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.
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Regional Sites
101 Spring Street, New York, New York, Historic Artist Homes & Studios
2 Columbus Circle, , 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
Annapolis, MD, , Maryland, Dozen Distinctive Destinations
Bath, ME, , Maine, Dozen Distinctive Destinations
Bethlehem Steel Plant, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 11 Most Endangered
Bronx River Parkway, , New York, 11 Most Endangered
Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront, Brooklyn, New York, 11 Most Endangered
Burlington, VT, , Vermont, Dozen Distinctive Destinations
Camp Security, York, Pennsylvania, 11 Most Endangered
Cape Cod, Cape Cod, 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
Chatham, MA, , Massachusetts, Dozen Distinctive Destinations
Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Historic Artist Homes & Studios, National Trust Historic Sites
CIGNA Campus, , Connecticut, 11 Most Endangered
Cliveden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Community Revitalization, National Trust Historic Sites
Cooperstown, NY, , New York, Dozen Distinctive Destinations
