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Philip Johnson's own residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, completed in 1949 as a nearly transparent rectangular glass box on a steel frame, sited on a rise overlooking a pond, and among the most direct built statements of the International Style's ambitions applied to a private house. Johnson lived in it and, on the surrounding forty-nine acre landscape, continued adding structures for the rest of his life, until his death there in 2005. He bequeathed the property to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1986, and it opened to the public as a museum site in 2007, offering guided tours of the house and its grounds.
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Year Created LocationNew Canaan, Connecticut, United States 1 Architectural Style Structural SystemExposed steel frame with full-height glass curtain walls 1 Primary Material Building TypePrivate residence, now a house museum 1 Current UseHouse museum, operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation 1 Visitor AccessOpen seasonally for guided tours by reservation 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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