione Alexander House, aka Cecil Alexander Round House, 2322 Mount Paran Road NW, Atlanta GA. Designed by Cecil Alexander (Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild & Paschal). Built by Adams & Willis. Landscape architect: Edward Daugherty. Honorable Mention, large-house class, Homes for Better Living: 'the only circular house entry that comes within striking distance of being successful. Its relationship to the surrounding woods, plus the central garden-room, must make it most pleasant to live in.' Rooms fan out around the skylit circular garden court. Photos by Robert McGinnis. Featured in House & Home, June 1959. The architect's own house. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
1958 - The Charles R. Colbert House, aka Metairie Two-Story House, 510 Woodvine Avenue, Metairie LA. Designed by Colbert & Lowrey with W. J. Hess. Built by Landis Construction Co. Landscape architect: Frances Colbert. Honorable Mention, medium-house class, Homes for Better Living: 'The handling of materials, and the way the architects combined the one- and two-story elements, make this house well worth an award.' The two-story glass living pavilion opens to a walled pool terrace. Photos by Frank Lotz Miller. Featured in House & Home, June 1959. The architect's own house. Destroyed after Hurricane Katrina.
1958 - House on a Lake at Lake Grove, Lake Grove OR. Designed by Van Evera Bailey. Built by Kellogg & Harmer. This custom house on a lake uses ideas that make sense for many sites: a glass gable end opens the main living area to the view, a big flaring overhang shades walls and deck, and an above-ground basement finished as a recreation room opens to a terrace on the view side. 1,778 sq ft on the upper level plus 952 below; Featured in House & Home, June 1959.
1958 - Margate Patio House, Margate FL. Designed by George A. Dudley. Built by Ibec Housing Corp. Honor Award, Class A (under $15,000), in the 1959 AIA Homes for Better Living builder-house awards for the Gulf and Southeast states: 'simple, direct, clean elevations; pleasant connecting links to the out-of-doors; good ventilation; good lighting.' The plan is a modern adaptation of the Spanish prototype, with rooms wrapped around an inner screened patio reached from carport, kitchen, and living area. Featured in House & Home, July 1959.
1958 - Orange Park Garden House, Orange Park FL. Designed by Robert C. Broward. Built by Hall Enterprises, Inc. Honor Award, Class B ($15,000-$20,000), Homes for Better Living: 'a simple, frank solution to indoor-outdoor living in an imaginatively planned, economical house.' A pierced-block wall gives privacy to a garden shared by master bedroom, kitchen, and breakfast area, and every room opens to its own outdoor living space. Featured in House & Home, July 1959.
1958 - Trim Custom House in Eugene, Eugene OR. Designed by George Andrews. Case No. 1 in H&H's study of designing the luxury of space on a small budget: a simple 29'x33' rectangle whose chief partition is entirely a storage wall, with other storage hung from the walls of every room. Walls stop short of the ceiling with glass above, the living area has a glass gable end, and the patio ties house and carport into an impressive 61' overall length. Photo by Tom Burns Jr. Featured in House & Home, August 1959.
1958 - The Felix Warburg House, 61 Peninsula Road, Belvedere CA. Designed by Felix Warburg. Case No. 2 in the luxury-of-space study: the architect's own 96'-long waterfront house on Belvedere Lagoon for his big and active family, its cost-kiting wall jogs united by an unbroken roof plane. Simple materials are used throughout—exposed 2x4 ceilings, unfinished Douglas fir—with a broad deck running the length of the house off living room and master bedroom. Photo by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, August 1959. Sold by about 1963.
1958 - San Diego View House, San Diego CA. Designed by Robert Mosher & Roy Drew. Built by R. E. Hazard, Jr. & Son. Landscape architect: Harriet Wimmer. One-of-a-kind house No. 2: Western architects create luxury out of simplicity with ample space, natural materials, distant views, and well-chosen landscaping. Long, low roof planes and unadorned vertical redwood siding keep the exterior simple, while inside the 2,500 sq ft house each room is of generous proportions, with a native-stone fireplace scaled to the 18'x27' living room and its endless view. Interiors by Ross Thiele. Photo by Douglas M. Simmonds. Featured in House & Home, September 1959.
1958 - Santa Barbara Flat-Roof House, Santa Barbara CA. Designed by Robert S. Grant (Arendt, Mosher & Grant). No. 3 of the 20 quality houses for 1960: 'This flat-roof house cost less than you'd think' despite its precision look. It has a lot of glass—a solarium off the master bedroom, large areas of fixed glass, sliding glass doors, and aluminum casements. Contracts were let separately for each trade. Photo by Douglas M. Simmonds. Featured in House & Home, November 1959.
1958 - Ogden Post House, Ogden UT. Designed by Stephen L. MacDonald & Assoc. Built by Edman & Jolley Construction Co. Landscape architect: Arvin Shrieve. No. 7 of the 20 quality houses for 1960: a big-family house. 'It cost so little because it was so easy to build,' says Builder John Edman—the house and its big rear deck float above the sloping site on posts, the floor cantilevers 4' beyond the foundation, and the walls hang from the roof as curtain walls. 2,200 sq ft on the main floor plus 900 sq ft of finished basement. Photo by Douglas M. Simmonds. Featured in House & Home, November 1959.
1958 - Kensington Hillside House, Kensington MD. Designed by Charles Goodman Assoc. Built by Bancroft Construction Corp. No. 8 of the 20 quality houses for 1960: a square shape pays off in this two-level contemporary production house set into a hillside, with a rear terrace off the family room. Using brick in unbroken masses saved money, and the compact shape makes the house more adaptable to problem lots. 2,588 sq ft. Featured in House & Home, November 1959. Built in the Rock Creek Woods subdivision by Bancroft Construction.
1958 - The Louis S. Sachs House, aka Ladue Deck House, 32 Dromara Road, Ladue MO. Designed by Harris Armstrong. Built by Mikkelsen Construction Co. No. 18 of the 20 quality houses for 1960: behind this closed facade is a big 750 sq ft rear deck, the big idea of this custom house on the edge of a sharply sloping St Louis-suburb site. The street side is private—a limestone wall disguises the garage and an overhang hides the high living-room windows above redwood siding. 2,510 sq ft. Photo by Mac Mizuki. Featured in House & Home, November 1959.
1958 - Parker Hot-Weather House in Miami, Miami FL. Designed by Alfred Browning Parker. Built by Charles Thoms. No. 20 of the 20 quality houses for 1960: a glamorous hot-weather house. Within that budget and just 1,300 sq ft, it provides a greater feeling of space and luxury than most people expect in a much bigger house—walls open wide to the breeze, overhangs shade the glass, and a white aggregate roof reflects the Florida heat. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, November 1959.
1958 - Hillside House in Helena, Helena AR. Designed by A. L. Aydelott and Assoc. Built by George Helbig. Landscape architect: Eckbo, Royston & Williams. 'Here's an exciting way to use a hillside': Aydelott broke this Arkansas custom house into three major units, offset them on three different levels down and across the slope, and emphasized the irregular form with jutting balconies and bold brick walls under one unifying pitched roof. The entry is on the middle level, with the bedroom wing a half-flight up and the conservatory and living room stepping down toward walled terraces; a perforated brick panel filled with glass divides living and dining areas. Featured in House & Home, December 1959.
1958 - Eichler Homes Court Model, Palo Alto CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by Eichler Homes. Merit Award, over-$25,000 class, 1960 Homes for Better Living awards. The glass-walled model opens its living areas both to a fenced rear yard and to a central court, and is being built in five different California locations. First published fully in H&H, November 1958. Featured in House & Home, May 1960.
1958 - The Homer Delawie House, aka Boxcar House, 1773 Torrance Street, San Diego CA. Designed by Homer T. Delawie. Built by Bach Construction Co. An award-winning design for a hillside lot only 25' wide, which Delawie designed for himself. Solid walls broken only by vertical glass panels close the house on the side facing apartments; the entry is on the uphill side and the far end looks out to San Diego Bay. Featured in House & Home, November 1960. Remodeled by Delawie in 1991 with a second story. Sold in 2014 to Vance T. Sold in 2014 to Vance and Mary Chan. Chan; transferred to the Chan Family Trust in 2015. Designated by the San Diego Historical Resources Board in 2021 as the Delawie #1/Boxcar House. Standing as of 2021.
1959 - The Tivadar and Dorothy Balogh House, 49800 Joy Road, Plymouth Township, Wayne County MI. Designed by Tivadar Balogh for himself, his wife Dorothy and their two daughters, on a thickly wooded three-acre lot he bought in 1958; built 1958-59, largely by the family themselves,. The drawings won a Progressive Architecture award. A two-storey redwood-clad cube that appears to hover among the trees, carried on a partial basement at one side and thin posts at the other, with a two-storey living room behind a south wall of glass. The open parking area beneath the first floor was later infilled as Balogh’s own architectural office, and a detached garage was added in 1985. Balogh, born in Detroit in 1926 to Hungarian immigrants, served in the Navy in the Second World War and again in Korea, graduated from Michigan in 1952, worked for Robert C. Metcalf from 1954, and opened his own practice in 1961, designing some 150 buildings in Michigan, Illinois and Arizona. He taught at the University of Michigan, won the Sol King teaching award in 1973, retired in 1997 and died in 2006. Dorothy Balogh lived here until her death in August 2019, after which the house was offered for sale for the first time. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013, reference 13000800. Standing.
1959 - The Bowen Sterling House, 7 South Schuyler Lane, Garrison/Peekskill NY. Designed by William J. Conklin and Davis, Brody & Wisniewski. Built by Gramercy Construction Company. Structural engineer Wiesenfeld, Hayward and Leon. Landscape architect Hideo Sasaki. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Was an Architectural Record House 1959. Owned by Natalie Rahhal as of 2025.
1959 - The David Lindsay House, 7623 River Point Drive, Houston TX. Designed by Preston Bolton and Howard Barnstone. Built by Southwest American Construction Company. Structural engineer A. T. Knies Jr. Photo by Fred Winchell. Was an Architectural Record House 1959. Sold in 2009 to Robert N. Bush.
1959 - Skytop Road, Encino CA. Designed by Richard L. Dorman. Built by Robert Coleman. Structural engineer Richard Bradshaw. Landscape architect Robert Carter. Photo by Julius Shulman. Was an Architectural Record House 1959. Status unknown.
1959 - The George and Adele Goldsmith House, 121 Stonebrook Road, Helena AR. Designed by A. L. Aydelott & Associates. Landscape architect, Garrett Eckbo. Photo by Allied Photographic Illustrators. Was an Architectural Record House 1959. Owned by Leroy Parker Jr. and Victoria L. Parker. Standing as of 2026.
1959 - 1 Grandin Terrace, Cincinnati OH. Designed by Carl A. Strauss and Ray Roush. Built by Jacob Boettcher. Landscape architect Henry Fletcher Kenney. Photos by George Stille. Was an Architectural Record House 1960. Standing as of 2025.
1959 - The Albert Weis House, 5614 Sweetbriar Circle, Savannah GA. Designed by Mark Hampton, of the Sarasota School. Built by DeWitt Furnell & Spicer. Structural engineer, Joseph Russello & Associates. Landscape architect Clermont H. Lee. Photo by Joseph Molitor. Was an Architectural Record House 1960. 3,640 sf. Named in The New York Times of June 19, 1960 as one of Architectural Record’s twenty best-designed houses of 1960. A 1962 Homes for Better Living merit award winner, screened on all four sides: redwood-slat grilles over the big glass walls facing the street and golf course, and high brick walls around patios on the other two. Children's rooms are below, the parents' suite and formal living above. Photos by Alexandre Georges. Also featured in House & Home, March 1963. Chatham County records show the property passing from Albert Frederick Weis II to Patricia G. Weis in 2004. Restored over four years and offered for sale in 2023, the first time since it was built; since sold. Standing.
1959 - The Frederick Rogers House, 2905 Memory Lane, Kalamazoo MI. Designed by Norman F. Carver, Jr. Built by Harry Jepkema. Landscape architect and photos by Norman F. Carver, Jr. Group of 3 professor houses (also Bowers, Starring). Was an Architectural Record House 1961. Rogers, an English professor, was still listed at this address in 1965. Sold in 2023. Standing as of 2023.
1959 - The Arthur Beckwith House, 31765 Franklin Fairway Street, Farmington Hills MI. Designed by Meathe, Kessler & Associates. Built by Norman McCall & Sons. Structural engineer R. H. McClurg & Associates. Landscape architect Eichstedt & Johnson. Photo by Baltazar Korab. Was an Architectural Record House 1961, featured on the cover. Listed in the AIA Detroit architecture guides of 1971 and 1980. Designated a Farmington Hills historic site in 2002. Sold in 1985. Later owned by Bruce Etkin. Sold in 2019 to Melissa Powers Bavido, who restored it, and again in 2022. Standing as of 2022.
1959 - The Robert Uricho, Jr. House, Miami FL. Designed by Joseph N. Smith. Built by Sparks Construction Company. Photo by Alexandre Georges. Was an Architectural Record House 1959. Record Houses places the site on the Little River in Miami, with service rooms on the street side, the main rooms and a large screened pool enclosure facing the river, and the house raised on timber piles over filled ground. Status unknown.
1959 - The Robert L. Goetz House, Lafayette CA. Designed by Robert L. Goetz of Goetz and Hansen. Built by Kenneth L. McKay. Landscape architect Geraldine Knight Scott. Photos by Karl H. Riek. Was an Architectural Record House 1959. Status unknown. The architect's own house.
1959 - The Ralph Sherman House, aka Ming Joy, 3700 W Catalina Rd, Boise ID. Designed by Grider & La Marche. Built by Ralph Sherman for the 1958 Boise Parade of Homes. Photos by Dearborn-Massar. Was an Architectural Record House 1959. Built in 1958 in the Country Club Manor subdivision in Hillcrest. Demolished; a new house was built on the lot in 2018.
1959 - The Christopher C. Larimore House, aka Long House on the Water, Miami FL. Designed by Russell Pancoast, Pancoast, Ferendino, Skeels & Burnham. Built by Ben Meyers. 'The new Florida house means a new way of life': this 120'-long glass-and-screen rectangle appears to bridge the water it sits beside, its boundaries shifting from opaque wall to transparent screen so the house has no real stopping point between indoors and out. A 12'-wide screened walk—the 'engawa'—runs its full length under a continuous overhang. Built for Miami attorney Christopher Coombs Larimore. Photo by Rada. Featured in House & Home, March 1960. Honorable Mention, large-house class, 1960 Homes for Better Living custom awards—the screened 'engawa' house H&H featured in its March Florida issue. 'A house beautifully suited to the demands and moods of the Florida climate... it sits well on the site and lets the lake be an integral part of its design.' Featured in House & Home, June 1960. Won a 1961 Merit Award from the Florida Association of Architects.
1959 - Techbuilt Middleridge House, Lexington MA. Designed by Carl Koch & Associates. Built by Techbuilt. Merit Award, $15,000-$25,000 class, 1960 Homes for Better Living awards. The single-story house on Techbuilt's standard 24'-wide component system has a cathedral-ceilinged living-dining area kept open by a 7'-high free-standing storage wall, with dropped ceilings over the center bedrooms for attic storage. Photo by Louis Reens. Featured in House & Home, May 1960.
1959 - Federal Development Corp House, Tucson AZ. Designed by Scholer & Fuller. Built by Federal Development Corp. Merit Award, under-$15,000 class, 1960 Homes for Better Living awards. The house presents just three elements to the street—a generous sheltering roof, a blank masonry wall for privacy, and an easy-to-find entrance—while inside, living, dining, and kitchen share one big room opened by a deck and glass wall. Existing trees and cacti were preserved on every lot. Photo by Frank L. Gaynor. Featured in House & Home, May 1960.
1959 - Squaw Valley Vacation House, Squaw Valley CA. Designed by Anshen & Allen. Built by L. R. Van Wetter. Merit Award, medium-house class, 1960 Homes for Better Living custom awards: 'subtle and original without effort or trickery.' The steep roof with turned-down gable ends sheds mountain snow loads and leaves room for a sleeping loft for six children; heavy cribbing lifts the house off the downhill slope. Photos by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, June 1960.
1959 - Brookline House, Brookline MA. Designed by George W. W. Brewster. Built by George Cheney Inc. Merit Award, large-house class, 1960 Homes for Better Living custom awards. Treated in the New England tradition as a succession of separate buildings with steep roofs, big chimneys, and clapboard siding, it delighted a jury 'very happy to find a house which has used the sources of the American tradition with such skill, good taste, and self-assurance.' Featured in House & Home, June 1960.
1959 - Mill Valley Bachelor's House, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Lee Stuart Darrow. Built by Ralph Briggs. Merit Award, small-house class, 1960 Homes for Better Living custom awards: a compact simple-rectangle plan fitted to its site, its view, and 'the very special needs of a bachelor client.' The two-story-high living room and a large deck behind a 16'-high sliding glass wall make the small house seem much bigger among the oaks. Photo by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, June 1960.
1959 - Stinson Beach House, Stinson Beach CA. Designed by Sherwood Stockwell. Built by Thomas Tawns. Merit Award, small-house class, 1960 Homes for Better Living custom awards. An unbroken wall plane of natural cedar—with only a strip opening under the roof line—screens all activities from the neighbors among the dunes, while the living area opens completely to the court behind under a prow-shaped shading overhang. Featured in House & Home, June 1960.
1959 - Santa Rosa Balcony House, Santa Rosa CA. Designed by Malone & Hooper. Built by Skaggs & Kirchman. Merit Award, medium-house class, 1960 Homes for Better Living custom awards. Wide balconies run the downhill side of the hillside house, providing outdoor living for the upper floor while acting as sunshades for the ample windows of the level below. Photo by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, June 1960.
1959 - Orinda Hilltop House, Orinda CA. Designed by Walter Thomas Brooks. Built by Robert A. Hansen. Merit Award, medium-house class, 1960 Homes for Better Living custom awards. The broad hip roof, rising to a central lantern, fits the house into its surrounding oak-covered hills; the upper floor rides over a recessed lower level ringed with glass. Photos by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, June 1960.
1959 - Carmel Hillside House, Carmel CA. Designed by Evelyn Kosmak. Built by Helm-Savoldi. Honorable Mention, small-house class, 1960 Homes for Better Living custom awards: 'an extraordinarily economical house for a difficult site'—1,124 sq ft. The house runs at right angles to the slope, its one-story part bridging to the two-story part, with 5'-deep overhangs and balconies serving as both outdoor living space and sun shades. Photos by Gerald Ratto. Featured in House & Home, June 1960.
1959 - San Diego Garden House, San Diego CA. Designed by Henry H. Hester. Landscape architect: Harriet Wimer. Honorable Mention, medium-house class, 1960 Homes for Better Living custom awards. House and fenced-in plot were designed as a unit on a typical flat site, so every room has its own pleasant, private outdoor living: a pool and large garden fit between the wings only a step from every room, and the owner's bedroom opens to its own walled garden. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, June 1960.
1959 - House on a Lake, Cleveland OH. Designed by Bruce Huston. Built east of Cleveland on a five-acre lot once thought unbuildable—zoning left no place for a house except a deep marshy ravine. Huston's solution was an 18' dam that filled the ravine into a spring-fed lake, then the 1,890 sq ft house was built as a bridge straddling a narrow part of the water on piers supporting five 30' I-beams. Featured in House & Home, August 1960.
1959 - Aluminum Sandwich-Panel House, Pittsburgh PA. Designed by Paul Freeman. Built by Tom Douglas. The first builder-built aluminum sandwich-panel house—not an experimental house but built in the regular course of business by 10-house-a-year Pittsburgh builder Tom Douglas, with architectural engineer Paul Freeman as designer-owner. Alcoa Alply curtain-wall panels set between posts with wood stops enclose 1,700 sq ft, four bedrooms, and 2 1/2 baths over a carport and block lower level. Photo by JayBee. Featured in House & Home, September 1960.
1959 - Hillside House, Pittsburgh PA. Designed by Lucian Caste. Built by Caste Bros Inc. An all-gas show house in an exclusive Pittsburgh suburb that built prestige for the builder and all three gas companies serving the area. A 4'-wide deck surrounds the living-dining-kitchen wing, supported by pillars over the carport, while the bedroom wing is built into the hill; the two-zone plan gives four bedrooms and two baths separate stairs and corridor. Photo by Robert E. Dick. Featured in House & Home, October 1960.
1959 - Henry Hill Uphill House. Designed by Henry Hill. Built by Hugo Miller Construction Co. Designed-in decoration gives this four-level house on a steep uphill site its smart appearance: redwood siding in big smooth planes, five inset panels of fine porcelain the owner brought from China, a studied pattern of slim mullions in the glass, and a dramatic open glass shaft rising through both levels from an entry garden. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - Sarasota Split-Entry Two-Story, Sarasota FL. Designed by W. Dewey Kennell. Built by W. Dewey Kennell. A two-story with a split entry, built for sale in a state where merchant-built two-stories are seldom seen—though designer-builder Kennell argues the type makes great sense in a hot climate. The 1,527 sq ft house has its front elevation patterned to echo the line and texture of palm trees. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - San Antonio Two-Story Family Room House, San Antonio TX. Designed by George E. MacKenney. Built by Tom McGovern Assoc. The biggest attraction in this big two-level house is a two-story-high family room, open for half its length to a cathedral ceiling and overlooked by an entry balcony. The 3,400 sq ft house still has room for five bedrooms, three baths, an electric dumbwaiter, and a mud-room bath off the terrace. Photo by John Rogers. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - Bellevue Glass-Panel House, Bellevue WA. Designed by Mithun, Ridenour & Cochran. Built by Garden Construction Co. Glass is used as a panel to give this custom two-story hillside house its basic design: 32'-wide panels of clear glass, asbestos-cement board, or overlaid plywood create a rhythmic structural system, with glass running to the floor wherever a deck or terrace lies outside. The 2,500 sq ft house has a lower level that is a complete second living unit. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - Hollinridge Panel House in Potomac, Potomac MD. Designed by Charles M. Goodman. Built by Hollinridge Co. Good design from the interplay of structure, solids, and glass: white structural frame against dark preassembled panels whose exposed joining edges create the panelized look. The panels both enclose the house and form roof supports, and the rectangular plan zones both floors into living and sleeping areas with no wasted halls. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - Honolulu Lanai House, Honolulu HI. Designed by Frank Slavsky & L. Harold Whitaker. Built by M. Yoshimoto. The lanai and the panelized look just naturally go together—both practically natives of Hawaii, where this 2,236 sq ft house was built by Design Assoc Ltd. The corner-lot plan faces windowless walls to the streets and groups living space around four screened gardens; obscure glass panels shield the lanai and living room, and plastic shoji screens close it in bad weather. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - Great Neck Modular House, Great Neck NY. Designed by Herman H. Siegel. Small patterns and big panels complement each other handsomely—and permit important economies. Working on a 12' module at the ends and an 11' module front and back, Siegel massed openings and solids for visual effect and fit all doors and windows between posts without extra framing. The two-story house of 4,500 sq ft, its long low profile gained by grading up to the top floor, sits on an acre-plus lot. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - Beverly Hills Post-and-Beam House, Beverly Hills CA. Designed by Richard Dorman & Assoc. Built by George Schenecker. First and last, today's panelized look is a hallmark of elegance. Post-and-beam frames set 7' apart are exposed inside and out, the spaces between treated like curtain walls of stucco, redwood siding, and floor-to-ceiling glass; ceilings are exposed fir decking and floors terrazzo. The 2,379 sq ft house has its plan wrapped around an inner patio, with a pool. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - Ladies' Home Journal Low-Upkeep House, Nyack NY. Designed by Williams & Van Wyke. Built by George Wells. Published by the Journal to show its 13-million readers the kind of materials that reduce maintenance costs—more important than first costs. The rear terrace is screened from the street by the garage and a fence, and partly sheltered by a garden pavilion. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - The Joel Coley House, aka Living Asbestos-Cement House, 3501 North Newport Avenue, Oklahoma City OK. Designed by R. Duane Conner. Built by Joel Coley. One of seven demonstration houses promoted by Living for Young Homemakers, selected to show imaginative use of asbestos cement. Corrugated sheets on 1'-arc cellular concrete vaults form the undulating roof, pipe sections make the screen walls, and similar curved forms shape a bedroom ceiling vault and patio fence. Featured in House & Home, November 1960. Coley later bought the house back.
1959 - Tacoma Full-Lot Privacy House, Tacoma WA. Designed by Robert B. Price. Built by Standring Construction Co. Every inch of the lot works for outdoor living with maximum privacy: Price set the house crossways on the lot, built to the setback limits, fenced a patio in front of the dining room, and closed the front to the street while opening the rear wide to terrace and pergola under corrugated plastic panels. Photo by Dearborn. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - Tucson Porch House, Tucson AZ. Designed by Edward H. Nelson. Built by David Markham. A new way to handle the traditional front and back porch: set them under the main roof, keeping the design simple and clean while providing shaded outdoor living for the hot climate. Windows are fixed glass with louvered ventilating openings below. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - Clearwater Screened-Patio House, Clearwater FL. Designed by Wakeling, Levison & Williams. Built by John C. Horvath. You get the most use out of a patio when you screen it in like this: extra-heavy fiberglass screening carried over the extended roof beams covers the patio, cuts sun glare, eliminates individual window screens, and yields important construction economies. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - S&S Front-Terrace Model, Long Beach CA. Designed by Richard Leitch. Built by S&S Construction Co. Even a front yard gives you space enough for outdoor living with an L-shaped plan like this: the projecting living-room wing creates a court between drive and house, half of it fenced as a private front terrace. Inside, family and formal areas sit at either end of a kitchen that serves both. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - Abington H-Plan House, Abington PA. Designed by Davis, Brody & Wisniewski. Built by Adams Construction Co. An H-shaped house that centers a work core between living areas, dividing the plan into three rectangular zones each reached directly from the entry. The core's 6" bearing wall centralizes plumbing and wiring and supports paired 2x12s that frame the big gable roof; the 8'-wide kitchen borrows spaciousness from the high-ceilinged living-dining room. Photo by Marc Neuhof. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - The Robert F. Gordon House, aka Sierra Madre Three-Level House, 170 Coburn Avenue, Sierra Madre CA. Designed by Robert F. Gordon. 'I capitalized on a steep lot that would seem undesirable to many people,' says Gordon, who designed this house on three levels to hug the downhill slope. The steep site is terraced on both sides and at the rear for outdoor living on wooden decks and paved patios. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - The Daniel Schwartzman House, aka Sea Cliff Cliffside House, 110 Prospect Avenue, Sea Cliff NY. Designed by Daniel Schwartzman. Built by Price W. Sebring Inc. This house thrusts out into space from a steep cliff, three stories high with the living area on top to make the most of a view of Long Island Sound 200' below. Lower-level glass walls protected by a bold overhang open the 3,000-plus sq ft house to the water. Featured in House & Home, November 1960. The architect's own house. Sold in 2000.
1959 - The Burnett C. Turner House, aka Shared-Driveway Hillside House, 3730 Amesbury Road, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Burnett C. Turner. Built by Robert B. Coleman. A shared driveway—made possible by an easement across the neighbor's lot—opened up a high lot bypassed for years as inaccessible and too steep to build on, turning an unwanted parcel into a valuable site with decks on three sides. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, November 1960. The architect's own house. Owned by Lee Anne Meyers. The house has been in the Meyers family since at least 2003, and she took sole title from co-owner Dennis Potokar in 2011. Owned by the Meyers family since at least 2003. Standing as of 2026.
1959 - Tiburon Uphill-Terrace House, Tiburon CA. Designed by Marquis & Stoller. Built by P. A. Bates. On this uphill lot the architects created a very usable rear living terrace by cutting, terracing, and paving the steep slope—one of five hillside ideas that include decks at both ends of the front-to-back living room and an elevated main floor with privacy and a San Francisco Bay view. 1,375 sq ft plus recreation room; Photo by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - New Orleans Town House, New Orleans LA. Designed by Lawrence & Saunders. Built by Richard Goodyear. A 2,900 sq ft town house plus a big patio, all on a 42' lot: the architects put the house on one side of the narrow lot to create spacious living areas indoors and out, with a brick-walled, brick-paved patio, a landscaped two-car entry court, and a ground-floor glass wall. Photos by Frank Lotz Miller. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - Belvedere Steel-Column House, Belvedere CA. Designed by Felix M. Warburg. Built by H. S. Meinberger & Son. Steel columns turn the liability of a steep lot into an asset: the lot was so steep that for years no one would risk building on it, but steel columns and beams float the 2,707 sq ft split-level high above the slope overlooking San Francisco Bay, with two open porches for two-level outdoor living. Photo by Ken Molino. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - IBEC Precast Concrete House, San Juan PR. Built by IBEC Housing Corp. A staff-designed precast concrete house built to withstand the rigors of a hot wet climate—hurricanes, rot, termites, and humidity. Wall and roof slabs are cast on flat beds at the San Juan tract, trucked to the site, and crane-hoisted into place; solid wall slabs alternate with floor-to-ceiling glass doors and jalousies. 974 sq ft. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - Plywood-Vault House in Sherman Oaks, Sherman Oaks CA. Designed by Richard Dorman & Assoc. Built by Modern Trend Construction Co. Light plywood-vault construction saves time, space, and materials: the eight vaults, fabricated offsite and joined by 4x8 edge beams, need only be set in place to close in the house. Living areas are walled in glass under the arched ceilings. Photo by Marvin Rand. Featured in House & Home, November 1960.
1959 - The George Rockrise Lodge, Squaw Valley CA. Designed by George Rockrise. Built by Squaw Valley Construction Co. A mountain lodge for all seasons—winter gathering place for skiers, summer retreat away from the hot season—which Rockrise designed for himself and which won a Special Award in the 1959-1960 Sunset Western Home Awards. A 32' square on a 4' module, dramatized by a peaked roof at each corner; the multi-gabled roof of laminated 2x4 decking is steeply pitched to shed snow, and a deep balcony projects over two-thirds of the living room, with a deck overhanging the bank of Squaw Creek. Featured in House & Home, December 1960. Published in Architectural Record, September 1960. Featured in Sports Illustrated, January 1963.
1959 - North Palm Beach Breezeway House, North Palm Beach FL. Designed by Kemp Caler. House Beautiful promoted this hot-weather Florida house that is all breezeway: both L-shaped wings are only one room wide so every room is cooled by breezes from two directions, verandas serve as halls, and the living wing opens to veranda and circular terrace through glass doors that disappear into wall pockets. 1,085 sq ft inside plus 445 sq ft of verandas. Photo by Gottscho-Schleisner. Featured in House & Home, December 1960.
1959 - Woman's Day Vacation Cabin, NH. Designed by E. H. & M. K. Hunter. Woman's Day called this 'jaunty' New Hampshire cabin 'stuff of which dreams are made,' co-sponsored by the Douglas Fir Plywood Assn and designed on a 4' module. The downhill side looks out to the view through a glass wall or from a partly roofed deck as the house juts from the slope on a post foundation. Featured in House & Home, December 1960.
1959 - Lakeside Expandable Cabin. Client: Douglas Fir Plywood Assn. Designed by Henrik Bull. A minimum-cost cabin designed for easy expansion: little more than two flat-roofed plywood boxes flanking an open deck with a convertible canvas roof against sun or rain. The two-unit, 640 sq ft cabin was built in the Pacific Northwest; the center bay can be enclosed or identical units added as the family grows. Featured in House & Home, December 1960.
1959 - Techbuilt Vacation House. Designed by Techbuilt. Despite its finished look, this house is quick and easy to build: prefabricated in a shop, closed in on site in less than a day, and finished with a minimum of local labor—solving the scarcity of skilled labor in remote vacation areas. Based on the standard Techbuilt vacation-house package with modifications including a full basement, brick fireplace, and an added 4' module, it was planned for both vacation and retirement use. Featured in House & Home, December 1960.
1959 - Gloucester Beach House, Gloucester MA. Designed by Hamilton & Goody. Built by William M. Read. High style from simple materials skillfully used: unfinished stucco panels separated by creosoted posts and trim give this 1,620 sq ft summer house the panelized look, with floor-to-ceiling window panels and a pier foundation that protects it from dampness and storm tides while repeating the vertical pattern. Featured in House & Home, December 1960.
1959 - Sturdi-Bilt A-Frame House. Built by Sturdi-Bilt Homes. The unusual A-frame form of this pre-cut package house keeps building costs down: the basic shell rests on inexpensive grade-beam foundations, and is framed so simply it can be erected in 1 1/2 man-days—yet is strong enough to withstand 100-mph winds and mountain snowdrifts. Portland's Sturdi-Bilt packages models of 528 to 1,056 sq ft; an 18'-tall glass end wall opens the living area to a cantilevered deck. Photo by Acme. Featured in House & Home, December 1960.
1959 - Boonville Hillside House, Boonville CA. Client: Georgia-Pacific Corp. Designed by John Matthias. Built by Walter Tuttle. The structure of this 1,800 sq ft vacation house allows complete flexibility in plan and design: it rests on posts supporting cantilevered floor and roof systems, so none of the walls or partitions are load bearing and the house can be made bigger simply by adding bays. Sliding glass opens the living area to the view, with plywood storm panels that slide over the glass. Photos by Bob Dolman. Featured in House & Home, December 1960.
1960 - The Kamensky House, 2300 North Edgemont Street, 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 family) under the name Downtown 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 and Architecture July 1961.
1960 - The R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home, 407 South Forest Avenue, Carbondale IL. A prefabricated geodesic dome of triangular plywood panels delivered by truck and assembled on a concrete foundation in a single day, April 19, 1960. Donated in 2002 to the nonprofit R. Buckminster Fuller Dome NFP, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 (ref. 06000012), with exterior restoration completed in 2015 and a museum/visitor center in progress. Built as Fuller's residence while he taught at Southern Illinois University. About 1,100 sf on the ground floor with a roughly 400 sf interior platform; one bedroom, two baths. The only geodesic dome Fuller ever lived in or owned, which he did through 1971. Added to the National Register in 2006 and later restored.
1960 - The John Desmond House, 905 Greenlawn Drive, Hammond LA. Designed by John Desmond. Built by Ragusa Brothers. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Published as "A Village of Pavilions". Was an Architectural Record House 1960. Standing as of 2018; the interiors have been renovated, and the house was featured on the Hammond Historic District's Mid-Century Modern walking tour. Homes for Better Living Merit Award, custom medium class. An unusual exploded plan groups separate glass-walled pavilions linked by low-roofed galleries, with roofs floated on 4-inch WF rigid steel frames so the all-glass walls carry no structure. The jury said the house is at one with the outdoors. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - The Joe A. Chandler House, 5230 NW Sammamish Road, Issaquah WA. Designed by Mithun, Ridenour and Cochran. Built by Raymond Construction Company. Structural engineer Jerry Terrence. Photo by Art Hupy. Published as "A Design for Flood Tides". Was an Architectural Record House 1960. Sold in 2001. Rebuilt on the original foundation in 2004.
1960 - The Jules Gregory House, 315 Goat Hill Road, Lambertville NJ. Designed by Jules Gregory. Built by Karl Roos. Photo by Marc Neuhof. Was an Architectural Record House 1961. A double-conoid roof floats on slender posts above the carport roof and partitions, and continuous changes in ceiling height are matched by changes in floor level, including a sunken conversation area in the living room. Also featured in House & Home, November 1961. Sold in 2015. Known as the Wave House; the house and Gregory's former studio, now a second residence, on 10 acres were listed for sale in 2026. Standing as of 2026.
1960 - The Victor Kirschman House, 12 Swan Street, Lake Vista, New Orleans LA. Designed by Charles Colbert. Built by Richard F. Goodyear Inc. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Was an Architectural Record House 1965. Standing as of 2024. Built by Richard Goodyear Inc. Homes for Better Living Honor Award, custom medium class. Four hipped-roof pavilions—zoned for parents, children, quiet living, and recreation—float above a solid front wall and exist entirely in their own man-made landscape of pool, garden, and play courts. The jury called it highly original yet respectful of New Orleans tradition. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - The Alvin K. Halpern House, New Orleans LA. Designed by Nathaniel C. Curtis Jr. and Arthur Q. Davis. Built by Millman Construction Company. Sculpture by George Rickey. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Was an Architectural Record House 1960. Built on a 78 by 110 ft lot in a new lakefront subdivision, one row of lots back from the park along Lake Pontchartrain. Curtis and Davis records are at the Southeastern Architectural Archive, Tulane University. Millman Construction Company was the firm of the family of Halpern's wife, Theone Millman Halpern. Alvin K. Halpern died January 17, 2016 and Theone Millman Halpern died October 29, 2016, preceding the 2017 sale. Sold in 2017. Status unknown.
1960 - The Alyn B. Brennen and Lois J. Reid House, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Lee Stuart Darrow. Built by Ralph Briggs. Structural engineer Constantine Chekene. Photos by Ernest Braun. 1959 AIA-Sunset honor award, Published in Wolf Von Eckardt, Mid-Century Architecture in America. Was an Architectural Record House 1960. Published at the time under the pseudonym "the Alyn Reid House"; the owner's son Reid Brennen confirmed in 2012 that his father used a false name in print to discourage uninvited visitors. Cover of Sunset, October 1959, after taking first prize in that magazine's competition, and a photo in Life, May 12, 1961. PCAD dates construction to 1958-1959, with additions about 1960. Sold in 2014. Status unknown.
1960 - The Thomas W. Smith House, Sunnyvale CA. Designed by Anshen and Allen. Built by Eichler Homes. Photo by Ernest Braun. Was an Architectural Record House 1960. Status unknown.
1960 - The William T. Riley House, Atherton CA. Designed by George T. Rockrise, Mountjoy & Meyers. Built by Delano Large. Structural engineer William B. Gilbert & Associates. Landscape architect Royston, Hannamoto & Mayes. Interior designer Mary Norris. Photo by Ernest Braun. A 4,994 sq ft house on a flat one-acre corner lot, planned around an atrium for a family of eleven. Project records are in the George T. Rockrise Collection (2001-6) at the Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley, where the job is dated 1956-1957 and filed as Riley, William T., Atherton: manuscripts Box 4 Folder 37, drawings Box 4 Folder 37 and Flat File 36, photographs Box 2 Folder 7 and Box 4 Folder 37. William T. Riley, president of Riley Precision Tool Co., died at his Atherton home in 1994. Was an Architectural Record House 1960. Status unknown.
1960 - The Jean Holton House, Aspen CO. Designed by Langdon Morris. Built by Richard Wright. A little blue house at the foot of Red Mountain, raised above a level entry on a long, narrow site with a cottonwood grove and pond, to look out over the town and the ski slopes. Photo by Ferenc Berko. Was an Architectural Record House 1960.
1960 - The Roy K. Hubbard House, 6 Mesa del Sol, Corral De Tierra CA. Designed by Charles W. Moore and Richard C. Peters. A development house built on speculation by contractor Roy K. Hubbard, who lived here from about 1963 to 1968. Interior designer Clair Young. Photo by Morley Baer. The pilot house for a subdivision of one-acre lots beside the Corral de Tierra Country Club, in the Santa Lucia foothills between Monterey and Salinas: a square hip-roofed pavilion with a tall, top-lit center room and a separate garage wing. Published in Architectural Record Houses of 1962. Enlarged later, with a guest house added. Sold in 2013 and 2020.
1960 - Gull Lake, Kalamazoo MI. Designed, landscape, and photos by Norman F. Carver, Jr. Built by John Meninga. Was an Architectural Record House 1960.
1960 - The Donald Probasco House, 2525 Sheffield Drive, Kalamazoo MI. Designed by Norman F. Carver Jr. Built by David Spaulding. Photo by Norman F. Carver Jr. Was an Architectural Record House 1962. Owned by Shannon and Randall Salk. Standing as of 2026.
1960 - The Frank Schlesinger House, 360 W Court Street, Doylestown PA. Designed by Frank Schlesinger. Built by Doylestown Building Company. Landscape architect Jeanne Schlesinger. Photo by Marc Neuhof. Was an Architectural Record House 1961. Owned by Julie Fowler as of 2025.
1960 - Arizona House, Tucson AZ. Built by John F. Riley. One of several models in Arizona Builder John F. Riley's small retirement community in Tucson, where he sold about 20 houses a year. All models featured two bedrooms, large closets, indoor-outdoor living, and evaporative cooling systems. Featured in House & Home, February 1961.
1960 - Brewster South Lyndeborough House, South Lyndeborough NH. Designed by George W.W. Brewster. Built by Kokko Builders. Homes for Better Living Merit Award, custom large class. A contemporary house with the nostalgic appeal of a 200-year-old farmhouse: an extended plan in the New England house-and-barns tradition forms a protective L facing view and sun, essentially one room deep with steel-framed glass doors opening every room to the breeze. Photo by Maris-Ezra Stoller Assoc. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - The Joseph Buttinger House, aka Augenfeld Library Town House, 10 East 87th Street, New York NY. Designed by Felix Augenfeld with Jan H. Pokorny. Built by E.W. Howell Co. Homes for Better Living Merit Award, custom large class. A five-level row house in the heart of Manhattan designed around an extensive library, turned inward on interior garden courts with two-story glass walls. The library occupies most of the first two stories and the top floor holds the librarian's quarters. Photos by Alexandre Georges. Featured in House & Home, June 1961. Sold in 2002 to Canowie Partners, LLC. Muriel Buttinger conveyed the house to the Phelps-Stokes Fund in 1972; sold in 1998 to Edward Herbst, in 2000 to Generosa Ammon and in 2002 to Canowie Partners, LLC. Standing as of 2025.
1960 - Zahm Los Gatos House, Los Gatos CA. Designed by R.R. Zahm. Built by Paul A. Jarvis. Homes for Better Living Merit Award, custom medium class. A dignified rectangular pavilion whose huge roof and 8-foot overhangs screen the glass walls from the street, shading the surrounding terrace. Nearly half the exterior wall is glass that opens to the breeze, and fences extend the house lines to enclose private patios. Photo by Fred English. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - Brewster Nantucket House, Nantucket Island MA. Designed by George W.W. Brewster. Built by Elmore Taylor. Homes for Better Living Mention, custom large class. A large house broken into separate buildings in the shape and scale of the traditional house-plus-additions-plus-barn, with a rambling plan zoning sleeping, living, and service areas. The jury said a modern sea captain would like this house. Photo by Maris-Ezra Stoller Assoc. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - Mayhew Piedmont House, Piedmont CA. Designed by Clarence W. Mayhew. Built by Forbes Construction Co. Homes for Better Living Mention, custom large class. Built on a small, steep, triangular city lot, with a flat roof sweeping out to shade modular all-glass walls of an oriental character. A wide cantilevered balcony overlooking San Francisco Bay adds outdoor living space and shields the glass walls for privacy. Photo by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - Wilson Morris Lakefront House, Lake Charles LA. Designed by Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson. Built by Earl L. Ginbey. Homes for Better Living Mention, custom large class. Designed for a semi-retired couple who like to entertain large groups, on a big plot with direct lake frontage in semi-tropical Louisiana. The panelized facade alternates floor-to-ceiling glass with louver-ventilated solid sections under wide heat-blocking overhangs. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - Tucker Sadler Court House, San Diego CA. Designed by Tucker, Sadler & Bennett. Built by R.E. Hazard Jr Inc. Homes for Better Living Mention, custom small class. The plan weds this flat-roofed house to its site with a large central patio shared by living room and master bedroom, garden courts jutting into the plan, and walls of sliding glass giving the house what the jury called delightful surprises at every turn. Photos by George Lyons. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - Wadsworth Pole House, Woodside CA. Designed by Edwin Wadsworth. Built by Refvem Construction Co. Homes for Better Living Mention, custom medium class. To avoid excavating the steep lot, the all-wood house was raised on poles suggesting the surrounding trees, entered by a bridge to a central stairwell leading up to the raised living area. Rough timber structure and finished wood are left in natural finish to blend into the site. Photo by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - Mackinlay Hillside House, Lafayette CA. Designed by Ian Mackinlay. Built by Simonds & Stringer Inc. Landscape architect: Jon Read. Homes for Better Living Honor Award, merchant-built over $25,000 class—the finest entry in the merchant-built category. Four wings pivot around the central entry under a big sheltering roof, with the family-room wing and its detailed deck built out from the hillside so neither natural contours nor big trees are disturbed. Photo by Steven Lustig. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - Marquis & Stoller Tiburon House, Tiburon CA. Designed by Marquis & Stoller. Built by P.A. Bates. Homes for Better Living Merit Award, merchant-built $15,000 to $25,000 class. House and site are integrated on a troublesome uphill lot, with the lower carport and retaining walls a happy blending of structure and hillside. The front-to-back living room has a deck-plus-terrace to the rear and a front deck looking over the downhill view. Photo by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - Stromberg Patio-Fence House, aka The Calypso, 10801 Deepwood Drive SW, Lakewood WA. Designed by Robert Billsbrough Price. Built by Stromberg Construction Co. Homes for Better Living Mention, merchant-built over $25,000 class. A handsome patio fence and sweeping facia over entry and carport extend to the setback limits, showing how a house can be designed for privacy on a small lot and gain apparent size in the bargain—nearly every major room opens to the fenced-in rear yard. Photo by Dearborn-Massar. Featured in House & Home, June 1961. The model house for the Glenwood subdivision.
1960 - Mark III Miami House, Miami FL. Designed by Milton C. Harry. Built by Mark III, Inc. Homes for Better Living Mention, merchant-built over $25,000 class. A sprawling plan with many jogs and indents orients most rooms to screened gardens, patios, or pools. Standard materials—concrete block, cement shingles, prefab trusses, stock jalousie windows, and sliding glass doors—are used effectively with no custom details in a house for the luxury market. Photos by Bill Sanders. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - Roth Steel-Frame House, Portola Valley CA. Designed by Charles A. Peterson (Johnson-Hawley & Assoc). Built by Roth Construction Co. Landscape architect: Kimura & Furuichi. Homes for Better Living Mention, merchant-built over $25,000 class. The steel frame of rigid bents spanning 34 feet was erected in just four hours, permitting an all-glass facade behind heavy steel columns with no bearing walls. The symmetrical 1,700 sq ft plan joins living and bedroom-study areas by a broad full-depth gallery. Photos by Stone & Steccati. Featured in House & Home, June 1961.
1960 - The Thomas C. Lehrecke House, 72 Babcock Lane, Tappan NY. Designed by Oppenheimer, Brady and Lehrecke. Built by Voto and Low Construction. Photo by Ben Schnall. Thomas C. Lehrecke was a partner in the designing firm, so this is the architect's own house. Was an Architectural Record House 1963. Sold in 2022.
1960 - The John C. Worsley House, Squaw Valley CA. Designed by John C. Worsley. A three-level ski lodge Worsley designed for his own family at Squaw Valley, on an 80-foot hillside lot between neighboring houses, sited with its gable end toward the view so windows in the 48'-long front wall could run up to the roof of the two-story living room. Planned as a two-family lodge, with parents' bedrooms on the living level and children's dormitories on a balcony-corridor top floor. Listed by Worsley among his principal works in the 1962 American Architects Directory. Featured in House & Home, February 1965.
1961 - The Bernard Judge House, aka Triponent House, aka the Hollywood Hills Dome, 2949 Durand Drive, Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles CA. Built by architect Bernard Judge as his own home after a Buckminster Fuller lecture, using a geodesic frame derived from Jeffrey Lindsay's "Weatherbreak" dome. Roughly 50 feet in diameter, the transparent Mylar-clad dome enclosed a two-story utility core (kitchen, bath, services) and left the interior open. To satisfy building inspectors, Judge load-tested the frame with water bags borrowed from a Marine base. Built with students in a day. Dismantled in the late 1970s; Judge donated the geodesic frame to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, which reassembled and exhibited it in 2023. Featured in Life in June 1960 and shot by Julius Shulman. Judge lived in the dome only briefly. In the late 1970s, Judge disassembled the house and donated it to the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History reassembled and exhibited it in 2023. The site is now vacant land; the assessor deleted the original parcel in 1992.
1961 - The Robert Ernest House, 360 Beach Avenue, Atlantic Beach FL. Designed by Robert Ernest. Was an Architectural Record House 1962. Destroyed. Ernest died in 1962; architect John Wesley Dyal kept an office at the address through 1970. The present house on the lot dates from 1995.
1961 - The Arthur Alter House, Los Altos Hills CA. Designed by John L. Field with Walter H. Costa, associated architect. Built by Delano Large. Landscape architect Rosalind Wheeler. Photo by Morley Baer and Darrow M. Watt. Built for a retired couple and planned around a central atrium; Field listed it as completed in 1958. Project records are in the John Field Collection at the Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley, which dates the job to 1957 and gives the location simply as Los Altos; drawings Box 3, photographs Box 1, with further Alter drawings cross-referenced to the AIA Centennial Collection (2011-17). Was an Architectural Record House 1961.
1961 - The John R. Vereen House, Coconut Grove Miami FL. Designed by Robert B. Browne, with George F. Reed, associate. Built by James Robinson. Structural engineer Walter C. Harry. Photo by Joseph Molitor. A bayfront house on Biscayne Bay framed by Y-shaped precast concrete columns carrying 72-foot folded-plate roofs. Destroyed. Was an Architectural Record House 1961.
1961 - The Stanley Hoffberger House, aka House of Wood, aka the Hoffberger-Goldstein Residence, 6529 Bradley Blvd, Bethesda MD. Designed by Keyes, Lethbridge & Condon. Built by Robert W. Lowe. Landscape architect Toshiyuki J. Maeda. Photo by Robert C. Lautman. Sponsored by the Hoo-Hoo Club / NLMA as a lumber industry demonstration house. Was an Architectural Record House 1961, which gave the location as Washington DC; the Evening Star (January 1962) and the firm's own works list place the house on Bradley Boulevard in Bethesda, Montgomery County MD. A 2,200 sq ft craft house built to bring out the beauty of wood in traditional forms, with its Douglas fir and Southern pine post-and-beam structure left exposed inside and out. Redwood siding and porch decks, a western red cedar shake roof, and paneling in Honduras mahogany, white oak, birch, and Idaho white pine were sponsored by the Washington DC Lumberman's Assn and the National Lumber Manufacturers' Assn. Featured in House & Home, March 1961. Sold in 1993 and 1998. Standing, enlarged to about 2,580 sq ft.
1961 - The Kenneth W. Roehrig House, Honolulu HI. Designed by Merrill, Simms & Roehrig. Built by Bert Kanzaki. Structural engineer Kaichi Awaya. Electrical engineer Gene Drane. Landscape architect Thompson & Thompson. Photo by Williams Photography. Was an Architectural Record House 1961. The architect's own house, on a steep 60 x 130 ft hillside lot with a view over Oahu: the garage is dug into the slope and the living floor sits above it, so the street facade reads as three stories. Won a 1960 AIA Honolulu Honor Award, credited by the chapter to Merrill, Roehrig, Onodera & Kinder, the firm created when Merrill, Simms & Roehrig merged with Kenji Onodera and Wesley C. Kinder in 1960. Kenneth William Roehrig was born in Oakland CA on November 2, 1907 and died in Honolulu on September 11, 1969.
1961 - The Clyde G. Shaw House, Baton Rouge LA. Designed by Sam B. Short and G. Ross Murrell (Barry J. Callari, assoc.). Built by P. Schiro & Son. Structural engineer Alfred G. Rayner. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Was an Architectural Record House 1961. A small modular post-and-beam lakeside house near the State Capitol, wrapped in redwood slat screens set at the edge of the overhangs, on drilled concrete piers in marshy ground, with a deck gate to a boat landing; an enclosed deck was added soon after completion, and Murrell designed a further pool and bedroom addition.
1961 - The Benjamin E. Weeks House, 9819 46th Ave SW, West Seattle WA. Designed by Ibsen A. Nelsen, Russell B. Sabin, Gordon B. Varey. Built by Eberharter & Ga. Structural engineer Victor O. Gray, who did the work before Daniel J. Evans joined the firm in July 1961 to make it Gray & Evans. Photo by Chas. R. Pearson. Steel-framed cube; family of six. Won an AIA Seattle Honor Award in 1962 and the Lincoln Steel Foundation Award. Also published as "Privacy for Eight in an Open Atmosphere," Architecture/West, March 1963. Built in 1961, as dated by PCAD, Washington DAHP, HistoryLink and Docomomo WEWA. Was an Architectural Record House 1963. Owned by Benjamin and Roberta Weeks until 2007; sold again in 2011.
1961 - Bellevue Dramatic-Redesign Remodel, Bellevue WA. Designed by Wilkins & Ellison. Lead example of House & Home's remodeling issue: a drab 1920 conventional house transformed with bold strokes into a striking contemporary home. The redesign added a glass gable end, indoor-outdoor living that works with the site, and a completely new character both to look at and live in. Photo by Charles R. Pearson. Featured in House & Home, September 1961.
1961 - Sarasota Pavilion House, Sarasota FL. Designed by Edward J. Seibert. Built by William V. Blanton. First of five houses in the Architecture in Transition portfolio on new forms. A combined indoor-outdoor living area shaped like a quadrate cross anchors four free-standing pavilions for bedrooms, kitchen-dining, and carport, with a 28-ft-square pyramid-roofed living pavilion open to the breeze on all four sides; simple detailing held the cost down. Featured in House & Home, November 1961.
1961 - Tulsa Sloping-Shell House, Tulsa OK. Designed by Robert E. Buchner. Built by Walter H. Bever. A huge sloping roof shell sweeps down over the walls to the ground, creating a private world—even the outdoor living space, pool, and terrace are brought beneath the shelter. Translucent glass panels and a skylight over the central stairwell wash the interior with daylight; the house is built on the foundation of an older house destroyed by fire. Photo by Ben Newby. Featured in House & Home, November 1961.
1961 - Wernersville Bridge House, 557 Preston Road, Wernersville PA. Designed by Penrose K. Spohn. Built by Arlington Brossman. Engineers: Harlan Coornvelt (structural); A. Ernest D'Ambly (mechanical). Each side wall is a Vierendeel girder, so the house bridges terraces, stream, and retaining walls in a single span supported only at its ends. The decorative pattern of bolt heads reflects the stress pattern, and the alternating rhythm of wood and glass panels derives from the girder's vertical members; interiors by Elisabeth Fraser. Photos by Cortland V. D. Hubbard. Featured in House & Home, November 1961. Sold in 2018.
1961 - Project SARAH House 15, San Antonio TX. Designed by Ralph Bender. Built by Ray Ellison. A 720 sq ft house in San Antonio's Project SARAH (San Antonio Research for Advanced Housing), a builder demonstration that good new houses could sell at low prices. Any of eight floor plans can be made with movable hollow-core-door partitions screwed into redwood runners in the slab; fence, patio, and carport were extras. Five buyers the first month. Featured in House & Home, December 1961.
1961 - Modesto Wide-Roof House, Modesto CA. Designed by Germano Milono. Built by Richard Mather. Engineers: John Brown & Assocs. Spaciousness created by a high wide roof whose overhang covers almost 900 sq ft of outdoor living area. The prominent roof with its exposed rafters and beams is the dominant design element, holding together alternating wall areas of wood, glass, and brick around a fenced terrace and pool. Photos by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, February 1962.
1961 - Ogunquit Ocean House, Ogunquit ME. Designed by Fletcher Ashley. Built by Keith Moody. One reward of a bold approach to a spectacular but difficult ocean site: a strong, direct house set far enough forward that its porch and front deck project over the rocks. The living area is concentrated in one central open space, and the dark-stained redwood exterior matches the rugged simplicity of the site. Photo by Ezra Stoller Assoc. Featured in House & Home, February 1962.
1961 - Brookline California Ranch House, Brookline MA. Designed by Stanley Myers. Built by Tarabelli Brothers. California come to New England: a low-roofed, wide-overhang ranch design with vertical siding that makes only two concessions to its new location—less glass wall because of the cold, and a fireplace wall of native New England stone instead of brick or block. Photo by Edward Bishop. Featured in House & Home, February 1962.
1961 - New Seabury House in the Woods, New Seabury MA. Designed by Robert Woods Kennedy. Built by Emil Hanslin Associates Inc. Model 1 of the New Seabury talent-team houses: a two-wing vacation house of 840 sq ft where almost half the space under roof is outdoor space—a big front porch, breezeway, and a private court of nearly 500 sq ft. The dormitory wing is separated from the main house so noise need not disturb sleeping children. Interiors by Michael Greer. Photo by Lisanti. Featured in House & Home, April 1962.
1961 - New Seabury Party House, New Seabury MA. Designed by Bedar & Alpers. Built by Emil Hanslin Associates Inc. Model 2, the issue's cover house: a party house for fun at the beach, placed diagonally on its lot so two glass walls and a long L-shaped deck face the water while two almost solid walls face the road. A diamond-shaped roof rises highest where the glass walls join, giving the house its gay, jaunty air. Interiors by Emily Malino. Photo by Lisanti. Featured in House & Home, April 1962.
1961 - Warren Callister Houses, San Francisco CA. Designed by Warren Callister. Cover story and third in H&H's Profiles in Design series: not since Maybeck has any Bay Region architect taken such delight in the imaginative use of unpainted wood to enrich and emphasize structure. Callister's built houses are known by the strong sculptural form of their roofs, field-laminated curving members, multiple members and extended built-up beams sized to weather, and lofty dramatic interiors—features he carries into his speculative houses for the developers of Tiburon and its famous lagoon. Photos by Dandelet. Featured in House & Home, July 1962.
1961 - Crites & McConnell Cedar Rapids House, Cedar Rapids IA. Designed by Crites & McConnell. Built by Berger Construction Co. Homes for Better Living honor award (custom, under 1,600 sq ft): low-cost design on by-passed land—built on a lot so steep the merchant builder who owned it had passed it over. Set into the steepest, most wooded part of the 50'x150' site, the 1,584 sq ft house is shaded by large trees, opens both floors to grade, faces its glass walls north, and uses the carport roof as a deck. Photos by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, September 1962.
1961 - Henry Hester La Jolla House, La Jolla CA. Designed by Henry H. Hester. Built by Carl Mueller. Homes for Better Living honor award (custom, 1,600 to 2,800 sq ft): three levels on a 25'-wide, 150'-deep lot. The house is in two structures—a smaller front building for guest quarters and an office at home—separated by an entry court yet tied together by a slim roof slab with a decorative cut-out; raising the mid-level ceiling puts the upper living room about 20' above the street and capitalizes on an ocean view. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, September 1962.
1961 - Liddle & Jones Tacoma House, Tacoma WA. Designed by Liddle & Jones. Built by Rushforth Construction Co. Landscape architect: Robert Chittock. Homes for Better Living honor award (custom, over 2,800 sq ft): seclusion on a heavily traveled suburban street among large older homes of polyglot design. High redwood walls screen a big front deck, the main floor is raised a story above the low lot, and the living areas orient to an enclosed two-level rear garden; AIA jurors called the fences, planting, and entrance stairs 'both handsome and quiet.' Photo by Dearborn-Massar. Featured in House & Home, September 1962.
1961 - Amiram Harlap Oakland House, Oakland CA. Designed by Amiram Harlap. Built by Penso & Ford. HFBL honorable mention: an inverted two-story plan for a hillside lot. From the street the house looks like a low one-story design—actually two stories over a daylight basement, set back from the top of the slope so the upper floor is at street level. A bridge the width of the house serves as carport, entry walk, and deck, and glass walls open the main rooms to the view. Featured in House & Home, October 1962.
1961 - Jaudon & Hoover Marshall House, Marshall TX. Designed by Jaudon & Hoover. Built by Robert R. Bailey. HFBL honorable mention ($15,000 to $25,000 with land): an in-line plan designed to fit a deep, narrow lot. Though it has 1,500 sq ft of living area, the three-bedroom house is only 20' wide; placed parallel to its lot lines, it opens the side yard for outdoor living the entire depth of the lot, with all rooms in single file opening to the outdoor area behind a brick front wall broken only by a single vertical window. Featured in House & Home, October 1962.
1961 - Henrik Bull Squaw Valley Vacation House, Squaw Valley CA. Designed by Henrik Bull. Built by Klaussen, Brown & Baldwin Bros. HFBL merit award (over $25,000 with land): rugged materials and structure put this vacation house at ease in its rugged Sierra setting. The plan is divided into five 12' structural bays, with heavy posts and beams expressed inside and out, a 23'x50' flat-roofed rectangle sheathed in board siding laid diagonally, and its stone base blackened by decades of weathering rocks. Photo by Stone & Steccati. Featured in House & Home, October 1962.
1961 - Economy Certified Component House, Palm Springs CA. Designed by Kenneth A. Gordon & Robert F. Gordon. Built by Economy Certified Homes. HFBL honorable mention: a house that uses simple component design. Tailored to the low-price and second-house market and designed for mass production in Palm Springs and Portland, Ore., the 720 sq ft house seems larger than it is thanks to a pleasantly simple exterior handled in big sections of vertically scored plywood siding, with panel joints minimized but emphasized at the windows. Featured in House & Home, October 1962.
1961 - Bissell & Duquette Concrete Panel House, Sierra Madre CA. Designed by Bissell & Duquette. Built by Greg Snyder Co. HFBL merit award ($15,000 to $25,000): a demonstration house built of concrete panels as a prototype for a national promotion program. Walls are 16"x8"x8" block scored for an 8"x8" pattern, roof panels are 7 1/2" thick to match, and glass gable end walls open the block-and-panel structure to sheltered outdoor living. Featured in House & Home, October 1962.
1961 - Richard Banta Hillside Standard House, 1031 Oberlin Drive, Glendale CA. Designed by Richard Banta. Built by Richard Banta. HFBL merit award ($15,000 to $25,000 with land): a standardized design intended for repetitive use on the steep bypassed lots that abound in the Los Angeles area. It can be duplicated on slopes of any pitch without structural changes (only the length of the foundation stilts need change), its solid street-side facade guards privacy, and an H-shaped plan separates living area and bedroom wing around a sheltered sun deck open to the view. Photo by Richard Fish. Featured in House & Home, October 1962. In the Adams Hill neighborhood.
1961 - Ray Ellison Four-Zone Contemporary, San Antonio TX. Designed by Ralph Bender. Built by Ray Ellison. One of H&H's 15 best sellers of 1962: Builder Ray Ellison added this contemporary model at the upper end of his price line and the 36'x36' square house became his most popular model. A vaulted roof rises 15' over the living room, kitchen, and rear family room; four zones and utilities grouped across the center keep the basic 1,296 sq ft house economical. Photo by Zintgraff. Featured in House & Home, October 1962.
1961 - Versland-Rhodes Split Entry, Rockland County NY. Designed by Anders Versland. Built by Versland-Rhodes. Best seller: a split entry with an H-shaped plan. Versland-Rhodes sold out their 18-unit suburban Rockland County tract in two months and took orders for six more of this 2,458 sq ft air-conditioned model by Norwegian designer Anders Versland, which has a 20'-high redwood-paneled foyer, upper-level living areas and master bedroom opening to a covered deck, and a lower-level family room and guest room opening to a patio. Featured in House & Home, October 1962.
1961 - Donald Dise Split-Entry Model, Aurora IL. Designed by Donald Dise. Built by Donald Dise. Best seller: a split-entry that puts adult living upstairs. This exceptional design pulled the biggest crowds ever to Donald Dise's community in suburban Aurora and sold well—13 buyers bought the 2,240 sq ft house within ten weeks. The two-level plan gives parents full use of the upper level, including a private rear deck, with children's bedrooms, family room, and kitchen below, connected by a wrought-iron stairway. Featured in House & Home, October 1962.
1961 - Gilchrist Concrete Block House, Jackson NJ. Designed by John Robert Gilchrist. Built by Robilt Inc. Lighting consultant: Robert Thompson. Interior designers: Theodore Weiss Associates. First of three houses in H&H's study of the role of materials in good design: the clean symmetry of this house reflects the masonry block it is built of. Gilchrist used block in big solid panels that echo the shape and weight of the material, relieved by narrow vertical pieces that interrupt the stack bond; the symmetrical front elevation is anchored by a big glass entry, and the rear elevation is all glass with a recessed outdoor dining area at its center. Photos by Gerard Healy. Featured in House & Home, November 1962. Structural engineer Marcus Russell. Landscape architect Joseph Theibauldt. Photo by Joseph W. Molitor. Was an Architectural Record House 1963 as the Robilt House.
1961 - Project SAKAH Experimental House at San Antonio, San Antonio TX. Designed by Ralph C. Bender. Built by Ray Ellison Enterprises. One of 28 houses built in San Antonio under Project SAKAH, the builder-association demonstration that private industry can build for low-income buyers, and an HBL Honor Award winner. Only the exterior walls and kitchen-bath core are fixed; movable partitions framed from hollow-core doors let the 720 sq ft shell take many one-, two-, or three-bedroom plans. Featured in House & Home, July 1963.
1961 - The Leonard J. Currie House, aka Pagoda House, 1105 Highland Circle, Blacksburg VA. Designed by Leonard J. Currie. Built by Charles T. Pascoe. An architect's own square two-story hillside house, an HBL custom Honor Award winner with 3,200 sq ft handled so well the jurors said it appears quite small. Savings from the compact plan were reinvested in a tremendous sweep of cedar-shake roof, broad decks, waterfall rainspouts, and vision slits piercing the lower-level walls, with all-glass walls opening to the Virginia mountains. Featured in House & Home, July 1963. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
1961 - The Elliot Erwitt House, 161 Villard Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson NY. Designed by Roy Sigvard Johnson. Landscape architect Charles Middeleer. Photo by Elliot Erwitt-Magnum. Interiors by George Nelson & Company. Was an Architectural Record House 1961. Owned by Kristin Capuano as of 2025.
1962 - The Jackson House, 2637 Ribera Road, Carmel CA. Designed by Marcel Sedletzky, born in Volgograd in 1923, trained at the Technical University in Graz where he took part in a workshop with Le Corbusier, and in practice in Carmel from 1958 after leaving Victor Gruen Associates; he worked on only about eighteen houses before turning to teaching at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and died in Santa Fe in 1995. Photographs by Amit Farr and by Sedletzky himself. The Marcel Sedletzky Archive is held in Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. Status unknown. The address geocodes only as an interpolated street address, not a verified address point.
1962 - The Harold McDonald House, 416 Overbrook Road, Elyria OH. Designed by John Terence Kelly. Built by Eugene Resar. Structural engineer R. M. Genset & Associates. Photo by Ed Nano. Was an Architectural Record House 1962. Owned since 2016 by Douglas G. and Kimberly A. McDonald. Standing as of 2026.
1962 - The Steven P. Wertheimer House, 5911 77th Ave SE, Mercer Island WA. Designed by Bassetti & Morse. Built by S. P. Wertheimer. Landscape architect Eckbo, Royston & Williams. Photo by Dearborn-Massar. Was an Architectural Record House 1962. Destroyed. A new house was built on the site in 2003.
1962 - The Newton E. Griffith House, 7028 Wexford Road, Edina MN. Designed by Newton E. Griffith. Structural engineer Gerald F. Paulson. Photo by Warren Reynolds, Infinity. The architect's own house. Was an Architectural Record House 1962. Sold in 1991 to Laurel Anne Ferris.
1962 - The David Hall Faile House, Greens Farms, Westport CT. Designed by George S. Lewis for Westport building contractor David Hall Faile. Built by Thomas J. Riordan. Structural engineer John Mascioni. Mechanical engineers Segner & Dalton. Landscape architect Charles Middeleer. Interior designer Melanie Kahane. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Was an Architectural Record House 1962. Photo by Ezra Stoller Associates.
1962 - The Robert E. Jones House, 2041 Balboa Avenue, Del Mar CA. Designed by Hester-Jones and Associates (Robert E. Jones). Built by Herbert Turner. Structural engineer Harry F. Deardoff. Landscape architect Wimmer & Yamada. Photo by Douglas Simmonds. 1,600 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 1963. Owned by Judy Teschke, trustee, as of 2024.
1962 - The El Dorado Hills West House, 1589 Francisco Drive, El Dorado Hills CA. Designed by Henrik Bull. Built by Murchison Construction Company. Landscape architect Eckbo, Dean and Williams. Photo by Ernest Braun. Was an Architectural Record House 1964. Sold in 2025; buyer not identified. Standing as of 2025.
1962 - The John C. Cosby House, 20 Arrowhead Estates Ln, Chesterfield MO. Designed by James Edgar Stageberg. Built by Reinhardt Company. Structural engineer Meyer and Borgman. Photo by Mac Mizuki. Was an Architectural Record House 1964. Owned by the Timothy W. Gamma Revocable Trust as of 2026.
1962 - The William Cavalier, Jr. House, 42 Shady Lane, Ross Marin County CA. Designed by Donald Olsen. Built by Gardiner. Structural engineer Milton Long. Landscape architect Peter Walker - Sasaki, Walker & Associates. Photo by Rondal Partridge. Was an Architectural Record House 1966. Sold in 2021 to Judd Sher, trustee of the Sher Family Trust. Sold in 2021 to the Sher Family Trust. Standing as of 2021.
1962 - The Edward D. Cauduro House, 3325 NW Skyline Blvd, Portland OR. Designed by Edgar Wilson Smith. Structural engineer Bernard L. Tiland. Mechanical engineer Robert W. Zanders. Landscape architect Robert Hale Ellis, Jr. Photo by Charles R. Pearson. Was an Architectural Record House 1965. Won an Award of Merit in the AIA / Sunset Magazine Western Home Awards 1963-1964, in the under-2,000-square-foot category, published there as "Hillside house with one wall that's a window." The client, Edward Cauduro, was a leading Portland collector of contemporary art; the Museum of Art at the University of Oregon exhibited New American Art: The Edward Cauduro Collection in March 1972. Owned by the Pamela S. Greene Revocable Trust. Standing as of 2026.
1962 - aka Modern to Fit a Traditional Code, Teaneck NJ. Designed by Kramer & Kramer. Built by Blauvelt Construction Company. Structural engineer Aaron Hitter. Photo by Marc Neuhof. Was an Architectural Record House 1962.
1962 - The R. S. Barrows House, Marathon Shores Key Vaca FL. Designed by Robert B. Browne (G. F. Reed, assoc.). Built by Albert Halquist. Photo by Joseph W. Molitor. Retirement house for a couple from the Chicago area, on an oceanfront coral point facing southeast. Survived Hurricane Donna. Was an Architectural Record House 1962.
1962 - The Dr. Virginia Galbraith House, 7 Greenwood Ln, South Hadley MA. Designed by Elroy Webber Associates for a Mount Holyoke College professor. Built by Richard Remillard. Photo by Andre Kertesz. 1,052 sf plus basement. Published in House & Garden, August 1961. Was an Architectural Record House 1962. Virginia L. Galbraith was a Mount Holyoke professor of economics. Sold in 2011 to William J. Chaffee. Standing as of 2025.
1962 - The R & S Builders House, aka the Edward Colber House, 123 Risoli Terrace, South Plainfield NJ. Designed by Kuhn & Drake. Built by R & S Builders. Landscape architect Carol Johnson. Photo by Bill Margerin. Won first prize in the Horizon Homes program. Was an Architectural Record House 1962. HBL Honorable Mention: a two-story masonry cube set within a private walled enclosure with pool and terraces. All-glass walls open the living room to a 32-foot balcony overlooking the pool, while the concrete-block perimeter wall turns a private world inward on its built-for-sale lot. Featured in House & Home, November 1963. Sold in 2022 (owner name redacted in the public MOD-IV file). Standing as of 2025.
1962 - The Roger Ewert House, St. Paul MN. Designed by James Edgar Stageberg. Built by Hauble and Behm. Photo by Warren Reynolds, Infinity Inc. Was an Architectural Record House 1962.
1962 - The Katselas Residence, 1616 Powers Run Road, Fox Chapel, Pittsburgh PA. Designed by Tasso Katselas as his own house, drawing on Le Corbusier’s Maisons Jaoul and on the cross-shaped plan, central fireplace and brick piers of early Frank Lloyd Wright. 3,905 sf, five bedrooms, on 3.3 wooded acres at the end of a private drive, with a cantilevered living room and balcony, in-ground pool, concrete bridge walkways, a built waterfall, a two-storey guest house and a small barn. Dated 1962 from Allegheny County records; published as an Architectural Record House two years later. Sold in 1997. Standing. Was an Architectural Record House 1964. Katselas, born 1927, was recommended to the Kaufmanns by Frank Lloyd Wright for an unbuilt chapel at Fallingwater, and later designed Pittsburgh International Airport and the Carnegie Science Center; he sold his firm in 2005.
1962 - Hillside Pole House at Mill Valley, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Henrik Bull. Built by Skaggs & Kirchmann. A Homes for Better Living merit award winner raised above its steep, wooded site on a grid of 18 chemically treated poles set on a 15-foot module, eliminating costly hillside foundations. The exposed post-and-beam structure and laminated wood ceiling give the 1,800 sq ft house its rugged character. Photo by Stone & Steccati. Featured in House & Home, January 1963.
1962 - Cantilevered Hillside House at Cedar Rapids, Cedar Rapids IA. Designed by Crites & McConnell. Built by Berger Construction. A Homes for Better Living honorable mention whose 1,444 sq ft main living level cantilevers 12 feet on all sides from a small 12x36-foot steel-framed core, so the house seems to float above its wooded slope. All-glass walls give the living-dining area a treehouse view, and roof vaults light the central stairwell. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, January 1963.
1962 - Three-Level Hillside House at Carmel, Carmel CA. Designed by Hall & Goodhue. Built by Floyd O. Carter. Landscape architect: Georg Hoy. A Homes for Better Living honorable mention that follows its hillside so closely only the driveway, carport, and patio needed grading. Under a single roof plane, the compact 1,596 sq ft house steps from low-ceilinged upper-level bedrooms to a two-story living room at the bottom level. Photo by Al Weber. Featured in House & Home, January 1963.
1962 - Offset-Plan House at Memphis, Memphis TN. Designed by Oscar Marshall. Built by D. H. Taylor. A Homes for Better Living honorable mention of two offset squares—one for living-dining with all-glass walls on four sides, the other for bedrooms—joined by a kitchen-bath core that doubles as a privacy and noise barrier. The steel-framed roof of the 28-foot-square living area forms a shallow tent on four steel posts. Photo by U.P.I. Featured in House & Home, March 1963.
1962 - Inward-Turning Court House at Tenafly, Tenafly NJ. Designed by Norval White. Built by Blauvelt Construction Co. A Homes for Better Living merit award winner that turns inward for privacy on a 150-foot lot flanked by conventional split-levels. Most rooms open through sliding glass walls onto a completely private 24-foot-square central court, while the street sees only tall, narrow windows, a pitched roof, and wood siding chosen to fit the neighborhood. Featured in House & Home, March 1963.
1962 - Marin Bay Plywood Prototype House, San Rafael CA. Designed by R. R. Zahm. Built by Twentieth Century Homes. A cantilevered prototype at the Marin Bay development, floated above its steep hillside on seven 44-foot plywood box beams anchored to a single concrete foundation wall, with almost no site preparation. The sweeping roof shelters a deck that runs completely around the almost all-glass house. Sponsored by the Douglas Fir Plywood Assn. and West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. Featured in House & Home, April 1963.
1962 - Eichler Homes Atrium Model in Marin County, Marin County CA. Built by Eichler Homes. Eichler's bestseller in Marin County, 2,353 sq ft plus garage and carport, from H&H's survey of top builders' top sellers. Its most important feature is the central atrium open to the living room, family room, and study, part of a master suite with dressing room and compartmented bath. Photo by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, May 1963.
1962 - Atrium House at Huntington Harbour, Huntington Beach CA. Designed by Smith & Kennedy. Built by Christiana Oil Corp. Cover house of H&H's issue on the new boom in houses by the water: a model at Christiana Oil Corp's Huntington Harbour, the nine-island luxury waterfront community dredged from an 890-acre tidal slough. Its all-glass wall faces the lagoon, while an interior atrium offers a contrasting private orientation. Photos by Leonard Nadel. Featured in House & Home, June 1963.
1962 - Techbuilt Compact Cottage at Small Point, Small Point ME. Built by Techbuilt. A Techbuilt model vacation cottage built on a bluff overlooking the water at Small Point, Maine, featured in H&H's survey of houses by the water. Post-and-beam framing with modular panels, and a full-width 24-foot angled deck that adds extra living and sunning area. Featured in House & Home, June 1963.
1962 - Pie-Shaped House at Belvedere Lagoon, Belvedere CA. Designed by Malone & Hooper. With its wide end fronting on Belvedere's salt-water lagoon, this pie-shaped house opens all major living areas both to the water and to a private interior court. Roger Hooper's design was featured in H&H's study of how waterfront houses should exploit the appeal of the water yet offer privacy. Photos by Gerald Ratto. Featured in House & Home, June 1963.
1962 - Horizon Home at Lynnwood, Lynnwood WA. Designed by Dan F. Miller & Associates. Built by Stewart & Potter Homes. Landscape architect: Glen Hunt. First Honor Award winner in the merchant-built class of the 1963 Homes for Better Living program, built for the Portland Cement Assn's Horizon Home program. Precolored pumice-block walls screen the outdoor living areas so the compact 1,250 sq ft house is private from the neighbors yet wide open to the outdoors, with a center-hall plan the jurors called very good and unusual for a one-story house. Featured in House & Home, July 1963.
1962 - Four-Pavilion Pilot House at El Dorado Hills, Sacramento CA. Designed by Henrik Bull. Built by Murchison Construction Co. Landscape architect: Eckbo, Dean & Williams. Interior design: Virginia Anawalt. HBL Honor Award pilot house for one of the 12 villages of El Dorado Hills, the 10,000-acre satellite city near Sacramento, sponsored by Sunset magazine. Four almost identical redwood pavilions—living, parents, teenagers, and service—each crowned by a skylighted pyramidal ceiling, are linked by glass-walled galleries around a central garden court. Photos by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, July 1963.
1962 - Atrium-Garden House at Poway, Poway CA. Designed by Homer Delawie. Built by Garden City Builders. Landscape architect: Richard Nadeau. HBL Honor Award merchant-built house that accounted for 170 of 200 sales for its San Diego-area builders. A broad central entry with an atrium garden—something buyers did not expect in a low-priced house—divides the house into two zones and sets up a traffic pattern the jury called exceptional in its price class. Featured in House & Home, July 1963.
1962 - Low-Budget Beach Houses at Rehoboth Beach, Rehoboth Beach DE. Designed by Bruce Campbell Graham. Built by D.F.D. Inc. One- and two-story cedar vacation models, both 1,200 sq ft, that won an HBL Honor Award—one juror called them possibly the best buy in vacation houses on the whole East Coast. Solid sidewalls, high gable-end glass, and adroit fencing give complete visual privacy on narrow 50-foot lots two blocks from the ocean. Featured in House & Home, July 1963.
1962 - Weekend House in a Redwood Canyon, Monterey County CA. Designed by Charles W. Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, William Turnbull Jr. & Richard Whitaker. Built by Roy K. Hubbard. The smallest custom house to win a 1963 HBL Honor Award: a 900 sq ft redwood weekend retreat in a redwood-filled canyon, built by the four-man team later famous as MLTW. Bed alcoves and a mezzanine bunkhouse replace bedrooms, freeing a 32-foot living space that reaches 23 feet to the skylighted roof peak. Photos by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, July 1963.
1962 - Ridge-Top House at Mill Valley, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Marquis & Stoller. Built by Peter Dreyfus. Landscape architect: Robert Graves. HBL Honor Award house on a powerful finger of land on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais, praised by the jury for the restraint with which the architects handled a site of enormous drama. A linked series of square pavilions—living area, master suite, studio, and carport—totals just 1,385 sq ft, with steel cable X-bracing against gale winds and a 270-degree view of San Francisco Bay. Photo by Karl H. Riek. Featured in House & Home, July 1963.
1962 - Starter-Unit House at New Seabury, New Seabury MA. Designed by Royal Barry Wills Associates. Built by Emil Hanslin. Interior designer: Emily Malino. The most popular model at High Wood, the riding-oriented second village of Emil Hanslin's 3,000-acre New Seabury development on Cape Cod. Everything is one room deep in the rambling 70-foot plan, so the house can be built with one, two, or three bedroom wings; high gables and a mezzanine party loft over the kitchen make its 1,518 sq ft seem much bigger. Photo by Lisanti. Featured in House & Home, September 1963.
1962 - Saltbox House at New Seabury, New Seabury MA. Designed by Rudolph Bedar & Phineas Alpers. Built by Emil Hanslin. Decoration by the staff of House & Garden. Cover house of H&H's study of top-level design as a sales tool: a model at New Seabury's High Wood village that gives the classic Cape Cod saltbox shape a contemporary flavor. Two saltbox units—one for the living area and master bedroom, one for the children—can be combined many ways for families of varying requirements. Photo by Lisanti. Featured in House & Home, September 1963.
1962 - Mayfair Model at Tacoma, Tacoma WA. Designed by Robert B. Price. Built by George Barclay. Landscape architect: Robert Chittock. Decorator: Julie Sherman. One of about ten designs by Robert B. George Barclay's 229-house Mayfair community, where top professional talent—architect, landscape architect, decorator, and marketing consultant—sells 80 houses a year. Stacked brick and painted siding under an unbroken roof line make the house look longer than its 63 feet. Featured in House & Home, September 1963.
1962 - The Henry McIntyre House, aka Plastic-Roofed Patio House at Hillsborough, 55 New Place Road, Hillsborough CA. Designed by Joseph Esherick. Built by Oscar L. Cavanaugh & Son. Landscape architect: Lawrence Halprin. HBL Merit Award adaptation of Latin American patio-house planning to a U.S. climate: the heart of this big Hillsborough house is a central patio-solarium roofed with double-dome plastic skylights on precast concrete units that double as supports, curbs, and gutters. A slate floor makes the court a satisfactory dance floor for entertaining. Photos by Roy Flamm. Featured in House & Home, September 1963. Renovated for later owners, with the Halprin garden restored.
1962 - The Jim and Kay Shive House, aka Box-Framed Lake House at Solon, 3730 James Lane NE, Solon IA. Designed by Crites & McConnell. Built by Pat Hall. HBL Merit Award house poised on concrete piers close to the lakeshore, begun as a vacation house but made the owners' year-round residence in mid-plan. Its 2,053 sq ft are clad in cedar siding that weathers a natural grey, and its grilled projections conceal balconies and ventilating doors beside the all-glass front. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, September 1963.
1962 - Hilltop House at Del Mar, Del Mar CA. Designed by Hester-Jones & Associates. Built by Herbert Turner. Landscape architect: Wimmer & Yamada. HBL Honorable Mention house nestled into the crown of a steep Del Mar hilltop. All living area is on a single floor, but the master suite and living room project over the downhill slope for a two-story look; the jury praised the excellent handling of the redwood decks and the integration of existing trees and foliage with the entrance. Photo by Douglas M. Simonds. Featured in House & Home, September 1963.
1962 - Great-Roofs House at Berkeley, Berkeley CA. Designed by Ian MacKinlay. Built by William Etchegoin. Landscape architect: C. Mason Whitney. HBL Honorable Mention solution to Berkeley's classic problem of a magnificent view due west into the afternoon sun. MacKinlay extended great sheltering roofs over open porches off the upper-level living room and master bedroom, controlling heat and glare while keeping the view; children's bedrooms occupy the level below. Photo by T. F. Walters. Featured in House & Home, September 1963.
1962 - World's Fair Idea House at Seattle, 8503 Inverness Drive NE, Seattle WA. Designed by Bassetti & Morse. Built by R. O. Bordner Construction Co. Landscape architect: Richard Haag & Associates. Winner of the sole Award of Merit among 1963's HBL built-for-sale houses: a house of ideas designed by partner-in-charge John M. Morse and shown to thousands of prospects during the opening weeks of the Seattle World's Fair. Its flexible pavilion plan can be rearranged to suit varied lots; it sold before completion on a Lake Washington view lot. Photos by Ezra Stoller Associates. Featured in House & Home, November 1963. In View Ridge. Sold in 1990.
1962 - Drogin Homes Flexible-Plan Model at San Diego, San Diego CA. Designed by Homer Delawie. Built by Drogin Homes Inc. Landscape architect: Kenneth K. Hayashi. HBL Honorable Mention: the low-silhouette, flat-roofed price leader Delawie designed for a luxury San Diego subdivision. Beams over the entry court create patterns of light and shadow, and the clean-lined contemporary accounted for eight of 51 sales in the project. Photo by John Hartley. Featured in House & Home, November 1963.
1962 - Stair-Step House at Oakland, Oakland CA. Designed by Amiram Harlap. Built by Penso & Ford. HBL Honorable Mention on a 40-foot-wide Oakland lot that slopes 44 feet up from front to back. Instead of extensive excavation and retaining walls, Harlap worked with the hillside, designing the redwood board-and-batten house as a series of levels on high foundation walls; it sold quickly to a family that preferred the city to suburbia. Featured in House & Home, November 1963.
1962 - The Edward B. Winnick House, 17 Pine Ridge Road, Woodbridge CT. Designed by Herbert S. Newman. Built by Panza Construction. Photo by Joseph Molitor. Was an Architectural Record House 1965. Sold in 2024.
1963 - Orono (Lake Minnetonka), Minnesota. Designed by Bliss and Campbell. Built by Joe Peterson. Structural engineer Meyer & Borgman. Landscape architect Dan Kiley. Photo by Warren Reynolds. Seven bedrooms. On a 40-acre site. Was an Architectural Record House 1963.
1963 - The John S. Dalrymple House, 1700 Mount Curve Avenue, Minneapolis MN. Designed by Bliss and Campbell. Built by Joe Peterson Construction Company. Structural engineer Meyer & Borgman. Landscape architect Edmund Phelps. Photo by Warren Reynolds. Was an Architectural Record House 1964. Sold in 2017 to the Margaret V. B. Wurtele Trust.
1963 - The N. C. Curtis Jr. House, 6161 Marquette Place, New Orleans LA. Designed by Curtis and Davis. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Was an Architectural Record House 1964. William Tucker-Ray (owner of record on 2021-22 city permits; acquisition year unknown). Owned by William Tucker-Ray; pool added in 2021 and the flat roof replaced in kind in 2022. Standing as of 2023.
1963 - The Preston M. Bolton House, 5000 Longmont (Bolton Townhomes #1), Houston TX. Designed by P. M. Bolton Associates. Built by Stewart & Stewart Construction Company. Structural engineer R. George Cunningham. Photo by Edward A. Bourdon. Was an Architectural Record House 1963. Sold in 2012 to Candace M. and Griffith P. Temple.
1963 - The Fritz Woehle House, 4212 Old Brook Trail, Birmingham AL. Designed by Fritz Woehle. Built by W. S. Cleage Construction Company. Photo by Alexandre Georges. Was an Architectural Record House 1964. Owned by Paul and Tammi Carus as of 2026.
1963 - The Nevin Wiley House, 4325 North Lane, Del Mar CA. Designed by Frederick Liebhardt and Eugene Weston III. Built by Syd Neuhaus. Structural engineer John Kariotis & Associates. Photo by Douglas Simmonds. Was an Architectural Record House 1965, featured on the cover. Sold in 2017 to David C. Willms.
1963 - The Paul Johnson House, 5 Mill Pond Lane, Old Lyme CT. Designed by King-lui Wu (designer). Built by George Field Company. Photo by Joseph W. Molitor. Was an Architectural Record House 1966. Assessor confirms: built 1964, 1,850 sf.
1963 - The T. W. Hoehn Jr. House, Shady Grove Road, Memphis TN. Designed by Walk C. Jones Jr. A many-winged house for auto dealer T. W. "Bill" Hoehn Jr. and his wife, Betty Jo, on a ten-acre wooded tract on the south side of Shady Grove Road east of Yates Road in East Memphis. The land has since been subdivided. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Was an Architectural Record House 1963. Needs verification.
1963 - The Seymour Kimmel House, Mamaroneck NY. Designed by G. P. Jennewein & J. J. Jennewein. Photo by Marc Neuhof. Was an Architectural Record House 1963.
1963 - The John E. Gombos House, Montclair NJ. Designed by Jules Gregory. Built by Phillip Leone. Structural engineer Bliss & Hanle. Built on the highest point in Montclair, on the stone foundations of a demolished four-story Victorian house. Photo by Marc Neuhof. Was an Architectural Record House 1963.
1963 - The Armco Steel Corporation House, Yorktown Heights NY. Designed by Carl Koch & Associates. Built by Eastrock Construction Company. Heating engineer: Leo Brissette. Interior designers: Edward Diehl Associates and Design Research, Inc. Photo by Anthony Linck. Was an Architectural Record House 1963.
1963 - The Earl R. and Polly Flansburgh House, 3 Old Conant Road, Lincoln MA. Designed by Earl R. Flansburgh for his own family, the year he founded Earl R. Flansburgh & Associates. A low single-storey rectangle on two wooded acres between Conant and Old Conant Roads, planned around an interior garden courtyard which the architect said "brings nature in on our terms." Four bedrooms, two fireplaces with built-in risers in place of andirons, and yellow-painted vertical fins on the facades that open for ventilation. A detached two-car garage was added in 1967, linked to the basement by a tunnel. Featured as an Architectural Record cover story in 1965, in Better Homes & Gardens in 1966, and in Dwell in 2012. Flansburgh's sons are environmentalist E. Schuyler Flansburgh and musician John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants. Polly Flansburgh placed a preservation easement on the house with Historic New England, protecting it from demolition or insensitive alteration, before selling it in 2014. Sold in 2014 to Elisabeth Heinicke, trustee.
1963 - Deise & Deise Contemporary Model at Scottsdale, Scottsdale AZ. Designed by Alfred N. Beadle (Alan Dailey Associates). Built by Deise & Deise Homes. Proof that warm materials can sell contemporary houses to traditional-minded buyers: five sold in under two months in Scottsdale, the wealthiest and most conservative of Phoenix's suburbs. Beadle's design pairs clean simple massing with slump-block walls and heavy timbers that add texture and warmth. Featured in House & Home, October 1963.
1963 - Connecticut Contemporaries H-House, CT. Designed by Roger Small. Built by Connecticut Contemporaries Inc. The H-House, a two-story hillside model with alternating panels of glass and vertical-grooved plywood, built by architect Roger Small's Connecticut Contemporaries—a merchant-building company started from scratch to prove a market for contemporary design in the Connecticut hills. The house is an organic whole designed for family living, not a modern facade on a tired ranch plan. Featured in House & Home, October 1963.
1963 - Parker Folse Butterfly-Roof Model at Dallas, Dallas TX. Designed by Parker Folse. Built by Parker Folse. Drastically different design as a success formula in brick-box Dallas: a model with butterfly roof, vertical-grooved plywood siding, native stone fireplace wall, a 200 sq ft balcony, and an unusually open plan. Folse, who helped create Fox & Jacobs' Accent line, built some 50 no-compromise contemporary houses in his first 18 months on his own. Featured in House & Home, October 1963.
1963 - Leisurama Second-Home Model at Montauk, Montauk NY. Designed by Raymond Loewy/William Snaith Inc. Built by All-State Properties. Herbert Sadkin's marketing breakthrough at wind-swept Montauk: FHA-insured second homes sold fully furnished right down to toothbrushes, with a complete Macy's furniture package amortized over the 30-year mortgage. The Loewy/Snaith-designed models drew 80 sales plus 290 binders in five weeks. Featured in House & Home, December 1963.
1963 - House on Puget Sound, Puget Sound WA. Designed by Harris, Reed & Wilson. Merit Award winner in FHA's first design competition: a modestly priced 1,728 sq ft house atop a 60' bluff on an island in Puget Sound. Its dramatically shaped roof system, large skylights, and glass gable ends flood the interior with light, and a deck jutting from the living room overlooks Mt. Rainier and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Featured in House & Home, January 1964.
1963 - The Eleanor Brickham House, Red Mountain, Aspen CO. Designed by Eleanor Brickham. Built by Rudolph Pecjak. Engineers: Edgardo Contini. From H&H's portfolio on Aspen, showplace of vacation-house design: the designer's own year-round house, built like a ship's prow overlooking the town and Aspen Mountain. The 31'-square house has two-story-high glass walls on two sides, a V-shaped sundeck, and a 16'x16' bedroom-bath mezzanine suspended over the study. AspenModern dates her own Red Mountain house to 1955. Photos by Milmoe. Featured in House & Home, February 1964. (Brickham later built a second house for herself on a steep wooded site near Aspen, published in American Home, May 1977.)
1963 - Octagon House, Aspen CO. Designed by Eleanor Brickham. Built by Horace Hendricks. Sliding glass doors open the living room, dining room, master bedroom suite, and an interior sunken garden of this octagon-shaped 3,600 sq ft house to an 800 sq ft deck partly sheltered by 5' roof overhangs. Set into a hillside on a two-acre site with a lower sleeping level. Featured in House & Home, February 1964.
1963 - Three-Level House on a Steep Hillside, Aspen CO. Designed by Jack Walls. Built by Alpine Construction Co. A 2,500 sq ft house that sits back into its steep site to capture a striking river view, with two masonry piers and a hefty chimney keeping it from looking like a cliff-hanger. Balconies and the upper-level living area with part-flat, part-pitched ceiling make the most of the view; siding and railings are rough-hewn native spruce. Photo by Milmoe. Featured in House & Home, February 1964.
1963 - Forrest Cox Contemporary, Tempe AZ. Built by Forrest Cox Homes. Space made this 1,800 sq ft contemporary the best-seller in its price class, with 21 sales in eight months. Buyers appreciate the big bedrooms, particularly the master suite with walk-in closet, and the generous kitchen-family-living area. Featured in House & Home, March 1964.
1963 - Formica World's Fair Pilot House, Middletown NJ. Designed by Emil Schmidlin. Built by Jacob R. V. M. Lefferts. Pilot model for 1964's most heavily promoted house, the Formica house at the New York World's Fair, built on a wooded site in Lefferts' Oak Hill development to test the Fair model's plastic laminates—driftwood-look exterior paneling, translucent-plastic windows, and luminous ceilings. Builders in over 100 communities planned to duplicate one of six versions. Featured in House & Home, March 1964.
1963 - Umbrella-Roof House, Madera County CA. Designed by John Rex. One of H&H's three houses with daring new shapes: a rectangular house roofed by 15 wood-framed umbrellas, each on its own column, overhanging an 8'-deep deck. Enclosed by glass, vertical cedar siding, and local granite in a grove of oaks and buckeyes, with a two-story living room and pylon-like granite fireplace, it won a 1963 honor award from the AIA's Southern California chapter. Photo by Leland Y. Lee. Featured in House & Home, April 1964.
1963 - Two-Wing House in New Canaan, New Canaan CT. Designed by Eric Defty. Steeply pitched offset roof planes and a massive chimney recall early New England barns while reading as distinctly contemporary. The plan treats the parents' wing and children's wing as two almost-separate houses, each with its own living room with sloped ceiling and upper gallery, so the client could be near the children yet enjoy privacy. Photo by Malcolm Smith. Featured in House & Home, April 1964.
1963 - Hillside House in Mill Valley, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Marquis & Stoller. Built by Guy Baldwin. Landscape architect: Royston, Hanamoto, Mayes & Beck. First Honor Award winner in the 1964 Homes for Better Living program, perched over a steep slope on a former estate with three levels of flowing space tied to the site by decks and bridges. New England clapboard siding used in an unmistakably California way delighted the jury, which praised it as a superb job of making the house part of the land. Photos by Ezra Stoller Associates. Featured in House & Home, July 1964.
1963 - The Dr. Max L. Busch House, aka Shuttered Beach House in Del Mar, 2412 Ocean Front, Del Mar CA. Designed by Hester-Jones & Associates. Built by Mueller-Tuckett Co. First Honor Award custom house in the 1964 Homes for Better Living program: a two-story steel-framed glass pavilion on a 50-foot ocean-front lot, shaded by 17-foot louvered shutters that pivot on piano hinges to tame the western glare and button up the house when not in use. Bronze-tinted glass and white terrazzo floors carry out to the sand. Photo by Douglas M. Simmonds. Featured in House & Home, July 1964.
1963 - Cliff House at Belvedere, Belvedere CA. Designed by George T. Rockrise with J. Matthew Myers & R. C. Mountjoy. Built by Charles J. Hendrickson. Landscape architect: Lawrence Halprin & Associates. Honorable Mention in the 1964 Homes for Better Living awards for a waterfront house nestled into a rugged 60-foot cliff. With only 1,500 square feet of rocky knoll to build on, the architect hung the living-room pavilion out over the water on Y-shaped wood struts for a 270-degree view of San Francisco Bay. Photo by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, October 1964.
1963 - Latticed Guest House in Sherman Oaks, Sherman Oaks CA. Designed by Gilbert L. Hershberger. Honorable Mention winner in the 1964 Homes for Better Living program: a self-contained two-story guest house added behind an existing home, kept independent for possible resale. Free-flying wood sun-shade trellises cast changing light and shadow over caisson-supported decks on several levels; the jury called it the most controversial house it reviewed. Photo by Duane C. Alan. Featured in House & Home, October 1964.
1963 - House Overlooking Honolulu Harbor, Honolulu HI. Designed by John Russell Rummell. Built by Charles Arakawa. Landscape architect: Peter R. M. Fowler. Award of Merit winner in the 1964 Homes for Better Living program, a 1,268-square-foot post-and-beam house brought in on a tight budget despite Hawaii's high construction costs. Louvered sliding doors, shoji screens and a lanai face the sweeping view from Diamond Head to Pearl Harbor; the jury praised its Japanese sensitivity and refinement. Photo by Nelson/Zellers. Featured in House & Home, October 1964.
1963 - Shingled Cube House in Mill Valley, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Gerald Gamliel Weisbach. Built by Christopher Dyer-Bennet. Landscape architect: Roger Osbaldeston. Award of Merit winner in the 1964 Homes for Better Living program, a two-story cube of cedar shingles, dark redwood framing and white stucco fitted into a former quarry only 75 feet wide. The stairway sits outside the basic rectangle to free living space, and the jury admired the imaginative design of the facade on a modest budget. Featured in House & Home, October 1964.
1963 - Cruciform House in Cedar Rapids, Cedar Rapids IA. Designed by Crites & McConnell. Built by Berger Construction Co. Award of Merit winner in the 1964 Homes for Better Living program, a cruciform-plan hillside house in a heavily wooded 17-home subdivision where Crites & McConnell control all designs. Adults' and children's areas occupy different levels off a central entry, and the architects saved every possible tree; it was the firm's fourth HFBL award in three years. Photos by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, October 1964.
1963 - The Philip and Deborah Isaacson House, aka Walled Court House in Lewiston, 2 Benson Street, Lewiston ME. Designed by F. Frederick Bruck. Built by Laliberte Bros Inc. Award of Merit winner in the 1964 Homes for Better Living program on a tight 50-by-130-foot city lot. A front entry court and rear garden court, both enclosed by nine-foot walls, give privacy front and rear, while the hall-free 40-foot-square plan packs in six ample rooms around a central living room isolated from cold exterior walls in the Maine tradition. Photos by Phokion Karas. Featured in House & Home, October 1964. Completed about 1960. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1963 - Stilt House in the Florida Keys, Key Vaca FL. Designed by Robert Bradford Browne. Built by Albert Halquist. Award of Merit winner in the 1964 Homes for Better Living program, an oceanside platform for informal tropical life raised off the ground for free air circulation. Wood-jalousie walls catch breezes from any direction under a spreading tent-like roof of white epoxy-coated galvanized iron, which the jury called one of the original concepts of Florida houses. Photos by Joseph W. Molitor. Featured in House & Home, October 1964.
1963 - Desert Court House at Palm Desert, Palm Desert CA. Designed by William F. Cody. Built by Design Development Corp. Award of Merit winner in the 1964 Homes for Better Living program facing a golf course fairway and distant mountains. Barred from fences by deed restriction, Cody turned the living areas inward to a central court behind native stone walls, framing the house in laminated wood beams on tubular steel columns — a simple statement in an area that has often gone gaudy, said the jury. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, October 1964.
1963 - Court House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA. Designed by John D. Sacksteder & Newton Le Vine. A compact custom house on a downtown Philadelphia lot only 22 feet wide that H&H said offers better indoor-outdoor living than many suburban homes. A secluded entry court extends the living room and a high-fenced second court behind the kitchen-dining area gives private outdoor dining, with bedrooms looking down into the courts. Photos by Lawrence S. Williams. Featured in House & Home, December 1964.
1963 - Split-Level House with Moat, Philadelphia PA. Designed by John D. Sacksteder & Newton Le Vine. From the street it reads as a small one-story house, but inside are three levels and 2,184 square feet on an irregular 54-foot lot between existing buildings. A ramp and two bridges over a landscaped moat link the upper bedrooms to the rear court, and a guest bedroom below opens through sliding glass to the moat's planted bank. Photos by Lawrence S. Williams. Featured in House & Home, December 1964.
1963 - The Clement Chen Jr. House, 425 Shelford Avenue, San Carlos CA. Designed by Clement Chen Jr. Built by Clement Chen Jr. A deep center hall divides this hillside house into two zones, with the formal living room over the master suite on one side and family areas over children's rooms on the other, linked to the carport by an outside spiral stair. The architect-owner's 2,400-square-foot design and its twin next door won an Award of Merit in the 1964 FHA design program. The twin was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kobayashi (Sunset, April 1964). Featured in House & Home, December 1964. The architect's own house.
1964 - The Sunstate Builders House, Carrollwood, Tampa FL. Designed by Mark Hampton. Built by Sunstate Builders. Structural engineer Randolph C. Jackson III. Landscape architect Jack Holmes. Photo by Black-Baker. Was an Architectural Record House 1964. Built by Matt M. Jetton, Sunstate Builders. Cover house of the issue: a concrete-masonry promotion house that was the first to win both top national awards—design and merchandising—in the Portland Cement Association's Horizon Homes program. Builder Matt Jetton assembled a five-man professional team including land planners Brockway, Weber & Brockway and interior designer Robert John Dean, and the house sold within a week of its promotion. Featured in House & Home, January 1964.
1964 - The Paul Sternberg House, 359 Surfside Place, Glencoe IL. Designed by Binkley Associates. Built by Beverly Smith. Structural engineer Bernard Hemmeter. Photo by Bill Hedrich, Hedrich-Blessing. Was an Architectural Record House 1964. Still owned by the Sternberg family as of 2026.
1964 - The John Maher House, 2930 Lazy Lane Boulevard, Houston TX. Designed by Howard Barnstone and Partner, Eugene Aubry. Built by Ivanhoe Construction Company. Structural engineer R. George Cunningham. Landscape architect Thomas Church. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Was an Architectural Record House 1965. Sold in 2019 to Richard J. and Maureen L. Campo. Standing as of 2026.
1964 - The W. Hawkins Ferry House, 874 Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe MI. Designed by Meathe, Kessler and Associates. Built by George Crane. Landscape architect Johnson, Johnson & Roy. Photo by Balthazar Korab. Was an Architectural Record House 1965. Standing as of the current aerial.
1964 - The Avery C. Faulkner House, 1151 Crest Lane, McLean VA. Designed by Avery C. Faulkner. Built by Rosengarten Company. Structural engineer James Cutts - Gongwer & Kraas. Landscape architect Lester Collins. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1966.
1964 - aka a private house, New York State. Designed by Stanley Salzman. Structural engineer Harry M. Sadler Jr. (consulting). Landscape architect Ann Leonard (consulting). Photo by Ezra Stoller Associates. Was an Architectural Record House 1964.
1964 - The Frank R. Glass House, 2207 Willowmere Dr, Des Moines IA. Designed by Frank R. Glass. Built by Fritz Gookin. The architect's own first house, built while he was associate building editor of Better Homes & Gardens. It is a compact two-level post-and-beam house on a wooded slope, with stock plywood and glass panels, a closed street front reached over a wooden bridge, and a rotating prefabricated fireplace between the living and dining areas. Photo by Bill Hedrich, Hedrich-Blessing. Also published in Better Homes and Gardens. Was an Architectural Record House 1964. Sold in 2005 to Ed Piasecki; Joanna Carpe added to title in 2009. Standing as of 2026.
1964 - The Deck House, aka Development House for Deck House, Inc., Wayland MA. Designed by William J. Berkes (designer). Built by Deck House. Interiors by Design Research. A split-entry display house of cedar decking on post and beam, with a partly raised basement on a gently sloping site, shown by the young company from about 1960. The same Wayland development model won in American Home's 1962 "Best Homes for the Money" competition. Photo by Lisanti. Was an Architectural Record House 1964.
1964 - The Joseph J. Schiffer House, 123 Farmers Cliff Rd, Concord MA. Designed by Joseph J. Schiffer for himself. Built by Joseph Zaffina. Structural engineer William Thoen - Le Messurier & Associates. Photo by Joseph W. Molitor. Was an Architectural Record House 1965. Three plywood box beams carry two full-length bands of acrylic skylights over the living areas. Still standing; sold in 2009.
1964 - Hillside House with Carport-Bridge, Seattle WA. Designed by L. S. Higgins. Built by Hebb & Narodick. A two-story merchant-built house on a rear-sloping lot, featured in H&H's What the Leaders Are Building. Rather than bury the stacked-bond foundation, Higgins reached the front door from the street over a wood-deck carport-bridge and left the lower level above grade, with two sheltered decks and a master suite claiming half the 1,753-sq.-ft. upper level. Photo by John Bickel. Featured in House & Home, January 1965.
1964 - One-Story Prototype at Bryan Beach, Bryan Beach TX. Designed by Clovis B. Heimsath. Built by Bryan Beach Inc. A two-bedroom prototype whose tropical design, reminiscent of Bermuda and Nassau, sets the theme for an 8,000-house vacation project on an island near Houston. Built of masonry block with stucco finish on land filled above hurricane levels; 140 of the first 150 lots sold in less than a year. Featured in House & Home, February 1965.
1964 - Two-Story Prototype at Bryan Beach, Bryan Beach TX. Designed by Clovis B. Heimsath. Built by Bryan Beach Inc. The three-bedroom, 2,300-sq.-ft. companion prototype for the Bryan Beach vacation project, with a deep-overhang entry terrace, glass walls opening to a canal view, a second-floor balcony over the living room reached by circular stairs, and a privacy-walled sunbathing porch off an upstairs bedroom. Featured in House & Home, February 1965.
1964 - Vacation House at Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Lake CA. Designed by K. N. Hayakawa. A small 1,240-sq.-ft. vacation house textured to match its woodland setting: hand-split cedar shakes on a high-pitched roof, vertical rough-sawn redwood clapboards, and stack-bond foundation walls with dark mortar for design relief. Set lengthwise on a slope with a cantilevered deck off the living room and a carport-boat storage area below. Photo by Leland Y. Lee. Featured in House & Home, February 1965.
1964 - Stanmar Winterized Vacation Prefab. Built by Stanmar Inc. A panelized two-level vacation prefab from Stanmar Inc. of Sudbury, Mass., erected on site in one to four days and sold completely winterized. The plan reverses convention—bedrooms below, living area above opening to an encircling deck through glass doors on three sides. Stanmar shipped 300 packages in 1964, about a tenth built as permanent homes. Featured in House & Home, February 1965.
1964 - Clean-Lined Contemporary at San Antonio, San Antonio TX. Designed by Craig Allen of Roberts & Allen. Built by Community Properties. No. 1 in H&H's Outstanding Houses portfolio of merchant-built models for the trade-up market: a contemporary whose high-pitched central roof, rough stone, board-and-batten siding, and cedar shingles bring traditional warmth to a severe facade. A strong traffic-puller even in normally anti-contemporary San Antonio, it packs four bedrooms into 1,640 sq. ft. plus carport. Photo by Zintgraff. Featured in House & Home, March 1965.
1964 - Post-and-Beam House at Spring Valley, Spring Valley NY. Designed by Matthew J. Warshauer. Built by Fred Jay Properties. A true post-and-beam contemporary for a sloping site—rare east of the Rockies because of the cost of wood planking. The redwood-sided house opens its lower level on grade with a wood deck around the upper level, and as the highest priced of four models it took 20 percent of all sales, largely on the excitement of its exposed-beam 2x6 ceilings. Featured in House & Home, March 1965.
1964 - Horizon Home at Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH. Designed by August Hermes. Built by August Hermes. An award-winning Portland Cement Horizon Home in which every room opens outdoors through 10-ft. sliding glass doors to a private walled court, while skylights in deep light wells pierce pyramidal ceilings over the living and family rooms. Builder-designer Hermes sold the 2,200-sq.-ft. house with land. Featured in House & Home, March 1965.
1964 - Upside-Down House at Mission, Mission KS. Built by John S. Kelly. A compact post-and-beam two-story with an upside-down plan—bedrooms on the first floor, living areas above under high sloping ceilings with clerestory gable-end windows and cantilevered decks. Sited on a front-to-back slope so the second-floor entry sits near grade, it sold in Kelly's first all-contemporary subdivision. Featured in House & Home, March 1965.
1964 - Scholz H-Plan Model. Built by Scholz Homes. The cover house of H&H's Outstanding Houses issue: an H-plan model with two dead-end living areas and every room free of cross traffic, its 70-ft. horizontal line relieved by a window wall and irregular eaves. Close to 50 builders sold the model, introduced by Toledo home manufacturer Scholz Homes. Featured in House & Home, March 1965.
1964 - Tropical House at Miami, Miami FL. Designed by Rider & Buff. Built by Robert B. Ehmann Inc. A tropical house with built-in outdoor living: beyond its 2,100 sq. ft. indoors lie another 1,300 sq. ft. of screened outdoor area including a 16'x24' swimming pool, reached through sliding glass from the family room and both bedroom wings. An entry garden behind a perforated block wall and a drive-through carport complete the package. Featured in House & Home, March 1965.
1964 - Eichler Atrium House at San Rafael, San Rafael CA. Designed by Claude Oakland. Built by Eichler Homes. H&H praised this model for using the atrium the right way—not as a sales gimmick but as a working part of plan and design, giving a completely private outdoor room on a small lot and separating the basic living zones. The 1,850-sq.-ft. house plus 250-sq.-ft. atrium, garage, and sun-roofed carport. Featured in House & Home, March 1965.
1964 - The Herbert Solomon House, aka House with Raised Master Suite at San Diego, 6827 Elaine Way, San Diego CA. Designed by Henry H. Hester. Built by Mabie & Mintz. Landscape architect: Wimmer & Yamada. An HBL Award of Merit winner whose elegant two-story facade conceals what is in effect a one-story plan for a household of parents, four children, and a maid. The master suite was raised for privacy and two-way views, forming an entry breezeway beneath it, with a terrace and pool sheltered on three sides by the stucco-and-post-and-beam house. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, June 1965. In the Del Cerro neighborhood. Later enlarged.
1964 - Expandable Hillside House at Mill Valley, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Marquis & Stoller. Built by Robert E. Swendeman. An Award of Merit answer to the growing family with a limited budget: a one-level living area on a steep, wooded hillside designed for downward expansion onto an open platform below. The site drops 16 ft. in the 20 ft. from road to entry, so a carport at street level connects by stairway and bridge, while four peaked roof sections with glass gable ends pull sunlight into the trees. Photo by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, June 1965.
1964 - Courtyard House at Lafayette, 4026 Tilden Lane, Lafayette CA. Designed by William C. Rosso. Built by Ernest A. F. Carlson. Landscape architect: Anthony M. Guzzardo. An Award of Merit house combining maximum privacy with maximum indoor-outdoor living: closed to the street behind a clean redwood facade broken only by steel entry gates, it opens on the other three sides to courtyards off the family room and master bath and to a large rear terrace whose redwood deck was built around a 30-in. oak. Photos by Joshua Freiwald. Featured in House & Home, June 1965. Sold in 2024.
1964 - Hillside Court House at Honolulu, Honolulu HI. Designed by Edward Sullam. Built by James K. Shimizu. Landscape architect: George S. Walters. On a tight 10,000-sq.-ft. hillside lot, this Award of Merit house leads family and guests through a series of small-scale courts—motor court, atrium, sheltered lanai—to expansive living and dining rooms overlooking a panoramic valley view, extended by a 32-ft. balcony cantilevered over the swimming pool. Photos by Nelson-Zellers. Featured in House & Home, June 1965.
1964 - The Hyman Dave House, aka All-Steel House at Asheville, 140 Lynn Cove Road, Asheville NC. Designed by Charles M. Sappenfield. Built by H. Southworth Co. Engineers: Charles H. Kahn; Loest & Stanley. An Award of Merit house that is all steel—only some cabinets are wood—because that is what its steel-fabricator client wanted. Welded beams and columns frame twelve 14'x24' bays, two forming the carport and entry; siding is ribbed steel on steel studs, the acoustical steel roof deck carries out in an 8-ft. overhang, and even the sliding doors and windows are steel framed. Photos by Edward L. DuPuy. Featured in House & Home, June 1965. Sold in 1996, 2006 and 2007.
1964 - The J. Wilkie Talbert House, aka Cliff-Side Tower House at Oakland, 141 Strathmoor Drive, Oakland CA. Designed by Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, Whitaker. Built by Eugene Monroe. An Award of Merit three-story tower on a cliff-side site overlooking San Francisco Bay, its sleeping and living spaces arranged as descending platforms with kitchen, baths, closets, and decks hung outside the tower for free vertical circulation. The living level at the bottom contrasts a low book-lined alcove with a lofty two-story platform windowed on three sides toward the view. Photo by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, June 1965. Destroyed in 1991.
1964 - Hillside Atrium House at Bethesda, Bethesda MD. Designed by Keyes, Lethbridge & Condon. Built by Bennett Construction Co. Landscape architect: Thurman Donovan. Award-of-merit winner offering three separate outdoor-living places: a glassed-in formal garden at the center, a screened breezeway-patio off the family room, and a rear deck. A prefabricator panelizes the post-and-beam house, which the builder's crew assembles with a crane. Photo by Robert Lautman. Featured in House & Home, September 1965.
1964 - C-Shaped Courtyard House at Dallas, Dallas TX. Designed by Enslie Oglesby. Built by Manning Grinnan. Landscape architect: Nancy Marcus. Award-of-merit winner planned for privacy on a tight 50-ft. city lot: three sides of the C enclose a 28'x30' court to which every room but the master bedroom looks inward. Re-sawn pine boards finish both exterior and interior walls, and skylights are the sole daylight source in both baths. Photo by John Rogers. Featured in House & Home, September 1965.
1964 - H-Shaped House at Palm Desert, Palm Desert CA. Designed by Richard Dorman & Associates. Built by Fillmore Crank. Honorable-mention desert house divided by a glass-walled entryway that links the quiet and active-living zones and backs an inset pool and garden. Low eaves and house-length privacy walls screen patios on each side of the entry of the stucco and stained-redwood post-and-beam rectangle. Photo by Richard Gross. Featured in House & Home, September 1965.
1964 - L-Shaped Narrow-Lot Model at San Bruno, San Bruno CA. Designed by Fisher-Friedman Associates & Robert J. Geering. Built by Stoneson Development Corp. Honorable-mention subdivision house kept private on a lot under 50 ft. wide by a detached street-front garage screening the entry, main living area and front patio. Four completely different elevations permit repetition of the post-and-beam plan without a row-house look. Photo by Glenn Mitchell. Featured in House & Home, September 1965.
1964 - Matthews-Schwartz Hillside Model at Bethesda, Bethesda MD. Designed by Cross & Adreon. Built by Matthews-Schwartz. Contemporary two-story square-plan model designed for bypassed but expensive hillside land: the 2,616 sq. ft. house can be cut into a slope, turned in any direction or partly reversed to fit almost any difficult site. A central skylight and clerestory windows daylight both floors. Photo by Warren Ballard. Featured in House & Home, October 1965.
1964 - Casas Capistrano Patio House, San Juan Capistrano CA. Designed by Robert Jones. Landscape architect: Guy S. Green. The project that started California's patio-house movement, designed in 1964 by La Jolla architect Robert Jones in partnership with land planner Guy S. Green. Every room is planned in relation to the walled outdoors as well as indoors, making the whole small lot part of the house. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, May 1969.
1965 - The William Harby House, 97 Western Point Road, York Harbor ME. Designed by Herbert Vise. An Architectural Record House of 1967. Still owned by the Harby family as of 2025.
1965 - aka Lincoln House, 71 Weston Road, Lincoln MA. Designed by Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas F. McNulty for their own family on a site overlooking Beaver Pond, chosen because Gropius had built nearby. Widely described as the first house in the United States built entirely of exposed reinforced concrete and glass; the roof slab floated on Teflon strips so it could expand without cracking. Sold in 1978 to opera conductor Sarah Caldwell, the last owner. Destroyed in 1999, reportedly without a permit; some sources give 2001. Elements of the original driveway and landscaping survive. Photographed by Julius Shulman. Documented in Stevens and McNulty, World of Variation (MIT Press, 1978); Susana Torre, “Building Utopia”; and Liane Lefaivre, Harvard Design Magazine 24, Spring/Summer 2006.
1965 - aka House on Mount Tamalpais, aka Tamalpais Pavilion, 3 Walden Lane, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Paffard Keatinge-Clay as his own house; designed 1962-63, built 1964-65, on the southeast slope of Mount Tamalpais. Bought in 1977 by musician Sammy Hagar, who still owned it as of 2026. Much altered by later additions. Standing as of 2026.
1965 - The Harry C. Gatos House, 20 Indian Hill Road, Weston MA. Designed by Earl R. Flansburgh & Associates. Photo by Louis Reens. Was an Architectural Record House 1965. Sold in 2020 to Eric Kaese. Assessor confirms: built 1964, 7,311 sf, classified Modern.
1965 - 305 Country Club Road, Ligonier PA. Designed by Winston Elting. Built by F. Hoffman Company. Structural engineer G. A. Mattern & Associates. Landscape architect Franz Lipp & Associates. Photo by Joseph W. Molitor. Was an Architectural Record House 1965.
1965 - The Alan Steinert House, 64 Highland Street, Cambridge MA. Designed by F. Frederick Bruck. Built by George Cheney. Structural engineer Souza & True. Landscape architect Stanley Underhill. Photo by Louis Reens. Was an Architectural Record House 1965. Sold in 2024 to Douglas B. Marshall, trustee.
1965 - The Stoneson Development Corporation House, Millbrae Meadows, Millbrae CA. Designed by Fisher-Friedman. Built by Stoneson Development Corporation. Landscape architect Ernest Wenheim. Photo by Karl H. Riek. Was an Architectural Record House 1965.
1965 - The Charles A. Bassett II House, 18714 Point Lookout Dr, Nassau Bay TX. Designed by Clovis B. Heimsath. Built by Ernest Roe. Structural engineer Sidney L. Loudermilk. Photo by Robert Murray. Was an Architectural Record House 1966. Sold in 2021 to Mathew and Julie Russell. An Architectural Record house of 1962.
1965 - The Hobart D. Wagener House, 7060 Roaring Fork Trail, Boulder CO. Designed by Hobart D. Wagener. Built by R. C. Grayson Construction Company. Structural engineer W. B. Johnson. Photo by Rush J. McCoy; Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1967. Owned by Stevan K. and Lucille G. Hale as of 2025.
1965 - The Paul W. McKim House, 3911 Portola Place, San Diego CA. Designed by Paul W. McKim. Built by John Worobec. Landscape architect Wimmer & Yamada. Photo by John Oldenkamp. Was an Architectural Record House 1968. Sold in 2011 to the Aaron DeGroot Trust.
1965 - The Louis M. Hickey and John Barr Development House, Altos de Monterey, South Pasadena CA. Designed by Ternstrom & Skinner (partner in charge Robert H. Skinner). Built by Louis M. Hickey and John Barr as a speculative split-level showcase house in the Altos de Monterey redevelopment tract, commissioned by the Los Angeles Times and the Southern California Gas Company as a "provocative" house for an average family of four. Structural engineer Joseph Kinoshita. Landscape architect Henry Soto. Interior designer Roger Pendleton Wood. Photo by Leland Y. Lee. Was an Architectural Record House 1965. Status unknown.
1965 - The Willits West Company Houses, 725-735 Willits Street, Birmingham MI. Designed by Carl Luckenbach. Built by Willits West Company. Photo by Balthazar Korab. Was an Architectural Record House 1965. Built by Willits West Co. Special merit award for six luxury rental houses tightly clustered on the one buildable corner of a flood-prone 2.75-acre riverside site, planned so no two living areas, indoors or out, are exposed to each other. Two-bedroom plans with redwood-walled rear balconies. Featured in House & Home, September 1965. Six detached rental units, completed by early 1964, now held as condominiums.
1965 - Harlan Lee-Byron Lasky Model at Encino, Encino CA. Designed by Dan Saxon Palmer & Associates. Built by Harlan Lee-Byron Lasky Co. Half one-story, half two-story contemporary model of 2,050 sq. ft. that quickly became the most popular of four models in the builder's newest 165-house Encino project. Features a two-story entry, semi-open suspended staircase, 10-ft.-high living room and walk-in closets in all three bedrooms. Photo by Sheedy & Long. Featured in House & Home, November 1965.
1965 - Indoor-Outdoor Split-Level at Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo CA. Designed by Norman Bloom. Built by Deane Bros. Split-level model in which every major living area opens outdoors: the living room through a full glass gable end to a patio, the family room through sliding glass to another, and a garden kitchen to an outdoor eating bar. Deane Bros. sold 58 of these houses at Mission Viejo, 45 of them in a single week. Featured in House & Home, March 1966.
1965 - Deck House Split-Entry Model at Ridgefield, Ridgefield CT. Designed by William J. Berkes. Built by Deck House Inc. Split-entry display model for the Massachusetts manufacturer's custom prefab system, with 2,800 sq. ft. of plank-and-beam living area. Glass walls on the downhill side open the living room to a 24' deck, the dining room to a screened porch and the lower-level recreation room to a terrace. Photo by Fred Rola. Featured in House & Home, March 1966.
1965 - Open Two-Story Contemporary at Huntington Beach, Huntington Beach CA. Designed by Richard Dorman. Built by Classic Development Corp. A traditional two-story rectangle opened up in California fashion: large street-front glass behind a slat privacy screen, a two-story glassed entry hall with open-tread staircase and railed bridge for a second-floor hallway, and a sliding-screen wall that merges dining and living rooms. The 2,700 sq. ft. model logged 12 sales in six months. Photo by Richard Gross. Featured in House & Home, March 1966.
1965 - The Bruce and Yvonne Arneill House, aka Glass-Walled Pavilion House in Guilford, 5 Wingate Road, Guilford CT. Designed by Bruce Porter Arneill. Built by Erwin C. Griffiths. Honor Award winner and cover house of the eleventh annual AIA Homes for Better Living program: a 2,472 sq. ft. glass-walled living pavilion flanked by closed sleeping and utility wings lit by skylights. Exposed wood roof trusses add visual interest indoors and out, and the wide overhang shields the glass from direct sun and rain. Photo by Maris-Ezra Stoller Assocs. Featured in House & Home, July 1966. The architect's own house. Sold in 1972.
1965 - Pole House on a Steep Site in Mill Valley, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Fisher-Friedman Associates. Built by Belvedere Construction Co. Honor Award winner in the 1966 AIA Homes for Better Living program, a small shingled house on a steep site with rough-sawn poles supporting both floor and roof and a broad bridge-deck tying the structure to the slope. A two-story entrance well drops daylight into the rear of the living room. Robert J. Geering was associate in charge. Featured in House & Home, July 1966.
1965 - Vertical-Towers House in Cedar Rapids, Cedar Rapids IA. Designed by Crites & McConnell. Built by Berger Construction Co. Award of Merit winner in the 1966 AIA Homes for Better Living program, a 3,000 sq. ft. cluster of vertical boxes finished in rough-sawn cedar with three living levels arranged in the shape of a cross. Every room opens to at least one deck, and the kitchen and dining room open to a concrete terrace around a future pool. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, July 1966.
1965 - Cubiform House in Iowa City, Iowa City IA. Designed by Crites & McConnell. Built by R. E. Hall. Award of Merit winner in the 1966 AIA Homes for Better Living program: horizontal boxes above a gentle slope, with the main living area carried on concrete piers to command a view. The two-story living room is flanked on two levels by rooms with small railed balconies, above a concrete-block base holding utilities. Area 1,908 sq. ft. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, July 1966.
1965 - Three-Story Hillside House in Hillsborough, Hillsborough CA. Designed by Edwin Wadsworth. Built by Robert Forcellini. Award of Merit winner in the 1966 AIA Homes for Better Living program, a three-story house cut into a hill on poles sunk into the rising slope. The lower level with carport and entrance sits on a natural clearing, two living levels above are set into the steep bank, and decks wrap the front and bridge the rear gap. Photo by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, July 1966.
1965 - Walled Corner-Lot House in Del Mar, Del Mar CA. Designed by Paul and Allard & Assocs. Built by Shelstead Bros. Honorable Mention in the 1966 AIA Homes for Better Living program, a 1,598 sq. ft. house planned for private outdoor living on a small corner lot. Nearly every room looks or opens onto one of two large terraces screened by high redwood fences from the oceanside town's pedestrian traffic, and outside access to the master bath keeps sand out of the house. Photo by Douglas M. Simmonds. Featured in House & Home, July 1966.
1965 - Window-Walled House in Portola Valley, Portola Valley CA. Designed by Clement Chen & Assocs. Built by Mikko I. Kallio. Honorable Mention in the 1966 AIA Homes for Better Living program, a window-walled house for a wooded site whose small-paned windows rise to the ceiling of the two-story living room and projecting stairwell, opening the house to the surrounding wooded hills. Redwood paneling runs from living room through foyer and stairwell to a one-story studio wing. Photos by Ernest Braun. Featured in House & Home, July 1966.
1965 - Two-Level House with Apartment in Mill Valley, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Alan E. Morgan & Lawrence J. Franceschina. Built by Raymond Sparrow. Honorable Mention in the 1966 AIA Homes for Better Living program, a 4,559 sq. ft. two-level house built by owner Raymond Sparrow. Flanked by flat-roofed one-story wings, the central living room rises two stories to a wide-overhanging canopy roof with a mezzanine library across two sides, over a lower level holding work areas and a private one-bedroom apartment. Photos by Charles F. Holbrook. Featured in House & Home, July 1966.
1965 - The William Hoff House, 672 Flintdale Road, Houston TX. Designed by Jenkins & Hoff. Built by Roy W. Bierschwale Co. Architect William Hoff's own Award of Merit house for a family with three growing boys: the high-ceilinged living room, with its sunken conversation area, is pulled almost free of the house in a cage of steel columns, glass, and redwood, connected only by the dining room and foyer and screened by dense planting. Bedrooms occupy the upper floor of a two-story wing. Photo by Paul Peters. Featured in House & Home, June 1965. Sold in 2018 to Brian and Kendall Wilbanks. Standing as of 2026.
1966 - The Art and Judy Seidenbaum House, 3459 Woodcliff Road, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Richard Dorman & Associates for Los Angeles Times columnist and editor Art Seidenbaum and his wife Judy, a sculptor. Built by Lee Lauger. Most sources give a build date of 1965. A “four-pod” plan on a 1.15-acre terraced site off Mulholland between Bel-Air and Sherman Oaks, reached by a long private drive, with Douglas fir post-and-beam framing, tongue-and-groove wood-clad ceilings and an infinity-edge pool. Dorman’s office often worked to a seven-foot module rather than the usual three or four. The design is atypical of his other Los Angeles work, and the restoration architects believe the Seidenbaums shaped it heavily. Cited by the AIA among the greatest works of architecture in Los Angeles built between 1947 and 1967. Photographed by Julius Shulman; negatives in the Julius Shulman Archive at the Getty Research Institute. Listed for sale in 2021. Standing, and the subject of a full restoration by Krueger Architects that retains Dorman’s original four-pod scheme. Was an Architectural Record House 1967.
1966 - The Irving J. Neuman House, 7800 Ridge Terrace, Pikesville MD. Designed by Fisher, Nes, Campbell & Partners (Charles H. Richter). Built by Kenridge Construction Company. Photo by M. E. Warren. Was an Architectural Record House 1966. Sold in 1998. Standing as of 2025.
1966 - The Bennie M. Gonzales House, 5600 North Palo Cristi Road, Paradise Valley AZ. Designed by Bennie M. Gonzales. Built by Frank Gonzales. Structural engineer William Meier. Photo by Neil Koppes; Bill Sears. Was an Architectural Record House 1967. The architect's own house.
1966 - The Kurt Fuchs House, 460 Conant Road, Weston MA. Designed by Earl R. Flansburgh & Associates. Built by Kurt Fuchs. Photo by Louis Reens. Was an Architectural Record House 1968. Sold in 2005 to John W. Hennessey.
1966 - The E. J. Bennett Associates House, Bethesda MD. Designed by Keyes, Lethbridge & Condon. Built by Bennett Construction Company. Structural engineer Rodgers & Associates. Landscape architect Donovan & Thurman. Photo by Robert Lautman. Development house; open-atrium plan. This is the "Atrium" model in Carderock Springs, the Edmund J. Bennett subdivision northwest of Bethesda, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008 as the Carderock Springs Historic District. House & Garden made the Atrium design its House of Color in September 1966, though the houses themselves were built in 1964 and 1965. The National Register nomination inventories only six Atriums: 7 Park Overlook Court, 10 Park Overlook Court, 7902 Park Overlook Drive, 7909 Park Overlook Drive, 8016 Park Overlook Drive and 8022 Park Overlook Drive. The nomination illustrates 7909 and 8016 as representative examples. Needs verification.
1966 - The Dr. Herbert and Evelyn Axelrod House, New Jersey (coast). Designed by Jules Gregory (project associate Lois Gregg). Built by John Franz. Structural engineer Bliss and Hanle. Landscape architect Ethelbert Furlong. Photo by David Hirsch. Oceanfront house of four shed-roofed stucco pavilions, built on the former site of a town-owned casino that had burned, above a 20-foot seawall on the Atlantic. The client was Herbert R. Axelrod (1927-2017), the tropical fish authority and publisher who founded TFH Publications, a company headquartered in Jersey City and later Neptune NJ. Was an Architectural Record House 1966. Status unknown.
1966 - The Dr. Hal C. Browder House, 1201 North California Street, Burbank CA. Designed by Robbin & Railla (partner in charge Joseph J. Railla). Built by William Morgan. Photo by Julius Shulman, who shot the house in 1965 as job 3833; the negatives are in the Julius Shulman Photography Archive at the Getty Research Institute (2004.R.10). Was an Architectural Record House 1966. A 22' x 24' two-story house of 1,098 sq. ft. on a long, shallow 35'x105' corner lot, one of three published solutions to the narrow urban lot. A glass wall opens the entire rear of the lower-level living area to an inner courtyard, and the recessed upper-level glass wall sits behind the master bedroom balcony. Exposed concrete-block walls carry through inside and out. Featured in House & Home, February 1966. Standing as of 2025.
1966 - The David and Irmgard Dubrow House, 72 Paradise Rd, Paradise Hills, Golden CO. Designed by Donald R. Roark. Built by B.B.S., Inc. Structural engineer Johnson & Voiland. Photo by James O. Milmoe. Was an Architectural Record House 1966. Standing; sold in 2024.
1966 - The Simpson Timber Company House, 39 Lagoon Road, Peacock Gap, San Rafael CA. Designed by Robert Martin Engelbrecht. Built by Frank Hanrahan. Interior designers: House Beautiful Magazine and Ruth Strachan Cole. Landscape architect Werner Tobler and Sherwood C. Frische. Photo by Ernest Braun. Was an Architectural Record House 1966. Shown as a House Beautiful idea house in 1965.
1966 - The Arthur T. Lyman, Jr. House, Wilsondale Street, Dover MA. Designed by Earl R. Flansburgh & Associates. Built by Kurt Fuchs Company. Structural engineer Souza & True. Landscape architect Carol R. Johnson. Photo by Phokion Karas. Was an Architectural Record House 1966. On a 15-acre rocky site; the Lymans were listed on Wilsondale Street in 1972. Status unknown. Needs verification.
1966 - The Alex Glassman House, 5417 South Oneida Way, Greenwood Village CO. Designed by Richard E. Quinn (Ream, Quinn and Associates). Built by John-Del General Contractors. Structural engineer Ketchum, Konkel, Ryan and Fleming. Photo by Roger Ewy. Was an Architectural Record House 1966. Sold in 2020.
1966 - The Kenneth Fredericksen House, 9 Fern Ave, Belvedere CA. Designed by Fisher-Friedman Associates (Robert J. Geering, associate). Built by Victor Tchlistcheff. Structural engineer Dennis Oh. Photo by Glenn Mitchell. Was an Architectural Record House 1966, and won a 1965 Homes for Better Living honor award. A development house on a steep downslope lot, with glazed gables and a street-level carport, overlooking Belvedere Cove and Angel Island. Sold in 2024.
1966 - The Peter Lipman House, 26596 Columbine Glen Ave, Golden CO. Designed by Ream, Quinn & Associates (James T. Ream). Built by Burton A. Payne. Structural engineer Ketchum, Konkel, Ryan & Hastings. Photo by Roger Ewy and David Van Wormer. Project records are in the James Ream Collection at the Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley, which dates the job to 1968 and gives the location as Golden rather than Denver, with a query: manuscripts Box 1 Folder 13, drawings Flat File 6 and Tube 13, photographs Box 1 Folder 7. Was an Architectural Record House 1968. On Lookout Mountain, in the Columbine Glen neighborhood; it was on the 1968 Colorado AIA house tour. Standing; sold in 2025.
1966 - Rex Lotery Three-Level Model in Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills CA. Designed by Rex Lotery. Built by Trousdale Construction Co. Three-level luxury model with a large pool and patio on the lower level, steps up to the dining room, and a shaded court under the master bedroom. Offered in the final section of the Trousdale project, whose buyers are mostly former estate owners trading down to smaller but equally luxurious homes. Featured in House & Home, July 1966.
1966 - Post-and-Beam Hillside Model in Encino, Encino CA. Designed by Richard Dorman & Assoc. Built by Stanley Martson. Merit Award merchant-built winner in the 1966 Homes for Better Living competition and cover house of the issue. Three walls of the 2,200 sq. ft. contemporary are almost all glass to capture the view from a pad cut into a steep hillside, opening to three decks and a rear terrace, with a mezzanine overlooking the two-story living room. Photos by Richard Gross. Featured in House & Home, October 1966.
1966 - Stilt-Mounted Beach House in Langley, Langley WA. Designed by Liddle & Jones. Built by Al Wiklof. Honorable Mention merchant-built winner in the 1966 Homes for Better Living competition: a shingled beach house on stilts that lift it level with a 6-foot driftwood dike on the Whidbey Island shore. A three-step interior — living room, then kitchen and entry, then bedrooms cantilevered 12 feet over the carport — keeps the open plan visually private. Photo by Don Normark. Featured in House & Home, October 1966.
1966 - Latticework Model in Huntington Beach, Huntington Beach CA. Designed by Richard Dorman & Assoc. Built by Classic Development Corp. Honorable Mention merchant-built winner in the 1966 Homes for Better Living competition, a 2,700 sq. ft. two-story that combines privacy with openness on a 60-foot lot. Glass walls and windows concentrate at front and rear, screened by latticework and garage walls so the wide-open house is no fish bowl. Photo by Richard Gross. Featured in House & Home, October 1966.
1966 - Compact Hillside House in Cedar Rapids, Cedar Rapids IA. Designed by Crites & McConnell. Built by Waldo Berger. Award-winning compact house built on a steep, by-passed lot on a street of standard split-levels, shown as proof that contemporary houses can anchor a contractor's business in a small city. Open planning, hard edges and unconcealed joints demanded precise carpentry and drywall work from builder Waldo Berger's crews. Photos by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, November 1966.
1966 - Flat-Roofed Two-Story House in Cedar Rapids, Cedar Rapids IA. Designed by Crites & McConnell. Built by Waldo Berger. Flat-roofed two-story custom house whose rear elevation is tied together by a heavy frieze and horizontal cedar siding, with corner windows of fixed glass over awning sash running from frieze boards to box trim. Clean details let glass directly into wood columns, and the architects even designed the light fixtures. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, November 1966.
1966 - Flat-Roofed Two-Level House in Great Neck, Great Neck NY. Designed by Richard Gordon. Built by Leslie Lowey. Two-level house whose downhill slope allowed a glass-walled recreation room under the main living level, built by low-volume custom specialist Leslie Lowey. Intricate details include plate-glass enclosures around the stairwell set into the drywall ceiling without moldings, with mitered corners joined by epoxy cement. Featured in House & Home, November 1966.
1966 - Fenced Vacation House at New Seabury, New Seabury MA. Designed by Bedar & Alpers. Built by Emil Hanslin & Assoc. Cover house of the 1967 Idea House portfolio: a simple rectangular vacation house on Cape Cod whose every room opens to a patio, screened from the street by grape-stake fences and trellised sun screens. Flexible flat-roofed bedroom wings flank the gabled center section; 1,600 sq. ft. Photo by Beadle. Featured in House & Home, January 1967.
1966 - The Henry D. Norris House, 3310 Grant Valley Rd NW, Atlanta GA. Designed by Henry D. Norris. The Atlanta architect's own nine-room, 3,500 sq. ft. house, completed in 1966 and used as a walk-through showroom of salable ideas for his builder clients, from a three-room master bedroom suite with its own stone fireplace corner to a tailor-made pots-and-pans cabinet. Pecky-cypress ceilings and beams in the living and family rooms. Listed as 3312 Grant Valley Rd in the 1970 American Architects Directory. Renovated and enlarged by later owners. Sold in 2000, 2007 and 2021. Featured in House & Home, March 1967.
1966 - North-Light House in Manlius, Manlius NY. Designed by William H. Scarbrough with Samuel J. Cichello. Built by Clarke H. Rohl. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit winner with an almost windowless south street facade for privacy. A clerestory under the peak of the shed roof and a glass wall opening across a gallery-hall to a center court light the 30'-long north-facing living room. Nearly 2,800 sq. ft. including a daylight basement holding three children's bedrooms. Photo by Robert E. Clark. Featured in House & Home, July 1967.
1966 - Atrium House in Ellicott City, Ellicott City MD. Designed by James F. Hilleary. Built by Joseph D. Judge. Homes for Better Living Honorable Mention: an introverted 50'-square house on a treeless corner lot, designed around a large central atrium for completely private outdoor living. The brick facade presents no windows to the street, while glass walls open the atrium to foyer, living room, dining room and bedroom corridor. Photo by J. Alexander. Featured in House & Home, September 1967.
1966 - Walled-In House at Huntington Harbour, Huntington Beach CA. Designed by Robert E. Jones. Built by Huntington Harbour Corp. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit winner on a small, high-priced corner lot far from the water in a waterfront community. House and lot are entirely fenced and walled for private outdoor living, with a rear patio and swimming pool overlooked by the glass-walled living room and blank street walls broken only by entrance and garage. 2,360 sq. ft. Photo by George Lyons. Featured in House & Home, September 1967.
1966 - Esherick Vacation House at Sea Ranch, Sea Ranch CA. Designed by Joseph Esherick & Assoc. Built by Oceanic Properties Inc. Homes for Better Living Special Citation: a shed-roofed vacation house for Sea Ranch's windswept coastal site, a simple square whose roof slopes steeply up and away from the prevailing northwest ocean winds. High wind-baffled fences protect the windward corner while big southern windows face rocky cliffs and ocean. Built around a two-level utility core with balcony bedrooms, the 1,232 sq. ft. house is one of 12 models. Featured in House & Home, September 1967.
1966 - Hillside House in Iowa City, Iowa City IA. Designed by Crites & McConnell. Built by Larew-Red Ball Engineering. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit winner on a steep hillside: a two-level house only 22' wide whose stretched-out 2,110 sq. ft. plan minimizes cutting and filling and gives almost every room a full window wall facing the rear of the site. Separate balconies and a cantilevered living-room deck overlook the downhill view; only kitchen and dining face the street. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, December 1967.
1966 - Stilt Vacation House in Quogue, Quogue NY. Designed by Hobart D. Betts. Built by Charles L. Sauer. Homes for Better Living Honor Award winner: a 1,150 sq. ft. vacation house on wood pilings that lift it above the flood level of a busy canal only 35' away. Shingled walls with small windows and an extended screen wall give privacy from passing boats and cars, while the living room rises two full stories under a balcony leading to the upstairs bedrooms. Photo by William Maris. Featured in House & Home, December 1967.
1966 - H-Plan House in San Diego, San Diego CA. Designed by Paul W. McKim. Built by John Worobec. Homes for Better Living Honorable Mention on a tight 50'x113' city lot: an H-shaped two-story plan that shelters a protected outdoor court between two rear wings and a recessed entry court in front. A 16'-high living room fills one wing on both levels and faces the rear court. 1,585 sq. ft. of living space. Photo by John Oldenkamp. Featured in House & Home, December 1967.
1966 - Walled Court House in Baltimore, Baltimore MD. Designed by Fisher, Nes, Campbell & Partners; Charles H. Richter Jr., partner in charge. Built by Kenridge Construction Co. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit winner on a busy corner, set back 45' from two heavily traveled streets behind completely closed brick walls. Inside, every major room has at least one full window wall opening to five separate courts and atriums, including a large living-room terrace and a master-bedroom court. 4,100 sq. ft. of living area. Photos by Duane Suter. Featured in House & Home, December 1967.
1966 - The Frederick W. Hickman House, 9496 Twin Cedars Ct, Lakeside MI. Designed by David Haid. Landscape architect Paul Thomas. Photo by Bill Engdahl, Hedrich-Blessing. A glass-walled, Miesian heavy-timber weekend pavilion on a wooded bluff over Lake Michigan, built for Chicago tax lawyer Frederick W. Hickman (later Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy). Was an Architectural Record House 1968. Won the AIA Chicago Twenty-Five Year Award in 1995, when it was still owned by the Hickman family.
1966 - The F. Malcolm George House, 790 Wildcat Canyon Road, Berkeley CA. Designed by F. Malcolm George. Built by Eugene W. Monroe. Structural engineer Forell & Associates. Photo by Morley Baer. 1,500 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 1968. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit winner perched on a 100'-deep lot that falls 50' from front to rear, reached by an auto bridge at its second level. Three levels of living space stay private from close neighbors, and careful siting saved most of a eucalyptus grove. Featured in House & Home, July 1968. Last recorded sale was in 1986; owner not identified. Standing as of 2026.
1967 - The Walker and Carole McCune House, aka McCune Mansion, aka Sugar Loaf, 6112 North Paradise View Drive, Paradise Valley AZ. 52,000 sq ft., originally 23,000 sq ft. Designed by Stone, Marriccini, and Patterson. Built by Fred Musser Contracting Company. Several miles of copper tubing under the floors made up the radiant heating system. The guest cottage is the size of an average house and is where Walker, a Penzoil heir, lived during his divorce with Carole. Acquired by the Hirmel family in 1991. Sold in 2024. Sold in 2026 to an investor who plans a major renovation.
1967 - The Reston Va. Inc. House, Lake Anne Village, Reston VA. Designed by Louis Sauer. Landscape architect Collins & Du Tot. Photo by David Hirsch. Was an Architectural Record House 1967.
1967 - 15137 Mulholland Drive, Sherman Oaks CA. Designed by Richard Dorman & Associates. Built by Lee Lauger. Structural engineer Frank Burke. Photo by Julius Shulman. Was an Architectural Record House 1967. Sold in 2003 to George Boronczi, trustee.
1967 - The Young Woo House, 3763 Mayfair Drive, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Young Woo. Built by Colletta & Edgley. Structural engineer Tom Woodward. Photo by Leland Y. Lee. Was an Architectural Record House 1967. Still owned by Young Woo as of 2022.
1967 - The Sam Karas House, 780 Dry Creek Road, Monterey CA. Designed by MLTW/Moore Turnbull (Charles W. Moore, William Turnbull, Jr.). Built by Douglas S. Chandler. Structural engineer Patrick Morreau (Davis & Morreau). Photo by Morley Baer. Was an Architectural Record House 1967. Last recorded sale was in 2002; owner not identified. Sold in 2002. Standing as of 2026.
1967 - The Leonard Frankel House, 111 South Mansfield Avenue, Margate NJ. Designed by Louis Sauer Associates. Built by E. I. Frankel Enterprises. Structural engineer Joseph Hoffmann. Landscape architect Collins and Dutot Associates. Photo by William Maris. Was an Architectural Record House 1971. Destroyed. A new house was built on the site in 2022.
1967 - The Art J. Priestley House, Lake Oswego OR. Designed by Edgar Wilson Smith. Built by Barnard & Kinney. Structural engineer Bernard L. Tiland. Landscape architect Robert Hall Ellis, Jr. Photo by Edmund Y. Lee. A three-level lake-shore house on a tiny lot split by a 25-foot rock cliff, with boat deck at lake level. Was an Architectural Record House 1967.
1967 - House, Morris Township NJ. Designed by Delnoce Whitney Goubert. Built by F. H. Taylor & Son. Structural engineer Aurnhammer Associates. Landscape architect Dubrow Nurseries. Photo by Joseph W. Molitor. Was an Architectural Record House 1967.
1967 - The E. Sohier Welch, Jr. House, Bolton Road, Harvard MA. Designed by Earl R. Flansburgh & Associates (design team Earl R. Flansburgh and Robert Pillsbury). Built by Kurt Fuchs Company. Structural engineer Souza & True. Heating engineers Francis Associates. Landscape architect Ann Eddison Brainerd. Photo by Joseph W. Molitor. Four hooded "directional" pavilions (living room, children's bedrooms, kitchen, master bedroom) joined by flat-roofed links around an open court, on a large wooded tract with a vista cleared west toward the New Hampshire and Massachusetts mountains. Was an Architectural Record House 1967.
1967 - The Henry W. Rouse House, 120 North Shore Drive, Clayton NY. Designed by Richard R. Moger (associate architect Arthur Lutzker). Built by the owner's own firm, Rouse Construction Corp. of Gouverneur NY. Structural engineer Bernard Marson. Interiors by Richard and Beatrice Moger. Photo by David Hirsch. Brick house of flat-roofed room cubes stepped around a square entrance court, built on the St. Lawrence River on the site of the main house of an older summer estate whose guest houses, garages and boat dock were kept. Honor Award, Homes for Better Living 1967. Was an Architectural Record House 1967. Rouse lived here until his death in 2015. Sold in 2015. Renovated in 2016. Standing as of 2026.
1967 - House, San Mateo County CA. Designed by McCue Boone Tomsick. Built by Henry Knutzen Sons. Structural engineer Hirsh and Gray. Mechanical/electrical engineers Marion, Cerbatos and Tomasi. Photo by Jeremiah Bragstad. Was an Architectural Record House 1973. Built by Henry Knutzen Sons Inc. A First Honor Award winner in the 1972 AIA Homes for Better Living custom-house program, this 2,580-sq.-ft. vacation retreat is a single-level rectangle with a sleeping loft, oriented on its steep mountain slope for shelter from prevailing winds. An indoor-outdoor staircase climbs to a sundeck atop the loft. Featured in House & Home, August 1972.
1967 - The Guy R. Webb House, Tampa FL. Designed by Mark Hampton. Built by T. Van Eyck & Son Contractors. Mechanical engineer Julian C. Johnson. Photo by Ezra Stoller (ESTO). Published in House & Garden, August 1967 ("Honeycomb House"). Was an Architectural Record House 1968. Stucco-faced concrete-block house on the Tampa Bay shore built of seven hexagonal modules with a two-hexagon upper story, linked by a screened hexagonal pool enclosure to a separate hexagonal painting studio for Mrs. Webb. Status unknown.
1967 - Deane Brothers Patio House at Huntington Beach, Huntington Beach CA. Built by Deane Brothers Inc. Walled-lot patio house retaining the builder's trademark garden kitchen, with a swimming pool at the back door in some models. The first 39-unit section sold out in less than three weeks. Photos by Rene Laursen. Featured in House & Home, January 1968.
1967 - Deane Brothers Walled House at Huntington Beach, Huntington Beach CA. Built by Deane Brothers Inc. Evolution of the builder's Garden Kitchen house: 7.5-to-9-ft. fences enclose the entire lot, the house sits flush on one side lot line, and every room opens to landscaped courts, with an unroofed atrium off the master bedroom and dining room. Four models. Photo by Fritz Taggart and Rene Laursen. Featured in House & Home, February 1968.
1967 - Larwin Mid-Entry Model at Greenbrook, Cypress CA. Designed by B. A. Berkus. Built by Larwin Co. Best-selling 2,983-sq.-ft. model whose main entrance opens on a mid-level landing looking down into a sunken living room and up to a 2.5-story ceiling and balcony. At the high end of Larwin's eight-model Greenbrook line, it drew more than 100 sales in its first months. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, May 1968.
1967 - Larwin Central-Entry Model at Greenbrook, Cypress CA. Designed by B. A. Berkus. Built by Larwin Co. Interiors by C. Tony Pereira. Featured on the issue's cover, this 2,678-sq.-ft. model runs a loggia through the house to the rear yard, with a glassed-in gallery above linking the master bedroom to the rest of the house. A sunken living room steps down to a conversation pit. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, May 1968.
1967 - Shed-Roofed Cluster House at Quogue, Quogue NY. Designed by Hobart D. Betts. Built by Rampasture Building Co. Honor Award winner among small custom houses in the 13th annual AIA Homes for Better Living program. On a small flat Long Island site, five steep shed-roofed cubes surround a flat-roofed utility core that buffers the living, dining and sleeping areas of the 1,110-sq.-ft. house. Photo by William Maris. Featured in House & Home, July 1968.
1967 - Telescope-View House on Bainbridge Island, Bainbridge Island WA. Designed by Azaria Rousso. Built by Emerald Construction Co. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit winner on a 55'-wide waterfront lot. Three blank walls give the 1,742-sq.-ft. house an almost telescopic focus on its view of Puget Sound, and natural wood surfaces inside and out eliminate periodic painting. Featured in House & Home, July 1968.
1967 - Pole-Frame Vacation House at Westbrook, Westbrook CT. Designed by Richard Owen Abbott. Built by George C. Field Co. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit winner. Twenty-foot pine poles on 10' centers frame a curtain-walled 30'x40' cage holding 1,650 sq. ft. of space, with two mezzanine levels hung from the poles and a sunken sitting area off the gallery. Photo by Richard Owen Abbott. Featured in House & Home, July 1968.
1967 - Fire Island Beach House, Fire Island NY. Designed by Samton Associates. Built by John Hill. Homes for Better Living Honorable Mention built of single-wall 3" tongue-and-groove cedar planking on post-and-double-beam framing and concrete pilings. A 12'-high glass wall faces the ocean, and an open corridor and balcony bisect the 1,400-sq.-ft. pavilion to circulate sea breezes. Photo by Louis Reens. Featured in House & Home, July 1968.
1967 - Stepped Hillside Pair in San Francisco, 25 and 35 Castenada Avenue, San Francisco CA. Designed by Jonathan Bulkley with Ronald Bogley & Takeshi Yamamoto. Built by William Asbell. First Honor Award winner among merchant-built houses in the 1968 Homes for Better Living program. A mirror-image pair of houses on two narrow 33' lots long considered unbuildable for their 63% slope and deep fill; ten concrete piles driven 22' to bearing sand carry three floors that step down from street-level entries. Photo by Joshua Freiwald. Featured in House & Home, August 1968.
1967 - Twin-Tower House in Mill Valley, Mill Valley CA. Designed by AGORA; John Wiebenson, partner in charge. Built by Hayco Inc. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit winner, a one-of-a-kind house sold on completion. A pair of redwood-clad towers connected by a glass-roofed stairwell rises from the living-dining-kitchen level, topped by a totally private bedroom looking out over the treetops. Photo by Joshua Freiwald. Featured in House & Home, August 1968.
1967 - Light-Shaft House at Muir Beach, Muir Beach CA. Designed by Walz & MacLeod. Built by Lawrence C. Olin. Homes for Better Living Honorable Mention built around a 35'-high central light shaft that funnels southeast sun into the middle of the house on Muir Beach's many foggy days. Rough structural wood framing, redwood siding and cedar shingles keep maintenance on the house to a minimum. Photo by Ricco-Mazzuchi Photography. Featured in House & Home, August 1968.
1967 - Desert Terrace House in Phoenix, Phoenix AZ. Designed by Calvin C. Straub & Denis P. Kutch. Built by Merle De Marce. Homes for Better Living Honorable Mention, a rambling 4,700-sq.-ft. desert house that opens to its scenic setting without surrendering to heat and glare. All rooms orient to terraces, patios and screened porches shaded by deep overhangs, trellises and spur walls, in slump block and resawn redwood. Photos by Neil Koppes. Featured in House & Home, November 1968.
1967 - Four-Wing Hillside House in Alexandria, Alexandria VA. Designed by Vosbeck-Vosbeck & Associates. Built by Bruce Smith, construction coordinator. Landscape architect: Eric Paepcke. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit winner planned around separation of activities. Each main living zone of the 4,100-sq.-ft. house occupies one of four wings stepping down the hillside, with an isolated study over the garage wing reached by a glass-walled bridge; shed roofs and brick lend a traditional feeling. Photos by J. Alexander. Featured in House & Home, November 1968.
1967 - Stone Hillside House at Scottsdale, Scottsdale AZ. Designed by Calvin C. Straub & Denis P. Kutch. Built by Merle De Marce. Homes for Better Living Honorable Mention built chiefly of native stone and tucked tightly against a hillside sloping toward a spectacular desert view. Stone piers carry a long southern roof extension that shields the 2,700-sq.-ft. house from low sun, and inner garden courts add outdoor living in both seasons. Photo by Neil Koppes. Featured in House & Home, November 1968.
1967 - The Paul D. Farris House, 2148 Glass Rd NE, Cedar Rapids IA. Designed by Thomas P. Reilly, Crites & McConnell. Built by Paul Witter. AIA Iowa award (1969). Homes for Better Living Honorable Mention. A 2,431 sq. ft. indented cube in the woods, square on its top level and T-shaped below, with an enclosed stairwell entrance, a middle-level porch off the dining room, and a plan designed to reshuffle rooms as the family grows. Photo by Joel Strasser. Featured in House & Home, July 1971. The Farrises owned it until 2007; sold again in 2022.
1968 - The Alfred Browning Parker House, aka Woodsong, 3003 Seminole Street, Coconut Grove, Miami FL. Designed and built by Parker. Fell into disrepair after Parker moved out, then was restored in 2005 by Harvey Oxenberg and Rosemary Albo. Sold in 2009; updated again in 2014. For sale in 2017. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1968 - The Walk C. Jones III House, aka the Jones and Knox House, 360 Tara Lane, Memphis TN. Designed by Walk Jones + Francis Mah (Walk C. Jones III). Built by Larkey and Larkey Construction Company. Photo by Otto Baitz. Was an Architectural Record House 1971. Also listed elsewhere at 366 Tara Lane and dated 1970; the two entries carried the same photograph.
1968 - The Thomas L. Sorey, Jr. House, 2321 Belleview Terrace, Oklahoma City OK. Designed by Thomas L. Sorey, Jr. Built by William Keith Hickox. Structural engineer Sorey Hill Binnicker. Landscape architect Warren Edwards. Photo by Tom Sorey. Was an Architectural Record House 1968. Transferred within the Tolbert family in 1997; now held by Elizabeth McMahan Tolbert's revocable trust. Standing as of 2026.
1968 - The E. William Haywa House, 6009 Dublin Circle, Edina MN. Designed by James E. Stageberg (Stageberg Architects). Built by Joe Peterson Construction Company. Structural engineer Meyer, Borgman, Johnson. Photo by Revoir Photography. Was an Architectural Record House 1968. Sold in 2014 to Teresa M. Sande.
1968 - The Harry LeBovit House, 8542 Georgetown Pike, McLean VA. Designed by Joseph A. Wilkes and Winthrop W. Faulkner (Wilkes & Faulkner). Built by Norris S. Wilson. Structural engineer James M. Cutts. Landscape architect Wilkes & Faulkner. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1968. Transferred in 2018 from the estate of Judith Bretan LeBovit to the Nicolae Bretan Music Foundation. Standing as of 2026.
1968 - 1014 St. Georges Road, Baltimore MD. Designed by J. William Ilmanen. Built by The Andrew Building Company. Structural engineer Lamprecht Consultants. Landscape architect Landscape Lighting - Jack C. Henry. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1968. Needs verification. Sold in 2021 by the estate of Edith H. Ilmanen. Standing as of 2025.
1968 - The Frederick Weitz House, aka Farm-Cluster House in West Des Moines, 1245 SE Browns Woods Drive, West Des Moines IA. Designed by John D. Bloodgood. Built by The Weitz Company; the owner was a Des Moines general contractor. Homes for Better Living Honor Award winner strongly reminiscent of a group of Iowa farm buildings, its 3,386 sq. ft. clad in cream-colored stucco over wire lath. A two-story glass-roofed dining room doubles as a greenhouse, and a second-floor parents' wing is separated from the children's rooms by a long balcony. Photos by Hedrich-Blessing. Was an Architectural Record House 1969, featured on the cover. Featured in House & Home, July 1969. Also listed elsewhere on Raccoon River Park Trail, Des Moines.
1968 - The AISI / Houston Lighting & Power / General Electric (sponsors) House, 4156-4160 Meyerwood Drive, Houston TX. Designed by Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson (Talbott Wilson; Hal Weatherford). Built by Sam Johnson. Structural engineer James A. Cummins. Landscape architect Fred Buxton. Photo by Jay Oistad. Was an Architectural Record House 1969. Three units: 4156 sold 2017 to Jeffrey Carowitz; 4158 sold 2020 to Phillip W. and Mandy LeBlanc; 4160 sold 2011 to Diann L. and Michael E. Lewter. Standing as of 2026 as three townhouse units in Townhouse Manor (4156, 4158, 4160 Meyerwood Dr), individually owned.
1968 - The John M. Naff, Jr. House, Pajaro Dunes CA. Designed by MLTW/Moore Turnbull (Charles W. Moore & William Turnbull, Jr.; associate Robert H. Calderwood). Built by Richard Pollock, Pollock Construction. Structural engineer Davis & Ragsdale. Supergraphics by Jerry & Martha Wagner. Photo by Morley Baer. Redwood-sided beach house whose decked courtyard and living room step up on broad stairs to a view of the beach, with a skylit bridge to the children's rooms and a ladder-reached sleeping deck above the master bedroom. Was an Architectural Record House 1970. Status unknown.
1968 - The David Haid House, 1221 Michigan Avenue, Evanston IL. Designed by David Haid. Built by Wiesinger-Holland Ltd. Landscape architect Paul Thomas. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Was an Architectural Record House 1971. Owned by the Joseph D. Frank Trust as of 2026.
1968 - The Murray Whisnant House, 6366 Sharon Hills Road, Charlotte NC. Designed by Murray Whisnant. Built by C. E. Vinroot Construction Company. Structural engineer R. V. Wasdell & Associates. Photo by Gordon H. Schenck, Jr. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. Sold in 2025 to Adam F. and Ashley B. Sellner.
1968 - The Medford Schwarz House, 423 Montford Avenue, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Gerald G. Weisbach (Weisbach/Boutmy/Silver). Built by A. Von Rotz. Structural engineer Fong Chan. Photo by Karel Bauer. Was an Architectural Record House 1968. Homes for Better Living Honorable Mention: a 1,400-sq.-ft. split-level on a sloping site near the bottom of a little valley, its living and sleeping wings joined by the entry hall, with a two-story living room and a balcony studio. Also featured in House & Home, July 1968. Owners of record are Philip M. Glogowsky, Lila Levin and others. The last recorded sale was in 1987. Standing as of 2026.
1968 - The Dennis McElrath House, 1550 Escalona Drive, Santa Cruz CA. Designed by MLTW/Moore Turnbull (William Turnbull, Jr.; Charles W. Moore). Built by Charles Davis. Structural engineer Davis & Morreau. Photo by Morley Baer. Commissioned by Dennis and Antonia McElrath; the job is catalogued as job 1967-01, dated 1967-1968, in the William Turnbull, Jr. / MLTW Collection (2000-9) at the Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley, which also holds drawings for McElrath renovations of 1977-1978 by the same office. A tall redwood-clad shed-roofed house on a very small hillside lot near the UC Santa Cruz campus, looking over a eucalyptus canyon to Monterey Bay. The house is one of the case studies in Moore, Allen and Lyndon's book The Place of Houses. Published in House & Garden, January 1970. Was an Architectural Record House 1969. Antonia McElrath, one of the original clients, remains the owner of record.
1968 - The Alfredo De Vido House, East Hampton NY. Designed by Alfredo De Vido. Built by Pete De Castro. Photo by Ezra Stoller Associates. The architect's own vacation house, built on a long, narrow wooded lot: a symmetrical, cedar-shingled post-and-girt frame around a three-story central living space, with bedrooms on a balcony level and two ladder-reached work lofts at the top. Alfredo De Vido FAIA was born in Brooklyn March 19, 1932 and died March 19, 2025. Listed as the de Vido house, East Hampton 1968, by Hamptons 20th Century Modern, which also records his 1966 Mathews house in East Hampton. His Long Island work featured in the Guild Hall exhibition Weekend Utopia: The Modern Beach House on Eastern Long Island, 1960-1973. Also published in Architectural Record, January 1969. Was an Architectural Record House 1969; also published in Architectural Record's Weekend and Vacation Houses (1970).
1968 - The J. Alexander Riley House, 18 Carlton Place, Inverness CA. Designed by J. Alexander Riley. Built by Jean Madill Burroughs. Photo by Philip Molten. Was an Architectural Record House 1971. Sold in 2020 to Project No 3 LLC. Standing as of 2026.
1968 - The Dmitri Vedensky House, 360 Westerly Close, The Sea Ranch CA. Designed by Dmitri Vedensky. Built by Harold Halvorsen. Photo by Gerald K. Lee. The architect's own house. The Dmitri Vedensky Collection (1998-7) at the Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley, holds photographs and drawings of the residence including the deck with moon gate (Box 3 Folder 19 and Flat File 4), and geolocates it at 38.718389, -123.450446. Was an Architectural Record House 1975. Owned by Richard and Sue Whitaker from 2000. Sold in 2022, buyer not identified. Standing as of 2026.
1968 - Valencia Hills Model Compound, Valencia CA. Designed by B. A. Berkus Associates. Built by M. J. Brock & Sons. Lead example of California's new detached-house design in H&H's 22-page 'California: here it comes' report. The models in this new town north of Los Angeles use two-story ceilings, balconies, level changes and a fenced martini pit to create a new kind of interior space; decorating by Russo-Wigrin Assoc. Photos by Larry Leach. Featured in House & Home, May 1969.
1968 - Skylighted Three-Level House in West Lafayette, West Lafayette IN. Designed by E. H. Brenner with Perkins & Will Partnership. Built by Don Martin. Homes for Better Living Honorable Mention that packs 2,400 sq. ft. into three levels on a modest 28'x30' footprint. A continuous plexiglass skylight along the roof peak lets sunlight penetrate end to end, and a U-shaped bedroom-study balcony overlooks the main living area. Featured in House & Home, July 1969.
1968 - The James Martenson House, aka Six-Level House on Mercer Island, 5411 96th Avenue SE, Mercer Island WA. Designed by Richard W. Hobbs. Built by Leo Fisher. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit winner whose six levels all view the lake to the east: children's rooms below, family and entertainment areas mid-level, and parents' bedroom and study above. Cedar siding and shingles blend the 2,600-sq.-ft. house into its heavily wooded site. Photos by Art Hupy. Featured in House & Home, July 1969.
1968 - Sheltered Hilltop House in Iowa City, Iowa City IA. Designed by Thomas Reilly of Crites & McConnell. Built by Paul Witter. Homes for Better Living Honorable Mention on a barren, exposed hilltop, where deep recessing of the important rooms gives a strong sense of shelter. Cedar-sided terraces and balconies are angled sharply so each keeps its own view of a small lake to the south. Designed for a family of three. Featured in House & Home, July 1969.
1968 - Waterfront Cluster House at Huntington Harbour, Huntington Beach CA. Designed by B. A. Berkus Associates. Built by Mar-Crest Development Co. One of ten mansard-roofed, wood-shingled houses squeezed onto a one-acre waterfront strip at Huntington Harbour. A 7-ft. masonry wall and cobblestone streets create privacy from the Pacific Coast Highway, and each house has a deck over the sea wall and a tide bridge to a float where boats tie up. Featured in House & Home, August 1969.
1968 - Cluster Model at Pebble Beach, Pebble Beach CA. Designed by Burde, Shaw & Associates. Built by Harvey Kreftzech. Homes for Better Living Honor Award winner: a 2,600-sq.-ft. model in a cluster of motor courts on 20 acres of leased Del Monte Properties land, developed by Spyglass Development Associates. King-post trusses permit a two-story living room, and each house gets a walled courtyard on the heavily wooded site. Photos by Roger Fremier. Featured in House & Home, August 1969.
1968 - Concrete-Block Lakeside House in Sharon, Sharon CT. Designed by Oppenheimer, Brady & Associates. Built by Oscar Schreiber & Sons. Homes for Better Living Honor Award vacation house showing handsome use of concrete block, built to meet the client's demand for economy and fireproofing. The 1,500-sq.-ft. two-bedroom house turns a blank facade to the road but opens its other three sides to the lake, woods and distant mountains. Photo by Joseph Molitor. Featured in House & Home, October 1969.
1968 - The Walter Kawecki House, 28 Mountainside Park Terrace, Upper Montclair NJ. Designed by Walter Kawecki. Built by Francis J. Korfman. Photo by Ralph A. Goodhill. An architect's own four-level, 2,600-sq.-ft. house stepped into a slope that reaches 100 percent near the top of the hill, on a site chosen for its view in front and the woods behind. The garage sits at the highest point of the slope as the lowest part of the house, its roof forming an entry terrace, with living, dining and kitchen on the top level and a foundation that echoes the hill's rocky terrain. Featured in House & Home, December 1969. Sold in 2022 (owner name redacted in the public MOD-IV file). Standing as of 2025.
1968 - Column-Supported Downhill House in Iowa City, 3008 Dubuque Street NE, Iowa City IA. Designed by Crites & McConnell. Built by Larew-Red Ball. The rear half of this 1,800-sq.-ft. stucco-finished frame house is notched into the hill while the front sits on concrete columns, so the house appears almost to float above its wooded slope. Cantilevered balconies and an entry bridge heighten the effect; minimum grading saved the trees. Featured in House & Home, December 1969. Sold in 2008. For sale in 2025.
1968 - The Peter Barglow House, 1220 East 48th Street, Chicago IL. Designed by Booth & Nagle (Laurence Booth & James Nagle). Built by R. H. Roberts Construction Company. Photo by Phil Turner. Was an Architectural Record House 1970. Owned by Lois Gordon since 2002 (Paul Gordon on the roll in 2001); purchase year not found. Owned by the Gordon family since at least 2001. Standing as of 2026.
1969 - The Milton H. Miller House, 4 Grenadier Court, Owings Mills MD. Designed by Fisher, Nes, Campbell. Built by Raymond J. Rill. Structural engineer Van R. P. Saxe. Photo by Joseph W. Molitor. Was an Architectural Record House 1969. Sold by Suzanna N. Miller in 2009; sold again in 2019 by Gregory C. Andon (the current owner's name is hidden in the open data). Sold out of the Miller family in 2009 and again in 2019; extensively remodeled around 2020. Standing as of 2025.
1969 - The Morton Gruber House, 4370 Paran Place NW, Atlanta GA. Designed by Morton M. Gruber. Built by Burts Construction Company. Photo by Joshua Freiwald. Was an Architectural Record House 1969.
1969 - The Leonard Garment House, 40 Willow Place, Brooklyn NY. Designed by Joseph G. and Mary L. Merz. Structural engineer Paul Gugliotta. Landscape architect A. E. Bye. Photo by Norman McGrath. Interiors by Ben Baldwin and Joseph Merz. Was an Architectural Record House 1969. Transferred in 2013 to Windin Willows LLC by Charles Brian O'Kelley and Elizabeth Rovere, who bought it in 2012. Leonard Garment sold the house in 1981 to Edward and Suzanne Hamlin; sold in 2005 to William and Kathleen Reiland and in 2012 to Charles Brian O'Kelley and Elizabeth Rovere, who moved it into Windin Willows LLC in 2013. Standing as of 2025.
1969 - The Joan Traverso House, Westbrook CT. Designed by Richard Owen Abbott. Built by George C. Field Company. Photo by Norman McGrath. A 1,650-sq.-ft. summer house for a single client on a 60-foot-wide lot hemmed in by neighbors, built around a grid of 20-foot wood poles carrying roof, floating mezzanines and panels, with a studio placed by the lot's one large tree and a fence closing three sides. Also published in Architectural Forum, March 1968, and Connecticut Architect, 1969. Was an Architectural Record House 1969.
1969 - The William M. C. and Dianne Lam House, 1751 Main Street, Cotuit MA. Designed by Erickson/Massey (Arthur Erickson). Job captain Fred Dalla-Lana. Lighting by William M. C. Lam. Built by John B. Lebel. Structural engineer Bogue Babicki. Photo by Phokion Karas. A summer house for the lighting designer and Arthur Erickson's first U.S. work: a heavy rough-sawn post-and-beam frame dividing living and sleeping wings, with a circular stair well doubling as a light shaft. Was an Architectural Record House 1969. Sold in 1976; later sold in 1979, 1985, 1997 and 2012.
1969 - The Ann and Charles Dunbar House, Winhall VT. Designed by Giovanni Pasanella; associate Etel Thea Kramer. Built by Cyril Hoyt, Jr. Structural engineer Stanley Gleit. Photo by David Hirsch. Was an Architectural Record House 1969. A three-story red-cedar ski house of two interlocking squares around a glazed stair well, on a slope across the valley from Stratton Mountain. Also published in American Home, December 1971. Status unknown.
1969 - The Shirley B. Braselman House, aka Lin Emery House, 7520 Dominican St, New Orleans LA. Designed by James R. Lamantia; associate in design William Turner. Built by Edward H. Hansen. Structural engineer William Mouton. Landscape architect Lin Emery. Photo by Frank Lotz Miller. Was an Architectural Record House 1969. Mrs. Braselman is the sculptor Lin Emery; a U-shaped pavilion around a pool court behind a street wall and her sculpture studio. Still standing; owned by the Braselman family as of 2021. Needs verification.
1969 - The Robert E. Fitzpatrick House, 133 Hog Hill Road, Yorktown NY. Designed by Robert E. Fitzpatrick for himself. Structural engineer Tege Hermansen. Mechanical engineer Douglas Gawman. Interior design by Mary Fitzpatrick. Photo by Alexandre Georges. Was an Architectural Record House 1969. A wood-framed pavilion walled in bronze-tinted glass, set on a grass terrace at the top of a curving drive. Sold in 1996.
1969 - The Peter Meilleur House, 238 171st Pl NE, Bellevue WA. Designed by Wendell H. Lovett. Built by Pacific Northwest Construction Company. Mechanical engineer Richard Stern. Landscape architect Richard Haag Associates. Photo by Christian Staub; Hugh N. Stratford. Was an Architectural Record House 1969. Completed in 1966 on a steep slope above Lake Sammamish, with a raised basement, main floor and partial second floor, sheathed in dark-stained cedar with copper trim. Still standing; remained in the Meilleur family until at least 1999.
1969 - The Herman P. and Joanne L. Markell House, West Massey Rd, Memphis TN. Designed by Walk Jones/Mah (Walk C. Jones, III; Francis Mah). Built by Lazarov Construction Company. Structural engineer Gardner & Howe. Mechanical/electrical engineers TLM Associates. Landscape architect Robert Green & Associates. Photo by Erven Jourdan. Was an Architectural Record House 1969. Stained-redwood house under broad shingle roofs on a deep wooded lot on the west side of West Massey Road, about 2,025 feet north of Poplar Avenue. Sold in 1981; the land is now part of the Whitmar Place subdivision, and the house is probably demolished.
1969 - The Sim Van der Ryn House, 180 Highland Way, Inverness CA. Designed by Hirshen and Van der Ryn. Built by W. D. McAlvain. Photo by Joshua Freiwald. Was an Architectural Record House 1969. Held by the Van der Ryn Trust, with Sim Van der Ryn as trustee, since a 2006 trust transfer. Van der Ryn died in 2024. Still held by the Van der Ryn family trust after the architect's death in 2024; the site is now called the Van der Ryn Eco Refuge. Standing as of 2025.
1969 - Octagonal Vacation House at Marysville, Marysville CA. Designed by Daniel G. Volkmann Jr. (Bull, Field, Volkmann & Stockwell). Built by Otto & Short. Small (1,560-sq.-ft.) octagonal waterfront house designed for year-round use on a marshy, treeless site in duck-hunting country. A central entry hall lit by an octagonal skylight separates the bedrooms from the active-living area, which opens through glass doors to a large deck with a dock on the water. Photos by Karl H. Riek. Featured in House & Home, March 1970.
1969 - Ski Lodge Vacation House at Newbury, Newbury NH. Designed by Gerard R. Cugini. Built by Vahan Sarkisian. A 1,474-sq.-ft. ski lodge planned for year-round use by a family with four young children. Scissor trusses make possible a two-story glass-walled living room opening to a balcony with a mountain view, while a loft holds a recreation area and a bunk dormitory. Photos by Louis Reens. Featured in House & Home, March 1970.
1969 - Berkus One-Wide Mobile Modular Model at Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Barry Berkus (B. A. Berkus Associates). Built by Environmental Systems Industries. Smallest of three factory-built mobile modulars on Berkus' half-acre landscaped model compound, an 880-sq.-ft. house. An 8-ft.-deep push-out section expands the 12-ft. basic box into a 12'x19' living room, and the house qualifies as permanent housing yet can be trucked to a new site. Photos by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, June 1970.
1969 - Berkus Two-Wide Mobile Modular Model at Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Barry Berkus (B. A. Berkus Associates). Built by Environmental Systems Industries. Two-box mobile modular, shown rolled onto its site and completed as part of the landscaped model compound that drew some 70 reservations in its first three weeks. The models were market-testing a 390-lot modular subdivision planned at Valencia. Photos by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, June 1970.
1969 - Berkus Triple-Wide Mobile Modular Model at Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Barry Berkus (B. A. Berkus Associates). Built by Environmental Systems Industries. Interior designer: Darrell Howe. Largest of the mobile modular models: two basic boxes spanned by a bridge section that adds a dining room and family room for a total of 1,650 sq. ft. The house, which appeared on H&H's June 1970 cover, has a raised-floor fireplace area and a rear deck. Photo by Julius Shulman. Featured in House & Home, June 1970.
1969 - The Gerstein House, aka Oceanfront House at Rockport, 10 Gap Head Road, Rockport MA. Designed by Huygens and Tappé Inc. Built by Cameron and Hogan. First Honor Award winner in the 15th annual Homes for Better Living program. Set into a narrow, windswept promontory, the 2,600-sq.-ft. year-round vacation house cantilevers its rear toward the ocean while its front is dug into the cliff; sand-blasted concrete, weathering cedar shingles and galvanized steel windows were chosen for maximum resistance to the weather. Photos by Phokion Karas. Featured in House & Home, July 1970. Sold in 1999, then renovated and enlarged.
1969 - Split-Level Vacation House at Sea Ranch, Sea Ranch CA. Designed by MLTW/Moore Turnbull. Built by Matthew D. Sylvia. Award of Merit winner in the Homes for Better Living program. Only 1,102 sq. ft., the split-level vacation house cantilevers its top-level living room out on two sides for the view, sleeps children in a tiny tower room with four tiers of bunks and a firemen's pole, and lights its kitchen with a long plastic skylight. Photo by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, July 1970.
1969 - Fifteen-Foot-Lot House in San Francisco, 1476 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco CA. Designed by Herbert D. Kosovitz. Built by Lambert & Wells Construction Co. Honorable Mention in the Homes for Better Living program. On a city lot only 15' wide, the house stacks 1,975 sq. ft. of sunlit living on three levels, topped by a rooftop sundeck and a modern-day widow's walk with a view of San Francisco Bay; twin skylights brighten 1 1/2-story bay-windowed living and dining rooms. Featured in House & Home, July 1970. Sold in 2018.
1969 - Cruciform Ridge-Top House in Alamo, Alamo CA. Designed by Fisher-Friedman Associates. Built by Silver Construction Co. Honorable Mention in the 1970 Homes for Better Living program. Every area of the 2,820-sq.-ft. cruciform house works off a 1 1/2-story central gallery topped by a rooftop studio with wall-to-wall windows commanding a 40-mile view; the four wings each open to a deck, patio or balcony, and the plan saved many old trees on the ridge-top site. Photo by Morley Baer. Featured in House & Home, November 1970.
1969 - Spiral-Space House in Miami, Miami FL. Designed by Robert W. Whitton. Built by Robert W. Whitton. Honorable Mention in the 1970 Homes for Better Living program, designed and built by the architect himself. From the second to the fourth level of the 2,750-sq.-ft. house, rooms borrow height and light from each other as they spiral up around a central stairway, with projecting boxes enclosing the master bath, a loft and a living-room extension. Photo by Bill Maris. Featured in House & Home, November 1970.
1969 - Two-Story Living Room House in Doylestown, Doylestown PA. Designed by Lynn Charles Taylor. Built by Trueblood Inc. Honorable Mention in the 1970 Homes for Better Living program. Behind the almost austere facade of the 1,542-sq.-ft. house on a quarter-acre corner lot is a freewheeling plan: a central two-story living room open to the dining, family and music rooms and to two second-floor bedrooms, with an isolated study up top overlooking the town. Photo by Reginald Richey. Featured in House & Home, November 1970.
1970 - The Dwight E. Holmes House, 5800 South Gordon Avenue, Tampa FL. Designed by D. E. (Dwight) Holmes. Built by Ranon and Jimenez. Photo by G. Wade Swicord. Was an Architectural Record House 1972. Destroyed. A new house was built on the site in 2020.
1970 - House, Cheshire CT. Designed by Harold Roth & Edward Saad. Built by Len Cunningham. Structural engineer John L. Altieri. Landscape architect Stephen Foster. Photo by Robert Perron. Was an Architectural Record House 1970.
1970 - The Dr. Wynne and Jane Steinsnyder House, 18925 NE 21st Avenue, North Miami Beach FL. Designed by Jorge Arango. Built by Arthur L. Finkelstein. Photo by Alexandre Georges. Was an Architectural Record House 1970. A walled stucco-and-block compound with two atria, a screened pool patio and a detached studio-cabana, on a deep suburban lot. Sold in 1976, 2012 and 2021. Sold in 2022 to Carolyn and Joshua Frank. Standing as of 2026.
1970 - The Peter F. McSpadden House, 46 Carriglea Drive, Riverside CT. Designed by Prentice & Chan, Ohlhausen (Martha Carder, project architect). Built by Donald R. Smith, Inc. Mechanical engineer Harold Hecht & Associates. Landscape architect George Cushine. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1970. A three-storey cedar-shiplap house under steep skylit roofs on an acre of former estate meadow at the edge of the Sound. Standing.
1970 - The Donald Gibbs House, Palos Verdes Peninsula CA. Designed by Hugh Gibbs & Donald Gibbs. Built by Lyman Merril. Landscape architect Settler Baldwin. Photo by Wayne Thom. Was an Architectural Record House 1970.
1970 - The Hugh Bennett House, Delong Road, Lexington KY. Designed by Hugh H. Bennett & James B. Tune for the architect's own family. Built by Pope-Cawood Lumber & Supply Company. Mechanical engineer Bruce Kunkel & Associates. Landscape architect Horst Schach. Photo by William Roughen. Was an Architectural Record House 1970. Built on a wooded parcel carved from an 88-acre former horse farm off Delong Road (architect's home address in the 1970 AIA directory). Status unknown.
1970 - The Robert E. Worden House, 2316 Comfort Point Way, Pilot Knob Lake George NY. Designed by Andrew Daland. Built by Alger Mason. Landscape architect Andrew Daland. Photo by Phokion Karas. Was an Architectural Record House 1970. Pilot Knob is in the Town of Fort Ann. Built on the foundations of the owners' earlier house, lost to fire, on the Comfort Point promontory. Sold in 2011.
1970 - House, Marin County CA. Designed by Robert Marquis & Claude Stoller. Built by Meinberger and Son. Structural engineer Eric Elsesser and Assoc. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Was an Architectural Record House 1970.
1970 - The William Lee Curry House, Montauk Point NY. Designed by Richard D. Kaplan. Built by Jack Jackson. Structural engineer Robert Sillman. Landscape architect Richard D. Kaplan. Photo by Jeffrey Jay Foxx. Was an Architectural Record House 1970. Beach house on a 40-degree bluff over the ocean; won an AIA Small House Competition citation in 1966.
1970 - The George C. McCune, Jr. House, 556 Landgrove Road, Londonderry VT. Designed by Hobart D. Betts. Project architect Moulton Andrus. Built by George C. McCune, Jr. and P. William Polk, Jr. Structural engineer Stanley Gleit. Mechanical engineer Peter Flack. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1970.
1970 - The A. S. Benenson House, Hawley PA. Designed by Mayers & Schiff (Robert A. Mayers & John C. Schiff). Built by Kreck-Myer. Structural engineer Henry Gorlin. Mechanical engineer Seymour Berkowitz. Landscape architect Mayers & Schiff. A weekend house in the woods overlooking a pond and boulders, planned as a square cut into overlapping triangles on several levels around a central fireplace. Photo by William Maris. Was an Architectural Record House 1970. Also published in Architectural Record's vacation-houses book (1977).
1970 - View-Site Vacation House in Southampton, Southampton NY. Designed by Bernard A. Marson. Built by Ira Weissman. The middle level is the key to this hip-roofed house raised on a masonry base: living, dining and kitchen merge into one large space behind a sliding glass window wall that opens to the view, while the lower level that reads as a basement holds the bedrooms and a balcony-hung top level contains a study and second bath overlooking the living room. Featured in House & Home, April 1971.
1970 - The Edward L. Starr House, Nogales AZ. Designed by Edward L. Starr for his own family. Built by Edward L. Starr. Homes for Better Living Honorable Mention. A 1,758 sq. ft. downhill house on steel framing anchored to the side of a mesa, its two living levels raised above an open area for future expansion, with full-length decks screened by wooden lattices and a glass wall facing distant mountains. Photo by Jerry Duchscherer. Featured in House & Home, July 1971. Also an AIA Western Mountain Region (Symposia) merit award, 1970. Starr moved to Tucson in 1973.
1970 - The Marc Firestone House, Miami FL. Designed by Robert Whitton. Built by Marc Firestone. Homes for Better Living First Honor Award; Florida Association of Architects award, 1971. A 1,730 sq. ft. inner-oriented house on a 100 by 150 ft wooded lot that screens all living areas from the street with recessed, overhung, or high windows, turning its views inward to a central two-story skylit dining space, with a walled-in pool and a roof deck catching a glimpse of the ocean over the treetops. Photo by John Sacco. Featured in House & Home, July 1971.
1970 - Waterfront House Remodel in Seattle, Seattle WA. Designed by L. Jane Hastings. Built by Ray Roberts. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit for remodeling. A nondescript two-story house on a choice waterfront beach lot was expanded upward—a new floor added at the former roof height with a master bedroom suite and living room—because clay slide-area soil and side-lot restrictions ruled out building outward; the whole is re-sided in cedar with a new stair tower and ramp approach. Photo by Robert J. Nixon. Featured in House & Home, September 1971.
1970 - The Christopher H. L. Owen House, 924 Coast Guard Road, Block Island RI. Designed by Christopher H. I. Owen. Built by Sweeten and Sons. First Honor Award, 1971 Homes for Better Living vacation category. The architect's own 1,350 sq. ft. island house turns its two-story glass-walled living space into the teeth of the weather to catch the best views north and east, the glass broken into smaller panes and shaded by a rounded overhang above a semicircular dining deck; carport, utility room, and guest suite are below. Featured in House & Home, November 1971.
1970 - The Yiannis Byron Antoniadis House, 3180 Oak Ave, Coconut Grove FL. Designed by Yiannis Byron Antoniadis. Built by Yiannis Byron Antoniadis. The architect's own home, which he called his tree house. Award of Merit, 1971 Homes for Better Living vacation category. An 800 sq. ft. tropical living platform suspended four feet above the ground from four telephone poles under a ficus tree, with five levels spiraling from sauna to loft, floor-level vents catching breezes, and a Swiss Family Robinson look built from salvage-store and city-dump materials. Photo by Yiannis Byron Antoniadis. Featured in House & Home, November 1971. Demolished; the site became part of the Oak Park Village I condominiums in 2006.
1970 - Snow Country Cabin in Bear Valley, Bear Valley CA. Designed by William M. Gillis & Associates. Built by Peter Alders. A 1,105 sq. ft. hillside mountain cabin designed for deep snow: the mid-level uphill entrance stays clear of drifts under a steeply sloping roof, snow slides off the shed roof past a future downhill bunkroom, and the house rests on steel legs in spread footings to leave the site undisturbed. Photo by Chuck Crandall. Featured in House & Home, November 1971.
1970 - Driftwood Ski House at Olympic Village, Olympic Village CA. Designed by Mackinlay Winnacker & Associates. Built by L. R. Van Wetter. A rustic 2,300 sq. ft. ski house built of redwood the owner salvaged along the California coast—a 12x20 bridge beam for the ridge, railroad-tie rafters, and barn siding inside and out—with a shallow-pitched double-layer cold roof that holds a snow blanket for insulation. Featured in House & Home, November 1971.
1970 - The Shores at Laguna Niguel, aka Niguel Shores Garden Homes, Verrazanno Bay, Tampico Bay, Sidney Bay, Montego Bay, Brisbane Bay, Perth Bay, Hobart Bay, Salvador Bay, Mercator Isle and Nauticus Isle, Niguel Shores, Dana Point CA. Designed by Jones & Hom. Built by Avco Community Developers Inc. Landscape architects Cardoza, Di Lallo & Associates. One- and two-story patio houses of slumpstone, rough-sawn wood and shingle in the Laguna Niguel new town, each on a 45'x90' zero-lot-line lot with a seven-foot wall around the outdoor living area and room for a private pool, grouped around landscaped median islands and small parks. Aimed at beach-oriented buyers a short walk from Salt Creek beach; Phase I opened in January 1970 and sold out before the models were done, and the first residents moved in in the summer of 1971. Photo by George Lyons. Featured in House & Home, May 1972. Originally part of Laguna Niguel, the area is now in Dana Point, inside the gated Niguel Shores community.
1971 - The Henri Gueron House, 358 Accabonac Road, sometimes given as 358B, East Hampton NY. Designed by Henri Gueron as his own house. Won the National Home Design Award of the American Institute of Architects in 1972. Three bedrooms with a main-floor primary, a double-height living room opening through a wall of glass doors, an accessible roof deck, heated pool and detached shed, set down a long private drive on about half an acre. Restored with the original design intact; the kitchen was replaced with Valcucine cabinetry. Sold in 2013. Standing. Featured in The Great Houses (McGraw-Hill). An Architectural Record House of 1972.
1971 - The Earl Burns Combs House, Fire Island Pines NY. Designed by Earl Burns Combs. Built by Joseph Chasas. Photo by William Helms. Was an Architectural Record House 1971.
1971 - The Franklin E. Parker House, 5 Indian Hollow Road, Mendham NJ. Designed by Smotrich & Platt (David I. Smotrich & Charles A. Platt). Built by Maw & McKinnell. Structural engineer Robert Silman. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1971.
1971 - House in Harrison NY. Designed by Architects Design Group (Terry G. Twitchell and Nancy A. Miao). Built by Gilbert Merenda Construction Company. Structural engineer Joseph Biren. Photo by James Brett. Was an Architectural Record House 1971.
1971 - The Sigmund Blum House, 27070 West Fourteen Mile Road, Franklin MI. Designed by Sigmund F. Blum and Harturun Vaporciyan. Built by Dennis Rouix. Structural engineer Veral Memduh. Photo by Baltazar Korab. Was an Architectural Record House 1972.
1971 - The Ed and Joan Mark House, 6 Neighbor Lane, Truro MA. Designed by Paul H. Krueger. Built by Colp Brothers. Structural engineer Tsaing Engineering; Souza and True (consultant). Photo by Steve Rosenthal. Was an Architectural Record House 1973. Sold in 1997 to 6 Neighbor Lane Realty Trust. Address resolved. The page carried this house at both 101 North Pamet Road and 6 Neighbor Lane. Massachusetts assessor records settle it: 101 North Pamet Road is a 1949 ranch, while 6 Neighbor Lane is recorded as Contemporary, built 1970 — consistent with a 1971 house published as a Record House in 1973. Held by 6 Neighbor Lane Realty Trust. Standing.
1971 - 6432 SW Burlingame Place, Portland OR. Designed by James C. Oliver. Built by Malcolm Merino. Structural engineer Frank Honey & Associates. Photo by Alan McCoy. Was an Architectural Record House 1973. Sold in 2026 to Somkiat Petchsrisom.
1971 - House in Waccabuc NY. Designed by Keith Kroeger and Leonard Perfido. Built by Frank Calogero, A. Poccia & Sons. Structural engineer Bob Silman. Landscape architect Kroeger-Perfido. Photo by William Maris. Was an Architectural Record House 1971.
1971 - The Theodore A. Grossman, Jr. House, 6715 North Village Road, Parker CO. Designed by Theodore A. Grossman, Jr. (TAG Associates). Built by Gerle Bros. Photo by Rush J. McCoy. Was an Architectural Record House 1971. Remodeled in 1995. Sold in 1994 and 2003.
1971 - House in East Hampton NY. Designed by David Kenneth Specter. Built by Peter Wazlo. Structural engineer R. Howard Sanford. Landscape architect R. T. Schnadelbach. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1971.
1971 - The R. L. Tollefson House, Wausa NE. Designed by Neil Astle and Associates. Built by Arnold Prather (carpentry). Photo by Julius Shulman. Was an Architectural Record House 1972.
1971 - The Frank and Barbara Tatum House, aka the Tatum Beach House, 12 Potbelly Beach Road, Aptos CA. Designed by William Turnbull Jr. early in his career as a vacation house sleeping twelve for Frank and Barbara Tatum and their six children. About 1,600 to 1,830 sf on three storeys: a white rectangular core Turnbull called the “sleeping machine” holds bedrooms and baths, with the living room and two staircases saddle-bagged in front of it and every principal room facing the ocean; the bedrooms open onto a double stair enclosure that doubles as a library. Raw timber now weathered to driftwood grey. One of only seventeen houses on Potbelly Beach, whose land is owned collectively through the Potbelly Beach Club co-operative. Won Architectural Record’s House of the Year. Photographs by Morley Baer, now with the Morley Baer Photography Trust; project records in the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley. Offered for sale in 2022, the first time it had been on the market. Standing. Was an Architectural Record House 1972.
1971 - The William Stahl House, 50 La Rancheria, Carmel Valley CA. Designed by Marcel Sedletzky for Bill Stahl, who commissioned it at twenty-seven on a parcel bought from his father, who had acquired the land in the 1940s. Planned from the outset to be built in phases as the family grew. 4,091 sf on about 1.35 acres in the La Rancheria neighbourhood, five bedrooms and five and a half baths, with vaulted ceilings on heavy timber beams, original stained glass, floor-to-ceiling glazing onto a pool set in an oak grove, and a separate guest house, game room, wine cellar and workshop. Sedletzky drew on both Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright; he completed this a few years before giving up full-time practice to teach at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and it is one of only about eighteen houses he worked on. Little altered since construction. Offered for sale in 2024, the first time it had been on the market, and still listed in 2025. Standing.
1971 - Drumaldry Zero-Lot-Line Houses, Bethesda MD. Designed by David N. Yerkes & Associates. Built by Miller and Smith Inc. Court-grouped merchant-builder houses in the 23.6-acre Drumaldry subdivision: 104 four-bedroom, 3,150 sq. ft. houses on lots of only 6,000 sq. ft. Zero-lot-line siting and 6-ft. masonry walls around each house allow large glass areas opening the rear interiors without any loss of privacy. Photo by J. Alexander. Featured in House & Home, December 1971. Nicholas A. Pappas of the Yerkes firm was principal designer. In the Courts of Wyngate, off Greentree Road.
1971 - Stem-Lot Houses at Washington, Washington DC. Designed by Cross and Adreon. Built by Matthews-Schwartz Inc. Eleven detached three-story houses fitted onto 1.83 close-in acres of ravine site that could not be rezoned for apartments: a stem-lot layout staggers the 2,900-sq.-ft. houses along a private winding road, and a lawyer-devised deed clause gives each owner exclusive use of the uphill side yard of his neighbor's lot. Big trees, a brook and a pool were left intact. Photo by J. Alexander. Featured in House & Home, January 1972.
1971 - Two-Building Vacation House in Sonoma County, Sonoma County CA. Designed by Duncombe/Roland/Miller. Built by Harold Halvorsen. Award of Merit, 1972 AIA Homes for Better Living: two cedar-shingled buildings with a deck between serve as a 1,000-sq.-ft. vacation home and encounter-group center for a psychotherapist couple. The main building holds living-dining space, a sleeping mezzanine and a ladder-reached sundeck; the one-story second building holds a sleeping area and studio, all with ocean views. Photo by Jeremiah Bragstad. Featured in House & Home, June 1972.
1971 - The J. Robert Hillier House, Princeton NJ. Designed by J. Robert Hillier. Built by Donald N. Armstrong. First Honor Award, 1972 AIA Homes for Better Living: the architect's own 2,300-sq.-ft. square-plan house, slightly elevated above marshy ground, with a skylighted center atrium serving as hall and dining room and each room isolated by closet walls or baths. Bronze-tinted mirrors and semi-reflective glass camouflage the exterior into its wooded site. Photos by John Brefach. Featured in House & Home, June 1972. On Ridgeview Circle.
1971 - Brick-Walled Garden House in Memphis, Memphis TN. Designed by Gassner/Nathan/Browne. Built by Kenneth Larkey Jr. Award of Merit, 1972 AIA Homes for Better Living: high brick walls maximize privacy while bridging the gap between this 2,500-sq.-ft. contemporary steel-frame house and its traditional neighborhood. The garden was designed as an extension of the house, with the patio edge continuing the line of the interior walls and the plan zoned to separate children's and adults' areas. Photos by Otto Baitz. Featured in House & Home, June 1972.
1971 - The Bruce Porter Arneill House, Wilmington VT. Designed by Bruce Porter Arneill. Built by Haynes Bros. Inc. Award of Merit, 1972 AIA Homes for Better Living: the architect-owner's 2,000-sq.-ft. prototype for a steep-site condominium project, a four-story tower on steel columns rising 70' from grade bottom with a covered bridge to the driveway. The flexible interior of six bedrooms, two living rooms and two kitchen-dining areas converts easily to a duplex. Photo by Bill Maris. Featured in House & Home, June 1972. Known as the Tree House. Also featured in American Home, January 1973.
1971 - Two-Family Vacation House at Coleville, Coleville CA. Designed by Eugene E. Hougham. Built by Hawkins Co. Award of Merit, 1972 AIA Homes for Better Living: a rough-sawn cedar exterior blends this 1,620-sq.-ft. vacation house for two families—including eight children—into near-desert cattle country ringed by sagebrush and pinon trees, with mountain views on two sides. The plan gives adults' and children's areas both separation and proximity, and the cedar-boarded interior is finished in linseed oil for easy maintenance. Photos by Lee Redmond. Featured in House & Home, June 1972.
1971 - The Henri Charles Gueron House, East Hampton NY. Designed by Henri Charles Gueron. Built by Pete Reichart. Award of Merit, 1972 AIA Homes for Better Living: a whimsical vacation house packing three bedrooms, two baths, kitchen-dining and living areas, outdoor deck, roof terrace and studio-storage into under 1,000 sq. ft. Built of white-painted caulked plywood, its exterior is focused on a 6'-diameter clear plastic dome, and the 19'-high living area gives the interior a spacious feel. Photos by Henri Charles Gueron and Ben Schnall. Featured in House & Home, June 1972.
1971 - Poolside Guesthouse in Alamo, Alamo CA. Designed by Daniel Solomon. Built by Duffel Financial & Construction Co. Award of Merit, 1972 AIA Homes for Better Living: an 815-sq.-ft. guesthouse and pool designed as adjuncts to an existing California ranch, partially buried so as not to obstruct views from the other buildings and lit and ventilated by fans and skylights. It provides overnight guest accommodations and a place for formal entertaining set well apart from the main house. Photos by Lucille Dandelet. Featured in House & Home, June 1972.
1971 - Z-Plan Waterfront House on Cape Cod, Cape Cod MA. Designed by James A.S. Walker. Built by Henry E. Bumpus & Sons. A Z-shaped plan isolates the adults' and children's bedrooms in two-story wings flanking a 45'x15' common room, and shelters indoor and outdoor family areas from southwest winds at this 2,900-sq.-ft. waterfront vacation house finished in white-cedar shakes and red-cedar siding. Award of Merit, 1972 Homes for Better Living. Photos by Phokion Karas. Featured in House & Home, August 1972.
1971 - Steep-Site House in Rye, Rye NY. Designed by Allan Anderson. Built by Allan Anderson. Built on a 2.2-acre site so steep it was thought unbuildable, this 3,000-sq.-ft. house integrates the slope into its design, with separate bedroom sheds for children and adults at the top of the grade, an open kitchen and a sunken living area. Materials from local lumberyards kept costs down. Award of Merit, 1972 Homes for Better Living. Photo by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, August 1972.
1971 - Cor-Ten Steel House in Lake Forest, Lake Forest IL. Designed by Clarence Krusinski & Associates. Built by T.F. Barrett Construction Co. Inc. An exposed Cor-Ten steel structure with bronze-glass perimeter walls lets this large 5,500-sq.-ft. house blend into its forest environment with minimum maintenance. Terrazzo floors and plaster walls finish the interior; a masonry garage-workshop joins the house by a covered breezeway. Award of Merit, 1972 Homes for Better Living. Photos by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in House & Home, August 1972.
1971 - Geometric House in Kettering, Kettering OH. Designed by Richard Levin Associates. Built by Jahn Construction Co. Imaginative geometry gives this 4,200-sq.-ft. house room shapes from a rhomboid to a half-circle, with a finger-shaped stairwell rising to a secluded study and recreational spaces for the owners' many hobbies. Award of Merit, 1972 Homes for Better Living. Photo by William Patterson. Featured in House & Home, August 1972.
1972 - 119 Adams Point Road, Barrington RI. Designed by Huygens and Tappe (Remmert Huygens and Anthony Tappe). Built by E. J. Sevigny Construction Company. Structural engineer Souza and True. Photo by Julius Shulman. Was an Architectural Record House 1972. Later owned by William B. Anderson. Sold in 2025 to 119 Adams Point Road LLC. Standing as of 2025.
1972 - The Rodney F. Friedman House, 230 Bayview Ave, Belvedere CA. Designed by Rodney F. Friedman of Fisher-Friedman Associates. Built by Clancy Becker. Structural engineer L. F. Robinson and Associates. Photo by Fisher-Friedman (self-credited). Was an Architectural Record House 1972. Still owned by the Friedman family as of 2023.
1972 - The Lauren Studebaker House, 7545 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island WA. Designed by Wendell H. Lovett. Built by S. C. Moshier and Sons. Photo by Sakuma/James. Christian Staub. Was an Architectural Record House 1972. Sold in 2021 to Liang Du and Zheng Zhang.
1972 - 632 Fire Island Boulevard, Fire Island Pines NY. Designed by James McLeod. Built by Joseph Chasas. Photo by Otto Baitz. Was an Architectural Record House 1972. Owned by Christopher Glazek as of 2025.
1972 - 12 Potbelly Beach Road, Aptos CA. Designed by MLTW/Turnbull Associates (William Turnbull, Jr. and Richard Garlinghouse). Built by Bud B. Bollinger Construction Company. Structural engineer Hirsch and Grey. Photo by Morley Baer. Was an Architectural Record House 1972. Sold in 2022; buyer not identified. Originally called the Tatum Beach House. Standing as of 2022.
1972 - The Wendell Lovett House, 69 Rocky Road, Crane Island WA. Designed by Wendell Lovett. Built by Architect with Clifford I. Hooper. Structural engineer Robert Albrecht. Photo by Christian Staub. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. San Juan County lists Tamara V. and Lance S. Joyner, trustees, with a 2026 transfer date. Listed for sale in 2022; transferred in 2026 to Tamara V. The cabin still stands next to a larger house added by 1988 (Paul Hoag).
1972 - The Helmut Eppich House, 1812 Palmerston Avenue, West Vancouver BC. Designed by Arthur Erickson/Architects. Built by Stan Burton, Deas Construction Company. Structural engineer Bogue Babicki & Associates. Photo by Simon Scott. Was an Architectural Record House 1975. Built for Helmut and Hildegard Eppich; Helmut co-founded EBCO Industries. Sold in 2003, and in 2010 to Asaph and Hemsa Fipke, who had it restored by BattersbyHowat Architects around 2014. Listed for sale in 2021 and 2024 without a sale. On the West Vancouver Community Heritage Register. Standing as of 2024.
1972 - The Samuel Wiener, Jr. House, 2 River Lane, Westport CT. Designed by Davis, Brody and Associates and Weiner Gran Associates. Built by Michael Sochaki. Structural engineer Andrew Elliot. Landscape architect A. E. Bye. Photo by Ezra Stoller (ESTO). Was an Architectural Record House 1972. Sold in 1977 to William and Joan Grabe, in 1999 to Roger and Carla Levien, and in 2006 to Michael Wilens and Carolyn Longacre. Standing as of 2025.
1972 - The Murray Waldman House, 2440 Vallejo Street, San Francisco CA. Designed by John Louis Field of Bull Field Volkmann Stockwell. Built by Lester Lipinski. Structural engineer Pregnoff, Matheu, Kallam, Beebe. Landscape architect Thomas D. Church. Photo by William Maris; the architect's own files also credit Jeremiah Bragstad and Martha Rosman. Was an Architectural Record House 1972. The house is a conversion of a 1921 garage. Sold in 2002, 2011 and 2018. A 2012 façade proposal was withdrawn; the exterior was then reworked in 2013–14 with new windows, doors, bay and stucco. Standing, altered.
1972 - The Barbara and Allan Anderson House, 10 Mead Pond Lane, Rye NY. Designed by Barbara and Allan Anderson. Built by Barbara and Allan Anderson. Structural engineer Barbara and Allan Anderson. Photo by Ezra Stoller (ESTO). Was an Architectural Record House 1972. Still owned by Barbara Thistle Anderson as of 2025.
1972 - The Arthur Cotton Moore House, 1600 Avon Place NW, Georgetown, Washington DC. Designed by Arthur Cotton Moore Associates as the architect's own house. Built by Coleman and Wood. Structural engineer Milton A. Gurewitz and Associates. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1972. A triangular 2,150-square-foot lot, 80 feet wide at the street and narrowing to a 4-foot point; the design took five years to get through the Commission of Fine Arts, the Old Georgetown Board and zoning, which imposed the mansard roof. The 1969 Old Georgetown filing gave the address as 1636 Avon Place. Sold in 1988, and in 2002 to Patience J. O'Connor. Standing as of 2026.
1972 - The John Boyer House, 22 Todd Pond Road, Lincoln MA. Designed by Architectural Resources Cambridge (Joseph Maybank and Arthur Cohen). Built by Newton Builders. Structural engineer Weidemann Brown. Landscape architect Carol Johnson and Associates. Photo by Nick Wheeler. Was an Architectural Record House 1972. Built for John and Margaret Boyer to show their art collection, who owned it into the 2000s. Sold in 2014, and in 2020 to a trust (Carl R. Blesius, trustee). Renovated around 2020. Standing.
1972 - House, Northern Minnesota. Designed by Booth and Nagle (Laurence Booth and James Nagle). Built by Arnold Seastedt. Structural engineer Weisenger-Holland Ltd. Photo by Philip A. Turner. Was an Architectural Record House 1972.
1972 - The Willard Wirth House, Lewisboro, Westchester County NY. Designed by Alfred DeVido. Landscape architect A. E. Bye. Photo by William Maris. Was an Architectural Record House 1972. Four 15-foot-wide faceted units strung along two fieldstone retaining walls, about 2,000 square feet. Also a 1975 Homes for Better Living award winner. Status unknown.
1972 - The William T. Cannady House, 2246 Quenby Street, Southampton, Houston TX. Designed by William T. Cannady as his own house. Built by General Fabricators. Structural engineer Krahl & Gola. Landscape architect Carlisle Becker. Photo by Richard Payne; Edward Jacoby. Was an Architectural Record House 1973. Cannady House I. The original cedar-clad house stands at the rear of the lot over the garage; Cannady later added a building at the front, joined by a pool court. Sold in 2007 and 2021, and in 2022 to Nicholas M. Fitzgerald and Leigh Owens. Standing.
1972 - The R. D. Comstock House, Atlanta GA. Designed by Pearson & Porter (Clyde C. Pearson). Built by C. Malone Company. Structural engineer Weems. Landscape architect Edward Daugherty. Photo by Clyde May. Was an Architectural Record House 1973.
1972 - The Peter Lowenstein House, 11 East Lake Drive, Montauk NY. Designed by Alan Chimacoff and Steven Peterson. Built by David Webb. Structural engineer Donald P. Greenberg (consultant). Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1973. Featured in GA Houses 1 and in the Architectural Record Book of Vacation Houses, 1977. Built on a site where Paul Rudolph had earlier designed an unbuilt scheme for the same clients. Chimacoff renovated the house in 1984. Also listed as the Peter and Suse Lowenstein Summer House. Owned by Suse Lowenstein (2025 roll). Still owned by Suse Lowenstein as of 2025.
1972 - The Bernard Heidemann House, 1236 Benedict Canyon Drive, Beverly Hills CA. Designed by Pulliam, Matthews & Associates (James G. Pulliam). Built by R. C. Wheeler. Structural engineer Norman J. Epstein. Landscape architect Robert Johnson Clark Associates. Photo by Julius Shulman. Was an Architectural Record House 1973. Owned by Bran Ferren (in care of Starr & Co LLC). Last recorded sale was in 1993. Owned since 1993 by Bran Ferren. Standing as of 2026.
1973 - The Norman A. Bikales House, 4 Hawk Hill Road, Lincoln MA. Designed by Earl R. Flansburgh and Associates. Built by Costa Limberakis. Structural engineer Souza & True. Landscape architect John Crowe. Photo by Edward Jacoby. Was an Architectural Record House 1973. Sold in 2016 to Gunnar Evermann. Assessor confirms: built 1970, 3,874 sf, Contemporary.
1973 - The Walter Briggs, III House, L'Arbre Croche, 2755 Harbor-Petoskey Road, Harbor Springs MI. Designed by William Kessler and Associates (Edward Francis). Built by Walter H. Desimpel, Company. Photo by Balthazar Korab. Was an Architectural Record House 1973. On lot 36 of the L'Arbre Croche club. 1974 Homes for Better Living Award of Merit: a 4,400-sq-ft Lake Michigan vacation house set into a sand dune, with a children's level opening straight to the beach, a family floor with a 24-foot deck, and master and guest suites above. Also featured in House & Home, June 1974.
1973 - The Lawrence Albert Spector House, Pebble Beach CA. Designed by Smith & Larson (David Allen Smith and Roger Larson). Built by Smith & Larson. Structural engineer Smith & Larson. Photo by Morley Baer. Was an Architectural Record House 1973.
1973 - The Patricia Coplans House, 19 Belgrave Avenue, San Francisco CA. Designed by Burger & Coplans (Patricia Coplans). Built by Patricia Coplans. Structural engineer Geoffrey Barrett. Photo by Maris/Semel. Was an Architectural Record House 1973.
1973 - House on Maine coast. Designed by Robert Burley Associates. Structural engineer E. L. Shea. Photo by Robert Lautman. Was an Architectural Record House 1973.
1973 - The William Levin House, 1301 Harbor View Drive, Galveston TX. Designed by Howard Barnstone. Built by Morton Construction Company. Structural engineer Cunningham & Lemus. Landscape architect Ralph Gunn. Photo by Rick Gardner. Was an Architectural Record House 1973. Destroyed; a new house was built on the site in 2013.
1973 - The Robert Lozano House, Santa Cruz County CA. Designed by Peter Behn and Gavin. Built by Robert Lozano. Photo by Gil Amiaga. Was an Architectural Record House 1973.
1973 - The Richard R. Moger House, Southampton NY. Designed by Richard R. Moger. Built by John Cosmagna. Structural engineer Paul Guglielmo. Photo by A. Youngmeister. Was an Architectural Record House 1973.
1973 - aka Binker Barn, The Sea Ranch CA. Designed by MLTW/Moore Turnbull (William Turnbull and Charles Moore). Built by Matthew D. Sylvia. Structural engineer Patrick Morreau. Photo by A. Youngmeister. One of them, the Baker House at 35292 Timber Ridge Road, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018 (ref. 100003234); it is dated 1968, its redwood interior was crafted by Matthew Silvia, and Dwell reports it is the only Binker Barn on the Register. Whether the house published here is the Baker House or another of the type is not established, though the builder credit matches. Was an Architectural Record House 1973.
1973 - HFBL Award Hexagon House in Jacksonville, Jacksonville FL. Designed by Freedman/Clements/Rumpel. Built by Peter L. Rumpel. 1974 Homes for Better Living Award of Merit. An irregular-hexagon plan rescued a lot considered unbuildable: half the site was swamp, deepened into a quarter-acre pond, and a glass-roofed conservatory shelters tropical plants from north Florida freezes. Featured in House & Home, June 1974.
1973 - HFBL Award House in Boxborough, Boxborough MA. Designed by Robert Whitton. Built by Hector Osmond. 1974 Homes for Better Living Award of Merit. Closed-in and sculptural outside, bright and airy inside: multi-level planning with skylights and slanted windows floods the 2,350-sq-ft interior with light, and a roof deck captures the distant views from the 16-acre site. Photos by Ezra Stoller. Featured in House & Home, June 1974.
1973 - HFBL Award Cube House in Des Moines, Des Moines IA. Designed by Booth & Nagle. Built by Bryan Crow Construction. 1974 Homes for Better Living Award of Merit. A 4,000-sq-ft cube zoned into three half-flight levels for family, adults and children, with a two-story dining room overlooked by the children's balcony. Photos by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in House & Home, June 1974.
1974 - The Oliver Winston House, 36 Horton Lane, Lyme NH. Designed by Donald Metz. Built by Don Metz. Structural engineer Spiegel & Zamecnik. Landscape architect Dan Kiley. Photo by Robert Perron. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. Built by Metz on speculation; the Winstons bought it before completion. Sold in 1991 to Peter S. Treadwell and in 2013 to David J. Bromley. Standing as of 2025.
1974 - 37 Windmill Road, Armonk NY. Designed by Mayers & Schiff. Built by William A. Kelly & Company. Structural engineer Wolchuk & Mayrbaurl. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. Owned by the Ross Mathews Living Trust as of 2025.
1974 - The Engle House, 398 Middle Road, Boxboro MA. Designed by Robert Whitton. Built by Hector Osmond. Structural engineer McGlinchy and Pundt. Photo by Ezra Stoller (ESTO). Was an Architectural Record House 1974. Sold in 2003 to Jerome Picca.
1974 - The William R. Woolner House, 12 Prospect Hill Road, Chilmark Martha's Vineyard MA. Designed by Edward Cuetara. Built by Herbert R. Hancock. Photo by Michael Zide. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. Sold in 2018 to Justine W. Wise and Victoria W. Sam, trustees.
1974 - The Thomas Brandzel House, 5226 Ventura Drive, Lake Ventura, Fremont NE. Designed by Bahr Hanna Vermeer & Haecker Architects, Ltd. Built by Larsen & Jipp. Photo by Gordon Peery. Was an Architectural Record House 1975. Cedar decking and framing came from an old sheep barn. Owned by the family of Dr. John R. and Shirley Allely since at least 1999; Steven J. Allely sole owner since 2024. Pitched roofs added on the street side. Standing as of 2026.
1974 - The Michael and Sirje Gold House, 14 Codfish Lane, Weston CT. Designed by Leonard P. Perfido. Built by Michael Sochacki. Structural engineer Robert Silman Associates. Photo by Maris/Semel. Was an Architectural Record House 1976. Owned by Richard Torres and Michal Lee Locker as of 2024. Assessor confirms: built 1974, 3,311 sf.
1974 - The Lawrence and Mary Wolf House, 51 Roxborough Drive, Toronto ON. Designed by Barton Myers. Built by Lawrence Wolf. Structural engineer Read Jones Christoffersen, Ltd. Photo by T. Kitajima of Y. Futagawa & Associates (except as noted). Was an Architectural Record House 1977. A glass garden-level living room was added below in 1983, with later interiors by Yabu Pushelberg and landscape by Walter Kehm. Owned by the Wolfs until it sold in 2015. Protected as part of the North Rosedale Heritage Conservation District (By-law 749-2004). Standing.
1974 - House, 211 53rd Street, Des Moines IA. Designed by Booth & Nagle. Built by Byran Crow. Structural engineer Weisenger-Holland. Photo by Hedrich-Blessing. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. Built for a doctor and his family on a 66-foot-wide lot above a ravine. Sold in 1992, 1994 and 1995, and in 1999 to Steven J. Rosenberg (in trust since 2014). Standing as of 2026.
1974 - The Len Walworth House, 2650 South Main Street, Burlington IA. Designed by Crites & McConnell. Built by Schofield & Son Construction Company. Photo by Joel Strasser. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. Also published in AIA Iowa, January-March 1971.
1974 - The Glenn and Cornelia Bailey House, Darien CT. Designed by Huygens and Tappe. Built by Ernest R. Rau. Structural engineer Steco Engineering Corp. Photo by Julius Shulman. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. Built for Glenn W. Bailey, founder of Keene Corp. and Bairnco, and his wife Cornelia, on a knoll above Long Island Sound. AIA Connecticut honor award, 1973. On Shennamere Road, beside Richard Meier's Smith House. 1974 Homes for Better Living Award of Merit: a simple L-shaped plan, masonry walls screening the drive, and floor-to-ceiling glass under a wide cedar-shingled roof opening the living areas to the Sound. Also featured in House & Home, June 1974. No longer owned by the Baileys. Status unknown.
1974 - The William Adams House, Roseau MN. Designed by Thomas N. Larson. Built by Arthur Anderson. Structural engineer Michael Jolliffe. Photo by Phokion Karas. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. First award, 1977 Red Cedar Shingle & Handsplit Shake Bureau/AIA program, Architectural Record, November 1977.
1974 - The J. Hiram Moore House, Austin TX. Designed by Robert Nichols. Built by Andrew Patton. Structural engineer Carroll Claycamp. Photo by Richard Payne. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. Built for petroleum geologist and oilman Joe Hiram Moore and his wife Betty, who moved to Austin from Midland around 1972; the house bridges a limestone arroyo whose stream was dammed into ponds. The Moores also restored the Hirshfeld house downtown. Status unknown.
1974 - The Rovida House, 11 Koch Lane, Elizabeth Township PA. Designed by Tasso C. Katselas. Built by Century Construction Company. Landscape architect Joseph Hajnas Associates. Photo by John W. Hobbs. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. A triangulated brick house of two wings, with a bridge over the drive to a sundeck on the garage roof. Sold in 1989 and 2005, and in 2020 to Nyles Falatek. Standing as of 2026.
1974 - The Friesner House, Westhampton NY. Designed by Hobart Betts; Moulton Andrus, project architect. Built by Ralph L. Otis. Structural engineer Stanley Gleit. Photo by Maris-Semel. Was an Architectural Record House 1974, and on that issue's cover. Built around a cedar-decked court and an existing sycamore. AIA New York State award, 1974. Status unknown.
1974 - The Poliak House, 235 Simpaug Turnpike, West Redding CT. Designed by Joseph Salerno. Photo by Pedro E. Guerrero. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. Built for Saul and Janice Poliak on Simpaug Turnpike. Sold in 1998 by the Poliak estate to Michael J. Kelly and JoAnn Villamizar. The Poliaks' adjoining land became the Redding Land Trust's Poliak Pond preserve in 1999. Standing as of 2025.
1974 - The Robert Sobel House, 5000 Longmont Drive #16, Houston TX. Designed by Robert Sobel as his own house. Built by Orval Burke. Structural engineer Krahl and Caddy. Photo by Alexandre Georges. Was an Architectural Record House 1974. The last of the courtyard houses on Preston Bolton's private street at 5000 Longmont Drive. Sold in 1998 and 1999, and in 2012 to David S. Brollier and Deborah G. Feinsilver. Standing.
1974 - The Walter and Dawn Clark Netsch House, 1700 North Hudson Avenue, Chicago IL. Designed by Walter Netsch. Sold in 2014 by Dawn Clark of Netsch’s estate to Mark Smithe and Will Forrest. Renovated by SOM. Designated a Chicago Landmark in 2023.
1974 - Eichler Atrium House by Alsco Homes, Northern CA. Designed by Claude Oakland. Built by Alsco Homes. The 1974 version of Joe Eichler's classic atrium house, built by the company he founded shortly before his death. Post-and-beam construction, glass-walled central atrium, exposed-beam ceilings, rough-sawn wood exterior and radiant hot-water heat in the slab. Featured in House & Home, December 1974.
1974 - Two-Story Eichler by the Klingbeil Co, San Francisco Peninsula CA. Designed by Claude Oakland. Built by The Klingbeil Co. The first two-story Eichler, introduced in 1974 by Klingbeil, which had built three Peninsula subdivisions of Eichlers since buying J.L. Eichler Associates. True to tradition it wraps around a central atrium and has radiant-heated floors at both levels. Featured in House & Home, December 1974.
1974 - Prototype Vacation Home at Lake Katonah, Lake Katonah NY. Designed by Myron Goldfinger. Built by G. N. Gironda. Award of Merit in production housing, 1975 Homes for Better Living. A compact, vertically massed builder's prototype vacation house with a clerestory band, constructed in the woods at Lake Katonah. Photo by Norman McGrath. Featured in House & Home, May 1975. Lake Katonah is a private lake community in the Town of Lewisboro.
1974 - HFBL Award of Merit House, Westchester County NY. Designed by Alfredo De Vido. Zoned planning in only 2,005 sq. ft.: four 15'-wide cubes, each designed for a different family activity, with adult and children's areas well separated. Linear siting along the slope opens most rooms to two exposures and a north view, with a multi-level living core stepping from kitchen to two-story study. Featured in House & Home, July 1975.
1974 - HFBL Award of Merit House, Westchester County NY. Designed by Christopher H. L. Owen. Built by Larchmont Const. Co. Inc. A 3,600-sq.-ft. house set into a natural slope and zoned for nighttime separation of four active children, with girls' bedrooms on the top level, boys' rooms below, and a strictly-adult middle level with a large glass-walled living room. A bridge connects the upper level to the garage roof and pool stair. Featured in House & Home, July 1975. Structural engineer Paul Gossen. Landscape architect Christopher H. L. Owen with Peter G. Rolland Associates. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1975.
1974 - The Rev. George Magnuson Vacation House, 13533 SW 207th Lane, Vashon Island WA. Designed by Booth & Nagle, Ltd. Built by Philip A. (Phil) Gregersen. Structural engineer Raymond Beebe. 1976 Homes for Better Living Award of Merit winner: a 2,200-sq.-ft. vacation house whose major living areas are combinations of a standard 12'x12' framing module wrapped around an 8'x36' service core. Decks bridge between the diagonally-sided modules. Photos by Christian Staub. Was an Architectural Record House 1975. Featured in House & Home, August 1976. Sold in 2024 to Vashon Treehouse LLC. This page previously carried the house a second time at 13998 SW Madrona Road; that entry has been merged here. The 207th Lane address geocodes as a verified address point, the Madrona Road one only as an interpolated street address, so 207th Lane is the better supported of the two.
1974 - The Peter Kurt Woerner House, 182 Leetes Island Road, Guilford CT. Designed by Peter Kurt Woerner. Built by Peter Kurt Woerner. Photo by Robert Perron. Was an Architectural Record House 1976. Owned by Matthew C. Bower (2024 roll; sale year not in the state file). Bower. Standing as of 2024.
1975 - The Carol and Harvey Berman House, 484 Conant Road, Weston MA. Designed by Leland Cott. Standing, and still in the family: Massachusetts assessor records list the owner as Carol V. Berman, trustee, year built 1975 matching this entry, 7,313 sf, classified Modern.
1975 - The Marvin Ross Friedman House, 15451 Southwest 67th Court, Miami FL. Designed by Robert Whitton. Built by Vihlen Bros. Structural engineer McClinchy and Pundt. Award of Merit, 1978 AIA Homes for Better Living program. An austere four-level stucco cube of 4,000 sq. ft. with few windows but a surprisingly open interior: rooms separated only by gallery-like halls and the main stairwell, a two-story living room daylit by many skylights, and a slanted two-level glass wall sheltering the swimming pool. Concrete block bearing walls and poured-in-place concrete beams support the structure. Photos by John Sacco and Wolfgang Hoyt (ESTO). Featured in Housing, August 1978. Was an Architectural Record House 1981. Owned by Robert Furniss Roe, trustee, as of 2025.
1975 - The Jake Kittle House, Rancho Las Cruces, Gaviota CA. Designed by Steve Baer (Zomeworks). Status unknown.
1975 - The James E. Caldwell, Jr. House, 121 Fox Hollow Road, Woodside CA. Designed by James E. Caldwell, Jr. Built by James E. Caldwell, Jr. Structural engineer Shapiro, Okino & Hom. Landscape architect Richard Schardt; Thomas Church. Photo by Philip Molten. Was an Architectural Record House 1975. Still owned by the Caldwell family as of 2024.
1975 - The Philip L. Jacobson House, 3935 51st Avenue NE, Seattle WA. Designed by Philip L. Jacobson. Built by Tom Paulsell Construction Company. Photo by Hugh Stratford; Philip Jacobson. Was an Architectural Record House 1975. Sold in 2001 to Erik and Roberta Torgerson.
1975 - The W. Ford Schumann House, Aspen CO. Designed by Robin Molny. Built by H. E. Anderson. Structural engineer KKBNA. Photo by Marc Neuhof. Was an Architectural Record House 1975. Ward Ford Schumann was a painter.
1975 - 122 Schnoor Road, Killingworth CT. Designed by King-lui Wu. Built by George Field Company. Photo by Robert Perron. Was an Architectural Record House 1975. Owned by Theodore Criscuolo Jr. and Serena Struber as of 2024.
1975 - The John Sheehy House, 11 Marina Lane, Long Island NY. Designed by Alfredo DeVido. Built by Henry Dankowski. Structural engineer Charles Thornton. Photo by Bill Maris. Was an Architectural Record House 1975.
1975 - The Dale and Sylvia Ball House, 2525 South 95th Circle, Omaha NE. Designed by Neil Astle & Associates. Built by Midlands Corporation. Photo by Joel Strasser. Was an Architectural Record House 1977. Conveyed in 2025 to the Steven D. Booker et al. Trust. Standing as of 2026.
1975 - The Richard and Judith Newman House, Saltaire Fire Island NY. Designed by Richard and Judith Newman. Built by Joseph Chasas. Structural engineer J. Ames. Photo by William Maris. Was an Architectural Record House 1975.
1975 - House, Englewood NJ. Designed by Hobart Betts (Roger Lang, project architect). Built by Olsen & Lawson. Structural engineer Stanley Gleit. Landscape architect Innocenti & Webel. Photo by Bill Maris. Was an Architectural Record House 1975.
1975 - The Morton Grossman House, Cape Cod MA. Designed by Earl R. Flansburgh and Associates. Built by Bradley Construction Corporation. Structural engineer Souza & True. Landscape architect Earl R. Flansburgh and Associates. Photo by Steve Rosenthal. Was an Architectural Record House 1975.
1975 - House, Georgian Bay ON. Designed by C. Blakeway Millar. Built by John Goba, Ltd. Structural engineer Wyllie-Uffnal. Photo by Robert Perron. Was an Architectural Record House 1975.
1975 - House, Marin County CA. Designed by Chan/Morton Rader & Associates. Built by Edward W. Burger. Structural engineer Stefan Medwadowski. Landscape architect Morton Rader and Betty Bird. Photo by Bernard Poinssot. Was an Architectural Record House 1975.
1975 - Lyon Farm, Greenwich CT. Designed by Sherwood Mills & Smith with Donald Sandy Jr. & James A. Babcock. Built by C.E.P. Associates. Landscape architect: Anthony M. Guzzardo & Associates. 1976 Homes for Better Living Award of Merit winner: first phase of an 84-acre, 201-unit development of clustered detached houses of 1,600 to 2,200 sq. ft. Clustering preserves the natural landscape and orients each shingled, gabled house to the best view; the jury found the contemporary design reminiscent of regional architecture. Photos by Martin Tornallyay. Featured in House & Home, July 1976. On Lyon Farm Drive and West Lyon Farm Drive.
1975 - The Warren Zimmerman House, 96 Interpromontory Road, Great Falls VA. Designed by MLTW/Turnbull Associates. Built by Leo Thibodeau. 1976 Homes for Better Living First Honor Award winner, a house-within-a-house: a 2,700-sq.-ft. inner structure surrounded by 2,500 sq. ft. of enclosed porches behind a redwood lattice on a built-up timber frame, with a central skylit stair tower organizing the plan. The jury called it perhaps the most original concept they had seen. Featured in House & Home, October 1976. Warren Zimmermann, later the last US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, lived here until his death in 2004. Sold in 2004 and again in 2023. Standing as of 2026.
1976 - The Peter Lowenstein House, 24 Old Orchard Road, Mendham Township NJ. Designed by Chimacoff/Peterson. Built by Maw and McKinnel. Structural engineer Weiner and Thaler. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1976. Sold in 2022 (owner name redacted in the public MOD-IV file). Standing as of 2025.
1976 - The Ben Collins House, Perry Park CO. Designed by Arley Rinehart Associates. Built by Ben Collins. Structural engineer Ron Frickel. Photo by Richard Springgate. Was an Architectural Record House 1976. Sold by 1976 to Dr. and Mrs. Nelson E. Mohler. Photo by Richard Springgate, Robert McConnell.
1976 - The Jorgen Jensen House, Atlanta (Buckhead), Atlanta GA. Designed by Porter/Kelly. Built by R. L. Connelly & Son. Structural engineer Armour & Cape. Landscape architect Laubmann-Reed & Associates. Photo by E. Alan McGee. Was an Architectural Record House 1978.
1976 - House, Northern Massachusetts. Designed by Melvin Smith/Noel Yauch. Built by Gordon Houldesworth. Structural engineer Antony Vairamides. Landscape architect Matthew Tomich. Photo by David Hirsch. Was an Architectural Record House 1976.
1976 - House, St. Helena CA. Designed by Kirby Ward Fitzpatrick. Built by H. S. Meinberger and Son. Landscape architect Jonathan Herr. Photo by Jim Ball. Was an Architectural Record House 1976.
1976 - The John Wierdsma House, Nantucket MA. Designed by Louis Mackall. Photo by Robert Perron. Was an Architectural Record House 1976.
1976 - House, Long Island NY. Designed by Alfredo De Vido. Built by (owner-built). Structural engineer Charles Thornton. Photo by Ernest Silva. Was an Architectural Record House 1976.
1976 - House in Southern Vermont. Designed by Hobart Betts. Built by MacDonald & Swan Construction. Structural engineer Gleit, Olenek & Associates. Landscape architect Terrence Boyle. Photo by George Cserna. Was an Architectural Record House 1976.
1976 - House, Northern Ohio. Designed by Don Hisaka & Associates. Built by Buell Davidson. Structural engineer Gensert-Peller Associates. Photo by Thom Abel. Was an Architectural Record House 1976.
1976 - House, Belvedere CA. Designed by Callister, Payne & Bischoff. Built by Olin Construction. Structural engineer Shapiro, Okino, Hom & Associates. Photo by Philip Molten. Was an Architectural Record House 1976.
1976 - The Warren J. Coville House, 7738 Lakeshore Road, Lakeport MI. Designed by William Kessler and Associates. Built by John Keils. Structural engineer McClurg Associates. Photo by Balthazar Korab. Was an Architectural Record House 1976. Sold in 2000 and 2019.
1976 - The Robert Kindorf House, Plumas County CA. Designed by Robert Kindorf. Built by The Kindorf family. Photo by Philip Molten. Was an Architectural Record House 1976.
1976 - The Warren Barr, Jr. House, Hinsdale IL. Designed by Booth & Nagle. Built by The Maddock Construction Company. Structural engineer Weisinger-Holland. Photo by Philip Turner. Was an Architectural Record House 1976. Built by Maddock Construction Co. First Honor Award, 1978 AIA Homes for Better Living program. A two-story house that borrows from both traditional and contemporary architecture: brick walls, central entry and a conventional up-down room organization joined to geometric massing, broad and tall glass, an open public floor and skylighted two-story spaces. The 3,300-sq.-ft. house includes a separate garage. Featured in Housing, August 1978.
1976 - HFBL Award of Merit House, Houston TX. Designed by Robert E. Griffin and William R. Jenkins. Built by Willard & Associates. A 5,650-sq.-ft. multi-level house organized along a narrow gallery used to display an art collection, which starts at the entry, extends past a half-sunken library and raised guest room, and opens the rear of the house to daylight through a window wall. Photos by Richard Payne. Featured in House & Home, September 1977.
1976 - HFBL Award of Merit House, Minneapolis MN. Designed by Leonard Parker Associates. Built by Henning Nelson Construction Co. A 3,612-sq.-ft. three-level house on a small, steep hillside site, organized around a 28-foot-square social and recreational core whose glazed walls and cantilevered decks open to the downhill view, while an L-shaped service and bedroom zone shields the uphill side for privacy. Photos by Balthazar Korab. Featured in House & Home, September 1977.
1976 - The Tai Soo Kim House, 41 Concord Street, West Hartford CT. Designed by Tai Soo Kim. Built by Peter St. Pierre. The architect's own compact 1,900-square-foot contemporary home on a tight suburban lot, its one-room main living level open to the outdoors on two sides, with four solid sliding panels hung outside the rear glass wall for privacy and energy conservation. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit. Photo by Nick Wheeler. Featured in Housing, September 1979. Still owned by Tai Soo and Ryoung Ja Kim as of 2024.
1976 - The Gerald A. Williams House, 4720 NE 36th Street, Seattle WA. Designed by Gerald A. Williams of TRA. Built by Tom Paulsen. Structural engineer Donald G. Radcliffe of TRA. Landscape architect Dorothy Hussey. Photo by Michael Burns. Was an Architectural Record House 1979. Sold in 2020 to Hernando Olivar and Nathalia Jimenez. Standing as of 2026.
1977 - The William Erdos House, Bath Township OH. Designed by J. Lawrence Scott. Built by William Erdos. Was an Architectural Record House 1977. On a 13-acre site near what is now Cuyahoga Valley National Park, replacing a weekend cabin.
1977 - The David W. Maxey House, Wayne County PA. Designed by Lyman S. A. Perry. Built by Norella Brothers. Structural engineer Keast and Hood. Photo by Positive Two Studios. Was an Architectural Record House 1977.
1977 - The Don Chapell House, East Hampton NY. Designed by Don Chapell. Built by John Caramagna. Photo by Bernard Askienazy. Was an Architectural Record House 1977.
1977 - The Edward Lieto House, Westchester NY. Designed by Walter Brown/Lawrence Jacobs. Built by Joseph Loria. Photo by Lawrence Queen. Was an Architectural Record House 1977.
1977 - House, Arlington VA. Designed by Arthur Cotton Moore Associates. Structural engineer Carcaterra & Associates. Photo by Ronald Thomas. Was an Architectural Record House 1977.
1977 - House, Eastern Long Island NY. Designed by Hobart Betts Associates. Built by Harold R. Reeve & Sons. Structural engineer Gleit Olenek & Associates. Photo by David Franzen. Was an Architectural Record House 1977.
1977 - House, New York State. Designed by Crissman & Solomon. Built by Gilligan Brothers. Structural engineer Eugene Hamilton. Landscape architect Lucy Tittman. Photo by Steve Rosenthal. Was an Architectural Record House 1977. An addition to and renovation of an existing house for a doctor, on rolling land running down to a small lake.
1977 - The H. H. Griggs House, Puget Sound WA. Designed by Richard Cardwell. Built by Nelson Lumber. Photo by Larry Hutson. Was an Architectural Record House 1977.
1977 - The Paul Gray House, Santa Barbara CA. Designed by Warner-Gray. Built by A. O. Pieper. Structural engineer Theodore Anvick. Landscape architect Richard Harrington; Paul Gray. Photo by Charles White. Was an Architectural Record House 1977.
1977 - Soerensen Custom Houses, Charlotte NC. Designed by Clark Harris Tribble and Li. Built by Soerensen Homes Inc. Contemporary one-of-a-kind custom houses produced economically through a design/construction system built on a 4' module, standardized components and distinctive detailing such as shed roofs, shingle siding and site-built greenhouse glazing. Photo by Rick Alexander. Featured in Housing, March 1978.
1977 - The Thomas Galbraith House, Tacoma WA. Designed by Alan Liddle. Built by Dick Wegner. Award of Merit, 1978 AIA Homes for Better Living program. A small, low 1,600-sq.-ft. house that follows the contours of its 80-by-150-ft. site, its irregular-shaped rooms clustered for views of the surrounding woods and a meandering stream. Despite heavy tree cover, the interior is bathed in daylight through tall unshaded windows, a kitchen greenhouse extension and skylights. Photo by Ray O. Welch. Featured in Housing, August 1978. Designed in 1974.
1977 - Dallas Gallery House, Dallas TX. Designed by Booth Nagle & Hartray. Built by Wunderlick Construction Co. Award of Merit, 1978 AIA Homes for Better Living program. A 150-ft.-long, 6,000-sq.-ft. white stucco house designed as a showcase for the owners' painting and sculpture collection: the entry opens to a gallery-like hall lit by narrow awning windows, while the 11-ft.-high south side is floor-to-ceiling glass so every room faces the broad deck and swimming pool. Half the house is one partition-free space. Photos by Hedrich-Blessing. Featured in Housing, August 1978.
1977 - Paganelli Spec House, Oakland CA. Designed by Robert Swatt & Bernard Stein. Built by Specialty Building. Award of Merit, 1978 AIA Homes for Better Living program, for developer Paganelli Enterprises: a quasi-custom tri-level spec house on concrete piers and grade beams that seems to grow out of its steep 8,500-sq.-ft. site. Skylights, clerestories and volume space keep the tree-shaded interior bright, a trellis-covered deck wraps the kitchen and dining rooms, and redwood plywood siding meets black anodized aluminum windows. The 1,650-sq.-ft. house. Photo by Joshua Freiwald. Featured in Housing, September 1978.
1977 - The John Slack House, 5333 Raven Oaks Drive, Omaha NE. Designed by John Slack. Built by John Slack. Photo by Stephen Parezo. Was an Architectural Record House 1979. Sold in 2022.
1978 - The Harry Nilsson House, 10549 Rocca Place, Bel Air, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Eugene Kupper. Photographed by Julius Shulman. Sold and altered. Sold to actor Kelsey Grammer in 2007. Sold in 2009. Needs verification.
1978 - aka Autonomous Dwelling Vehicle, St. Louis MO. Designed by Michael Jantzen and Edward Lilburn Bakewell III. Status unknown. A towable 450 sq ft one-person dwelling built on a recycled mobile-office chassis with a shell of aluminized-steel silo sections. Michael and Ellen Jantzen assembled it beside their house in Carlyle IL. It was then towed to suburban St. Louis County, where co-designer and client Edward L. (Ted) Bakewell III lived in it from about 1980 on one of his firm's office-park sites, probably the Corporate Square development off Woodfield Lane. Published in Popular Science (April 1980) and Progressive Architecture (April 1981). Later fate unknown.
1978 - The Richard Hobbs House, 530 Hillside Drive East, Seattle WA. Designed by Hobbs Fukui Associates. Built by Stole Building Company. Structural engineer Robert G. Albrecht. Landscape architect Thomas L. Berger. Photo by Art Hupy. Was an Architectural Record House 1978. Apparently replaced: King County records a house built in 1998 at this address, and a listing credits its design to Stuart Silk. Sold in 2017 to Michael Larson.
1978 - The Frank W. Hulse IV House, 96 Westminster Drive NE, Atlanta GA. Designed by Anthony Ames. Built by I. B. Hiers. Structural engineer Smith and Freeman. Photo by E. Alan McGee. Was an Architectural Record House 1978. Owned by Lillian C. and Gregory J. Giornelli.
1978 - The Warren M. Shapleigh House, 160 Mishaum Point Road, South Dartmouth MA. Designed by Graham Gund Associates. Built by Mishaum Construction Company. Structural engineer Souza & True. Photo by Steve Rosenthal. Was an Architectural Record House 1979, featured on the cover. Also listed as the Jane and Warren Shapleigh House. Transferred in 2013 to Jane S. Mackey, trustee (the Shapleighs' daughter). Standing as of 2025.
1978 - The Clarence and Kay Hall House, Napa CA. Designed by Roland/Miller Associates. Built by Charles Gentry. Photo by Barbeau Engh. Was an Architectural Record House 1978. A 1978 AIA Homes for Better Living First Honor Award winner: a compact 1,800-sq.-ft. year-round house designed to look like a vacation home, tucked among trees on a six-acre hillside. Two stacked 20-by-20-ft. modular units connect by a stairwell, with a wraparound mid-level deck, a living room that steps up and down, plywood siding and a partly glass roof. Featured in Housing, August 1978.
1978 - House, Maryland Eastern Shore MD. Designed by Moore Grover Harper. Built by L.G.R. Structural engineer Ronald Schaeffer. Landscape architect Lester Collins. Photo by Norman McGrath. Charles Moore and Mark Simon were project architects. Was an Architectural Record House 1978. A barn converted to a second home.
1978 - House, Glencoe IL. Designed by Booth Nagle & Hartray. Built by H. O. Schulz Company. Structural engineer Wiesinger-Holland, Ltd. Landscape architect Joe Karr & Associates. Photo by Phillip Turner. Published as House on Lake Michigan. Was an Architectural Record House 1978. Built by Harold O. Schulz Co. Landscape architect: Joe Karr & Associates. First Honor Award, 1978 AIA Homes for Better Living program. A transparent 5,500-sq.-ft. house framed in steel on 27-ft. bays, its completely open upper level looking out on woods and Lake Michigan through double-glazed one-inch glass walls on three sides, with only a sauna separating master suite from living room. Children's and guest quarters occupy a lower level set into the sloping site. Photo by Philip Turner. Featured in Housing, August 1978.
1978 - The William and Karen Desberg House, Central Ohio. Designed by Trout Architects. Built by Melbro. Structural engineer Williams & Hach. Photo by Alan Holm. Was an Architectural Record House 1978.
1978 - The Roger Opp House, St. Paul MN. Designed by Design Consortium. Photo by Phillip MacMillan James. James Geisler was project architect. Was an Architectural Record House 1978. A renovation of an old brick rowhouse.
1978 - House, Rutherford CA. Designed by Bull Field Volkmann Stockwell. Built by Edward R. Palmer. Structural engineer L. F. Robinson & Associates. Landscape architect Thomas Church. Photo by Karl Reik. Daniel Volkmann was partner in charge. Was an Architectural Record House 1978.
1978 - House, Park County WY. Designed by Moulton Andrus. Built by Don Hicks; Nic Patrick. Structural engineer Burgstahler, Holmes, Carlson. Photo by Moulton Andrus. On the Brown Thomas Meadow ranch. Was an Architectural Record House 1978.
1978 - The Lynn Whitton and Diane Dailey House, Watermill NY. Designed by Alfredo De Vido. Built by Mark Mathews. Structural engineer Charles Thorton. Photo by Eliot Fine. Was an Architectural Record House 1978.
1978 - House, The Sea Ranch CA. Designed by Donald Jacobs. Built by Robert Miller Construction Company. Structural engineer Fook Z. Lee. Photo by Merg Ross. Was an Architectural Record House 1978.
1978 - The Jefferson Riley House, 606 Dunk Rock Road, Guilford CT. Designed by Jefferson Riley / Moore Grover Harper. Built by Essex Builders. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1978. The architect's own house. Sold in 2023.
1978 - Long Island Colonial Compound, Eastern Long Island NY. Designed by Howard Barnstone. Built by M. Clarke Smith. Landscape architect: Zion & Breen Associates. Three late-17th and early-18th-century buildings moved, regrouped on new foundations and restored with hand-hewn lumber, milk paint and antique hardware into a 9,500-square-foot family compound, with a barn converted into a living room and linked to the main house by a greenhouse. Homes for Better Living First Honor Award. Featured in Housing, July 1979.
1978 - The Fred Corbus House, 11101 East Bajada Drive, Scottsdale AZ. Designed by Edward B. Sawyer Jr. Built by Fred Corbus. A glass box-like desert residence of steel columns bolted to glu-lam beams, suspended above a ravine and surrounded by huge boulders, with transparent walls and decks on all four sides. Aluminum shade screens and careful siting make air conditioning unnecessary, and solar heating is used. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit. Photo by Payne & Karbelnikoff. Featured in Housing, September 1979. Still owned by the Corbus family as of 2026.
1978 - The Joseph Foster House, Pacifica CA. Designed by Kirby Ward Fitzpatrick. Built by Galli Homes. A secluded 1,200-square-foot tri-level bachelor's residence stepping up a half-acre hillside in a San Francisco suburb, with rooflines paralleling the sloping terrain, large corner windows with ocean views in three of its four rooms, and a balcony overlooking the living room. Homes for Better Living Award of Merit. Featured in Housing, September 1979.
1978 - aka Osmon Residence, 42401 North Deer Trail Road, Cave Creek AZ. Designed by Fred Linn Osmon. Structural engineer Yury Sheydayi. Photo by Joshua Freiwald. Was an Architectural Record House 1979. Owned since 2018 by the Karl and Martha Stock Revocable Trust.
1979 - The Randall Presley House, aka House of the Future, 3713 East Equestrian Trail, Phoenix AZ. Designed by Charles Schiffner. The 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.
1979 - The Jay McCafferty Studio House, 1017 South Beacon Street, San Pedro CA. Designed by Coy Howard. Still owned by the McCafferty Family Trust, with Jay and Ellen McCafferty as trustees. They are the original clients. Still owned by Jay and Ellen McCafferty. Standing as of 2026.
1979 - The Laurie and Loren-Paul Caplin House, 229 San Juan Avenue, Venice CA. architect Frederick Fisher's first solo project, designed toward the end working for Frank Gehry. 2,684 sf. Sold in 2013 to Varun Soni; owned by Varun and Shakti Soni since 2017. Standing as of 2026.
1979 - The Robert Mittelstadt Duplex, 21-23 Prospect Avenue, San Francisco CA. Designed by Robert Mittelstadt. In the Bernal Heights neighborhood. The assessor carries the two-unit building with a 1979 build year; sold in 2023. Standing as of 2025.
1979 - The James R. and Demetra Wilson Tuscan and Laurentian Houses, 620 South K Street, Livermore CA. Designed by Thomas Gordon Smith as two adjacent houses, the Tuscan and the Laurentian, immediately before he took up a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Among the defining works of American postmodern classicism and a precursor to the wholly Classical practice Smith pursued afterwards; he opened his own office in 1981 and closed it in 2015. Photographed by Heinrich Klotz, whose images are in the Bildarchiv of the HfG Karlsruhe, and by Douglas Symes. Published in GA Houses 3 and in Domus 610, October 1980. The Tuscan House at 620 South K Street was sold by its original owners in 2003 and sold again in 2013; the Laurentian House stands on the adjoining lot, split from the same original parcel. Standing as of 2024.
1979 - The Heyward and Sheila Isham House, 872 Sagg Main Street, Sagaponack NY. Designed by Moore Grover Harper. Built by Caramagna and Murphy. Structural engineer Spiegel & Zamecnik. Landscape architect Lester Collins. Photo by Norman McGrath. Charles W. Moore was project architect. Was an Architectural Record House 1979. Photo by Norman McGrath (courtesy House & Garden, Conde Nast 1979).
1979 - The Chauncey C. Loomis House, 6 Glendale Middle Road, Stockbridge MA. Designed by Christopher H. L. Owen. Built by Berkshire Engineering & Construction. Structural engineer Paul Gossen. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1980, featured on the cover. Needs verification. Still assessed to Chauncey C. Loomis Jr. Standing as of 2025.
1979 - The David Rodes House, 1406 North Kenter Avenue, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Moore Ruble Yudell (Charles W. Moore, Buzz Yudell). Built by Cardel Killifer. Photo by Tim Street-Porter. Color by Tina Beebe. Was an Architectural Record House 1981. Los Angeles County dates the structure to 1962, which would make the 1979 work a remodel of an existing house rather than new construction. Sold in 2015 and again in 2021. Standing as of 2026; offered for lease several times from 2023.
1979 - The Martha Peitzke / Peter Wilson House, 10 East Walk, Fire Island NY. Designed by Peter Wilson Associates. Built by Paul Shands Contracting. Structural engineer Ken Eipel / Eipel Engineering. Photo by Peter Aaron (ESTO). Was an Architectural Record House 1982. The address is also given as 10 Midway Walk.
1979 - 415 Marquette Drive, New Buffalo MI. Designed by Veronda Associates. Built by (owner). Structural engineer S. P. Asrow Associates, Ltd. Photo by Bill Hedrich, Hedrich-Blessing. Was an Architectural Record House 1983.
1979 - The David Barr House, 22600 Napier Road, Novi MI. Designed by Booth/Hansen & Associates. Built by (owner). Photo by Henry M. Bowles, Jr. Published as Villa Barr. Was an Architectural Record House 1983. The City of Novi bought the house, studio and four acres in 2011, with Barr keeping a life estate; after his death in 2015 it became Villa Barr Art Park, and the house now hosts an artist residency. Standing as of 2026.
1979 - The Peter and Kathie Behn House, 68 Richardson Road, Kensington CA. Designed by Peter Behn. Structural engineer Raymond Lindahl. Photo by Douglas Symes. Was an Architectural Record House 1979. The architect's own house. Sold in 2008.
1979 - The Richard Flintoft House, Nantucket Island MA. Designed by Bissell & Wells. Built by Pat Paradise. Structural engineer Stanley Gleit. Photo by David Franzen (ESTO). Was an Architectural Record House 1979.
1979 - The Jon Najarian House, Long Beach Island NJ. Designed by Christopher H. L. Owen. Built by David P. Ash. Structural engineer Paul A. Gossen. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1979. Also featured in Architectural Record, June 1979.
1979 - The Richard Dickson House, New Vernon NJ. Designed by Crissman & Solomon. Built by Robert Rochelle. Structural engineer Charles Chaloff. Photo by Steve Rosenthal. Was an Architectural Record House 1979. New Vernon is in Harding Township.
1979 - House, Quogue NY. Designed by Hobart Betts Associates. Built by Ted Vollgraff. Photo by William Maris. Was an Architectural Record House 1979. A renovation of a beachfront cottage within its existing 650-sq.-ft. envelope.
1979 - House, Westchester NY. Designed by Keith Kroeger Associates. Built by S. G. Homebuilders. Structural engineer Andrew Elliott. Photo by David Franzen (ESTO). Was an Architectural Record House 1979. Photo by David Franzen/ESTO.
1979 - The F. Cecil Baker House, aka Candy Factory Court, 620 South American Street, Philadelphia PA. Designed by Baker Rothschild Horn Blyth. Built by BRHB Developers. Photo by Tom Crane. Was an Architectural Record House 1979. One of four units carved from a former candy factory. Sold in 2015.
1979 - The Steve, David and Linda Conger House, Guilford CT. Designed by Leela Design. Built by Leela Design. Photo by Robert Perron. Was an Architectural Record House 1979.
1979 - House, Westford MA. Designed by Massdesign. Built by Architectural Designers & Builders. Structural engineer Souza & True. Photo by Steve Rosenthal. Mollie B. Moran was project designer. Was an Architectural Record House 1979.
1979 - The Gerald Williams House, aka Open Living on a Hemmed-In Site, 4720 NE 36th Street, Seattle WA. Designed by Gerald Williams. A 2,700 sq ft house layered into a hillside on an odd 120-by-50-foot lot overlooking Lake Washington, held to a strict height limit by setting living areas at stepped levels above an existing below-grade garage. A curved cedar-lath trellis planted with ivy and flowering vines wraps the south and west faces for sun control, letting the house dissolve into its garden-like site; 1980 Homes for Better Living Award of Merit. Featured in Housing, October 1980. The architect's own house, in Laurelhurst.
1979 - A Year-Round Pavilion for a Wooded Site, Bainbridge Island WA. Designed by Morgan and Lindstrom. A 2,400 sq ft post-and-beam pavilion that appears to float above its meadow site near Puget Sound, its virtually windowless interior lit through a translucent fiberglass roof that HFBL jurors praised for its luminescence. A sheltered open-air play loft runs down the center, and the structural posts carry to the ground so the house touches its site as lightly as possible; 1980 Homes for Better Living Honor Award. Photos by Christian Staub. Featured in Housing, October 1980.
1979 - Private Living on a Narrow Coastal Site. Designed by Huygens and Tappe. A T-shaped house for a doctor's family on one of the last undeveloped parcels of the New England coast, its street side designed to blend with traditional seaside neighbors while the living room and master bedroom wing jut dramatically toward the sea atop unblasted rock. A long glass-lined colonnade leads the eye to the water, and local stone, cement brick, tile and stained clapboard tie it to its surroundings; 1980 Homes for Better Living Award of Merit. Photos by Steve Rosenthal. Featured in Housing, October 1980.
1980 - The Kinney House, aka the Plywood House, Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County NY. The first built architectural project by Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio.
1980 - aka 708 House Renovation, 708 El Medio Avenue, Pacific Palisades CA. Designed by Eric Owen Moss. 1948 single-story house originally designed by Milton H. Caughey. Destroyed in the 2025 Palisades Fire. Owned by Maureen Moss (recorded transfer 2000). The house was destroyed in the 2025 Palisades fire; the lot is still held as of 2026.
1980 - The Venus Project, 21 Valley Lane, Venus FL. 21-acre former research and design compound built by industrial designer and self-described "social engineer" Jacque Fresco on what was once a tomato farm in rural central Florida. Ten curvilinear, domed, all-white buildings featuring bubble windows and skylights. Owned by The Venus Project and co-creator, Roxanne Meadows, who continues to host visitors, seminars, and tours.
1980 - 2735 N Sheridan Road, Evanston IL. Designed by Booth-Hansen Associates (Laurence Booth). Built by H. O. Schultz. Structural engineer Beer, Svabgorski & Graff. Landscape architect Joe Karr & Associates. Photo by Orlando Cabanban. Was an Architectural Record House 1980. Owned by Muneer Satter by 1999; sold in 2004 to Charles A. Lewis and Penny Sebring, owners as of 2026.
1980 - The Bernard Percarpio House, Guilford CT, Southern Connecticut. Designed by Moore Grover Harper (Jefferson B. Riley). Built by Richard Riggio & Sons. Structural engineer Besier, Gibble & Quirin. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1980.
1980 - 389 River Road, Carlisle MA. Designed by Charles R. Rolando & Associates. Built by Rolando Construction Company. Structural engineer Edward Lenorman. Landscape architect Charles Rolando and Ann Woodward. Photo by Steve Rosenthal. Was an Architectural Record House 1980. Sold in 2017 to David N. Campbell, trustee, owner as of 2026.
1980 - 3312 P Street NW, Washington DC. Designed by Arthur Cotton Moore Associates. Built by Commercial Industrial Construction. Structural engineer Tadjer-Cohen. Photo by Max Hirshfeld. Was an Architectural Record House 1980. Sold in 2007 to Michael Arthur, owner as of 2026.
1980 - The Peggy Moore House, 727 Windmill Drive, Mutiny Bay, Freeland, Whidbey Island WA. Designed by Arne Bystrom. Built by Roy Hegennes. Photo by Arne Bystrom (architect). Was an Architectural Record House 1980. Marguerite E. Moore sold it in 2012 to James K. McBain, trustee, owner as of 2026.
1980 - The Dave Fultz House, 475 E 1000 N, Chesterton, Porter County IN. Designed by Hammond, Beeby and Babka (Thomas H. Beeby). Built by Carmen Good Builders. Structural engineer Gullaksen and Getty. Photo by Howard N. Kaplan. Was an Architectural Record House 1981. Also listed as the David Fultz House, North 475 East. Owned by Mark J. Oreglia and Margery A. Ishmael.
1980 - The Julian and Leila Sobin House, 124 Bluff Point Drive, Cotuit MA. Designed by Grattan Gill (David MacLean, project assistant). Built by Turner Construction. Structural engineer Alan W. Jones. Mechanical engineer Helden Associates. Photo by Edward C. Robinson III. A seven-level house stepping down the bluff at the Cotuit Bay entrance on five acres cut from the Codman estate, with a ham-radio room at the top, a greenhouse along the stair, quarter-round decks, and an independent guest house (128 Bluff Point Drive). Sold in 1999. Was an Architectural Record House 1980.
1980 - House, Northern Connecticut. Designed by Perry, Dean, Stahl & Rogers (Steven M. Foote). Built by Gilligan Brothers. Photo by Edward Jacoby. Was an Architectural Record House 1980.
1980 - House, New England coast. Designed by Huygens and Tappe Inc. Built by Beverly Brothers Inc. Structural engineer C. A. Crowley Engineering Inc. Landscape architect Francis Roehrig. Photo by Steve Rosenthal. Was an Architectural Record House 1980.
1980 - House, Vaughan ON. Designed by C. Blakeway Millar. Built by G. Faion and Sons. Structural engineer Morrison, Herschfield, Burgess, Huggins. Photo by Dennis Hall. Was an Architectural Record House 1980.
1980 - House, Mercer Island WA. Designed by Robert George Becker. Structural engineer Martens/Kratz and Chan. Photo by Ray Meuse. Was an Architectural Record House 1980.
1980 - The Larry Yaw House, Aspen CO. Designed by Copland, Hagman, Yaw Ltd. Built by Sutherland Construction Company. Structural engineer Anderson and Hastings. Photo by David Marlow. Was an Architectural Record House 1980.
1980 - The Zuckerman House, 6 Forest Trail, Woodbridge CT. Designed by Roth and Moore. Built by Murdock Construction. Structural engineer Spiegel and Zamecnik. Landscape architect Peter Rolland Associates. Photo by Robert Perron. Was an Architectural Record House 1980. Still owned by the original clients, Deborah and Arthur Zuckerman.
1980 - House, Lanikai HI. Designed by Zephyr Architectural Partnership. Built by Construction Ahead. Structural engineer David Brumme. Photo by David Franzen (ESTO). Built-for-sale; bridge over filled gully. Was an Architectural Record House 1980.
1980 - The Graham and Ann Stafford House, New Orleans LA. Designed by Errol Barron/Michael Toups. Built by Goodyear Construction. Structural engineer Richard O. Powell. Photo by Alan Karchmer. Was an Architectural Record House 1980.
1980 - House, Eastern Long Island NY. Designed by Mayers & Schiff & Associates. Built by Caramagna & Murphy. Structural engineer Robert Silman. Landscape architect Zion & Breen / Quennel Rothschild. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1980.
1980 - Award of Merit House in Santa Clara County, Santa Clara County CA. Designed by Fisher-Friedman Associates. Built by Vintage Construction Co. Award of Merit winner in the 1981 Homes for Better Living program, a rambling cedar-shingled hillside house set into a gentle slope above a creek, screened by vine-covered arbors on its downhill face. Photos by Joshua Freiwald. Featured in Housing, September 1981.
1981 - aka Hibiscus House, 3721 Hibiscus Street, Coconut Grove, Miami FL. Designed by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. 4,016 sf. Sold in 2020. Was an Architectural Record House 1983.
1981 - The Gagosian House and Gallery, aka Palazzo Gagosian, 51 Market Street, Venice CA. Designed by Studio Works (Robert Mangurian and Craig Hodgetts) with Frank Lupo; Audrey Matlock is also credited in the Progressive Architecture account. Built 1978-1981. Commissioned by art dealer Larry Gagosian as a gallery with his own apartment above, one of the first in his chain. A blank gray stucco street facade conceals an open-air circular court with a sculptural wooden stair. Named among the 200 most significant Los Angeles buildings of the past 200 years for the city’s Bicentennial. Listed by the Los Angeles Conservancy. Standing. Mangurian died July 5, 2023. Published in GA Houses 9, 1981, and as Barbara Goldstein, “Venetian masque,” Progressive Architecture, February 1981. Address independently confirmed: Los Angeles County records 51 Market Street as built in 1981, 3,381 sf — matching this entry and confirming the correction from 44 Horizon Court. Los Angeles County records the last change of ownership in 1986; current owner not identified. Last changed hands in 1986. The gallery has long since moved out; standing, in other use, as of 2026.
1981 - The Pantaleoni and Spooner families House, 2 Old Wharf Road, Nonquitt, Dartmouth MA. Designed by Crissman & Solomon Architects. Built by Costa J. Limberakis. Structural engineer Charles Chaloff. Photo by Steve Rosenthal. Was an Architectural Record House 1981. The assessor lists two 1979 houses, at 2 and 3 Old Wharf Road. 2 Old Wharf Rd transferred in 2013 to John D. Spooner and a co-owner; 3 Old Wharf Rd transferred in 2012 to Michael Thomas Pantaleoni. At Nonquitt, South Dartmouth: 2 Old Wharf Road (Spooner, since 2013) and 3 Old Wharf Road (Pantaleoni, since 2012). Standing as of 2025.
1981 - Remodeled Carriage House, 85 Eastway Drive, Shinnecock Hills, Southampton NY. Designed by Susana Torre, The Architectural Studio. Built by Harold Reeve and Sons. Photo by Timothy Hursley. A remodeled c. 1910 carriage house and stable. Was an Architectural Record House 1982. A Grosvenor Atterbury stable of about 1910, moved a quarter mile to this site in Shinnecock Hills.
1981 - The Sonja and William Davidow House, 7224 Alealea Road, Haena, Kauai HI. Designed by MLTW/Turnbull Associates (William Turnbull Jr.). Built by Consolidated Corporation. Structural engineer Peter Culley and Associates. Photo by David Franzen. Was an Architectural Record House 1983. Still owned by the Davidow Family Trust.
1981 - The Bob and Beverly Fuisz House, 180 Green Pond Road, Lower Nazareth Township PA. Designed by Turner Brooks. Built by Bob Fuisz. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1988. On the Fuisz family farm; the assessor dates the house 1985. Still owned by Robert E. and Beverly H. Fuisz as of 2026.
1981 - House, Southeastern Michigan. Designed by William Kessler and Associates. Built by Tage Ketelsen & Company. Structural engineer William Paxton and Associates. Landscape architect Johnson, Johnson and Roy. Photo by Timothy Hursley, B. Korab Ltd. Was an Architectural Record House 1981.
1981 - House, Santa Clara CA. Designed by Fisher-Friedman Associates. Built by Vintage Construction. Structural engineer Robinson-Meier-Luilly. Landscape architect Omi-Lang Associates. Photo by Joshua Freiwald. Was an Architectural Record House 1981.
1981 - The David Strupp House, Rye NY. Designed by Morse & Harvey (John Harvey). Built by Slavin Contracting Company. Structural engineer Harwood & Gould. Landscape architect Vreeland & Guerriero. Photo by Otto Baitz. Was an Architectural Record House 1981.
1981 - The John and Jean Ross House, Old Westbury NY. Designed by Michael Ross Associates (Michael Franklin Ross). Built by Harry Sprukts Construction Company. Structural engineer William McKerracher. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1981.
1981 - The William Cannady House, Round Top TX. Designed by Wm. T. Cannady & Associates Inc. Built by Kermit Wunderlich. Structural engineer Nat Krahl. Photo by Paul Hester. Was an Architectural Record House 1981.
1981 - The Thomas Lam House, Oakland CA. Designed by Bernard Stein of Swatt & Stein. Built by Thomas Lam. Built on a 25-degree slope for tract builder-developer Thomas Lam, this plywood-sided house follows the contours of the hill on pier-and-grade-beam construction anchored to bedrock, avoiding costly retaining walls. A 20-foot-high window wall on the street facade lights the main living areas, with roof decks and trellises shading east and west glazing. Featured in Housing, July 1982.
1981 - The Eric Hefty House, 770 Big Flat Road, Missoula MT. Designed by Eric Hefty & Associates. Built by Eric Hefty. First Honor Award winner in the 1982 Homes for Better Living program, this shingled residence steps down a pristine 30-acre hillside with panoramic views toward the Rattlesnake Range, designed by the architect-owner-builder around every existing tree and bush, with 980 square feet of multilevel decks, R-30 walls, triple glazing and rock thermal storage beneath the living room. Photo by Marc & Eric Hefty. Featured in Housing, August 1982. The architect's own house.
1981 - The Edward J. Lenkin House, aka Foggy Bottom Residence, 901 26th Street NW, Foggy Bottom, Washington DC. Designed by Kerns Group. Built by The Lenkin Company. First Honor Award winner in the 1982 Homes for Better Living program, this cypress-clad contemporary bachelor's house weaves in and out of a 19th-century brick shell on a 1,888-square-foot Foggy Bottom lot, its third-floor master suite looking out over the Potomac, Georgetown and the Watergate. Photo by Peter Harholdt. Featured in Housing, August 1982. A remodeling of an 1880 brick building at the river edge of Foggy Bottom. Still owned by Edward J. Lenkin as of 2026.
1981 - Space-Expanding House, Miami FL. Designed by Barry Sugerman. Built by Besola Construction. Engineers: Spolter-Frechtel. A south Florida custom house that demonstrates space-stretching design on a narrow lot: an entry tower and floating carport roof direct the eye to the center of the house, continuous clerestories make the ceiling appear to float, and the main entertainment area sits on a diagonal to borrow the neighbor's landscaped yard. Interiors by Sugerman/Neuman. Featured in Housing, August 1982.
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. Featured as a 2016 Architectural Record house.
1982 - The Errol J. Kirsch House, aka "The Bunker," 1046 Fair Oaks Avenue, Oak Park IL. Designed by Errol J. Kirsch as his personal residence. Clad in concrete with a tapered exterior, concrete fins at the central bays of the facade, an asymmetrical, eccentric form, and a garage wing on the east side of the house. Sold in 1995 to David L. Reimer. Sold in 1998 to Lynn E. And Errol J. Kirsch.
1982 - aka Petal Renovation, 2828 Midvale Avenue, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Eric Owen Moss. Sold in 2003 to Roger Nygard and in 2013 to Richard and Maribeth Mason, owners as of 2026.
1982 - The Dome Cluster House, Bartelso, Carlyle IL. Designed by Michael Jantzen for his mother, Patricia K. Jantzen, and his sisters. Four merged 26-foot silo-top domes in a Y plan, published in Popular Science (March 1982) and Domus (November 1982). Status unknown.
1982 - 58 Wells Hill Road, Fairfield County CT. Designed by Redroof Design. Built by Roxbury Contractors. Structural engineer Doug Watson. Photo by Elliott Erwitt. Was an Architectural Record House 1982. Owned by Avalon LLC (principal Jeff Murcko), formed in 2023.
1982 - The Al Wandich House, Stoney Lake, Peterborough ON. Designed by Jim Strasman, Architects. Built by West End Construction Ltd. Structural engineer Robert Halsall & Associates. Landscape architect Gerritt Gosker. Photo by Otto Baitz. Was an Architectural Record House 1983.
1982 - The Robert Allen House, Longview TX. Designed by The Allen/Buie Partnership. Built by M. Cline Brown Company. Structural engineer Hixson & Harris. Landscape architect Joseph Bramlette. Photo by Hursley & Lark. Was an Architectural Record House 1982.
1982 - The Edgar and Barbara Boyles House, 266 Wildwood Lane, Aspen CO. Designed by Harry Teague. Built by S.L.O.W. Construction. Photo by Gordon Schenck. Was an Architectural Record House 1982.
1982 - The Fredrick & Martha Vang House, Napa CA. Designed by Alexander Seidel & Jared Carlin. Built by Gordon Draper. Photo by Gerald Ratto. Was an Architectural Record House 1982.
1982 - The Jane and Jeremiah Eck House, 77 North Street, Newton MA. Designed by Jeremiah Eck (Cutler/Eck Inc.). Built by Jeremiah Eck and Richard Rigali & Company. Structural engineer Paul Donnelly. Photo by Paul Ferrino. Was an Architectural Record House 1982. The architect's own passive-solar house in Newton Centre, built in 1981; the Ecks lived here through at least 1989. Sold in 1999 to William R. Rodgers. Standing as of 2025.
1982 - The Carl Lohmann House, Quintana Roo Mexico. Designed by George C. T. Woo. Built by Isidoro Jimenez. Photo by Balthazar Korab. Was an Architectural Record House 1982.
1982 - The Deborah and Daniel McMillan House, New Jersey. Designed by Gerald Allen. Built by AYR, Ltd. Structural engineer Robert Silman Associates, P.C. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1982.
1982 - The John Lewis House, 310 North Street, Medfield MA. Designed by Don Metz. Built by Thomas W. Proe. Structural engineer Harris Hyman. Photo by Robert Perron. Was an Architectural Record House 1982. Bought by Richard G. and Mary Beth Casey in 1998. Sold in 1998 to Richard G. Casey (with Mary Beth Casey per entry). Standing as of 2025.
1982 - House, Door County WI. Designed by Nagle, Hartray & Associates Ltd. Built by Carlson, Erickson. Structural engineer Beer Gorsky Graf. Photo by John Hilarides. Was an Architectural Record House 1982.
1982 - The David and Margo Blum House, aka Top-Hat House, 95 West Walk, Water Island NY. Designed by Roger C. Ferri & Associates. Built by Tory Foss. Structural engineer Robert Silman. Photo by Cervin Robinson. Was an Architectural Record House 1982. Sold by the Blums in 2019 and restored.
1983 - The Patterson House, aka Upside Down Teacup, aka the Roofhouse, 4180 North Hill Road, Fishers Island NY. Designed by Graham Gund. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1984; photo by Steve Rosenthal. On a low bluff facing the Connecticut shore. Owned by Robert E. Patterson as of 2025.
1983 - Hog Hill, East Holden ME. Designed by Bentley/LaRosa/Salasky Design. Built by R. H. Campbell Associates. Structural engineer Thomas D. Reilly, P.E. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1983.
1983 - The Charles Dattelbaum House, 198 Palmer Lane, Kezar Lake, Center Lovell ME. Designed by Crissman & Solomon Architects. Built by Donald W. Simmons. Structural engineer Charles Chaloff. Photo by Steve Rosenthal. Was an Architectural Record House 1983.
1983 - aka "House of Light", 2104 North Cleveland Avenue, Chicago IL. Designed by Booth/Hansen & Associates (Laurence O. Booth). Structural engineer Chris P. Stefanos Associates. Photo by Paul Warchol. Was an Architectural Record House 1984. Owned by the George H. Thrush family by 1999 (moved into a Thrush trust in 2018); sold in 2020 to Bernard Bergeron; a 2022 warranty deed conveys it to Marc E. Weinstock, while the tax bill is still addressed to Bergeron as of 2026.
1983 - 4734 Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi TX. Designed by Batey & Mack. Built by O. J. Beck & Sons. Structural engineer Wallace Wilkerson. Photo by Tim Street-Porter. Published as "Villa on the Bay". Was an Architectural Record House 1984. Sold in 1989 to Robert J. Patterson; in 2005 to Wayne Shambo, whose estate passed it to Deborah A. Van Metre in 2008; in 2009 to Jerry W. and Joanne S. Hedrick; and in 2021 to John and Lynne Tatum, owners as of 2026.
1983 - The Harvey L. Radler House, 523 Pauls Lane, Bridgehampton NY. Designed by Bruce D. Nagel. Built by Caramagna & Murphy Inc. Structural engineer Severud, Perrone, Szegezdy, Sturm. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1985. Still in the Radler family: owned by Pauline Radler, in her name since about 2007.
1983 - House, Fire Island NY. Designed by Rivkin/Weisman P.C. Architects. Built by Joseph LaFata. Structural engineer Robert Silman Associates. Photo by Peter Aaron (ESTO). Was an Architectural Record House 1983. Photo by Peter Aaron/ESTO.
1983 - The Keith Reinhard House, aka 38 East Schiller, 38 E. Schiller St., Chicago IL. Designed by Chrysalis Corp. Architects. Built by Stanley Construction. Structural engineer Anthony Schnarsky Associates. Photo by Sadin-Karant; Ron Bailey. 1981 AIA Honor Award. Was an Architectural Record House 1983 . Sold in 2013 to Guy Hollis (later his living trust); sold in 2021 to the John P. Czarnecki Holding Trust. Sold in 2013 to Guy Hollis and in 2021 to the John P. The 1887 brownstone front survives, but the interior was reportedly rebuilt around 2001, so the 1983 interior is probably gone.
1983 - The Anne Elliott and Peter Gruen House, Ligonier PA. Designed by Jefferson B. Riley (Moore Grover Harper). Built by Nicely and Nicely. Photo by Norman McGrath; William F. Robinson. Published as the Elliott House. Was an Architectural Record House 1983.
1983 - The Samuel Tenenbaum House, aka Saluda River House, 353 Blue Heron Court, Lexington SC. Designed by Stephen Tilly & Alan Buchsbaum. Built by Jim Pitts, Columbia Builders. Structural engineer Ronald Mayrbaul. Landscape architect Elizabeth Martin. Photo by Oberto Gili. Was an Architectural Record House 1983. Owned by Samuel and Inez Tenenbaum until 2021, when it was sold to Brian C. DeBorde, owner as of 2025.
1983 - The Ira and Margaret Deutsch House, 2 Beaver St, Boston MA. Designed by Graham Gund Associates. Built by Frost Construction Company. Structural engineer LeMessurier Associates. Photo by Steve Rosenthal. A 1915 brick garage on Beacon Hill's Flat converted to a residence, with a second-storey addition. Was an Architectural Record House 1983. Sold in 2020; now owned by the Harris-Beaver Realty Trust.
1984 - The Douglas and Barbara Hoekstra House, 17905 Hood Avenue, Homewood IL. Designed by David Hovey. Was an Architectural Record House 1985. The Hoekstras owned the house until 2021, when the Douglas A. Hoekstra Trust sold it to Lorenzo Cooper (the tax bill was still addressed to Douglas Hoekstra as of 2026).
1984 - The Linda Farris House, 321 24th Avenue East, Seattle WA. Designed by Krekow/Jennings/Millett (Mark Millett). Built by Krekow/Jennings/Millett. Structural engineer Swenson Engineers. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1984. Linda Farris sold it in 2003 to Stretton S. Brown, who sold it in 2006 to Robin J. Mar, owner as of 2026.
1984 - Lake Memphremagog, Austin QC. Designed by Peter Rose (with Mark Pimlott). Structural engineer Shenna Construction. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1984.
1984 - The Herbert S. Newman House, 27 Enoch Drive, Woodbridge CT. Designed by Herbert S. Newman Associates. Built by Panza Construction Company. Structural engineer Martin-Horton Associates. Landscape architect Peter Rolland Associates. Photo by Norman McGrath. Was an Architectural Record House 1985. Assessor confirms: built 1984, 3,949 sf. Now owned by Cathi and Dominic Bosco.
1984 - The Toyo Ito House, Nakano-ku, Tokyo Japan. Designed by Toyo Ito Architect & Associates. Built by Bau Construction Company, Ltd. Structural engineer Gengo Matsui and ORS. Photo by Tomio Ohashi. Published as Ito House "Silver Hut". Was an Architectural Record House 1986. Demolished in 2010; a reconstruction was built in 2011 at the Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture on Omishima, Imabari, where it is used for workshops and archives.
1984 - House, Sagaponack NY. Designed by Brillembourg & Lanman. Built by John Dupee. Structural engineer Stanley Gleit. Landscape architect Daniel D. Stewart & Associates. Photo by Roberto Schezen. Was an Architectural Record House 1984.
1984 - The Gordon Denton House, Aspen CO. Designed by William Lipsey. Built by Denton Construction Company. Photo by Gordon Schenck. Was an Architectural Record House 1984.
1984 - House, Lincoln MA. Designed by The Office of Michael Rosenfeld. Built by Ralph S. Osmond Company. Structural engineer Edward True of Souza and True. Photo by Paul Ferrino. An addition to a 1950s house originally designed by Constantine Pertzoff. Was an Architectural Record House 1984.
1984 - House, Northwest Connecticut. Designed by Crissman & Solomon Architects. Built by Gilligan Brothers. Structural engineer Charles J. Chaloff. Photo by Steve Rosenthal. Was an Architectural Record House 1984.
1984 - aka Carriage House, Lancaster PA. Designed by Caroline Northcote Sidnam. Built by Clayton Gerlach. Structural engineer Structures. Photo by Langdon Clay. Was an Architectural Record House 1984.
1984 - aka House for a Musician, San Diego CA. Designed by Rob Quigley, AIA. Built by Strong Construction Company. Structural engineer South Bay Engineering. Photo by Tim Street-Porter. Was an Architectural Record House 1984.
1984 - The De la Cruz House, aka Punta Alegre, 5 Harbor Point, Key Biscayne FL. Designed by Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. A 1950s ranch house remade as a two-story Roman villa. Was an Architectural Record House 1984. Bought in 1982 by Carlos M. and Rosa de la Cruz and enlarged several times since. Sold in 2025 to 5 Harbor Point Corp.
1985 - aka Garden Pavilion, 2608 Habersham Road NW, Atlanta GA. Designed by Anthony Ames, whose white geometric houses the High Museum of Art has described as a modern alternative to the prevailing historicist tradition in Atlanta. Photographed by Stephen Brooke and published in Architectural Record. Still carried in the architect's own portfolio alongside the nearby Hulse Pavilion and Hulse Residence. Owned by Ecetra N. Ames, the architect's wife, as of 2026.
1985 - The Laurie Mallet House, aka House of Memories, 49 Barrow Street, New York, West Village. Designed by SITE (Alison Sky and James Wines), a reworking of an 1826 townhouse in the Greenwich Village Historic District. Drawings, plans and slides are held in the SITE architectural records and James Wines papers at the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, Series VI, Box 23, Folder 4, dated 1985. Mallet bought the house in 1984 and sold it in 2013; sold again in 2024 to the Adam B. Saben Trust.
1985 - aka Upas Street Houses, 1010 West Upas Street, San Diego CA. Designed by Smith & Others (Ted Smith). Built by Upas Street Property Partnership. Structural engineer Horseman Engineering. Photo by John Durant. Was an Architectural Record House 1985. Held by the Robert and Janet Fraser family trust from 2003; conveyed in 2014 to Stephen Fraser and the Elizabeth Farrell trust, owners as of 2026.
1985 - The Harris-Pesce House, 6 Dug Road, Sharon CT. Designed by Turner Brooks. Built by Richard McCue. Structural engineer Boehm Associates. Photo by Mick Hales. Was an Architectural Record House 1988.
1985 - The Elizabeth and Duo Dickinson House, 945 Boston Post Road, Madison CT. Designed by Louis Mackall & Partner (Duo Dickinson). Built by Post Road Wood Products. Photo by Mick Hales. Was an Architectural Record House 1985. Still owned by the original clients, George (Duo) and Elizabeth Dickinson.
1985 - The John and Judith Mixon House, 3211 Pittsburg Street, West University Place Houston TX. Designed by Taft Architects. Built by Pat Marshall Custom Builder. Structural engineer Cunningham Associates. Photo by Paul Warchol. Was an Architectural Record House 1985. Brian H. Crockett was owner of record by 2025; sold in 2026 to Mike and Jake Anderson, owners as of 2026.
1985 - The Daniel A. Silverstein House, Remsenburg NY. Designed by Haigh Space (Paul Haigh) remodel of 1964. Built by Sun-Ark Construction. Landscape architect Brian V. Kluge (landscape designer). Photo by Mick Hales. Published as "The Framingham". A transformation of a 1964 prefab ranch house. Was an Architectural Record House 1985.
1985 - The Robert S. Davis House, 48 Tupelo Street (Rosewalk), Seaside FL. Designed by Orr & Taylor. Built by Seaside Community Development Corp. Photo by Mick Hales. An enclave of 14 cottages. Was an Architectural Record House 1986. Owned by Christopher R. Melella of Dallas as of 2026.
1985 - The Salvador Vilanova House, North Mashta Drive, Key Biscayne FL. Designed by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. Built by Vernon Construction. Structural engineer Eugenio Santiago and Associates. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1986.
1985 - House, Rolling Rock Club, Ligonier PA. Designed by Roger C. Ferri & Associates. Built by Construction Group. Structural engineer Robert Silman & Associates. Landscape architect Channing Blake. Photo by Cervin Robinson. Was an Architectural Record House 1987.
1985 - House, Westchester County NY. Designed by R. M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects. Built by Walmara Construction Company. Structural engineer Robert Silman Associates. Photo by Cervin Robinson. Was an Architectural Record House 1985.
1985 - The John and Patt Wharton House, Nottingham NH. Designed by Amsler Hagenah MacLean, Architects. Built by David Krempels. Structural engineer Charles Chaloff. Photo by Nick Wheeler. Was an Architectural Record House 1985.
1985 - The David H. Frantz, Jr. House, Vineyard Haven MA. Designed by Richard C. Tremaglio. Built by Martha's Vineyard Construction Company. Structural engineer A. M. Tremaglio. Photo by Herb Engelsberg. Was an Architectural Record House 1985.
1985 - The Joan and David Crowell House, 90 Dune Rd, Quogue NY. Designed by Mark Simon (Centerbrook). Built by M. Clarke Smith. Structural engineer Besier Gibble & Quirin. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1985. Sold in 2017. Demolished; a new house was built on the site in 2020.
1985 - aka Casa Los Andes, Lima Peru. Designed by Arquitectonica International. Built by G. L. Dupuy, Ingenieros. Structural engineer Gallegos-Rios-Casabonne-Uccelli-Icochea-Arango. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1986.
1985 - The Peter and Sandra Brant House, 385 Taconic Road, Greenwich CT. Designed by Allan Greenberg. Built by Thomas P. Maguire. Structural engineer Tor & Partners. Landscape architect Deborah Nevins; Russell Page. Photo by Peter Mauss (ESTO). Was an Architectural Record House 1986. Built for art collectors Peter and Sandra Brant after their earlier Venturi house. Owned by White Birch Farm Inc., the Brant family company, as of 2024.
1986 - The Teresa Bjornson House and Studio, 16 Paloma Avenue, Venice CA. Designed by Arata Isozaki as his first residential commission and, by most accounts, the only private house he built in the United States; he met the client, art collector Teresa Bjornson, while working on the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Designed 1981, completed 1986. A two-storey rectangular plan of three cubic bays about 24 feet square, with roughly 30-foot ceilings in the studio-living room, which doubles as a gallery for Bjornson's collection, and isosceles-triangle skylights angled into the four corners of the copper roof; stuccoed facades and a 600 sf concrete patio. Height and siting were constrained by local rules on a street ending at the sea. Furniture by the artist Klaus Rinke. Photographs by Richard Bryant and Michael Locke. Sold to musician Eric Clapton around 1999, who sold about 2004. Sold to actor and architect Stephen Meadows. Listed for sale in 2016 and again in 2017. Standing. Catalogued in PCAD as id 286, which gives the address as 16 Paloma Court. Was an Architectural Record House 1987.
1986 - The Peter and Thomas Scribner House, 508 20th Avenue East, Seattle WA. Designed by A2 Z Architects (Norman Millar). Built by Kevin Cottongim. Structural engineer Jim Harris. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1987. Also listed as the Scribner Double House at 506 20th Avenue East. Peter and Thomas Scribner have owned it throughout, briefly through Topeka Partners LLC in 2001-2002; Thomas B. Scribner has been sole owner since 2025.
1986 - The Warren Schwartz, Sheila Fiekowsky House, 64 Swamp Road, West Stockbridge MA. Designed by Schwartz/Silver Architects (Warren Schwartz). Built by Quadresign. Structural engineer Souza, True & Partners. Photo by Mick Hales. Was an Architectural Record House 1987. Still owned by Sheila R. Fiekowsky and Warren R. Schwartz as of 2026.
1986 - The Roger Herman House, 729 Academy Road, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Frederick Fisher. Built by Kulhanek Construction. Structural engineer Gordon Polon. Photo by Tim Street-Porter. Was an Architectural Record House 1987. Also listed elsewhere at 739 Academy Road. Still owned by the original client, Roger Herman (title consolidated in his name in 2009).
1986 - The Ken and Jenny Choong House, 10 Diosma Road, Eltham VIC. Designed by Biltmoderne. Built by Steven Basic. Structural engineer Lyon & Lyon. Landscape architect Gordon Ford. Photo by Grant Mudford. Was an Architectural Record House 1988. Built 1985-88; carport by Wood Marsh 1988. Won a 1987 RAIA Victorian Merit Award. Protected under the Nillumbik Shire Heritage Overlay (HO275). Sold in 2016 (buyer not public). Standing as of 2017.
1986 - The Anne and Don Baron House, San Diego County CA. Designed by Smith & Others (Ted Smith). Built by Jim Hightower. Structural engineer Larry Horseman. Photo by Stephen Simpson. Published as the Grove House. Was an Architectural Record House 1986.
1987 - The Dennis Hopper House and Studio, 330 Indiana Avenue, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Brian Alfred Murphy, part of a Venice compound that also included three Frank Gehry-designed lofts and a 1909 guest cottage. Published in Progressive Architecture December 1988. Sold around 2010.
1987 - The Ashley House, 16406 Bluegrass Lane, Chino Hills CA. Designed by Coy Howard. Featured in Architectural Record Houses, April 1988; photos by Grant Mudford. Sold in 2012 to Timothy Mings and Joyce Zhu, in 2021 to Ramiro Medina, and in 2023 to Xinpu Gan and Luwei Ren, owners as of 2026.
1987 - The Robert and Penny Miller House, 832 Lochmere Place, Lexington KY. Designed by Atelier Wylde-Oubrerie, José Oubrerie and Cecily Wylde, while Oubrerie — a former assistant to Le Corbusier — was dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. Commissioned 1988 by Lexington attorney Robert Miller and completed 1992 after five years of construction, on 30 acres with its own lake. Three autonomous dwellings joined by elevated catwalks around a double-height central atrium, planned so an older couple and their two adult children could each live independently. Takes clear cues from Le Corbusier’s Villa Shodhan. Kenneth Frampton has called it a masterwork. Fell into disrepair and was threatened with demolition; sold in 2017 to Jennifer McLure, who restored it, and sold again at auction in 2021 to a buyer who has expressed an intention to preserve it and open it to the public. Standing. Subject of the book In Suburbia Ego. Catalogued in SAH Archipedia as KY-01-067-0055.
1987 - The Leon Krier House, 92 Tupelo Street, Seaside, Santa Rosa Beach FL. Designed by Leon Krier, 1985-1987. Krier's first built project, on a lot Robert Davis granted him in exchange for his consulting on the Seaside master plan. Standing, but no longer as built: it has since been sold, enlarged, the entry porch enclosed and a garage added. It stands on the Tupelo Street circle at the east edge of Seaside, facing Seagrove; the 115 Tupelo sometimes cited does not exist. Owned by Max Powell Watson Jr. and Kay G. Watson as of 2025.
1987 - The Elsie and Dan O'Herlihy House, aka the Trancas House, 5820 Trancas Canyon Road, Malibu CA. Designed by Lorcan O'Herlihy. Built by John Merrick. Structural engineer C. Brockmeier. Photo by Paul Warchol. Was an Architectural Record House 1987. O'Herlihy's first solo project, done in his 20s before he founded Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects in Los Angeles in 1994, and built for his parents — the actor Dan O'Herlihy and his wife Elsie — on a 9.9-acre site with only 1.5 buildable acres because of steep slopes. Boxy, deep-walled stucco and wood-framed volumes on two perpendicular axes crossing at the entry foyer: the main axis ran east from the parking area through a long pergola, across the threshold, and out through glass doors down the center of the pool to the canyon edge; the cross-axis held bedrooms to the north and, to the south, a great room with a 10-foot-square window onto the ocean and horizon. Deliberately spare and unadorned, as O'Herlihy's commentary on the Postmodernism then dominant. Dan O'Herlihy died in 2005 and Elsie sold the property. DESTROYED in the Woolsey Fire of November 2018, which burned almost 97,000 acres and took numerous other houses in Trancas Canyon. Rebuilt on the same site in 2023 as the Helen Braithwaite and Patrick Phillips House, aka Trancas 2.0, for the couple who had bought the house from Elsie O'Herlihy and who telephoned O'Herlihy out of the blue in late 2018 to ask him to design its replacement. Designed by Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects. Built by RJC Builders. Structural engineer Kurt Fischer Structural Engineering. Photo by Paul Vu. Board-formed concrete in place of the original stucco and wood framing, with fire protection a priority; Malibu's expedited post-Woolsey permitting cleared the project in a few months because the redesign exceeded the original footprint by no more than 10 percent. 4,800 sf; completed July 2023. Was an Architectural Record House 2024, making this site a Record House twice, 37 years apart.
1987 - The Ronnie and Bruce Pardo House, Second Dune, East Hampton NY. Designed by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson. Built by George Kfoury, Artisan Associates. Structural engineer Severud-Szegezdy. Landscape architect The Office of Pat Debellis. Photo by Paul Warchol. Published as Pardo House "Sticks". Was an Architectural Record House 1987.
1987 - The Clark Gerhardt House, 8 Wolfback Ridge Road, Sausalito CA. Designed by Mark Mack. Built by Creative Spaces. Structural engineer Pirooz Barar. Landscape architect Topher Delaney. Photo by Christopher Irion. Was an Architectural Record House 1988. Needs verification. Sold in 2019 by John Heisse II and Karin Scholz to Gordon Priatko and Phyllis Gardner, owners as of 2026.
1987 - 5828 Stony Hill Road, Buckingham Township, Bucks County PA. Designed by Olcott, Schliemann and Simitch. Built by Joseph Giuffre, Jr. Structural engineer Peter J. Gauldi. Landscape architect Sara Thompson. Photo by Mark Darley. Was an Architectural Record House 1988. Owned by Bradley and Nancy Levie, trustees of the Levie Family Trust, as of 2026.
1987 - 6949 Camrose Drive, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Koning Eizenberg Architecture. Built by Garten-Koren Construction. Structural engineer Gordon Polan. Photo by Tim Street-Porter. Was an Architectural Record House 1988. Sold in 2002 to the Carswell family trust and in 2003 to Andrew Rosenthal, owner as of 2026.
1987 - The Gerald Hoepfner House, 1269 Hancock Road, Williamstown MA. Designed by F. Andrus Burr & A. K. McCallum. Built by Charles Goodrich. Photo by Elliott Kaufman. Built for an art conservator. Was an Architectural Record House 1988. Address confirmed: the assessor records 1269 Hancock Road as Custom Contemporary, built 1986, 2,005 sf, confirming the street number recovered from the duplicate entry. Sold in 2020 to Eric Shapiro, owner as of 2026.
1987 - The Ronald Bentley and Salvatore LaRosa House, 7596 Tohickon Hill Road, Pipersville, Bucks County PA. Designed by Bentley LaRosa Salasky Design. Built by Personal Design and Building. Photo by Mick Hales. Published as "Caradco View". Was an Architectural Record House 1988. Owned by Joshua C. and Katherine H. Littlefield as of 2026.
1987 - The Julie and Allan Shope House, Greenwich CT. Designed by Shope Reno Wharton Associates (Allan Shope). Built by (owners). Photo by H. Durston Saylor. Was an Architectural Record House 1987.
1987 - The Arnold L. Salasky and Jon F. Sedel House, 118 83rd Street, Virginia Beach VA. Designed by Bentley LaRosa Salasky Design. Built by Salasky-Sedel. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1987. A two-family house at the corner of Atlantic Avenue in Cape Henry; the Board of Zoning Appeals granted Sedel and Salasky setback and fence variances in 1985 and 1986. Sold in 1996, 2001, 2002 and 2022.
1987 - The Eadie and Erik Hansen House, Wilmette IL. Designed by Hammond Beeby and Babka. Structural engineer Gullaksen Getty & White. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1987.
1988 - The Meg Dennison / Tim Peek House, 90 Lookout Lane, Monkton VT. Designed by Brooks & Carey Architects (Turner Brooks). Built by Millbridge Construction. Photo by Scott Frances (ESTO). Published as the Dennison/Peek House. Was an Architectural Record House 1992.
1988 - 30 Ocean View Lane, Amagansett NY. Designed by Torre Beeler and Associates (Susana Torre). Built by Fred Houseknecht. Structural engineer Thomas Bible. Photo by Elliott Kaufman. Was an Architectural Record House 1988. Sold in about 2017 to Nita Lane East, LLC.
1988 - The Helen Berggruen House, 1370 Bella Oaks Lane, Rutherford CA. Designed by Fernau and Hartman Architects. Structural engineer Nellie Ingraham. Photo by Christopher Irion. Was an Architectural Record House 1989. Last deed recorded in 2009 (Napa County document 2009-0010528); grantee not identified. Napa County dates the house to 1988 on a 1-acre parcel with two dwellings; last conveyed in 2009. Standing.
1988 - The Barbara and Harvey Walner House, 81 Lakewood Dr, Glencoe IL. Designed by Arquitectonica International. Built by Pepper Construction Company. Structural engineer Beer Gorski & Graff. Landscape architect Theodore Brickman Company. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1989. The Walners sold in 2001 (into a Chicago Title land trust; tax bills to Fred Margulies 2000-2006); conveyed in 2008 to a trust of Karen Citow, whose family built a new house on the site in 2009. The Arquitectonica house appears to have been demolished.
1988 - The Jim and Mary-Lou McDonald House, 73 Dipsea Road, Stinson Beach CA. Designed by The Stanley Saitowitz Office. Built by McDonald Construction. Structural engineer Gregg Marioni. Photo by Richard Barnes. Published as "The Perfect Wave"/McDonald House. Was an Architectural Record House 1990. Held by the Todd family trust by 2010 and sold in 2017 to Angus and Sheila McCarthy, owners as of 2026.
1989 - aka Stewart House, aka the Spear-Fort-Brescia House, 3695 West Drive, Miami FL. Designed for her Mom by Laurinda Spear and Bernardo Fort-Brescia. Gated community, no public access.
1989 - The Schweitzer House, aka The Monument, aka Monument House, 8675 Lobo Pass Road, Joshua Tree CA. Designed by Josh Schweitzer, who had briefly worked for Frank Gehry, as his first residential work and a shared retreat for himself and friends including chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, Gai Gherardi, Rhonda Saboff and Barbara McReynolds. Built 1989-1990 by David Allen Huffman. 950 sf in three interconnected Cubist pavilions on five acres of boulders, coloured mossy green, sapphire blue and pinkish-red for desert sage, sky and wildflowers, with trapezoidal openings framing the Mojave. Photo by Tom Bonner. Was an Architectural Record House 1990, taking first place in the vacation and summer home category. Standing; since about 2022 available as a short-term rental through Homestead Modern. Held by the Barbara McReynolds Trust (one of the original partners), owner as of 2026.
1989 - aka House on a 25 Foot Lot, 2205 Overbrook Street, Coconut Grove, Miami FL. Designed by Roney J. Mateu. Standing.
1989 - Hudson River House, Nyack, Rockland County NY. Designed by Theodore M. Ceraldi & Associates. Built by Marco Martelli Associates. Structural engineer M. G. McLaren. Landscape architect Theodore Ceraldi. Photo by Mick Hales. Was an Architectural Record House 1989.
1989 - 2100 Pfingsten Road (probable), Northbrook IL, Cook County IL. Designed by Arquitectonica International. Built by Albert Jacob Homes. Structural engineer Rayl Dawson P.C. Landscape architect Peter Walker & Martha Schwartz. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1989. Owned by Paul and Marlene Wolfson (probably the original clients) until 2001; sold in 2001 to Greg Vaysman and Mila Freidman; sold in 2017 to Yun Hee Lee, owner as of 2026.
1989 - The Walter Chatham House, 71 E Ruskin St, Seaside FL. Designed by Walter Chatham Architect. Built by Warnerworks. Structural engineer Ross Dalland, P.E. Photo by Michael Moran. Was an Architectural Record House 1989. Also known as the Chatham Townhouse, or Pugin House. Owned by John W. Houghtaling II of Metairie, Louisiana, as of 2026.
1989 - The Joseph Valerio and Linda Searl House, 2301 W. Ohio Street, Chicago IL. Designed by Joseph Valerio and Linda Searl. Built by Richard Van Pelt. Structural engineer Stearn-Joglekar. Published as "the corner house". Was an Architectural Record House 1991. Owned by Joseph Valerio and Linda Searl (in their revocable trust from 2018) until 2024, when the trust sold it to Nicholas Paulson.
1989 - The Leightner Houses, 1322 Second Street and 200 A Avenue, Coronado CA. Designed by Smith and Others, Architects. Structural engineer Delta Engineering. Photo by Mick Hales. Was an Architectural Record House 1989. Two speculative houses on a split corner lot, built by Kevin and Sharon Leightner as developer-builders: Ted Smith designed the green house and Kathy McCormick the red house. Both sold before completion.
1989 - The Bridget Locke House, Temecula CA. Designed by Rob Wellington Quigley. Built by Vern Rowley. Structural engineer AMS Engineering. Photo by Tom Bonner. Was an Architectural Record House 1989.
1989 - The Suzanne Slesin and Michael Steinberg House, 162 Jobs Lane, Bridgehampton NY. Designed by Lee H. Skolnick Architecture and Design. Built by Edward G. Britt Construction Corp. Structural engineer Stephen Lemanski, P.E. Landscape architect J. Mendoza Gardens. Photo by Mick Hales. Published as the Slesin/Steinberg House. A vertical addition over a 1930s saltbox. Was an Architectural Record House 1990. Sold in about 2016 to 162 Jobs Lane, LLC, which then built a new 7,036 sf house (assessor year built 2018). Sold again in 2021 to 162 Jobs Lane Bridgehampton LLC (mailing address in Studio City CA).
1990 - aka "Blue Bayou"/House Along the Bayou, Buffalo Bayou area (Beauchamp House), Houston TX. Designed by Carlos Jimenez/Architectural Design Studio. Built by Robert Singleton Associates/Builders. Structural engineer Bob Gatewood & Associates. Landscape architect McKinnon Associates. Photo by Peter Aaron (ESTO). Was an Architectural Record House 1990.
1990 - The Frederick and Gay Phillips House, 1308 North Cleveland Avenue, Chicago IL. Designed by Frederick Phillips & Associates. Built by Ladner Construction. Structural engineer Beer Gorski & Graff. Photo by Gregory Murphey. Published as "Inner-City Beacon". Was an Architectural Record House 1990. Owned by Frederick Phillips until 2013, when it was sold to Jon Michel Hiatt and Elizabeth Hayes, owners as of 2025.
1990 - The Edward H. Bennett, Jr. House, Washington Island WI. Designed by Frederick Phillips & Associates. Built by Young Brothers Construction. Photo by Gregory Murphey. Published as "Rural Geometry". Was an Architectural Record House 1990.
1990 - The Patricia and Laurence Booth House, 270 Arden Shore Road, Lake Bluff IL. Designed by Booth/Hansen & Associates. Built by James Heinsohn. Structural engineer Beer, Gorski, Graf (tower). Photo by Bruce Van Inwengen. Was an Architectural Record House 1990. Still owned by Laurence and Patricia Booth as of 2026.
1990 - The City of Kumamoto House, Kumamoto Japan. Designed by Studio Citterio/Dwan. Built by Tatara Komuten Construction Company and Shinsan Jutaku Company. Photo by Yoshio Shiratori. Published as House in Kumamoto. Was an Architectural Record House 1990.
1990 - The Ross Anderson House, aka the Napa House, Rutherford CA. Designed by Anderson/Schwartz Architects (Ross Anderson), built for the architect's parents as a hideaway and prelude to a larger house; the magazine lists the owners as Mr. and Mrs. Ross Anderson. Built by Glen-Bilt Inc. Structural engineer Philips and Giorgi Structural and Civil Engineers. Photo by Michael Moran. Was an Architectural Record House 1990.
1991 - The Corson-Heinser Live/Work House, 25 Zoe Street, San Francisco CA. Designed by Richard Stacy of Tanner Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects. For graphic designer Madeleine Corson and photographer Thomas Heinser. Built by Fine European Construction. Structural engineer Tennebaum-Manheim Engineers. Photo by Thomas Heinser. Was an Architectural Record House 1992. Addition 1995. Still owned by the original clients through the Corson-Heinser revocable trust.
1991 - aka Tigertail House, 1617 Tigertail Ave, Coconut Grove, Miami FL. Designed by Trelles Cabarrocas Architects. A townhouse-like infill house with a standing-seam metal roof, brick chimney and a walled, arcaded side court. Standing; featured in the 2023 film "Yours, Architecture." Owned since 1997 by Eleanor L. Haydock. Transferred to the Eleanor L. Haydock Living Trust in 2013.
1991 - The Charles and Vanna Rae Bello House, aka Parabolic Glass House. 19201 Northspur Road, Willits, CA. Charles Bello, designer (apprenticed under Richard Neutra). Vanna Rae passed away in 2010, after which Charles lived there alone until donating it to the Humboldt State University Foundation in 2021. Curved parabolic roof and floor-to-ceiling windows crafted from timber milled on-site and salvaged materials. Solar-powered and fully off-grid since construction. 400 acres. Charles founded the Redwood Forest Institute, 1997, and 1,000 trees are designated for preservation for 2,000 years. Donated by Charles Bello to the Humboldt State University Foundation in 2021, owner as of 2026.
1991 - The Phyllis and Arthur Bargonetti House, 88 Howland Drive, Kent CT. Designed by Steven Harris & Associates. Built by Carlson Builders. Structural engineer Ross Dalland, P.E. Photo by Langdon Clay. Was an Architectural Record House 1991. Assessor confirms: built 1990, 2,048 sf. Bought by Arthur and Phyllis Bargonetti in 1989. Sold in 2018 to Pei-Tse Wu and Vivian Teh-Wei Kuan, owners as of 2026.
1991 - The Francis D. McGuire Jr. and Deborah R. Hanley House, 1 Hull Yard Lane, Westport MA. Designed by Perry Dean Rogers & Partners (Francis D. McGuire Jr.). Built by Yankee Builders. Structural engineer Boston Building Consultants Inc. Photo by Steve Rosenthal. Published as the Hanley/McGuire House. Was an Architectural Record House 1991. Assessor confirms: built 1990, 1,164 sf, contemporary two-storey. Still owned by architect Francis D. McGuire Jr., who acquired the land in 1989, as of 2026.
1991 - The Chapman J. Root II House, 95 Ocean Shore Boulevard, Ormond Beach FL. Designed by Steven Harris & Associates. Built by Foley & Associates. Structural engineer Ross Dalland, P.E. Landscape architect Glenn Herbert. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Published as the Root Guest House. Was an Architectural Record House 1992. Owned by Edward Schatz Jr. as of 2026.
1991 - The Arthur and Audrey Greenberg House, 223 North Carmelina Avenue, Brentwood, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Legorreta Arquitectos. Built by L. B. Bovee & Sons. Structural engineer Kurily Szymanski Tchirkow. Landscape architect Lehrer & Sebastian. Photo by Tom Bonner. 9,500 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 1991, featured on the cover. Also listed elsewhere at 245 North Carmelina Avenue. Still owned by Arthur Greenberg through Greenberg family trusts (retitled in 2012).
1991 - The Ken Barton House, 672 Cedar Hill Road, Madison County MS. Designed by Mockbee/Coker/Howorth Architects. Built by Benson & Benson Builders. Structural engineer Cameron Till. Landscape architect Richard Chandler Griffin & Associates. Photo by Timothy Hursley. Was an Architectural Record House 1992.
1991 - The Cynthia and Mac Noyes; Judy and Ken Ryan House, 383 East Cove Road, Decatur Island WA. Designed by The Miller/Hull Partnership. Built by Habitat Construction. Structural engineer Greg Hiatt. Photo by Michael Shopenn. Published as the Noyes/Ryan Cabin. 840 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 1991. Transferred within the family in 2024 to Adam M. Noyes and Whitney N. Beattie, owners as of 2026.
1991 - The Helen and Lee Olson House, Stonyhill, Nevis West Indies. Designed by Taft Architects. Built by Noral Lescott Construction Company. Photo by Paul Warchol. Was an Architectural Record House 1991.
1992 - 147 Old Northwest Road, East Hampton NY. Designed by Russell Blue. Sold to 147 Old Northwest Road LLC. Sold in 2021 to Ollen LLC. For sale in 2026.
1992 - The Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Renovation, aka Sphinx Head Tomb, 900 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca NY. Sagan bought it in 1981 and lived there for years; he eventually hired Atelier Jullian and Pendleton, whose principal Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente had been a student of Corbusier, to convert it into a study Featured in Architectural Digest. Photo by Durston Saylor. Sold in 2024 to 900 Stewart Avenue, LLC (Owego NY).
1992 - The Richard Fernau and Sarah Cunniff House, 137 Bret Harte Rd, Berkeley CA. Designed by Richard Fernau and Laura Hartman. Remodel and addition (1989-92) to a small 1950s cottage above a creek; the architect's own home. Photo by Peter Vanderwarker; Cesar Rubio; Richard Barnes. Still held by Richard E. Fernau and Sarah A. Cunniff; a transfer between them was recorded in 2011. Still owned by the architect and Sarah Cunniff as of 2024. Standing.
1992 - aka T House, 555 Strakos Road, Wilton NY (mailing address Greenfield Center). Designed by Simon Ungers and Tom Kinslow, with Lawrence Marcelle. [existing description unchanged]. Still owned by Lawrence A. Marcelle and Diane Strait Marcelle.
1992 - The Hugo Ortiz Dietz House, Bosques de las Lomas, Mexico City Mexico. Designed by Taller de Enrique Norten y Asociados (TEN). Built by Enrique Juarez. Structural engineer Ismael Colmenares. Landscape architect Katherine Grimm. Was an Architectural Record House 1992.
1992 - House, Hollywood Hills (Robert Shaye residence), Los Angeles CA. Designed by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects. Built by Mounir Boctor, Monet Contracting. Structural engineer Steven Mezey. Landscape architect Achva Benzinberg Stein. Photo by Paul Warchol. A renovation of and addition to a 1956 house by Donald Polsky. Was an Architectural Record House 1992, featured on the cover.
1992 - The David Morton and Thomas Cordell House, aka House on a Ranch, 1750 Marshall-Petaluma Rd, Petaluma CA. Designed by David Morton Thomas Cordell Architects. Built by R. Z. Stich Construction. Structural engineer Edward B. Beattie. Photo by Tom Rider. Published as House on a Ranch. On a 667-acre ranch in West Marin. Was an Architectural Record House 1992 . Probably held since 2016 by 1750 Marshall Petaluma Road, LLC (a California LLC registered that year). Held since about 2016 by 1750 Marshall Petaluma Road, LLC. Standing.
1993 - The Linda Lawson and Tracy Westen House, 167 South Westgate Avenue, Brentwood, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Eric Owen Moss. Won a 1993 AIA/LA Design Award an AIA 1994 National Interior Design Award. Photos by Tom Bonner. Sold in 2011 by Linda Lawson and Tracy Westen to Nicole Nagel; held since 2012 by Esy Investments LLC.
1993 - The Marc Anglil and Sarah Graham House, aka House under the Hollywood Sign, 6009 Rodgerton Drive, Los Angeles CA. Designed by the clients. 2000sf. Published in Architecture. April 1994, Domus 766, and L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui December 1993. Photo by Julius Shulman. Held by the original clients' Angelil-Graham family trust from 2005. Sold in 2022 by the Angelil-Graham trust; buyer not identified. Sold in 2022, the first time it came on the market. Standing.
1993 - The Raquel Vert and Chaim Meital House, aka Karen Drive House, 18039 Karen Drive, Encino CA. Designed by Raquel Vert for herself and her husband. Still owned by the Meital (Tal Mei) family trust.
1993 - The Peter Halley and Caroline Stewart House, 10087 Schutts Road, Hillsdale NY. Designed by Deborah Berke and Carey McWhorter. Built by Shadic Builders. Photo by Catherine Bogert. Published as the Studio/Guest House. 1,500 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 1993. Sold in 2011 by Peter Halley. Now owned by Happy Hillsdale, LLC (formed in 2023; mailing address in Brooklyn), which took title in a later transfer.
1993 - The Susan Stringfellow House, 1100 South Gretna Green Way, Brentwood, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Lubowicki/Lanier Architects. Built by Alexander Construction. Structural engineer Gordon Polon. Landscape architect Nancy Powers & Associates. Photo by Tom Bonner. Was an Architectural Record House 1994. Los Angeles County dates the structure to 1927, which would make the 1993 work a remodel rather than new construction. Sold in 2020 by Susan Stringfellow to Jeremy Globerson, owner as of 2026.
1993 - Casa Cei, Via Eugenio Montale 6, Villanuova, Empoli, Tuscany Italy. Designed by Sottsass Associati (Ettore Sottsass, Marco Zanini, Mike Ryan). Built by COE. Photo by Santi Caleca. Published as Casa Cei. Was an Architectural Record House 1995. Via Eugenio Montale was formerly Via di sottopoggio per San Donato. For sale in 2026.
1993 - 3331 Stephenson Point Road, Nanaimo BC. Designed by Patkau Architects. Built by R. W. Wall Ltd. Structural engineer Fast & Epp Partners. Published as the Barnes House. Was an Architectural Record House 1996.
1993 - The David and Kathleen Martin House, Kennett Square PA. Designed by Tanner Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects. Built by Mobac. Structural engineer Robert Chagnon. Photo by Paul Warchol. Was an Architectural Record House 1993.
1993 - aka Westchester Residence, Westchester County NY. Designed by Bentley LaRosa Salasky. Built by Franco Brothers. Structural engineer Robert Silman Associates. Landscape architect A. Billie Cohen. Photo by Michael Mundy. Was an Architectural Record House 1993.
1994 - The Yoko Saito House, 1118 Bartlett Street, Houston TX. Designed by Carlos Jiminez as a radical transformation of a 1920s balloon-framed bungalow on a corner lot. 1200sf. Featured in Architectural Record Houses of 1994; photo by Paul Hester; structural engineer, Structural Consulting Company. Sold in 2020; the new owner's name is withheld on the Harris County roll (confidential owner) as of 2026.
1994 - The Steel House, 85 East Canyon View Drive, Ransom Canyon TX. Designed and built by sculptor Robert Bruno over roughly three decades from some 110 tons of hand-welded steel, on a ridge above Lake Ransom Canyon. Bruno moved in only months before his death from cancer in 2008 and left it unfinished; a library and aquarium were planned inside the legs. Sold in 2021 by his daughter Christina to Bruno Steel House LLC (Blake and Courtney Bartosh), whose plan to run it as a short-term rental drew objections from the Texas Tech architecture school. Auctioned in 2024. Owned as of 2025 by Lynna Bartosh through Eighty-Five Legacy LLC. Standing. A related Bruno sculpture and plaza were dedicated at Texas Tech in April 2015.
1994 - The Amos and Sharon Lombard Miller House, E8404A Tri-State Road, Westby WI. Designed by Turner Brooks (Brooks & Carey). Was an Architectural Record House 1995. Still owned by Amos L. and Sharon R. Miller as of 2025.
1994 - 219 Ocean Boulevard, Golden Beach FL. Designed by Carlos Zapata Design Studio with Una Idea. Structural engineer Leslie Robertson Associates. Was an Architectural Record House 1994. The house has been demolished; the lot was sold in 2014 to JC Condo Dreams I LLC and in 2016 to Lior Ben Shmuel, trustee, owner as of 2026.
1994 - 33711 South Highway 1, Stewart's Point CA. Designed by Joan Hallberg. Built by Fredrickson Construction. Structural engineer MKM & Associates. Photo by Alan Weintraub. Published as "Castle Cloud". Was an Architectural Record House 1994. Sold in 2016; buyer not identified. Sonoma County shows a further, non-sale document recorded in 2020. Standing on a 220-acre coastal parcel.
1994 - aka The Concord House, 75 Buttricks Hill Road, Concord MA. Designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates. Built by Kistler and Knapp Builders. Photo by Peter Aaron (ESTO). About 11,800 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 1994. Also known as the Concord House; the street is given elsewhere as Buttricks Hill Road. Sold in 2025 to 2475 Bella Vista LLC of Tiburon, California, owner as of 2026.
1994 - The John Sarli House, 29543 121st Street East, Juniper Hills CA. Designed by Judith Sheine, Architect. Built by Joseph T. Setter. Structural engineer Gerald Sheine and Nancy Hamilton. Photo by Grant Mudford. Was an Architectural Record House 1995. Still owned by the original client, John Sarli; no recorded sales.
1994 - The Joanne and Philippe Valli-Marill House, 2527 31st Street, Santa Monica CA. Designed by Koning Eizenberg Architecture. Built by Charles Kuipers Design. Structural engineer Ross Downey & Associates. Photo by Tim Griffith. An addition to and remodel of a 1930s cottage. Was an Architectural Record House 1995. Los Angeles County dates the structure to 1939, which would make the 1994 work a remodel or addition rather than new construction. Owned since about 2005 by Gerald Slavonia and Elizabeth Zapler, in the Zapler trust since 2020. Owned since about 2006 by Gerald A. Slavonia and Elizabeth S. Zapler; in their trust since 2020. Standing as of 2026, with no sale since the mid-2000s.
1994 - The Marley Lott House, 1928 South Boulevard, Houston TX. Designed by Carlos Jimenez Architecture Studio. Built by Anderson Builders. Structural engineer Structural Consulting Company. Landscape architect Rosa Finsley. Photo by Hester & Hardaway. Published as the Lott House and Guest House. Was an Architectural Record House 1996. Marley Lott has owned the site since 1989 and still owns it as of 2026.
1994 - aka House on the Tennessee River, 1198 Sandpiper Point, Counce TN, Hardin County TN. Designed by Mockbee/Coker Architects (Coleman Coker). Built by L. D. Briley Contractor. Landscape architect Tom Pellett; Michael Hatcher. Photo by Timothy Hursley (cover). Was an Architectural Record House 1997. Photo by Timothy Hursley (credited for the cover photo of this house).
1994 - aka Quinta Santo Ovidio, Rua de Santo Ovídio 318, Aveleda, Lousada, Douro Litoral Portugal. Designed by Alvaro Siza Vieira. Built by (local craftsmen). Structural engineer Matos Campos. Landscape architect Joao Gomes da Silva; Alvaro Siza. Was an Architectural Record House 2003. Standing; still documented at this address by current architecture guides.
1994 - The Werner and Sigrid von Stein House, 1100 Kinnybrook Drive, Kenwood CA. Designed by Fernau & Hartman Architects. Built by Fine Carpentry. Structural engineer Larry Fowler. Photo by Richard Barnes. Was an Architectural Record House 1994. Still owned by the von Steins (trust).
1994 - House, Chicago IL. Designed by Frederick Phillips & Associates. Built by Frederick Phillips & Associates. Structural engineer Stearn Joglekar. Photo by Bruce Van Inwegen. Was an Architectural Record House 1995. Photo by Bruce Van Inwegen (article: '©Bruce Van Inwegen photos').
1994 - The Tim Girvin and Kathleen Roberts House, 263 Peninsula Road, Decatur Island WA. Designed by Miller/Hull Partnership (Robert Hull). Built by Avery Builders. Structural engineer C. T. Engineering. Published as Island House "Tikamaga". Was an Architectural Record House 1996. Girvin and Roberts bought the lot in 1992; held by Timothy Girvin alone from 2001. Sold in 2018 to Anna R. and Sachin P. Bhatia, owners as of 2026.
1995 - The Andrew and Lisa Greenberg House, aka Spiral House, 31 Whippoorwill Crossing, Armonk, North Castle NY. Designed by Kathryn Dean and Charles Wolf (Dean/Wolf Architects). Structural engineer Anchor Consulting. Was an Architectural Record House 1995. Still owned by Andrew Greenberg, the original client.
1995 - The Peter and Turkey Stremmel House, 339 Anitra Drive, Reno NV. Designed by Mack Architects (Mark Mack). Built by Michael Doherty Construction. Structural engineer Parker/Reznik. Landscape architect Peter Walker (concept). 7,000 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 1996. Peter and Turkey Stremmel bought the lot in 1991 and moved it into their family trust in 1998; sold in 2017 to the Pasek Trust (David and Kathryn Pasek, trustees), owner as of 2026.
1995 - The Wendell and Debra Burnette House, 9830 North 17th Street, Sunnyslope AZ. Designed by Wendell Burnette Architect. Built by Wendell Burnette. Structural engineer Turley Scott Consulting. Landscape architect Debra Burnette. Photo by Bill Timmerman. Was an Architectural Record House 1996, featured on the cover. Wendell Burnette still owns it; since 2017 jointly with Ye Qianyi, as of 2026.
1995 - 35555 Beach Road, Dana Point, Orange County CA. Designed by Rob Wellington Quigley. Built by Mark Falcone Contractor. Structural engineer Integrated Structural Design. Photo by David Hewitt/Anne Garrison. Published as the Capistrano Beach Glass House. Was an Architectural Record House 1996. Sold in 2001 to Stephen and Diane Muller, in 2022 to Lukeland Beach LLC, and in 2025 to Bill Ringer as trustee, owner as of 2026.
1995 - House, Nova Scotia Canada. Designed by Richard Gluckman Architects. Built by B. A. Watson Construction. Structural engineer Janega Engineering. Photo by Paul Warchol. Was an Architectural Record House 1996.
1995 - The Burnette Studio-House, 9830 North 17th Street, Phoenix AZ. Designed by Wendell Burnette as his own house and studio. Photo by Bill Timmerman. Was an Architectural Record House 1996. Still owned by Wendell E. Burnette III and Qianyi Ye.
1996 - The Susan Rodriguez House, 29 Fiddlehead Island, Vinalhaven ME. Designed by Susan Rodriguez, Architect. Built by Clarence Conway. Structural engineer The Shelter Institute. Published as Island Cabin "Fiddlehead". Was an Architectural Record House 1997. Held by the Rodriguez Lowrey GST trust; the island compound kept growing through 2016 with a main house, guest cabin, barn and workshop. Standing as of 2025.
1997 - The Andrea and Ira Zorn House, aka Brick & Glass House, 2637 North Greenview Avenue, Lincoln Park, Chicago IL. Designed by Krueck & Sexton Architects. Built by Fraser Construction. Structural engineer Tylk, Gustafson & Associates. Was an Architectural Record House 1997. Owned by Morris Belzberg by 1999. Sold in 2008 to Glen Saltzberg, owner as of 2026.
1997 - The David Teiger House, 51 Peachcroft Drive, Somerset County NJ. Designed by RoTo Architects (Michael Rotondi, Clark Stevens). Built by F. J. Korfmann Contracting. Landscape architect Walter S. Carell, Jr. Was an Architectural Record House 1997. Sold in 2016.
1997 - The Hanspeter Rudin House, 3 Rue du Waldeck, Leymen France. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron. Structural engineer H. P. Frei, Bauingenieur Basel. Photo by Margherita Spiluttini. Published as House at Leymen. Was an Architectural Record House 1999. Needs verification.
1997 - The G. Hooper and L. Weedon House, 1 Derby Street, Highgate Hill, Brisbane QLD. Designed by Andresen O'Gorman Architects. Built by Lon Murphy. Structural engineer John Batterham. Landscape architect Andresen O'Gorman Architects. Photo by Michael Nicholson. Published as the Rosebery House. Was an Architectural Record House 1999. Sold in 2018 (buyer not public); also sold in 2007. Offered for sale in 2016 and 2018 through The Modern House; sold in 2018. Standing.
1997 - The Ken and Seana Shuttleworth House, Crescent House, Compton Bassett, Wiltshire SN11 8RA, Marlborough Downs England. Designed by Ken Shuttleworth. Structural engineer Ove Arup and Partners. Photo by Frieder Blickle. Was an Architectural Record House 2000. Still owned by Ken Shuttleworth when listed in 2026. Listed for sale by Ken Shuttleworth through Knight Frank in 2026. Standing as of 2026.
1997 - aka Yomiuri Guest House, Zao-cho Miyagi Japan. Designed by Atelier Hitoshi Abe. Built by Sugawara Construction. Structural engineer T.I.S. & Partners. Photo by Shinichi Atsumi. Was an Architectural Record House 2001.
1998 - The Ohio Street House, aka Ohio House, 2301 West Ohio Street, Ukrainian Village, Chicago IL. Designed by Linda Searl and Joe Valerio, newly married, as their own house on a corner double lot, and their home for decades. Built in two phases, 1989 and 1999: the square masonry base of the first phase holds the public rooms, and a forty-two-foot-diameter aluminium-clad drum was added in the second. About 3,200 sf, four bedrooms. Won an AIA Chicago Honor Award in the Distinguished Building category, announced in the chapter journal for December 1991, held in the USModernist Library. Searl is a principal of Searl Lamaster Howe and Valerio a founding principal of Valerio Dewalt Train. Offered for sale for the first time in 2024. Standing. Owned by Joseph Valerio and Linda Searl (in their revocable trust from 2018) until 2024, when the trust sold it to Nicholas Paulson.
1998 - The Watrous and Weatherman House, 4 Hunts Lane, Brooklyn NY. Designed by Leslie Gill Architect; Bryce Sanders. Built by Silverstein & Associates. Structural engineer Office of Structural Design. Was an Architectural Record House 1998. Bought in 1992 by Peter Watrous and Elizabeth Weatherman. Sold in 2018 to Jonathan Bauer. Sold in 2021 to Laura Birenbaum and the Birenbaum Family Trust, owners as of 2026.
1998 - The Cynthia Emerson House, 5524 White Pine Drive, on Cooks Lake, Duluth MN. Designed by Salmela Architect (David D. Salmela). Built by Rod & Sons Carpentry. Structural engineer Kreck & Ojard. Landscape architect Coen + Stumpf + Associates. Was an Architectural Record House 1998. Owned by Peter L. and Cynthia A. Emerson, who acquired the land in 1992; owners as of 2026.
1998 - aka Stowe Residence, aka Mountain Residence, 302 Kidder Farm Lane, Stowe VT. Designed by The Office of Peter Rose. Built by Donald P. Blake Jr. Inc. Structural engineer Nicolet Chartrand Knoll-Rafir Matta. Landscape architect The Office of Dan Kiley. Was an Architectural Record House 1998. On a 160-acre site above a small lake.
1998 - The Robert Hill House, 1007 Craven Road, Toronto ON. Designed by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects (Brigitte Shim, Howard Sutcliffe). Built by Ptarmigan Construction. Structural engineer New Onen. Landscape architect Cannon Nursery. Photo by James Dow / Michael Awad. 1,100 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 1999. Designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act by Toronto By-law 66-2022.
1998 - The J. Parker Huber House, 99 Wantastiquet Drive, Brattleboro VT. Designed by Michael Singer. Built by Heartwood Builders. Photo by David Stansbury. Was an Architectural Record House 1999. Held by the Huber Sanctuary Trust (trustees Jennifer K. Irion and Teresa Savel) as of 2026.
1998 - The Into Tasa House, Soukan rantatie 66, Espoo Finland. Designed by Jyrki Tasa. Built by Veijo Makkonen Ky. Structural engineer Pertti Ranta. Landscape architect Jyrki Sinkkila. Photo by Jussi Tiainen. Published as House Into. Was an Architectural Record House 2000.
1998 - The Stein/Fleischmann family House, 16/18 rue de la Procession, 92150 Suresnes, France. Designed by Moussafir Architectes Associes. Built by ERMIF / La Seconde / Dewerpe. Photo by Nicolas Borel. Published as the Stein-Fleischmann House. Was an Architectural Record House 2002. Resold through Architecture de Collection (year not stated). Later resold through the architecture specialist agency Architecture de Collection. Standing.
1998 - The Mariko Tamura House, Fukuoka Prefecture Japan. Designed by Hiroyuki Arima + Urban Fourth. Built by Imamura-Kenso Company, Ltd. Structural engineer Uno Design Office. Was an Architectural Record House 2000.
1999 - The Rob Brill Residence and Studio, 2235 Hyperion Avenue, Silver Lake, Los Angeles CA. Designed 1998-99 by Wes Jones of Jones, Partners: Architecture, the firm he founded in 1993 after Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones. The site held a martial arts studio in a 1970s box, razed to its retaining walls and foundations on a steep upslope from Hyperion Avenue and rebuilt at about 2,500 sf: two bedrooms, a practice room, and an open three-storey living, dining, kitchen and performance volume served by a traveling platform, a device Jones reused in his nearby loft project further along Hyperion. The firm's specification sheet gives 2235 Hyperion (2231, formerly given here, is the house next door), and a 1998 city permit for the rebuild fits the 1999 completion. Commissioned by Eric and Nanette Brill for Eric's brother, Rob Brill. Jones, Partners’ separate loft stands at 2225 Hyperion, built 2003.
1999 - The David and Vivian Howard House, 42 Fawsons Cove Road, West Pennant NS. Designed by Brian MacKay-Lyons Architecture. Built by Andrew Watts. Structural engineer D. J. Campbell Comeau Engineering. Photo by James Steeves. Was an Architectural Record House 2000.
1999 - Club de Golf Chapultepec, Naucalpan, Mexico City Mexico. Designed by Alberto Kalach. Built by Miguel Cornejo. Structural engineer Enrique Martinez Romero. Landscape architect Tonatiuh Martinez. Published as the GGG House. Was an Architectural Record House 2000.
1999 - aka Casa B, La Escondida Beach, Cañete, Peru. Designed by Carlos Casabone. Built by Edward Barclay. Structural engineer Luis Flores. Photo by Jean Pierre Crousse. Published as Casa B. The largest of three La Escondida houses. Was an Architectural Record House 2004. Needs verification.
1999 - aka Residence and Gallery for Contemporary Art, Western Massachusetts. Designed by Kennedy & Violich Architecture. Built by Kistler & Knapp Builders. Structural engineer Sarkis Zerounian and Associates. Landscape architect Stephen Stimson. Was an Architectural Record House 2000.
1999 - The Kenneth and Karen Heithoff House, aka Colorado House, aka Sunshine Mesa House, 4051 Sunshine Mesa Road, Telluride CO. Designed by Architectural Research Office (Stephen Cassell). Landscape architect Mathews/Nielsen. Photo by Paul Warchol. A 10,000-sf vacation house clad in Cor-Ten steel shingles on a 60-acre meadow. Was an Architectural Record House 2001. The Heithoffs bought the land in 1995; still held by the family through 4051 Sunshine Mesa LLC and a Heithoff trust. Needs verification. County record: 4051 Sunshine Mesa LLC, as to an undivided 59% interest. Recorded in 2026 to 4051 Sunshine Mesa LLC (59% undivided interest) on a 60-acre residential parcel.
2000 - The Cube House, aka Ithaca House, 61 Makarainen Road, Ithaca NY. Designed by Simon Ungers with collaborator Mathias Altwicker as a concrete weekend retreat of about 893 sf on a large wooded property, sited near the edge of the parcel to look out over a ravine. A garage and small studio below, living area and kitchen above, with an exterior metal stair to an open roof terrace and an apparently random window pattern set against the regular mass. A second-phase single-storey pavilion and connecting wall, intended to frame a courtyard between the two, appear not to have been built. Photographs by Eduard Hueber. Published in Alejandro Bahamon, Mini House (Harper Design), where it appears as the Ithaca House. Ungers died March 6, 2006. Standing. New York State parcel records place it in the town of Danby, Tompkins County rather than Ithaca proper: 920 sf on 8.57 acres, year built 2000, owner Joseph A. McKeon. The adjoining 75.86-acre parcel on the same road is owned by Liselotte Ungers, the architect’s mother.
2000 - The Schall House, 10425 North Central Avenue, Phoenix AZ. Designed by Wendell Burnette Architects. Built by Baywest Construction Management. Structural engineer Rudow + Berry. Landscape architect Debra Burnette. Photo by Bill Timmerman. Was an Architectural Record House 2000. Owned as of 2026 by Philip W. Hamilton and Judy M. Berge-Hamilton, who deeded it into their 1419 Trust in 2021.
2000 - Kita-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan. Designed by Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. Built by Heisei Construction. Structural engineer Sasaki. Photo by Shinkenchiku-sha. Published as the Small House. Was an Architectural Record House 2001, featured on the cover. Photo by Shinkenchiku-sha (issue contents: 'Small House by Kazuyo Sejima, Photograph by Shinkenchiku-sha').
2000 - The David & Mary Beth Koehler House, Seeleys Cove Road, Crow Harbour NB, New Brunswick Canada. Designed by Julie Snow Architects. Built by Campbell Comeau; John Johnson. Photo by Brian Vanden Brink. Was an Architectural Record House 2001.
2000 - aka Vancouver House, 3257 Point Grey Road, Vancouver BC. Designed by Patkau Architects. Built by Glover Corporation. Structural engineer Fast & Epp Partners. Photo by Paul Warchol. Was an Architectural Record House 2002, featured on the cover. Standing as of 2026.
2000 - The Alfredo & Paulina House, Condado de Sayavedra, Atizapán, Mexico City Mexico. Designed by Adria + Broid + Rojkind. Built by Proyecto Alpha. Structural engineer Salvador Mandujano. Photo by Undine Prohl. Was an Architectural Record House 2002.
2000 - aka Naked House (Case Study House 10), Kawagoe Japan. Designed by Shigeru Ban Architects. Built by Misawaya Kensetsu. Structural engineer Hoshino. Photo by Hiroyuki Hirai. Was an Architectural Record House 2001.
2000 - aka Pennsylvania House, Media PA. Designed by Wesley Wei Architects. A remodel of and addition to an 18th-century stone farmhouse. Was an Architectural Record House 2001.
2000 - aka Casa M, La Escondida Beach, Cañete, Peru. Designed by Barclay & Crousse Architecture. Built by Edward Barclay. Structural engineer Luis Flores. Photo by Jean Pierre Crousse. Published as Casa M. Was an Architectural Record House 2004. Casa Equis; carved into desert cliff, glass pool cantilever. Needs verification.
2001 - The Ron Gompertz Residence, aka View Silo, 2099 E River Rd, Livingston MT. Designed by Clark P. Stevens and Michael Rotondi. Built by Ron Gompertz as owner-builder. A narrow four-story tower on 14 acres on a terrace above the Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley. Sold in 2020; now owned by Tower Keep LLC and run as short-term lodging.
2001 - aka Tower House, 7 Cobourg Street, Stratford ON. Designed by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects. Built by Dan Paul Design. Structural engineer Blackwell Engineering. Photo by James Dow. Was an Architectural Record House 2002. Needs verification.
2001 - aka Solar Tube House, Zuckerkandlgasse (north end), 1190 Wien, Vienna Austria. Designed by Georg Driendl Architekt. Structural engineer Ernst Illetschko. Landscape architect Schumacher-Schindl. Photo by Bruno Klomfar. Was an Architectural Record House 2004.
2002 - aka Island House, 658 Spithead Road, Howe Island ON, Thousand Islands ON. Designed by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects. Built by Peabody and Sheedy Construction. Structural engineer Blackwell Engineering. Photo by James Dow. Was an Architectural Record House 2002.
2002 - aka Beverley House, 2442 Beverley Avenue, Ocean Park, Santa Monica CA. Designed by Daly Genik Architects. Built by Bonura Building. Structural engineer William Koh & Associates. Photo by Tim Street-Porter. A remodel of a 1,150 sf bungalow. Was an Architectural Record House 2002. Needs verification. The firm added a lower-level terrace and guest room in 2014.
2002 - aka Picture Window House, Ito (Izu Peninsula), Shizuoka, Izu Peninsula Japan. Designed by Shigeru Ban Architects. Built by Daido Kogyo. Structural engineer Hoshino Architect & Engineer. Photo by Hiroyuki Hirai. Was an Architectural Record House 2003. Needs verification.
2002 - aka The Red House, Lysaker, Oslo, Roa Norway. Designed by Jarmund/Vigsnaes. Built by Gunnar Johansson. Structural engineer Walter Jacobsen. Photo by Nils Petter Dale. Was an Architectural Record House 2003. Needs verification.
2002 - The Bruce Doblin House, 5017 N Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago IL. Designed by Valerio Dewalt Train Associates. Structural engineer Robert Darvas Associates. Photo by Steve Hall (Hedrich Blessing). Was an Architectural Record House 2003. Owned by Bruce Doblin since at least 2004; the tax bill has gone to Lisa Wainwright since 2018 with no recorded sale, which suggests a transfer within the household.
2002 - Sorrento, Mornington Peninsula Australia. Designed by Sean Godsell Architects. Built by Kane Construction. Structural engineer Felicetti. Photo by Earl Carter. Was an Architectural Record House 2003. Needs verification.
2003 - The Du Plessis family House, Condomínio Laranjeiras, Paraty Brazil. Designed by Marcio Kogan Architect. Built by Fernando Vasconcellos. Structural engineer Francisco Vasconcellos. Landscape architect Marcelo Faisal. Photo by Arnaldo Pappalardo. Was an Architectural Record House 2004.
2003 - The Hiroaki Ohtani House, Kobe Japan. Designed by Hiroaki Ohtani. Built by Marukoh Kensetsu. Structural engineer Koichi Tohki. Photo by Kouji Okamoto. Published as the Layer House. Was an Architectural Record House 2005.
2004 - The Tim and Lynn Crowley House, 44051 FM 2810 (Pinto Canyon Road), Marfa TX. Designed by Carlos Jimenez Studio. Built by Cook Construction. Structural engineer Dan Ray. Photo by Paul Hester. 8,000 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2004. Sold by Timothy J. Crowley in 2011 to Frank F. and Katharine L. Smith, owners as of 2026.
2004 - aka BR House, Serra das Araras, Petrópolis, Araras Brazil. Designed by Marcio Kogan Architect. Structural engineer Roberto Bomtempo. Photo by Nelson Kon. Was an Architectural Record House 2005.
2004 - aka Shark Alley House, Medlands Beach, Great Barrier Island New Zealand. Designed by Fearon Hay. Built by Offshore Builders. Structural engineer Markplan Engineers. Photo by Patrick Reynolds. Was an Architectural Record House 2005. Needs verification.
2004 - aka Casa Travella, Castel San Pietro Switzerland. Designed by Aldo Celoria. Built by Gianni & Colombo. Structural engineer Paolo De Giorgi. Landscape architect Ares Viscardi. Was an Architectural Record House 2005. Photo by Milo Keller.
2005 - aka Hill House, 71 Hell Point Road, Kingsburg NS, Nova Scotia Canada. Designed by Brian MacKay-Lyons Architecture. Built by Arthur Baxter. Structural engineer Campbell Comeau Engineering. Photo by Undine Pröhl. Was an Architectural Record House 2005.
2005 - Bixby Canyon (Jackson Family Retreat), Big Sur CA. Designed by Fougeron Architecture. Built by Thomas George. Structural engineer Endres Ware. Photo by Richard Barnes. Was an Architectural Record House 2005.
2005 - W6348 County Road JJ, Appleton WI, Ellerton WI. Designed by Wendell Burnette Architects. Structural engineer Rudow + Berry. Landscape architect Michael Boucher. Photo by Bill Timmerman. Published as the Field House. Was an Architectural Record House 2006. Owned by Nelida N. Sjak-Shie as of 2025.
2005 - Alvite, Portugal, Alvite Portugal. Designed by Alvaro Leite Siza Vieira. Built by Oscar. Structural engineer GOP/Gabinete de Organizacao e Projectos. Photo by Fernando Guerra. Published as Casa Tolo. Was an Architectural Record House 2006.
2005 - The Okamoto family House, Fukuoka Japan. Designed by Urban Fourth (Hiroyuki Arima). Built by Wakuda Construction. Structural engineer Kukan Kogaku Kenkyujo. Photo by Koji Okamoto. Published as Second Plate. Was an Architectural Record House 2005.
2005 - Coliumo Peninsula, Tomé (Casa Poli), Coliumo Peninsula Chile. Designed by Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects. Built by (local crew). Was an Architectural Record House 2007.
2006 - The Rebecca Oppenheimer House, aka Merkaba, 7415 Nanitch Lane SE, Tenino WA. 6500 sf. Designed by Oppenheimer, who engaged South African architect Anthony Philbrick to remotely assist her. Ruben and Jessicarae Nunez of Boxhouse Design consulted and oversaw construction. Sold in 2023 to Karate Kid actor Scott P. Strader.
2006 - Las Arenas, Cañete Peru, Punta Misterio Peru. Designed by Artadi Arquitectos (Javier Artadi). Structural engineer Jorge Indacochea. Photo by Alexander Kornhuber. Was an Architectural Record House 2006.
2006 - New England (Massachusetts). Designed by Office dA. Structural engineer Bill Bishop. Landscape architect Race Mountain Tree Services. Photo by John Horner. Was an Architectural Record House 2006.
2006 - The Matthew & Lisa Trzebiatowski House, 1441 East Sunnyside Drive, Phoenix AZ. Designed by Blank Studio (Matthew Trzebiatowski). Structural engineer Brickey Design Associates. Landscape architect Debra Burnette. Photo by Bill Timmerman. Published as the Xeros Residence. Was an Architectural Record House 2006. Later owned by Kutu Blackson; sold in 2021 to Michael Baska, owner as of 2026.
2006 - 563-23 Mozawa, Karuizawa Japan. Designed by Takei-Nabeshima-Architects (TNA). Built by Niitsu-gumi. Structural engineer ASA - Akira Suzuki. Photo by Daiei Ano. Published as the Ring House. 1,100 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2007. Resold through Uchi Japan (year not stated). It was built as a spec house for developer Hill Karuizawa and first bought by a product designer. Built as a spec house and first bought by a product designer; later resold through Uchi Japan and licensed as a short-term rental. Standing.
2006 - Christ Church Greyfriars Tower, Newgate Street, London EC1A 7BA, London England. Designed by Boyarsky Murphy Architects. Built by KoruBuild. Structural engineer Alan Baxter & Associates. Published as Christ Church Tower. Was an Architectural Record House 2007. Converted to a twelve-level private residence, completed in 2006, within the Grade I listed remains of Christ Church Greyfriars. Later resold through The Modern House.
2006 - Sendai, Japan, Sendai Japan. Designed by Atelier Bow-Wow. Structural engineer Kanebako Structural Engineers. Photo by Shinkenchiku-sha. Published as the Nora House. Was an Architectural Record House 2008.
2006 - The Helmut and Georgia Link House, aka H16, Tieringen, Meßstetten, Germany. Designed by Werner Sobek. Structural engineer Werner Sobek (in-house). Published as the H16 House. Was an Architectural Record House 2008.
2006 - The Jose Manuel Ferrater House, Passeig del Mar (s/n), Les Cases d'Alcanar, Alcanar Spain. Designed by Carlos Ferrater. Built by Construcciones PG98. Photo by Alejo Bague. Published as House for a Photographer II. Was an Architectural Record House 2009.
2006 - The Rene Van Zuuk House, De Fantasie 8, Almere Netherlands. Designed by Rene Van Zuuk Architekten. Structural engineer Leon Mevis. Photo by Christian Richters. Was an Architectural Record House 2010. Standing as of 2015. Van Zuuk's earlier house, Psyche at De Fantasie 9, has been his office since 2004.
2007 - Villa NM, 336 Burr Road, Kenoza Lake, Bethel NY. Designed by UNStudio (Ben van Berkel). Structural engineer Robert Silman Associates. Landscape architect Pouder Design Group. Photo by Christian Richters. Published as Villa NM. Was an Architectural Record House 2007. Built for Leo Tsimmer. Destroyed by fire in 2008.
2007 - The Randy Brown House, 5550 McKinley Street, Omaha NE. Designed by Randy Brown Architects. Landscape architect Farshid Assassi. Was an Architectural Record House 2007. Owned by Mohammad R. Sajjad as of 2023; Randy Brown no longer appears as owner.
2007 - Glenburn, Victoria, Glenburn Australia. Designed by Sean Godsell Architects. Structural engineer Felicetti. Photo by Cristobal Palma; Earl Carter. Was an Architectural Record House 2008.
2007 - Santiago, Chile, Santiago Chile. Designed by FAR frohn&rojas. Structural engineer Ingewag Limitada. Photo by Cristobal Palma. Published as the Wall House. Was an Architectural Record House 2008.
2007 - Nandgaon, Maharashtra, India. Designed by Studio Mumbai (Bijoy Jain). Published as the Palmyra House. Was an Architectural Record House 2008. Standing; still widely published as the Palmyra House, a weekend retreat in a coconut grove near Alibag.
2007 - The Renata Hejduk & Darren Petrucci House, 86 Fairfield Avenue, Vineyard Haven MA. Designed by Darren Petrucci Architect. Structural engineer David Knauf. Was an Architectural Record House 2008. Still owned by Renata Hejduk, of Scottsdale, Arizona, as of 2026; title was put in her name in 2014.
2007 - Hadspen, Somerset England. Designed by Skene Catling de la Pena. Structural engineer Anthony Ward Partnership. Photo by James Morris. Published as the Dairy House. A renovation and extension of an old cheese factory. Was an Architectural Record House 2008.
2008 - The Yeoh Seok Hong House, 2 Lorong Buloh Perindu 1, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Designed by Agence Jouin Manku. Built by YTL Construction Group. Landscape architect Sophie Agate Ambroise. Photo by Eric Laignel. 32,292 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2009. Standing; known as the YTL Residence, home of the Yeoh family (YTL Corporation), and still illustrated by the architects.
2008 - aka Mountain House, 12789 Sailor Flat Road, California. Designed by Atelier Bow-Wow. Photo by Iwan Baan. Was an Architectural Record House 2010. The land last sold in 2003; owner not identified. Listed for sale in 2024 and again in 2025 without a recorded sale. Standing.
2008 - aka Villa 1, Ede Netherlands. Designed by Powerhouse Company. Structural engineer BREED ID. Photo by Christian Schaulin. Was an Architectural Record House 2009.
2008 - aka N House, Oita Japan. Designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects. Structural engineer Jun Sato Structural Engineers. Photo by Iwan Baan. Was an Architectural Record House 2009.
2008 - aka Dutchess County Guest House, Bangall Amenia Road (Cagney estate), Stanfordville, Dutchess County NY. Designed by Allied Works Architecture. Landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. Photo by Hélène Binet. Was an Architectural Record House 2009. Part of the Peter and Jill Kraus estate, owned since 2003.
2009 - Poststrasse 38 (Rota Härd / Villa Vals), Vals Switzerland. Designed by SeARCH and Christian Muller Architects. Built by Kurt Schnyder Bauunternehmung. Structural engineer Alex Kilchmann. Photo by Iwan Baan. Was an Architectural Record House 2010. Operated as a holiday rental by stohomes AG. Standing; rented to guests as Villa Vals, operated by stohomes AG, as of 2026.
2009 - The Lari Pittman & Roy Dowell House, 3947 Markridge Road (Pittman Dowell/Serulnic compound), La Crescenta CA. Designed by Michael Maltzan Architecture. Built by Asterisk Builders. Structural engineer B.W. Smith. Photo by Iwan Baan. Was an Architectural Record House 2010. Still owned by the original clients, Lari Pittman and Roy Dowell, through their trust (2005-2006).
2009 - aka Tree House, Tokyo Japan. Designed by Mount Fuji Architects Studio (Masahiro & Mao Harada). Built by Shin-ei. Structural engineer Jun Sato. Photo by Ken'ichi Suzuki / Shinkenchiku-sha. Was an Architectural Record House 2010.
2009 - The Dorothy & John Gardner House, 770 Ladera Lane, Montecito CA. Designed by Barton Myers Associates. Structural engineer Norman J. Epstein. Landscape architect Rios Clementi Hale Studios. Photo by Ciro Coelho. Was an Architectural Record House 2011. Sold in 2020 (MLS 20-776); buyer not identified. Listed and sold in 2020. Standing.
2009 - The Bill Perry House, 1025 Northridge Road, Joplin MO. Designed by Hufft Projects. Built by Harry Young Construction. Structural engineer CEO Structural Engineers. Landscape architect John Galloway. Photo by Hufft Projects. Published as the Heavy Metal House. Was an Architectural Record House 2012. Owned by William H. (Bill) Perry III, who acquired the land in 2007; owner as of 2026.
2009 - 312 Bangall Amenia Road, Dutchess County NY. Designed by Allied Works Architecture. Built by Berkshire Wilton Partners. Structural engineer Robert Silman Associates. Landscape architect Michael van Valkenburgh Associates. Photo by Doug Aitken. Its walls serve as a canvas for Doug Aitken video art. Was an Architectural Record House 2014. Owned by Peter and Jill Kraus since 2003.
2010 - The Benny Govaert & Martine Neirynck House, Doornstraat 292A, Sint-Andries, Bruges Belgium. Designed by Govaert & Vanhoutte Architects. Structural engineer Claes Engineering. Photo by Tim Van de Velde. Published as House Roces. Was an Architectural Record House 2012. Standing; published as Villa Roces (completed 2012) in a wooded area of Sint-Andries, Bruges.
2010 - Urbanización Santa Bárbara, Godella Spain. Designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. Built by Coarco. Structural engineer David Gallardo/UPV. Photo by Juan Rodríguez / Fernando Alda. Was an Architectural Record House 2013. Standing; published as the Atrium House (Casa del Atrio), completed in 2010.
2010 - The Karina Blumencwejg and Cristian Bianchini House, aka Casa BB, Mar Azul, Villa Gesell, Mar Azul Argentina. Designed by BAK Arquitectos. Photo by Gustavo Sosa Pinilla. Published as Casa BB. Was an Architectural Record House 2013.
2010 - House, Lantian China. Designed by MADA s.p.a.m. (Qingyun Ma). Built by (local craftsmen). Photo by Sunny Chen. Published as Well Hall. Was an Architectural Record House 2010.
2010 - aka Bahia House, Salvador Brazil. Designed by Studio MK27 (Marcio Kogan). Landscape architect Renata Tilli. Photo by Nelson Kon. Was an Architectural Record House 2011.
2010 - The House in Leiria, aka Casa em Leiria, Rua de Santo António 7, Pousos, Leiria Portugal. Designed by Aires Mateus & Associates. Photo by FG+SG. Was an Architectural Record House 2011. Built for a couple of teachers on a family plot in Pousos. Standing; still published as the House in Leiria (2010).
2011 - The Remo Halter House, St. Niklausenstrasse 75, Kastanienbaum Switzerland. Designed by Lussi + Halter. Built by Schmid Bauunternehmung. Structural engineer Gmeiner. Landscape architect Koeplfli. Photo by Leonardo Finotti. Published as Twin Houses Kastanienbaum. Was an Architectural Record House 2012. Built as a vertical duplex for Remo Halter and Cristina Casagrande and a physician-artist couple. A vertical duplex shared by architect Remo Halter and his wife Cristina Casagrande with a second family; completed 2011. Standing.
2011 - Koenji, Suginami, Tokyo Japan. Designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects. Built by HEISEI Construction. Structural engineer Jun Sato Structural Engineers. Photo by Iwan Baan. Published as House NA. Was an Architectural Record House 2012. Standing; House NA remains one of Fujimoto's most published works, with no report of sale or demolition.
2011 - The Ryan Burns & Aline Nakashima House, 3140 Hollyridge Drive, Los Angeles CA. Designed by XTEN Architecture. Built by NWGC. Structural engineer Axial Engineering. Photo by Steve King. Published as Nakahouse. Was an Architectural Record House 2012. Needs verification. Bought in 2007 by Aline Nakashima; sold in 2017 to Nikki Barbanell, owner as of 2026.
2011 - aka House Beside a Vineyard, Stuttgart Germany. Designed by UNStudio. Built by G+O Architekten. Structural engineer Bollinger und Grohmann. Landscape architect Atelier Dreiseitl. Photo by Iwan Baan. Was an Architectural Record House 2012.
2011 - aka Two Hulls House, Port Mouton, Nova Scotia Canada. Designed by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. Built by Delmar Construction. Structural engineer Campbell Comeau Engineering. Photo by Greg Richardson. Was an Architectural Record House 2012.
2011 - The Francie Rehwald House, 11688 Cotharin Road, Malibu CA. Designed by David Hertz Architects. Structural engineer C.W. Howe Partners. Landscape architect Aaron Landsworth. Photo by Sara Jane Boyers. Published as 747 Wing House. Was an Architectural Record House 2012. Still owned by the original client, Frances (Francie) Rehwald, as trustee; grant deed recorded 2004.
2011 - aka InBetween House, Karuizawa Japan. Designed by Koji Tsutsui Architect & Associates. Built by Sasazawa Construction. Structural engineer Hirotsugu Tsuboi. Photo by Iwan Baan. Was an Architectural Record House 2011.
2012 - The David and Karen Francis House, 6363 West Sweetwater Drive, Tucson AZ. Designed by DUST (Cade Hayes, Jesus Robles). Built by DUST; Pure Build. Structural engineer Harris Engineering Services. Photo by Jeff Goldberg/ESTO. Published as Tucson Mountain Retreat. Was an Architectural Record House 2013. David and Karen Francis have owned the site since 2004 through the Francis Family Trust and still own it as of 2026.
2012 - The BWA - Building With Art House, Travessa do Patrocínio 5, Lisbon Portugal. Designed by RA Architecture (Rebelo de Andrade). Landscape architect ADN Garden Design. Photo by Ricardo Oliveira Alves. Published as the Patrocinio House. Was an Architectural Record House 2013. Photo by Ricardo Oliveira Alves (per entry; not printed legibly in scan). Built for developer Sigma Pax Investimentos. Standing; published as the House in Travessa do Patrocínio, a four-storey new building with a planted facade, completed 2012.
2012 - Erlenbach Switzerland. Designed by Gus Wustemann Architects. Built by Corti. Structural engineer Born Partner. Photo by Bruno Helbling. Published as 2 Verandas. Was an Architectural Record House 2013.
2012 - Nishinomiya Japan. Designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects. Built by Tokuoka Koumuten. Structural engineer Jun Sato Structural Engineers. Landscape architect Furukawateijuen. Photo by Iwan Baan. Published as House K. Was an Architectural Record House 2013.
2012 - Morumbi, São Paulo Brazil. Designed by Studio MK27 (Marcio Kogan). Built by CPA. Structural engineer CPA. Landscape architect Renata Tilli. Photo by Fernando Guerra. Published as Casa P. Was an Architectural Record House 2014. Standing; published as Casa P (Casa Pinheiro) in 2013-14.
2012 - 1660 Brahms Road, Cardiff-by-the-Sea CA. Designed by Sebastian Mariscal Studio. Built by RGB Group. Structural engineer DCI Engineers. Landscape architect Rana Creek. Photo by Yoshihiro Koitani. Published as the Phoenix House. Replaced a house lost to wildfire. Was an Architectural Record House 2014. Bought in 2008 by Ronald and Catherine Busick; sold in 2023 to SES 261 LLC, owner as of 2026.
2013 - Villa Kogelhof, Kogelhoflaan 1, Kamperland, Netherlands. Designed by Paul de Ruiter Architects. Built by Bouwbedrijf J. van de Linde. Structural engineer Broersma bv. Landscape architect Bosch Slabbers. Photo by Jeroen Musch. Published as Villa Kogelhof. Was an Architectural Record House 2014. Villa Kogelhof, an energy-neutral villa on an estate with a planted nature reserve, completed 2013. Standing.
2013 - House, Madrid Spain. Designed by Estudio Entresitio. Built by Triplicado SL. Structural engineer Maria Jose Camporro. Landscape architect Planta Paisajistas. Photo by Roland Halbe. Was an Architectural Record House 2014.
2014 - 54310 Cabrillo Highway (CA-1), Big Sur CA. Designed by Fougeron Architecture. Built by Thomas George Construction. Structural engineer Endres Ware. Landscape architect Blasen Landscape Architecture. Photo by Joe Fletcher. Published as the Fall House. Was an Architectural Record House 2014, featured on the cover. Standing.
2014 - The Angela Staffler and Josef Ebner House, Via Agruzzo 75, Bolzano, South Tyrol Italy. Designed by Peter Pichler Architecture. Built by Bernard Bau. Structural engineer SP3 Engineering. Photo by Oskar Da Riz. Published as the Mirror Houses. Was an Architectural Record House 2015. Rented to guests as holiday homes. Standing; the two units are rented to guests as the Mirror Houses holiday homes, as of 2026.
2014 - Nueva Andalucía, Marbella, Marsella Spain. Designed by Gus Wustemann Architects. Built by ADP Empresa Constructora. Structural engineer Alicia Huguet. Landscape architect Nuno Almeida. Photo by Bruno Helbling. Published as Los Limoneros. Was an Architectural Record House 2015. Standing; published as Los Limoneros.
2014 - The Florin Bartos Balint House, Mas Camarena, Bétera, Valencia Spain. Designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. Structural engineer David Gallardo/UPV. Photo by Diego Opazo. Was an Architectural Record House 2015, featured on the cover. Standing; published as the Balint House (Casa Balint), completed 2014.
2014 - Tokyo Japan. Designed by Taichi Mitsuya & Associates + UNEMORI Architects. Structural engineer Low Fat Structure. Photo by Shinkenchiku-sha. Published as the Yamate Street House. On a 258 sf site. Was an Architectural Record House 2015.
2014 - The Harald Schonegger & Inmaculada Gonzalez House, Seville historic center, Seville Spain. Designed by Harald Schonegger and Inmaculada Gonzalez. Built by Eric Desmons Construcciones. Structural engineer Tedesco. Photo by Fernando Alda Calvo. Was an Architectural Record House 2016. A 2014 remodel of an old Andalusian house in Seville's historic centre, reorganized around two planted patios. Standing.
2014 - The Melonie and Paul Brophy House, aka The Sanctuary, 458 Channing Av, Palo Alto CA. Designed by Feldman Architecture. Built by Derek Gray, Bay West Builders. Landscape architecture by Bernard Trainor, Ground Studio. Structural engineering by Strandberg Engineering. Lighting design by Kim Cladas. Photo by Joe Fletcher. 4,289 sf, with a second rental unit. Won a 2018 AIA Silicon Valley Honor Award and a 2020 Residential Design Magazine award. Held by Paul D. and Melonie C. Brophy as trustees. Still owned by the Brophys, in trust. Standing.
2015 - The Margaret Morgan and Wesley Phoa Renovation, aka Petitfils Residence, aka Los Pavoreales, 2441 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Wallace Neff in 1926; renovation by SPF:architects; built by William Kent Development; landscape architecture by Korn Randolph; photos by Roland Halbe. Original house built for Edward L. and Julia Petitfils; son Raymond sold 1941; several previous owners include Madonna, Jenna Elfman, Katey Sagal, Rachel Sweet. LA Historic-Cultural Monument #916. Won a 2020 Residential Design Magazine award.
2015 - The Colette Tornier House, 34 rue du Bournet, Seyssins France. Designed by Studio Odile Decq. Built by SEMA. Structural engineer BATISERF. Photo by Roland Halbe. Published as the Saint-Ange Residence. Was an Architectural Record House 2016, featured on the cover. Colette Tornier (founder of the Résidence Saint-Ange). Standing; used by collector Colette Tornier as the Résidence Saint-Ange, an artists' residency that hosts two artists a year (active in 2020).
2015 - San Rafael Valley (Canelo Hills), Santa Cruz County AZ, San Rafael Valley AZ. Designed by DUST. Built by DUST. Structural engineer David Gibbens. Photo by Jeff Goldberg/Esto. Published as Casa Caldera. Off-grid, 1,060 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2016.
2015 - 10 Taylor Street, Boston MA. Designed by SAS Design Build. Structural engineer The Holland Companies. Landscape architect Structures Workshop. Photo by Peter Vanderwarker. Was an Architectural Record House 2016. Built for Ramy B. Rizkalla, who acquired the lot in 2013; held since by the Ramy B. Rizkalla 2015 Revocable Trust, owner as of 2026.
2015 - Annapolis Royal, NS, Annapolis Royal NS. Designed by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. Built by Scott Shearer Contracting. Structural engineer Campbell Comeau Engineering. Photo by James Brittain. Published as Mirror Point Cottage. Was an Architectural Record House 2016.
2015 - Tokyo Japan. Designed by Makoto Takei + Chie Nabeshima / TNA. Built by TH Morioka. Structural engineer Yasutaka Konishi. Photo by Daici Ano. Published as the Helix House. Was an Architectural Record House 2016.
2016 - The James Jannard House, aka The Most Extreme House in Beverly Hills, 410 Trousdale Place, Beverly Hills CA. CEO of Oakley. 18000sf. Designed by Yo-ichiro Hakomori of Studio Why. Structural engineer, William Koh. Features retractable walls, a sci-fi bathtub, and panoramic views. For sale in 2026. Owned since 2009 by True 90210 LLC in care of James Jannard.
2016 - The Belhu Family House, aka IVRV House, 1232 W 101st Street, West Athens / Westmont CA. Designed by SCI-Arc as a Habitat for Humanity project. Structural engineering by Nous Engineering. Photo by Joshua White. Built on LA County-donated land; transferred to the Belhu family (a veteran). Won a 2020 Residential Design Magazine award. Sold in 2017 to Belete Belhu, a Habitat LA partner homebuyer. Sold through Habitat LA in 2017 to Belete Belhu. Standing.
2016 - 540 West Grant Place, Chicago IL. Designed by Tigerman McCurry Architects. Built by Bulley & Andrews. Structural engineer The Structural Shop. Landscape architect Artemisia Landscape Design. Photo by Steve Hall. Published as the Lincoln Park Residence. Was an Architectural Record House 2016.
2016 - Génova, Palma de Mallorca Spain. Designed by OHLAB (Paloma Hernaiz, Jaime Oliver). Built by Mihai Niculai. Structural engineer Jesus Alonso. Photo by Jose Hevia. Published as the MM House. Was an Architectural Record House 2017. Standing; published as the MM House, winner of the 2016 World Architecture Festival house award.
2016 - Boulogne-Billancourt (near Immeuble Molitor), Boulogne-Billancourt France. Designed by Jakob + MacFarlane Architects. Structural engineer Batiserf. Landscape architect Cap Paysage. Photo by Roland Halbe. Published as The Connected House. Was an Architectural Record House 2017, featured on the cover. Standing; published as the Connected House (Maison Connectée), completed 2017.
2016 - The Rodrigo Mizala and Juan Martinez House, Vitacura, Santiago Chile. Designed by Smiljan Radic. Structural engineer BY Bingenieria. Photo by Roland Halbe. Published as Casas Pareadas. Was an Architectural Record House 2017. One of the two houses was owned by painter Juan Martínez and Andrea Pastorino in 2020. A pair of semi-detached houses; painter Juan Martínez and Andrea Pastorino lived in theirs, with an art studio, in 2020. Standing.
2016 - 13 Terry's Trail, East Hampton NY. Designed by Audrey Matlock Architect. Built by Letteri Construction. Structural engineer BuroHappold Engineering. Landscape architect Site Design Resources; The Laurel Group. Photo by Peter Aaron. Published as the Bar House. Was an Architectural Record House 2017. Owned by Jonivia LLC, registered at the house address since 2010.
2016 - The Francois and Marie Malecaze House, Vieille-Toulouse, Toulouse France. Designed by RCR Arquitectes. Built by Arids Vilanna. Structural engineer Blazquez-Guanter. Photo by Pep Sau; Hisao Suzuki. Published as Maison Malecaze. Was an Architectural Record House 2018. Standing; a new house designed 2009-10 and built 2012-16.
2016 - House, Mendocino County CA. Designed by Envelope A+D. Built by Insight Construction. Structural engineer Mosswood Engineering. Landscape architect Terremoto. Photo by Richard Barnes. Published as the Forest House. Was an Architectural Record House 2017.
2016 - aka Amagansett Addition, 74 Cranberry Hole Rd, Amagansett NY. Designed by Resolution: 4 Architecture. Built by Simplex Homes; interior design by Curious Yellow. Landscape architecture by Sweetbay Landscape Design. Structural engineering by D.B. Bennett Engineering. A modular guest-house addition to a 1990s house. Won a 2020 Residential Design Magazine award. Owned by Cranberry Hole Banana LLC.` (Mark it probable internally until (a) below is done.)
2016 - The Michael and Barbara Collins House, aka Michigan Lake House, 11001 N Foxview Dr, Northport MI. Designed by Desai Chia Architecture; architect of record Ray Kendra, Environment Architects. Built by Easling Construction. Landscape architecture by Surfacedesign. Photo by Paul Warchol. Won a 2020 Residential Design Magazine award. Standing as of the current aerial.
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. Owned by the Taubmans through RST/JRT-EH LLC (Bloomfield Hills MI), which has held it since 2013. The Taubmans acquired the site in about 2008-2009.
2017 - aka Constant Springs Residence, 1103 Constant Springs Drive, Austin TX. Designed by Kevin Alter of Alterstudio Architecture. Built by Hill Capital. Landscape architecture by BDW Landworks. Structural engineering by Structure Works. Photo by Casey Dunn. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award.
2017 - The Josie and Ken Natori House, 65 Old Mill River Road, Pound Ridge NY. Designed by Tsao & McKown Architects. Structural engineer Silman. Landscape architect Calvin Tsao (garden). Photo by Simon Upton. Was an Architectural Record House 2018. Owned by Kenneth R. and Josie Natori, owners since before 2004.
2017 - House, Tokyo Japan. Designed by Shigeru Ban Architects. Built by Shin. Structural engineer Hoshino Architects & Engineers. Landscape architect Sora Botanical Garden. Photo by Hiroyuki Hirai. Published as the Triangle House. Was an Architectural Record House 2017.
2017 - aka Lath House, Tokyo Japan. Designed by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP. Built by Satohide. Structural engineer Yamada Noriaki Structural Design Office. Photo by Koji Fujii / Nacasa and Partners. Was an Architectural Record House 2018.
2017 - The Eduardo Gonzalez and Mayra Osorio House, Estado de México, Mexico. Designed by Fernanda Canales + Claudia Rodriguez. Built by CM2. Structural engineer Grupos SAI. Photo by Rafael Gamo. Published as Casa Bruma. Was an Architectural Record House 2018.
2018 - The Fernanda Canales and Carlos Del Rio House, Reserva El Peñón, Valle de Bravo, Estado de México, Mexico. Designed by Fernanda Canales. Built by Felipe Nieto. Photo by Rafael Gamo. Published as Casa Terreno. Was an Architectural Record House 2019. Architect Fernanda Canales's own weekend house. The architect's own off-grid weekend house. Standing.
2018 - The Wuehrer House, 184 Red Dirt Road, Stony Hill Forest, Amagansett NY. Designed by Jerome Engelking. Structural engineer Stutzki Engineering. Photo by Nic Lehoux. Published as the Wuehrer House. Built for the architect's in-laws. Was an Architectural Record House 2019. Owned by Barbara L. Wuehrer Engelking since about 2014. Standing as of 2025.
2018 - Setagaya-ku, Tokyo Japan. Designed by ARTechnic architects. Built by Wada Construction. Structural engineer Naomi Kitayama and Hiroki Osanai. Landscape architect Lysing. Photo by Nacasa & Partners; Gen Inoue. Was an Architectural Record House 2019. Published as PATH, a family house for a couple with three children. Standing.
2018 - The Kayvon and Maite Agahnia House, 7070 Fairway Road, La Jolla CA. Designed by Sebastian Mariscal Studio. Built by RLP Development. Structural engineer DCI Engineers. Landscape architect Marcie Harris Landscape Architecture. Photo by Paul Rivera. Was an Architectural Record House 2019. Bought in 2010 by the original clients, Kayvon and Maite Agahnia, owners through their family trust (2017) as of 2026.
2018 - The Tony and Robin Armour House, 2907 West Wilson Avenue, Ravenswood Manor, Chicago IL. Designed by John Ronan Architects. Built by Fraser Construction. Structural engineer Stearn-Joglekar. Photo by Tony Armour. Published as the Gallery House. Was an Architectural Record House 2019. Built for Tony (Thomas) and Robin Armour, who had owned the lot since at least 1999; the house has been held in the Robin Pierce Armour trust since 2020. Owned by Robin P. and Tom S. Armour since at least 1999 (the new house was built 2017 on their lot); transferred to the Robin Pierce Armour trust in 2020. Transferred by Robin Armour to her trust in 2020. Standing as of 2026.
2018 - The Riverbend Residence, 9875 North Snake River Drive, Solitude subdivision, Jackson WY. Designed by Carney Logan Burke Architects. Built by Peak Builders. Structural engineer KL&A. Photo by Matthew Millman. Published as the Riverbend Residence. Was an Architectural Record House 2019.
2018 - Ocho Quebradas, Lote Resto Fundo Conchali L3B, km 218 Ruta 5, Los Vilos Chile. Designed by Office of Ryue Nishizawa. Built by Meinardus Jara y Asociados. Structural engineer Luis Soler P. & Asociados; Arup Japan. Photo by Cristobal Palma. Published as the Ochoquebradas House. Was an Architectural Record House 2020. Built for Phillipe Godoy (per Dezeen). Built for Phillipe Godoy as a weekend house in the Ocho Quebradas development; completed 2020. Standing.
2018 - Las Águilas, Mexico City Mexico. Designed by Sebastian Mariscal Studio + Alfonso Frade. Built by Alfonso Frade. Structural engineer Oscar Trejo. Photo by Rafael Gamo. Published as Casa Zenteno. Was an Architectural Record House 2020. Standing; published as Casa Zenteno.
2018 - House, Porto Feliz Brazil. Designed by studio mk27 (Marcio Kogan). Structural engineer Afaconsult. Landscape architect Maria Joao d'Orey. Photo by Fernando Guerra. Published as the Planar House. Was an Architectural Record House 2018, featured on the cover.
2018 - The Quahaug Point LLC House, aka Quahaug Point, 63 Haversham Road, Westerly RI. Designed by Peter Twombly and Adam Titrington. Built by Evergreen Building Systems. Landscape architecture by Robyn Reed. Photo by Warren Jagger. 3,000 sf multigenerational retreat on Quonochontaug Pond. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award. Bought in 2018 by the Eliza S. Anderson living trust. Deeded in 2022 to Quahaug Point LLC, owner as of 2026.
2018 - The Cody Derrick House, aka Urban Tree House, 829 S 800 E, Salt Lake City UT. Designed by Sparano + Mooney Architecture. Built by Sausage Space. Interior design by cityhomeCOLLECTIVE. Landscape architecture by Dig Landscape Design and Eschenfelder Landscaping. Structural engineering by Structural Design Studio. Photo by Matt Winquist, Kerri Fukui/cityhomeCOLLECTIVE. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Built for Cody Vaughn Derrick, founder of cityhomeCOLLECTIVE, who still owns it through his trust. Transferred to the Cody Vaughn Derrick Trust (dated 2022). Transferred in 2022 to the Cody Vaughn Derrick Trust.
2019 - aka Victorian Music Box, 500 West Francis Street, Aspen CO. Designed by CCY Architects. Built by Koru. Interior design by Cheryl Troxel. Landscape architecture by BlueGreen Landscape Design. Photo by Draper White. Restored for a Dallas couple who commissioned the new guest house. Sold in 2025 to Francis Aspen Investments LLC. Won a 2020 Residential Design Magazine award.
2019 - aka 21st-Century Cabin Renovation, 13217 Highland Road, Highland MD. Designed by McInturff Architects. Built by Timber Ridge Builders. Photo by Julia Heine. Won a 2020 Residential Design Magazine award. A renovation and addition to a modest cabin, completed about 2016. Sold in 2026.
2019 - aka Renovation 1662, 1662 34th Street NW, Washington DC. Renovation of a 1900's row house by Robert M. Gurney; built by Washington Landmark Construction. Landscape architecture by Campion Hruby. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Owned by Jeffery and Kristin Sharp as of 2026.
2019 - aka Skyfall Residence, Sea Ranch CA. Designed by Eric Haesloop and Stefan Hastrup; Sara Dewey of Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects. Built by David S. Hillmer, Empire Contracting. Photo by David Wakely. Won a 2020 Residential Design Magazine award.
2019 - The Brook and Pam Smith House, 104 Net Yard Lane, Upper Kingsburg, Nova Scotia. Designed by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. Built by Philip Creaser. Photo by Doublespace. Available for rent. Won a 2020 Residential Design Magazine award.
2019 - aka St. Paul Residences, 25 Crocus Place and 21 Crocus Place, Crocus Hill, St. Paul MN. Designed by Snow Kreilich Architects. Built by Streeter and Associates. Landscape architecture by TVL Studio. Photo by Gaffer. Won a 2020 Residential Design Magazine award. Two houses forming a family compound: the parents' house at 25 Crocus Place and, next door at 21, a house for their adult son. Completed about 2017. 25 Crocus Place: Renee B. and Fred H. Pritzker, trustees. 21 Crocus Place: Crocus Place LLC (mailing address 25 Crocus Place). 25 Crocus Place is held by Renee B. Pritzker as trustees, and 21 Crocus Place by Crocus Place LLC. Both standing as of 2026.
2019 - aka The Jewel Box Renovation, at the corner of Sixth Avenue and West 9th Street, West Village, New York NY. Penthouse design by Messana O'Rorke. Built by UC Group, Inc. Photo by Eric Laignel. Won a 2020 Residential Design Magazine award.
2019 - The Harlan Bixby House, aka Whidbey Farm, 5005 Smugglers Cove Road, Freeland, Whidbey Island WA. Designed by mwworks. Built by Dovetail General Contractors. Interior design by Eureka. Landscape architecture by Kenneth Philp; photos by Kevin Scott. Won a 2020 Residential Design Magazine award. A 49.58-acre family farm; built 2015 to 2017. Still held by the Bixby family as of 2026.
2019 - The Rafael Arbulu House, Lima Peru. Designed by Barclay & Crousse Architecture. Built by Yuri Bustios. Structural engineer Jorge Indacochea. Landscape architect Lisette Mira Quesada. Photo by Cristobal Palma. Published as Casa A4. Was an Architectural Record House 2021.
2019 - aka High Desert Retreat, 61332 Scenic Dr, Mountain Center CA. Designed by Aidlin Darling Design. Built by D.W. Johnston Construction; landscape architecture by Aidlin Darling Design. Structural engineering by Strandberg Engineering. Civil engineering by Feiro Engineering. Photo by Joe Fletcher; Adam Rouse. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. A getaway above the Coachella Valley. Was an Architectural Record House 2020. Completed 2019 on a 2.92-acre site. Standing on the 2.92-acre parcel; the owner's mailing address is the house itself.
2020 - aka Renovation on Cox's Row, 3331 N Street NW, Washington DC. Original house 1820 by Col. John Cox. Renovation architects Robert M. Gurney and Kara McHone. Built by Peterson and Collins; interior design by Sybille Schneider, LSS Interiors; landscape architecture by Campion Hruby Landscape Architecture. Structural engineering by United Structural Engineers; photos by Anice Hoachlander. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Sold in 2007, 2015 and 2024; owned by Cox Society LLC as of 2026.
2020 - aka Downtown Loft, 118 East Main Street, Charlottesville VA. Original building 1832. Designed by Jeff Bushman of Bushman Dreyfus Architects. Built by Longview Management and Construction. Structural engineering by Dunbar Milby Williams Pittman and Vaughan. Photo by Virginia Hamrick. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. West Cote Properties, LLC (last recorded sale 2014). Owned by West Cote Properties, LLC, with the last recorded sale in 2014. Standing as of 2026.
2020 - The Jordan and Megan Phillips Renovation, aka 10 Limehouse Street, 10 Limehouse Street, Charleston SC. Original house 1858 designed by William Pinckney Shingler. Restoration architect EE Fava Architects. Built by Tupper Builders. Landscape architecture by Glen R. Garner; photos by Michael Strople. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Owned by 10 Limehouse LLC as of 2026.
2020 - The Janet Bloomberg Renovation, aka Dual Modern, 3412 Highview Court, Hammond Wood Historic District, Silver Spring MD. Designed in 1950 by Charles Goodman as his own house. Restoration design by the client/architect, Janet Bloomberg. Built by ThinkMakeBuild and R Construction; landscape architecture by Campion Hruby Landscape Architecture; photos by Anice Hoachlander and Julia Heine. Current owners Janet Bloomberg (architect, KUBE Architecture) and Sean Brady. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award.
2020 - aka Mariposa House, 23140 Mariposa de Oro Street, Malibu CA (a screened flag lot in Serra Retreat, an older part of Malibu near the mouth of Malibu Canyon). Designed in 1955 by Alfred T. "Hap" Gilman. Renovation by Brad Lynch of Brininstool + Lynch. Built by Craig R. Williams Construction; landscape architecture by Pamela Burton; photos by Christopher Barrett. Several previous additions. 1.5 acres; 5,600 sf. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Sold in 2017 to 23140 Mariposa LLC.
2020 - aka A Complemented Tudor, 3200 N Albemarle Street, Arlington VA. Designed by Donald Lococo Architects. Built by Mark Knebel, Clemens Builder. Interior design by Sandra Meyer. Landscape architecture by Jennifer Horn. Structural engineering by David Linton. Photo by Anice Hoachlander. Renovation of a Tudor (built 1941 per county records; cited as 1936) in the Country Club Hills neighborhood. Current owners Eric and Jill Lyttle (purchased 2013). Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award.
2020 - aka Art House, 2626 Filbert Street, San Francisco CA. Designed by Aidlin Darling Design. Built by Cello and Maudru. Landscape architecture by LIGHTING Andrea Cochran, San Francisco Design. Civil engineering by Darling Design. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Owned since 2005 by 2626 LLC (bought from the Praeger trust). Transfer recorded in 2021; the new owner is not identified. It was 2626 LLC from 2005. Changed hands in 2021. Standing.
2020 - aka Backriver, Duxbury MA. Located on Duxbury Bay. Designed by Hutker Architects. Built by Dudley Mulrenin, Seaview Construction. Landscape architecture by Kris Horiuchi. Structural engineering by Siegel Associates. On the former Abrams Hill summer-cottage community. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award.
2020 - The Rossello House, aka Bayberry Point, 128 Racing Beach Ave, Falmouth MA. Designed by Peter Zimmerman Architects. Peter Zimmerman AIA principal in charge, with Richard Pinkerton RA. Built by Ralph Cataldo of Cataldo Custom Builders, Falmouth. Interior design by Mary Hastings Interiors. Landscape architecture by Dan Solien, Botanica Fine Gardens, Falmouth. Photo by Durston Saylor. A Dutch gambrel, shingle style house replacing a beach cottage that was razed, on land held by the clients' family for several generations, oriented west over the ocean and north over a tidal pond and protected open space. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award in the Custom Period or Vernacular House category.
2020 - aka Bento Cabin, Montgomery AL. Designed by Andres Duany of DPZ CoDesign. Built by No-Nonsense Housing; photos by Nick Drolette and Grace Studio. 204 sf affordable cabin. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award.
2020 - aka Blur, 746 Wagonwheel Gap Road, Boulder CO. Designed by Mike Piche of Studio B Architecture + Interiors. Built by Buildwell. Landscape architecture by California JB Fieldworks. Photo by James Florio. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Sold in 2021 to the Dattels Johnson 1992 Family Trust of San Francisco, owner as of 2026.
2020 - aka Casa Margaux Renovation, Playa Blanca 506, Costa Azul, San José del Cabo, Mexico. Designed by Campos Studio. Built by Juan Jose Palomares. Interior design by Dre Design. Photo by Romana Lilic/Ema Peter. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Rented to guests as a vacation villa. Standing; rented as the Casa Margaux vacation villa as of 2025-26.
2020 - aka El Sereno Renovation, aka A Study in Light, 15 El Sereno Court, San Francisco CA. Designed and built by building Lab. Structural engineering by Mosswood Engineering. Photo by Jason Bax. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. A partial renovation of the entry, powder room, hall bath and a new primary suite built on the existing roof, completed in 2020. Sold in 2008 to Jonathan M. and Ann E. Jones, who presumably commissioned the 2020 renovation; the roll shows no later sale. Owned since 2008 by Jonathan and Ann Jones. Standing.
2020 - aka Georgia Modern Renovation, Washington DC. Original house 1900's. Designed by McInturff Architects. Built by Jimmy Loveless, JWL Woodworking. Interior design by Kate Ballou, Hendrick Interiors. Landscape architecture by Lila Fendrick Landscape Architects. Structural engineering by Norton Consulting Engineers. Photo by Jennifer Hughes. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award.
2020 - The Janelle and Alden Pinnell Residence, aka Highland Park Residence, 3708 Lexington Avenue, Highland Park, Dallas TX. Designed by Kevin Alter, Alterstudio Architecture. Built by Steven Hild Custom Builder. Interior design by Silvia Zofio. Landscape architecture by Hocker Design. Structural engineering by Ellinwood + Machado. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Alden Pinnell bought the site in 2012; the house is held by the Alden G. Pinnell Revocable Trust as of 2026.
2020 - The Chris and Sally Candee House, aka Kettle Moraine, W1482 Lake Drive, Campbellsport WI. Designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects. Built by Rick Serwe Custom Cabinetry. Landscape architecture by Johnsen Schmaling Architects. Photo by Justin Lee Lopez. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award.
2020 - aka Ledge House, 47 Dark Entry Road, Cornwall CT. Designed by Desai Chia Architecture. Built by Classic Renovations. Landscape architecture by AB Landscaping, LLC. Photo by Paul Warchol. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Owned by Michael Feder and Povilas Utovka as of 2024.
2020 - aka Logan Circle Renovation, 12 Logan Circle NW, Washington DC. Designed Colleen Healey Architecture. Built by John Allen. Structural engineering by Norton Consulting Engineers. Photo by Jennifer Horn and Anice Hoachlander. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Sold in 2021 to New Beginnings at 12 Logan LLC, owner as of 2026; an earlier record for the lot shows Monkey Business DC LLC acquiring it in 2017.
2020 - The Randlow Smith Jr. House, aka Merrilee Lane, 7022 Merrilee Lane, Dallas TX. Designed by Max Levy Architect. Built by Constructive. Landscape architecture by Hocker Design Group. Photo by Charles Davis Smith. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Randlow Smith Jr. bought the lot in 2017 and still owns the house as of 2026.
2020 - aka Pier on Twelve Mile Bayou, Shreveport LA. Designed by Robert M. Cain. Built by Owner. Structural engineering by Fenner Consulting. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award.
2020 - aka Split Box, 1445 Fairlawn Way, Golden Valley MN. Designed by SALA Architects. Built by Showcase Renovation. Landscape architecture by Eric Baldus, Terravista Landscape and Design. Photo by Chad Holder. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Owned by the Cathryn P. Sussman Trust (taxpayer Cathryn P. Sussman) as of 2026.
2020 - aka Hybrid Development House, aka Steel Stacks, 5212 Delridge Way SW, Seattle WA. Designed by Hybrid Architecture. Built by Hybrid Assembly. Landscape architecture by Glenn Takagi. Four Corten-clad units. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Developer Delridge Steel LLC bought the site in 2019 and sold the four units in 2020-2021: 5212 A to Jessica Fletcher and Jonathan Gibbs (2021), 5212 B to David and Erin Eaton (2020), 5212 C to Allison Rose Dunphy (2020), and 5212 D to Kevin Rivers and Alissa Ozyilmaz (2020), who sold it in 2024 to Kevin and Lorra Hernon.
2020 - aka Translucence House, 695 Arkansas Street, Potrero Hill, San Francisco CA. Designed by Anne Fougeron. Built by Samantha Burton, Young and Burton. Landscape architecture by Andrea Cochran. Structural engineering by Paul Endres, Endrestudio. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. A renovation of a 1960 house with a glass pavilion addition. Last sold in 2012; buyer not identified. Standing.
2020 - aka Wanaka Wedge House, Queensberry, Central Otago, New Zealand. Designed by Actual Architecture Company. Built by Matt Colebrook. Photo by Dennis Radermacher/ Lightforge. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award.
2020 - The Cassie and Carrington Guy House, 3496 Morgantown Road, Charlottesville VA. Designed by TW Ryan Architecture. Built by Evergreen Builders. Photo by Joe Fletcher. Published as the Three Chimney House. Was an Architectural Record House 2020.
2020 - The Tim and Brandie Gehan House, 4644 Miron Drive, Dallas TX. Designed by Specht Architects. Built by Sebastian Construction Group. Structural engineer Architectural Engineers Collaboration. Landscape architect Hocker Design Group. Photo by Casey Dunn. Published as the Preston Hollow Residence. Was an Architectural Record House 2020. Tim Gehan acquired the site in 2015; it is held by the Timothy Gehan Revocable Living Trust as of 2026.
2020 - The Craig and Lisa Foster House, aka Derwent Valley Villa, 52 Avenue Road, Duffield, Derbyshire UK. Designed by Blee Halligan. Built by Derwent Valley Construction. Structural engineer Heyne Tillett Steel. Landscape architect J&L Gibbons. Photo by Henry Woide. Replaced a bungalow the Fosters bought in 2016. Won a 2022 RIBA East Midlands Award. Was an Architectural Record House 2022. Bought in 2016 by Craig and Lisa Foster; no sale recorded since. Standing; no sale recorded since the Fosters bought the site in 2016.
2020 - The Erica Bergsma House, 2026 I Street, Sacramento CA. Designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects. Built by Indie Capital. Structural engineer Core 4 Engineering. Photos by Justin Lopez. Was an Architectural Record House 2022. Landscape architecture by Johnsen Schmaling Architects. Also won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. Bought in 2018 by Erica Cunningham according to BlockShopper; possibly the same client under another surname. Owned since 2018. Standing.
2020 - House, Oaxaca Mexico. Designed by IUA Ignacio Urquiza Arquitectos. Built by Alonso Garcia Cano & Santiago Gaxiola. Structural engineer Ricardo Camacho. Photo by Onnis Luque. Published as Casa en El Toron. Was an Architectural Record House 2021.
2020 - The Takaaki and Yuko Fuji House, Tokyo Japan. Designed by Takaaki Fuji + Yuko Fuji Architecture. Structural engineer Tomonori Kawata. Photo by Masao Nishikawa. Published as the Bay Window Tower House. Was an Architectural Record House 2021.
2020 - aka Awana Beach House, Great Barrier Island New Zealand. Designed by Herbst Architects. Built by Great Barrier Building Company. Structural engineer Sullivan Hall. Landscape architect Second Nature. Photo by Jackie Meiring. Was an Architectural Record House 2021.
2020 - The Elizabeth Andrews and Michael Wilson House, aka Urban Bower Renovation, 3616 Albemarle Street NW, North Cleveland Park, Washington DC. Designed by Colleen Healey Architecture. Built by JWL Woodworking. Structural engineering by Norton Consulting Engineers. Photo by Jennifer Hughes. New bedroom suite. Won a 2021 Residential Design Magazine award. An interior renovation creating a primary suite. Owned by Michael B. Wilson since 2001, as of 2026.
2021 - The Dan Shipley House, aka Alcott Street, 5127 Alcott Street, Cochran Heights, Dallas TX. Designed by Dan Shipley Architects. Built by ShipBuild Partners. Photo by Robert Tsai. The architect's own house; current owners Dan Shipley, and Lea Bauman. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award.
2021 - The Cortner-Bradley House, aka Bucks County Residence, 2148 California Rd, Springfield Township (Richlandtown) PA. Designed by Stephen Cassell of Architecture Research Office. Built by Lewis Brothers. Landscape architecture by Michael Boucher Landscape Architecture. Structural engineering by Silman. Civil engineering by Cowan Associates. Photo by Stephen Kent Johnson. 4,250 sf Bauhaus-inspired house. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. Built for Lynn Cortner and Kathleen Bradley, former Knoll executives, near the 1750 farmhouse they had long occupied. Owned by A. Lynn Cortner and Kathleen G. Owned by Lynn Cortner and Kathleen Bradley. Standing as of 2025.
2021 - aka Cottagewood Beach House, Deephaven MN. Designed by PKA Architecture. Built by Streeter. Interior design by Nada Bibi. Landscape architecture by Travis Van Liere. Structural engineering by Christian Soltermann. Photo by Paul Crosby. 6,049 sf. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award.
2021 - The Lisa Franzen House, 5202 Wyoming Road, Mohican Hills, Bethesda MD. Designed by Robert M. Gurney FAIA, with project architects Nicole de Jong AIA and Sarah Mailhot Solander. Built by Commonwealth Building and Design of Clifton VA. Structural engineering by United Structural Engineers of Sterling VA. Photo by Anice Hoachlander. Four stories stepping down a steeply sloping wooded site toward the Potomac, reading as two stories from the street; two full-height concrete end walls with Shou Sugi Ban infill on the street side and glass on the woodland side. Four bedrooms, three baths on a 0.23-acre lot; completed June 2020 on the footprint of a structurally unsound house that was razed. Won a 2021 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, and a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. Sold in 2021 to Karine Orlova, owner as of 2025.
2021 - aka Gallatin Passive House, Gallatin NY. Designed by North River Architecture and Planning. Built by North River Design Build. Interior design by Amy Baratta. Structural engineering by Bill Scribner, Kaaterskill Associates. Passive House. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award.
2021 - aka Georgetown House, 3618 Prospect Street NW, Washington DC. Designed by McInturff Architects. Built by Scott Taylor. Interior design by Michael Johnson, Mrj Design Group. Structural engineering by The Mateo Cobb Collaborative. 4,100 sf. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. Sold in 2017 to 3618 Prospect LLC (in care of M. D. Emmerson, Redding, California), owner as of 2026.
2021 - The George del Gaudio House, aka Goatbarn Lane, 110 Goatbarn Lane, Boulder CO. Designed by Renée del Gaudio Architecture. Built by Dan Flohrs, Coburn Development. Photo by David Lauer. 1,860 sf full-time mountain house built for the architect's father, George del Gaudio (current owner/resident). Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award.
2021 - The Godfrey House, aka House on a Wharf, 22 Steamboat Wharf Rd, Brooksville ME. Designed by Elliott Architects. Built by M.K. Construction. Interior design by Lisa Morris. Landscape architecture by Richardson and Associates. Structural engineering by Thornton Tomasetti. Photo by Trent Bell. Replaces a 100+-year-old former steamboat ferry terminal on Buck's Harbor, next to the Bucks Harbor Yacht Club; 1,604sf main house. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. Miriam Godfrey bought the property in 2017. Bought in 2018 from Dorothy E. Devault, per listing-site records (the buyer is not named there). Standing as of 2025.
2021 - The Antonio and Stephanie Sierra House, aka House Pool Garden, 3115 44th Street NW, Wesley Heights, Washington DC. Designed by McInturff Architects. Built by Zantzinger. Landscape architecture by Lila Fendrick Landscape Architects. Structural engineering by Christopher Cobb, Matteo Cobb Collaborative. Photo by Anice Hoachlander. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. Completed in 2019. Owned by the Sierras as of 2026.
2021 - aka Kua Bay, Island of Hawaii HI. Designed by Walker Warner Architects. Built by Robin Ledson, Ledson Construction. Interior design by Nicole Hollis. Landscape architecture by Ron Lutsko, Lutsko Associates. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award.
2021 - aka Nineteenth Street Renovation, 1841 19th Street, Potrero Hill, San Francisco CA. Designed by Sidell Pakravan Architects. Built by Lemma Construction. Photo by Laurian Ghinitoiu for Henrybuilt. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. A rooftop penthouse addition and renovation of the owner's top-floor unit in a four-unit building, completed in 2017.
2021 - aka Oakdell Residence, 3205 Oakdell Lane, Studio City CA. Designed by David Thompson of Assembledge+. Built by Dobkin Construction. Interior design by Lisa Strong Design; Susan Mitnick Design Studio. Landscape architecture by Fiore Landscape Design. Structural engineering by Chris Peck. Renovation of a 1957 midcentury house. Current owner Jonathan H. Feldman (Jonathan H. Feldman Living Trust), who purchased it in 2019. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. Needs verification.
2021 - aka RaveOn, 4605 Laurel Canyon Drive, Highland Park West, Austin TX. Designed by Nick Deaver of Nick Deaver. Built by Wilmington-Gordon. Landscape architecture by David Wilson, David Wilson Garden Design. Photo by Casey Dunn. Midcentury modern renovation; 2,680 sf. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. Renovation of a 1950s house by Fehr and Granger. Sold in 2013.
2021 - aka Redwood Cottage, Mill Valley CA. Designed by Richardson Pribuss Architects. Built by Abacus Builders. Landscape architecture by Arterra Landscape Architects. Structural engineering by Turbin Structural Engineering. 1,600 sf cottage rebuilt on a creekside redwood lot. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award.
2021 - The Agrawal House, aka Round House Renovation, 24863 Olive Tree Lane, Los Altos Hills CA. Designed by Feldman Architecture; Steven Stept, project principal. Built by Derek Gray, Baywest Builders. Photo by Adam Rouse. Reinvention of a builder-built 1965 circular courtyard house; 5,103 sf. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. Bought in 2013 by Meera Agrawal, who remains the owner.
2021 - aka Shibui Renovation, 300 Summer Hills Drive, Wimberley TX. Designed by Nick Deaver Architect. Built by Melde Construction Company. Photo by Casey Dunn. Renovation of a fisherman's cottage; 2,500 sq ft. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. Owned by Peter J. and Ariele M. Rosch as of 2025.
2021 - aka Tarrytown Residence, 3409 Taylors Drive, Austin TX. Designed by Kevin Alter of Alterstudio Architecture. Built by Clean Tag. Landscape architecture by Word+Carr Design Group. Structural engineering by MJ Structures. Photo by Casey Dunn. 4,401 sf. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. Replaced a circa-1959 house; completed in 2019. Sold in 2019.
2021 - aka Vail Family Condo, Vail CO. Designed by HMH Architecture + Interiors. Built by Shaeffer Hyde Construction. Photo by David Lauer. 2,650 sf. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award.
2021 - The Peter Naimoli House, aka Water's Edge Residence, 5215 Tortuga Trail, Austin TX. Designed by Parallel Architecture. Built by Sam Stewart Custom THERMA. Interior design by Cravotta. Structural engineering by Way. Civil engineering by Janis Smith. Top photo by Chase Daniel. 8,019 sf. Designed for a mathematician. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. Sold in 2010 to Jeff K. Swickard and in 2016 to Peter B. Naimoli and Dana X. Sun, owners as of 2026.
2021 - aka York Street Passive Townhouse, 312 York Street (probable), Jersey City NJ. Designed by Mowery Marsh Architects. Built by Endres Home Builders. Interior design by Elaine Santos, Elaine Santos Design. Structural engineering by Proper and O'Leary Engineering. Photo by Haris Kenjar. 3,780 sq ft. Current owners Christa and Darren Peters. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award.
2021 - The Sasha Rosse and Francisco Franco House, Nogueras, Comala (Ex-Hacienda de Nogueras), Comala Mexico. Designed by Di Frenna Arquitectos. Built by Di Frenna Arquitectos. Structural engineer Hugo Saucedo Acosta. Landscape architect Aurelio Alcaraz Rodriguez. Photo by Lorena Darquea. Published as House in Colima. Was an Architectural Record House 2022.
2021 - The Frame House, 1875 Trinity Road, Glen Ellen CA. Designed by Mork-Ulnes Architects. Built by Nordby Signature Homes. Structural engineer ZFA Structural Engineers. Landscape architect Surfacedesign. Photo by Bruce Damonte. Published as the Frame House. Was an Architectural Record House 2022.
2021 - The Oliaros Property Development House, Antiparos Greece. Designed by AREA in Athens. Built by Oliaros Property Development. Structural engineer Erisma. Landscape architect Doxiadis +. Photo by Ed Reeve. Published as the Ridge House. Was an Architectural Record House 2022.
2021 - aka Red Maple House, 5513 Oak Pl, Bethesda MD. Designed by Colleen Healey Architecture. Built by Cabin John Builders. Renovation and expansion of a 1909 carriage house on a pipestem lot, planned around a mature red maple. Photo by Jennifer Hughes. 3,300 sq ft. Won a 2022 Residential Design Magazine award. Sold in 2019 by the Hajdu family; renovated and expanded in 2021. Standing as of 2025.
2021 - aka Hillview Cove, 1610 Hillview Cove, Palm Springs CA. Designed by Sean Lockyer. Built by Mark Hahn. Interior design by Sam Cardella, Cardella Design. Photo by Lance Gerber. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award. Lot bought in 2017 by Marc Walters, owner through his trust as of 2026.
2022 - The Nina and Andreas Grueter House, 6068 Mulholland Highway Los Angeles CA. Designed by Yo-ichiro Hakomori and Kulapat Yantrasast of Studio Why. 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. The lot was bought in 2012 by Nina and Andreas Grueter. The lot was bought in 2012; the house was completed in 2022 after more than a decade. Standing.
2022 - The Neil Schwartz Addition, aka Hydeaway, aka Mourning Dovecote, 21883 Hyde Road, Sonoma CA. Designed by Neil Schwartz Architecture. Built by Brian Cutright Construction. Landscape architecture by Totem Landscape Services. Structural engineering by Associates. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award; AIA California Merit Award. Owned since 2010 by the architect, Neal (Neil) Schwartz. Bought in 2010 (the architect, per the entry). Sonoma County shows another document recorded in 2025; its type is not public. Standing. Sonoma County lists a 2012 main house and a 582 sf second building on the 1-acre parcel.
2022 - The Matthew Theobald and Sarah Chandler ADU, aka Leit House, 17106 Gehricke Road, Sonoma CA. Designed by Neal Schwartz. Built by Eames Construction. Landscape architecture by Totem Landscape Services; structural engineering by Framework Engineering. Photo by Douglas Sterling. 816 sf pavilion. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award. A guest pavilion on a roughly 40-acre parcel burned in the 2017 wildfires. Bought in 2016 by Matthew S. Theobald and Sarah S. Chandler, trustees, still the owners as of 2023.
2022 - aka Ark Cabin, Wuhan, China. Designed and built by Mu Wei of Wiki World, who took the photo. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award.
2022 - aka Boathouse, WA. Designed by Dan Wickline; Philip Burkhardt of PBW Architects. Built by Dalgarno Construction. Interior design by LeeAnn Baker, LeeAnn Baker Interiors. Landscape architecture by Green Man Landscape and Design. Photo by Andrew Pogue; Taj Howe. 634 sq ft. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award.
2022 - The Jason Kuwayama House, aka Curtain House, 1128 East Kane Place, Milwaukee WI. Designed and built by Brian Johnsen and Sebastian Schmaling of Johnsen Schmaling Architects. Photo by John J. Macaulay. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award. Built by Ryan Scott Development. Completed in 2023. Kuwayama bought the lot from the City of Milwaukee in 2017 and still owned it as of 2026.
2022 - The F. W. and Gail Kittler House, aka DNA Alpine Vacation House, 1914 Alta Lakes Road, near Telluride CO. Designed by John Cottle; Todd Kennedy; Jenny Trumble of CCY Architects. Built by Dave Gerber Construction; interior design by Arnelle Kase, Finding Home Design; Heather Madden, Maya Design Studio. Landscape architect, Kristin Undhjem. 3,149 sf. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award. In unincorporated San Miguel County near Alta Lakes. Owned by the Kittler Legacy Trust as of 2026.
2022 - The Samantha Noyes House and Studio Renovation, aka Gradient House and Studio, 9808 North Edison Street, Portland OR. Designed by Christopher Brown of Linden, Brown Architecture. Built by Callum Clark. Landscape architecture by Wesley Younie. 3,600 sq ft. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award; AIA Oregon Award. Owned by Erik Hernandez as of 2026, by quitclaim deed in 2025.
2022 - The Werman-Sparber House, aka Middle Garden Renovation, 3132 Oliver St NW, Washington DC. Designed by Colleen Healey. Built by Matt Proper, Freeman Builders. Photo by Jennifer Hughes. 420 sf. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award. Owners Joshua Werman and Lauren Sparber bought the house in 2013.
2022 - aka Palms House II, 825 Palms Boulevard, Los Angeles CA. Designed by Kevin Daly; Gretchen Stoecker. Built by CA Construction. Structural engineering by WORKPOINT Engineering. Photo by Benny Chan; Joshua White. 3,400 sq ft. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award. Sold by the Norrie family; owned since 2019 by Lawrence Laybourne and the Bekele Laybourne family trust (retitled 2026).
2022 - The Riggs House, 1630 Riggs Place NW, Washington DC. Designed by Robert M. Gurney. Built by Ted Peterson, Peterson and Collins. Interior design by Therese Baron Gurney. Photo by Anice Hoachlander. 3,668 sq ft. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award. Sold in 2016 and again in 2017 to EZJ Ventures LLC, owner as of 2026.
2022 - The Scott House, aka Rollingwood Residence, 5002 Rollingwood Dr, Rollingwood TX. Designed by Ryan Burke and Eric Barth of A Parallel Architecture. Built by Shoberg Homes. Interior design by Polly Hazelwood. Structural engineering by Steinman Luevano Structures. Photo by Chase Daniel; Casey Dunn. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award. Owner Jordan Scott bought the lot in 2018.
2022 - aka Russian Hill Residence Renovation, aka Red Stair House, 10-12 Aladdin Terrace, San Francisco CA. Designed by Dumican Mosey Architects. Built by Devlin McNally Construction. Photo by Blake Marvin. 3,300 sq ft. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award. A 1907 two-unit building, remodeled with a fourth-floor addition and joined by lot-line adjustment with 2 Aladdin Terrace. Standing. The city records it as one merged parcel, 2-12 Aladdin Terrace.
2022 - The Brandon Ebel and Sarah Jio House, aka Sound House, 2226 Morley Place West, Magnolia, Seattle WA. Designed by Jon Gentry of GO'C. Built by Thomas Fragnoli Construction. Structural engineering by Swenson Say Faget. Photo by Kevin Scott. 5,500 sq ft. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award. Ebel bought the lot in 2017 and still owned it as of 2026.
2022 - The Lydia Ramsey and Jon Gentry House, aka The Rambler, 9410 NE Park Avenue, Indianola WA. Designed by Jon Gentry of GO'C. Built by Sparrow Woodworks. Photo by Kevin Scott. 1,700 sf. Won a 2023 Residential Design Magazine award. The architect's own house, on land that had belonged to Ramsey's grandparents. Still owned by Gentry as of 2026.
2022 - aka House Between Forest & Field, Stanfordville, Dutchess County NY. Designed by nARCHITECTS. Built by UCE Fine Builders. Structural engineer Silman. Photo by Michael Moran; Frank Oudeman. Was an Architectural Record House 2023.
2022 - The Cem Turgu and Adriana Alegria House, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Designed by HW Studio. Built by Constructora ARGA. Structural engineer Constructora ARGA. Photo by Cesar Bejar. Published as Enso House II. Was an Architectural Record House 2023.
2022 - The Katherine and Ken Overby House, 905 Waters Edge Drive, Nebo NC. Designed by Fuller/Overby Architecture. Built by Cottonwood Development. Structural engineer Nat Oppenheimer, Silman. Photos by Paul Warchol. Was an Architectural Record House 2023. Designed by Emma Fuller and Michael Overby for Overby's parents. Bought in 2017 by Kenneth D. and Katherine A. Overby, who still own it as of 2026.
2022 - The Patricia Waechter House, aka Meadow House, 686 West 22nd Avenue, Eugene OR. Designed by Ben Waechter Architecture for Waechter's stepmother. 2600sf. Built by Chalus Construction. Structural engineering by Grummel Engineering. Photo by Lara Swimmer. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award. Patricia Waechter still owns it through the Patricia Chamberlain Waechter Trust as of 2026.
2023 - aka Graoni Beach House Renovation, Malibu CA. Designed by David Montalba. Built by Matt Blacke. Photo by Kevin Scott. 2,950 sf. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award.
2023 - aka Redivivus Renovation, 242 11th Street NE, Atlanta GA. Designed by Robert M. Cain. Built by Jeff Meadows, Biltmore Construction Management. Landscape architecture by Georgia Hill, LEED Green Associate, Beautyberry Gardens. Structural engineering by Kelly Allbright, PEC Structural Engineering. Photo by Frederik Brauer. Rescue of a small midcentury apartment building slated for demolition; 4,098 sq ft. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award. Owned by the RMC Revocable Trust. Standing as of 2026, classed as a two-unit building.
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.
2023 - The John L. Sanders Renovation, aka Clauss Haus II, aka Redwood House, aka Little Switzerland, 417 Little Switzerland Road, Knoxville TN. Original house designed in 1941 by Alfred Clauss and Jane West Clauss. Sold in 2016 to John Sanders. Renovation built by Sanders and Fuhrig Design + Construction. Photo by Bruce Cole. Part of the Clausses "Little Switzerland" International-Style enclave. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award.
Around 2023 - The Henry and Winifred McIntyre Renovation, 2497 Summit Drive, Hillsborough CA. Original house 1961 by Joseph Esherick; renovation architecture by Richard Beard; interiors by The Wiseman Group; built by Louis Ptak Construction; landscape architecture by Strata Landscape Architecture. Has a Lawrence Halprin garden, aka McIntyre Garden.
2023 - aka Bahamas Cottage, Harbour Island, Bahamas. Designed by Max Levy; consulting architect Daynan Tynes; built by Higgs Construction. Photo by Charles Davis Smith. 1,880 sf. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award.
2023 - aka Birdhouse, Apsley, Ontario, Canada. Designed by Meg Graham; Will Elsworthy of Superkül. Built by Brinkman Construction. Photo by doublespace photography. 2,945 sf lakeside house clad in charred cedar. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award.
2023 - The Kevin Toukoumidis House, aka Dunelands, 4054 Spring Beauty Lane, Holland MI. Designed by Kevin Toukoumidis; Jordan Snittjer of dSPACE Studio. Built by Zahn Builders. Landscape architecture by Kevin Toukoumidis. Jordan Snittjer, project architect, dSPACE Studio. Photo by Ty Cole. House on a protected national dune above Lake Michigan; rotating Cor-Ten privacy panels. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award. Owned by Kevin A. Toukoumidis and Gregory E. Brisson (mailing address in Chicago) as of 2024.
2023 - aka Five Yard House, 1508 West 9th Street, Austin TX. Designed by Rivera Architects. Built by J. Pinnelli Company. Landscape architecture by Ten Eyck. Photo by Paul Finkel | Piston Design. In a historic downtown Austin neighborhood. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award. Bought in 2015 by Thomas Bentley and Carol Rylander, who still own it as of 2026.
2023 - The Narayen House, aka Hale Kiawe, 72-3142 Alapii Kula Drive, Kailua-Kona HI. Designed by Greg Warner; Sharon Okada; Matthew Marsten; Vivi Lowery / Walker Warner. Built by Metzler Contracting. Interiors by Philpotts Interiors. Landscape architecture by David Y. Tamura Associates. Lighting by EJA. Photo by Matthew Millman. 5,600 sf on 4.67 acres. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award. Owned by the Narayen Family Trust.
2023 - aka Meadow House, Santa Lucia Preserve, 2 Rumsen Trace, Carmel-by-the-Sea CA. Designed by Mark English of Mark English Architects. Built by Jim Daily, Portola Valley Builders. Landscape architecture by Kate Stickley, Arterra Landscape Architect. Photo by Joe Fletcher. 8,521 sf. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award.
2023 - The Joseph and Anne Slaughter Andrew House, aka Pivoting Renovation, 5124 Wissioming Road, Glen Echo Heights, Bethesda MD. Original house designed by Robert Gurney. Designed by Christopher Tucker of Mode4 Architecture. Built by Steve Howard, Square One Development. Landscape architecture by Scott Pitner/SPD Landscape Studio. Photo by Anice Hoachlander. 5,000 sq ft (overall project). Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award. Also addressed as 24 Wissioming Court. Owned by Joseph J. and Anne Slaughter Andrew; listed for sale in 2026.
2023 - aka Roam Ranch, 1804 Pfeiffer Road, Fredericksburg TX. Designed by Burton Baldridge of Baldridge Architects. Built by Duecker Construction Company. Landscape architecture by Campbell Landscape Architecture. Structural engineering by Dennis Duffy, Duffy Engineering. Photo by Casey Dunn. 4,360 sq ft. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award. Needs verification. Bought in 2018 by Taylor Collins and Katherine Forrest, who moved it into Roam Land Co. Ltd. in 2021; owner as of 2026.
2023 - The Rowe House, aka The Overlook, 427 Tufts Pond Rd, Kingfield ME, on a roughly 309-acre site. Designed by Tom Lane; Russ Tyson; Drew Bortles of Whitten Architects. Built by Sebastian Tooker, Sebastian Tooker Construction. Interior design by Heidi Lachapelle Interiors. Landscape architecture by Soren Deniord Landscape Studio. Owned by the William S. Rowe Revocable Trust.
2023 - aka Stone House Renovation, 1835 Pioneer Road, Lancaster PA. Original house 1730. Designed by Marilyn W. Moedinger of Runcible Studios. Built by Don Delp, Restore 'N More. Structural engineering by Lin Gallant. Photo by Kyle Caldwell. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award. Owned by Linn W. Moedinger since 2000.
2023 - aka In-Kind House, Seattle WA. Designed by Jon Gentry. Built by Ian Jones. Photo by Kevin Scott Crystalite. Renovation of a 1950s urban house; 1,936 sq ft. Won a 2024 Residential Design Magazine award.
2023 - 1373 Indian Creek Road, Helmville MT. Designed by T.W. Ryan Architecture. Built by Lohss Construction. Structural engineer Salvetech. Photo by Joe Fletcher. Published as the Four Roof House. Was an Architectural Record House 2023. Owned as of 2026 by the Rita Dreiblatt Schreiber Trust of Indian Wells, California.
2023 - House Six, 136 Adsit Crosby Road, New Marlborough MA. Designed by EASTON COMBS Architects. Built by Eric Zahn Builders. Structural engineer Taconic Engineering. Landscape architect Michael Boucher Landscape Architecture. Photo by David Hiepler. Published as House Six. Was an Architectural Record House 2023. Owned by architect Lonn Combs, who bought the land in 2014, as of 2026.
2023 - The Castle, Duver Road, St Helens, Isle of Wight UK. Designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects. Built by Millimetre. Structural engineer Smith and Wallwork. Landscape architect Kim Wilkie. Photo by Nick Kane. Published as the Saltmarsh House. Was an Architectural Record House 2023. Kate and Jason Gatenby (per 2023 press). Built for Kate and Jason Gatenby in the grounds of The Castle, a Grade II listed Victorian house, replacing a bungalow called Olivers. Won a 2023 RIBA South Award and was shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2023. Standing.
2023 - aka Casa 720, about 90 miles southwest of Mexico City, Mexico. Designed by Fernanda Canales. Built by Felipe Nieto. Structural engineer Grupo Sai. Interior decoration by Camilla Pallares. Photo by Rafael Gamo, Edmund Sumner, and Camila Cossio. A country house for a family of six on 3.7 acres, planned around circular geometries in concrete, wood, glass, and stone; Canales first tested the site with three temporary wood platforms. 12,000 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2024.
2023 - aka Arbour House, 2750 Sea View Rd, Saanich (Victoria), British Columbia, Canada. Designed by Patkau Architects. Built by Rannala Freeborn Construction. Structural engineer RJC Structural Engineering. Landscape by Haven Garden Design and Red Door Landscaping Services. Lighting by Margot Richards Lighting. Photo by James Dow. A folded lattice of hemlock struts below skylights casts moving patterns across the living room; full-height retractable glazing along the front. 6,000 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2024. Built for a retired couple, Toni and David, replacing an early-20th-century cottage above Cadboro Bay. Standing as of 2026.
2023 - aka Promontory Villa, in the pine-covered mountains southwest of Guadalajara, Mexico. Designed by Atelier Ars. Built by Adrián Ríos. Structural engineer Cantilever Estructuras. Horticulture by Juan Montaño. Photo by César Béjar. A six-bedroom weekend house organized around a totemic stone chimney rising 23 feet into open sky. 9,640 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2024.
2023 - aka Lantern House, 63 West 22nd Avenue, Riley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Designed by Leckie Studio Architecture + Design. Built by Adisa Homes. Structural engineer Chalten Engineering. Photo by Ema Peter. A two-story, inward-turned house in a leafy semi-urban neighborhood, in stucco, regional cedar, and board-formed concrete. 2,600 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2025. Replaced an older house on the lot. Built under a 2021 City of Vancouver permit that also allowed demolition of the earlier house. Standing as of 2026.
2023 - The Jaime and Uli Agnesi House, aka Casa Primaveras, Rancho Contento, Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico. Designed by Estudio Macías Peredo. Built by Construmova. Structural engineer TADE. Landscape by Juan José García and Viveros de Occidente. Photo by César Béjar. Capped with a jagged roofline; 6,805 sf on a 10,225 sf lot in a gated subdivision. Was an Architectural Record House 2025.
2024 - The Geoff Schwartz and Teresa Kuo Schwartz House, aka Frame House, 32 Hedges Banks Drive, Northwest Woods, East Hampton NY. Designed by Worrell Yeung. Built by Fifth and Dune. Structural engineer Silman. Landscape by Sweetbay Landscape Design. Photo by Rafael Gamo. An object in the landscape on a waterfront site in a wooded enclave of cedar-shingled houses. 6,400 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2024. Owned by Geoff Schwartz through 32 Hedges LLC since 2021.
2024 - aka House of Horns, Los Altos Hills CA. Designed by WOJR (William O’Brien Jr. and John David Todd). Built by Paragon Custom Builders. Structural engineer FWCSE. Stone objects by Quarra Stone; furniture by Kylle Sebree Studio; lighting by O-. Photo by Nick Dearden. A perched site with sweeping views of Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay. 8,500 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2024.
2024 - The Theodore and Belinda Stohner House, aka Morningside Residence, 5965 NE 6th Avenue, Morningside, Miami FL. Designed by Brillhart Architecture. Built by iBuild. Structural engineer ASD Consulting Engineers. Photo by Joe Fletcher. A series of pavilions wrapped around a jungle-like setting in a historic enclave between Biscayne Boulevard and Biscayne Bay. 4,100 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2025. The lot was bought in 2018 by PIM Ten LLC (deeded to PIM Investments LLC in 2019), the Stohners' entity; in 2025 it was deeded to Theodore R. Stohner and then to the Theodore R. Stohner Irrevocable Homestead Trust, owner as of 2026.
2024 - aka the Translators’ House, 3576 Wesley Street, Culver City CA. Designed by Jacobschang Architecture. Built by Chadwick & Doggett General Contracting. Photo by Michael Wells. A rectilinear facade set behind a front-yard meadow of tall grasses, designed around the clients’ work as translators. 3,885 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2025.
2024 - aka the Diego Baraona Houses, Santiago, Chile. Designed by Diego Baraona Arquitectos Asociados. Built by Constructora Jorge Carrasco. Structural engineer Juan Acevedo. Landscape architect Ricardo Walker. Lighting by Marcela Valdés. Photo by Pablo Casals Aguirre. A trio of houses for three brothers who shared a business and wanted to live as neighbors, woven into a hilly site. 11,265 sf total. Was an Architectural Record House 2025.
2024 - The Toben Jerry and Kelly Palmer House, aka House of Monitors, 75 Fishleigh Dr, Toronto (Scarborough Bluffs), Ontario, Canada. Designed by Williamson Williamson. Built by Ripple Projects. Structural engineer Blackwell Engineering. Photo by Younes Bounhar. Light monitors illuminate the interiors; the half-acre site runs down 300-foot bluffs to Lake Ontario, and erosion of the loose alluvium forced the house back from the edge. Clients were a landscape painter and her husband. 4,175 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2025. The earlier bungalow was demolished in 2021. The new house was completed under a permit closed in 2024 (variance A0204/19SC).
2025 - aka Casa Cerro Negro, in the coastal desert, Peru. Designed by Leggett & Cahuas. Built by Grimaldo Peceros. Structural engineer Jorge Indacochea. Earthen floors by Centro Tierra; daylighting analysis by Martin Wieser. Photo by Gary Leggett. A fully open-air, off-grid retreat of concrete block that reads at first as retaining walls lining a ravine. 6,240 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2026.
2025 - aka Brick House, 4511 Beverly Crescent, Shaughnessy, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Designed by D’Arcy Jones Architects. Built by Vision Built Construction. Structural engineer Wicke Herfst Maver Consulting. Photo by James Brittain. A split-level residence on a roughly triangular corner lot where a curving street meets a straight one. 4,400 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2026. Replaced a pre-1950 house on the lot. Built under a 2020 City of Vancouver permit issued to D'Arcy Jones Architects, after the earlier house was deconstructed. Standing as of 2026.
2025 - The Beth and Wyeth Johnson House, aka Arbutus House, 4212 Arbutus Drive, Raleigh NC. Designed by In Situ Studio (Matthew Griffith, principal). Built by John C. Sanders & Company. Structural engineer Lysaght & Associates. Landscape architect Arrowhead; green roof by Living Roofs. Photo by Cristobal Palma. Curving plans and ribbonlike surfaces nestled into the Piedmont hills, balancing openness and opacity on a pie-shaped lot. 5,230 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2026. Deeded in 2021 to Wyeth and Beth Johnson, who still own it as of 2026; the lot's previous recorded sale was in 1968.
2025 - The Caitlin and Anthony Gonka House, aka House for Art Collectors, aka the George Pick House, 970 Sheridan Road, Highland Park IL. Designed by Kwong Von Glinow (Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow). Built by Franklin Holdings. Structural engineer Goodfriend Magruder Structure. Photo by Junfu Cui. A reworking of a 1915 estate by Howard Van Doren Shaw into a series of lived-in galleries for a young family and a sizable art collection. 18,000 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2026. Bought in 2020 by Anthony and Caitlin Gonka (as trustees) from the Lassen family trust; owners as of 2026.
2025 - aka the Meander, 40 Laurel Canyon Rd, Nicasio CA. Designed by S^A | Schwartz and Architecture (Neal J. Z. Schwartz, founder). Built by Fairweather Modern Homes. Structural engineer iAssociates. Landscape architects Arterra Landscape Architects and Allen Land Design. Photo by Bruce Damonte. A wood-clad trio of angled rectangular forms, likened to boulders, locked into interlacing forested ridgelines an hour north of San Francisco, on a 40-acre off-grid site. 4,780 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2026.
2025 - aka Casa Pilar, outside Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. Designed by TEN Arquitectos (Enrique Norten, principal). Built by Arditeqs. Structural engineer Alonso y Asociados. Lighting by Lighteam. Photo by Jaime Navarro and Arturo Arrieta. A hilltop house designed for a widow, her art collection, and her late husband’s car collection, on a ridge above a 198-acre gated community. 32,000 sf, plus a 10,700 sf garage structure. Was an Architectural Record House 2026.
2025 - aka Orri Mountain Retreat, southwest Colorado. Designed by CCY Architects (Alex Klumb, partner in charge). Built by Fortenberry & Ricks. Structural engineer Resource Engineering Group. Landscape architect Lift Studio; lighting by Luminosity. Photo by Daniel Jenkins. A year-round house on the edge of a historic mountain town, both belvedere and refuge. 5,755 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2026.
2025 - The Carlos Casanueva de Landa House, aka Twin House, Lake Vichuquén, Chile. Designed by Urzúa Soler Arquitectos (Nicolás and Mauricio Urzúa Soler). Built by Urzúa Soler Contractors. Structural engineer VPA Estructural Engineers. Landscape by Carola Schmohl; interiors by Preece Undurraga. Photo by Marcos Guiponi. Two parallel timber volumes projecting toward the lake above concrete retaining walls embedded in a steep bluff. 5,800 sf. Was an Architectural Record House 2026.
Sources include: A Treasury of Contemporary Houses of 1954, and The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses of 1959; and Architectural Forum, 1934–1952, and House & Home / Housing, 1952–1982, via the USModernist Library.