“This sophisticated town
house, remodeled from an old stable, retains little of its original structure
except for party walls. Actually,
it is a new and completely contemporary building – a handsome, unconventional
house designed within the limitations of the conventional city lot. The exterior façade is formal and
closed, the symmetrical arrangement of its structural elements handled with a
classic, geometric simplicity.
Unlike earlier modern houses… which were instantly radical, cubistic
compositions in stark white stucco, the materials of this house – brick, glass
and exposed steel – are familiar and urban.”
- “Four Walking Tours of Modern Architecture in
New York City,” The Museum of Moern Art and the Municipal Art Society of New
York, Prepared by Ada Louise Huxtable; Distributed by Doubleday & Company,
Inc., Third Printing 1966.
Image via David Cobb Craig.
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