Philip Johnson's Glass House
Philip Johnson's Glass House was a remarkable achievement when it was completed in 1949. Inspired by Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House (Ill.), its exterior walls are of glass with no interior walls, a radical departure from houses of the time. It began a fifty-year odyssey of architectural experimentation in forms, materials, and ideas through the addition of many new "pavilions"—Guest House, Lake Pavilion, Painting Gallery, Sculpture Gallery, Ghost House, Studio, and Visitors Pavilion—and the methodical sculpting of the surrounding forty-acre landscape.
Tours for 2008 are sold out.
Regional Events
Impressionist Giverny: Americans Painters in France, 1885–1915,
05/03/08
Lyme,
Connecticut
The Florence Griswold Museum is the first venue for "Impressionist Giverny: Americans Painters in France, 1885–1915", an exhibition of over fifty works organized by the Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny and drawn from the collections of the Terra Foundation for American Art. The exhibition tells the story of the expatriate colony founded by American artists in the village of Impressionist master Claude Monet.
Kykuit Closes for the Season,
11/02/08
Tarrytown,
New York
Kykuit, the estate that served as home to four generations of Rockefellers, closes to visitors for the season on Saturday, May 10. The estate includes a six-story stone house, expansive terraced gardens, art galleries, outdoor sculpture, commanding Hudson River views, and much more.
Regional Sites
101 Spring Street, New York, New York, Historic Artist Homes & Studios
2 Columbus Circle, New Canaan, New York, 11 Most Endangered
African Meeting House, Nantucket , Massachusetts, National Trust Historic Sites
African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School, Boston, Massachusetts, National Trust Historic Sites
Alice Austen House, Staten Island, New York, Historic Artist Homes & Studios
Bethlehem Steel Plant, New Canaan, Pennsylvania, 11 Most Endangered
Bronx River Parkway, New Canaan, New York, 11 Most Endangered
Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront, New Canaan, New York, 11 Most Endangered
Camp Security, New Canaan, Pennsylvania, 11 Most Endangered
Cape Cod, New Canaan, Massachusetts, 11 Most Endangered
Cedar Grove, The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York, Historic Artist Homes & Studios
Charles Demuth House & Garden Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Historic Artist Homes & Studios
Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Historic Artist Homes & Studios, National Trust Historic Sites
CIGNA Campus, New Canaan, Connecticut, 11 Most Endangered
Cliveden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Community Revitalization, National Trust Historic Sites
Cranston Street Armory, New Canaan, Rhode Island, 11 Most Endangered
Daniel Webster Farm, New Canaan, New Hampshire, 11 Most Endangered
Doo Wop Motels, New Canaan, New Jersey, 11 Most Endangered
East Broad Top Railroad, New Canaan, Pennsylvania, 11 Most Endangered
East End Historic District, New Canaan, New York, 11 Most Endangered
