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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIFS
ALBANY,NEW YORK (5191474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of So thold�/SPT,TA DATE: March 1980
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rand TELEPHONE: 516 765-18.92
Southold , L.I . ' N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Develni mpnt Offi ne
IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S): John Nicholas BrpwnHQuse apartment .
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: 9011thold VILLAGE: Fi nharg Taland
3. STREET LOCATION: north of Fant Ind Rand . solith of rleiPt.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private
S. PRESENT OWNER: Michael !,aughI J n ADDRESS:
0. USI:: Original:aarnaelaga Present: residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ❑ No IN
Interior accessible: Explain l7ri va.te residence
DESCRIPTION
8. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:_plastic eh1ngles
4). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: h. wood frame with light members M
(if kn(wri) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other nAment block foundation ( erti nj
Ill. CONDITION: a. excellent IX b_ good ❑ c. fair 0 d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTI.(;1tH Y: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when?
C. list major alterations and dates (if known). This was "the small rear
apartment" that survived the fire. Originally it was
painted with aluminum paint. The present vinyl cladding
is not original.
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14, THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known ❑ b. zoning ❑ C. roads ❑
d. developers [F] e. deterioration ❑
f. nlher:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn El b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. Iandscaa features: open field
j. other: Bite of Brown House , bq Richard Neutra,
10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): adjacent.
a.open land n b. woodland Cfl at perimeters.
c. scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial
f. industrial ❑ g. residential n
11.other: large open field
17. INTI?RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building Or structure is in an historic district)
T,ocated in a secluded , private , very low density residential
area. Open field to the SW. Site is an elevated plateau with
panoramic views.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Small, 2-story, rectangular, flat roof building. Lower
story garage separated from upper story by simple , flat
projection. Vertical boards around slightly inset window
band.
SIGNIFICANCE
111. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1938
ARCHITECT: !iichard Neutra
BUI LDER:
'0. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This small building isr the only remnant left from the
fire on New Years' Fve , 1973 , when the Brown mansion
was burned to the ground . (see attached )
Also lost in the fire was a 30 foot mural painted by
Charles B. Ferguson. in 1973 .
Interview Mrs. Wall. 3/88.
21. SOURCES: Drexler and Hines. The Architecture of ' ichard
Neutra. 1982 -'
Fishers -sland Book of Memories. . . , James and
Joanne Wall. 19 . 2. pp. 220--221, 224. ( see attached )
2, TH ME: Correspondence, Alastair Gordon, Sag Harbor, 3/88.
Form prepared by t'urt F. 1ahofer, research assistant.
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John Nicholas Thrown house
#20 continued :
When the Richard Neutra house on Fishers Island
"burned to the ground" on New Years' eve 1973 , it was a
sad blow for students of architectural history. Neutra,
who was acclaimed as one of the world' s most influential
modern architects, had designed the house for Mr. & Mrs.
Brown as an excursion into the new design concept of
chromium and glass and open living spaces. Windshield
was Aauhaus "moderne" with very "moderne" furnishings
and , when built, was the largest and most elaborate
modern house in America.
#21 continued :
Henry-'?ussell Hitchcock Jr, Rhode Island Architecture
(Providence , R.I. , 193939 pp 69-679 pl. 73-74.
John McAndrew, ed. : Guide to Modern Architecture - Northeast
States (New York, 1946) . pp. 50-51.
Esther McCoy: Richard Neutra (New York, 1960) , pl. 37-39.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. XXIV,
No. 1 arch 19 phot—o—p-77.
Samuel M. Green: American Art, a Historical `purvey (Tyew York,
1966) 9 P• 475 . -
"Six firemen were injured, including one who required
' out-patient treatment at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in New
London for a severe finger cut.James Cushing was taken to the
mainland aboard Laughlin's yacht, 'The Ghost: This was the
worst fire on the island since the Pendleton estate was
z destroyed on New Year's Day of 1988. Damage was estimated
at$500,000.
E "Laughlin,a bachelor,was attending a party on another part
of the island when this year's fire started.
"The fire chiefs mother, Ann Wall, was baby-sitting for the
w. :
infant son of Mr.and Mrs.William Faulkner,who resided in a
small apartment within the mansion.
"Mrs.Wall tried to telephone to tell her son she had smelled
' smoke, but the phone was not working. She then took the
r Faulkner infant in her arms and drove to her
son's home o about
ut
two miles away."Some 35 firemen rushed to the scene but the blaze was at
an advanced stage. They fought the fire from about 12:30 a.m.
` �- d� until 6:00 a.m.
MAL t ' "Wall said that the fire was in such an advanced stage it is
questionable whether most of the mansion could have been
saved even with an adequate water supply.
"There were three pumpers, two ambulances and an
equipment truck at the scene.
IT "Fire companies from Groton and New London telephoned
The Department in Action the island to see if they could provide any assistance. They
were told that they probably could not because the island is so
Throughout its history, the Fishers Island Fire Department isolated..
has been faced with many challenges—too many to include in
these pages.Two stand out,however,in the recent memory of In 1938 it had been the tremendous wind that tore loose the
w 1 the islanders.The first is the New Year's Eve fire of December roof sections of the mansion and sent them hurtling towards the
31, 1973, that struck and destroyed the mansion"Windshield'" shoreline,The first hours of 1974 saw sections of the roof again
How the fire started has never been discovered.It is said that hurtled towards the shore several hundred yards below the
house.This time they were much smaller and glowed in the sky
it could have been ignited by sparks from one of the house's
numerous fireplaces, although people attending an early as they went.It is i h nl section of the
evening party there related that all fireplaces were secure mansion saved was the small rear a artment occu ied that
s when they left for another holiday party.The known facts are night by-Mrs, Wall and heir infant randson Brian Faulkner,
as follows,reported in The Day.
The second notable fire of recent years took place during the
"High leaping flames, which lit the sky, brought fire writing of this history, in October, 1981. It occurred in the
fighters—many of whom were at New Year's Eve parties—to heavily built-up area of the one-time Mansion House Cottages,
Above and below early 1900's—the Are the vacation retreat of South Carolina State Senator Michael known today as the Hay Harbor area. The structure involved
of the laundry, which was located Laughlin. was the summer residence of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
across the street from the Mobil Gas "Fire Chief Robert E.Wall said the volunteer; efforts were Stedman.
Station. The efforts of the bucket bri- frustrated by a lack of water.'It's a deteriorated water supply The Stedmans had been on the island a few days earlier,so
gade were futile. The buildings were ,stem,that definitely was a factor; Wall said." fire fighters later hypothesized that the fire might have begun
lost' as a spark that had somehow found its way into the walk
[Note that shortly after this the fire department converted the partitions following the use of the fireplace. The cause will
former Army truck to a "super pumper'for situations just such probably never be known for certain. Just prior to 8 a.m.came
as this.] a the call,By the time men and equipment arrived on the scene,
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fire. In such a compacted area of homes, that might well have
'2" f happened, and the department was short one of its major
s 1 pumpers, which had been sent off the island for an overhaul
the day before.
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Eventually—by about 8;30 a.m.—the fire was out. The
+j r volunteers had dispersed,with just two individuals left to keep
" an eye on the smoldering embers. But this was not to be the
end of the day for the Fishers Island Fire Department.
Overhead, a plane was flying low so a photographer could
-= get fire pictures for The Day newspaper. The aircraft made
several low-level passes. Suddenly, spectators on the scene
^
heard a loud noise.The Walker house,just 40.feet northwest of
the smoldering embers, was hit by the plane. A wheel was
'= knocked off the plane and landed between two people taking
r 1 - $r pictures on the Stedmans' lawn.The plane continued over the
' = -- top of the fire scene. Workers in the area observed that the
pilot had given the engine full power to escape the situation,
but this was to no avail.The plane crashed into some trees not
- far from the fire scene and 20 feet from another house.As it hit
the tops of the trees,the aircraft was held in their grip.If it had
i not been, the plane probably would have crashed and burst
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into flames,but each branch slowed the descent until the plane
finally came to rest just off the paved road,across from one of
the McCance homes.George Horning,a fireman and emergen-
cy medical technician, was working a few hundred feet away
from the crash scene. His radio-equipped Fishers Island
Telephone Co. truck was with him. He radioed the Fishers
_. Island Utility Co.about what had happened,and the call again
went out for men and equipment. Horning arrived first on the
scene and helped the pilot away from the plane,which by that
time was leaking fuel.He could not extricate the photographer,
r. who was pinned in the cockpit.
t Fire department members then arrived, along with the
'l ambulance and its crew. The area was secured and the
photographer extricated from the plane.The ambulance squad
went to work on the victims immediately, along with the
Aftermath of the (ire pt "Windshield." island's new resident physician, Dr. Anton Heins. They
# 1 stabilized the victims and radio contact was made to set up
transportation to the mainland hospital.
the three-story structure was totally in flames. Equipment was Circumstances were on the side of the victims now. In the
positioned around the house and the island's"super pumper" immediate vicinity was a U.S.Coast Guard helicopter involved
was dispatched to the Hay Harbor swimming dock to draft in maneuvers. The helicopter crew was directed to the scene
t water for the pumpers at the scene. It was decided early that by radio.They landed not far from the crash site and were able
the building could not be saved;it had too much of a head start. to transport the critically injured photographer to the mainland
The concern became the adjoining house and nearby woods. for treatment.
The weather was on the side of the fire fighters that morning, The injuries suffered by the plane crash victims were so
for normally during the fall the island experiences a continual severe that they are very fortunate to be alive today. Fishers
northwest wind. That morning the wind was nonexistent—flat Island—and those who have brief but life-saving contact with
calm. Had even a slight breeze come up, there was a good the island—can be thankful that there are individuals such as
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chance that homes or trees in the vicinity would have caught those who make up the Fishers Island Fire Department.
Fishers island...Memories. . . 224 225
James & Joanne Wali. 1987.
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r t Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr.: Rhode*lslanLArchiiecture. i
Providence, 103Q reprint edition,. l` . -I. cess, _ am ride,
Nrassachusetts, (1970).
{ as its owner is not only generally a resident by using aluminum paint on the wooden
of Rhode Island, but as active a patron of sheathing of the walls.
architecture in the twentieth century as the
four or five preceding generations of his From the particularly ntid-twentieth century
family were in the past, it may be properly splendors of this Dome,the observer will eer•
hedPd tainly turn with interest to several smaller
houses of similar design, whether lie be
/lyrebhouse,ar
John Nicholas Brown built last sympathetic. or not with the spirit of modern
on Fisher's Island is by Richard Neritra, architecture. They all have extensive, care.
most of whose other work is in California fully considered fenestration,although only
(Plates 73,74).Neutra is known not only in one perhaps approaches the extreme open-
Anterica but throughout the world as a lead- ness of the Brown living room and bed room.
ing modern architect. The choice of Neutra They all have the same simplicity and hori-
to build the house: signifies the same desire zontal composition, although they are also
to obtain the best architect available in somewhat more organically varied in general
America as the choice of Richardson, Hunt, design. But they differ a great deal in their
or McKim, Mead and White for the great scale and in their surface materials. It is,
houses of Newport fifty years alto- The house however, worth stressing that all these mod-
is of comparable scale, probably of corn- ern houses are skilful adaptations of the
parable cost, to the Newport houses of the same standard light wooden frarne construe-
eighties and nineties. But the revolution of tion which is generally used for the most
advanced taste within a generation could "traditional" American dwellings as well.
hardly be more startlingly displayed. Here There is, indeed, only a very limited use of
is a house developed from the interior out- metal Reams and supports and no use of
ward.riot the other way around;yet it adapts ferro-concrete, the particular type of con-
itself to its oceanside site as do none of the struction in which modern architecture was
Newport houses. Here is a honse in which particularly developed abroad in the twen-
the detailed provisions of family living have ties. Moreover all of their express more
been thought out and carried out to a point clearly than "traditional" houses the fact
hardly conceived of before (Fig. 20); yet that their covering is but a shell over an inte-
there is no display, indeed. more possibly it rior supporting skeleton.
may semi that there is an unnecessary humii-
ity in finish and detail. The Donnelly house at Plum Beach is by
Robert Brown and George Howe. George
This house opens toward the landscape and Howe's American reputation places him in
the sea, so that on the terrace outside or a class with Neutra as a modern architect,
in a boat you could hardly be more in the but with the interesting difference that Ire
midst of nature. Special glass,however,pro- has behind him a distinguished career as
tests the interior of the almost wholly glazed a traditional architect also. This is the least
living room from the undue heat of the sun. windowed of these houses. It has the great
Within the simple oblong silhouette the in- merit of natural Cyprus sheathing which is k
numerable rooms are bound together by long weathering, like the shingles of the Wen. G.
horizontal window hands;and the desire for Low house of fifty years ago, to a silvery
unity and consistency has even led to carry- colour more natural and appealing than that
ing the color of the metal sash over the whole of the aluminum paint of the Brown house.
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John Nichoias Brown House
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Henry-Russell Hitcfcock , Jr. , Rhode Island Architecture. 1939
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��'Richard Neutra,Architect,Dies;',
Helped Shape Modern Outlook3 j
Fanctional Designs Inciaded
Baildings in US,midi Abroad
—Wright Associate, 78 ;t•
LOS ANGELES,April 17(AP)
—Richard Neutra,acclaimed ash t
one of the world's most inflik t
ential modem architects. died 1
last night appaterudy of a heart a
attack at Wuppertal,Germany, 1
his family said today.Hiv egal
was 78. He was an a tour of L
Neutra architectural projects in P
Europe. If
Surviving are his widow,the
former Diane Niedermann;three
sons, Frank Lucian, bran and ar
Raymond IL;and a sists.Pepi `f In
Weislgaertner Neutra, an art• be
is[in Sweden. f
a...n,r, fist m,
Htadiwork on Coast Rlchatd Neat. in.
By BURTON LZXDHEIId or.
The broad, glassy brows Of 141121 commission for a tea house EI
at Trebnie in Henn ovinia. Ick
the Pad c Shore.
houses line Before the end of the war he L
the Pacific shore,nestle in Call-returned to his studies in Vienna
fin
canyons and adam 100 a
hilltops there. lie also designed t the Technischn HochsclaWe.In
open-air schools, univsrsitiea concenirsted on mechanics and Pt
and office buildings in this received his degree sununa Cum in
country and abroad,as wail atlaude tit 1817. About a year in
a number of public housing later he W=a diploma with
projcets. datinctim hum the University to
' Mr,Neutra,a tell man with of Zuircb• M
blue-gray eyes and bushy gray Mr.Neutra worked an hour.H
hair, took great satisracdon ng Projects In Switzerland and h.
in the advance of modem d!-r+erm�Y• In 1921, wiat E;r
signing in all fields. Mendelsobe, he designed the!
In residential architecture,SullnerTageblatt building,then r
he combined apadoesaeta and the tallest building In Sw11ta.1
4gmpaCt71CH.taflh
Will ofAlassavieli aer_MeMtiw/m.-he,
and livable'pomtts or- °s
tailorrd to the landscape toifor H if a city plan protect y
make the outdoors neem part'foa Haifa, Pelestlns, that won t
of the hours. first prize to an international t
He stressed functional looks,'W �aid mosey he t
designing modern homes rang-came to the United Slates in p
lIng from the luxurious,like the ale Jose( von Sternberg, la 1923 and became associated c
ate residence cleated for the with Louis Sullivan and Frank..p
tWrightsimple SZ,li0il-a-volt housing Lloyd ffown arolalmall2
near the Son Pedro shipyards. UP
Mr. Neutra followed Faok Practx3 in Los Angeles two
Lloyd Wright's lead Ice using years later. 1,
warm colored woods, bricks World pttsnGon Gahted t�
and rough hewn stone,break• The glass*xpansea and can-do.
Ing the stem verticals and ho ry!{lever sundecks oe his Lovell g,
tzontab of the international Health House,budt privately in
style with diagonal roofs,land•i 1827 an a hillside In Unth
w.prd terraces am softening ar aura[led Interna at
lights and shades.
attention. A $roup 0f IM91 15
Reieeled a Stereotype houses for which Mr. Neutra
Mr, Neutra objected to the won the 1834 Gold Medal of Al
old "machine•for=llv]ng" type the Better Homes in America
house. "I try to make a house competition added to his grow-
like a flower pat,in which you tog reputation.
can root something and out or In 1833 he built in eIemen•
which family life will bloom,"`tarY school that introduced ar
he told hit clients, patios intended for training vr
.Ilrs not sa much a question activities in each classroom-!
of ornamenting the Hower pot His "An g•1pp]an^ school design.N
as of fabricating ome !i n such a Museum offArtdel form here n12t the
1828,G N. � lirimeS
way that something healthy
and beautiful can grow d and Influenced school building for ty 41-L 70
nuc 121 it. The overall design many years. 2( v
should be simple,but it depends From 1839 to 194L he deice
on neat execution.I want every signed five projects for then,
house 1 build to be a stepping Federal Housing Authority Me'41
stone to the future." commodating more than 2000
In his book, "Lire and Hu-families to be built to Csilfor •it
man Habitat," published In ON and Team.He also planned ti
1956,Mr.Neutra declared that a 160-acre postwar housing al
mankind is delighted with what prolect In Channel Heights,a:
is habitual at the seine time Calif.,In 1043.
that it is endlessly seeking the In 1945 he inaugurated a li50-Y
new. He termed this doublemillion long-range building proN
srnsc of the past and the pos-gram for the government of
sible"a pair of polarities Puerto Rico,but withdrew be.tf
which lend to flow continuous.fore its completion, W.
ly toward a new equilibrium." Mr.Neutra was the architect b
It was that equilihrium he al•of the buildings for the Sanuta.c)
ways sought. rio Unlvesltario Italiano nortk b.
Since 1925,Mr.Neutra lived: f Milan,of the American Bin.
In Los Angeles, He was born bany In I airechl,Pakistan,and t
April S,1892,in Vienna,'where of a theater in Dilsaeldorf,Ger-
his boyhood idol,Otto Wagner,many.
designed Vienna's subway Eta. He also designed the San Ps-H
irons. The boy decided when.tiro Community Hotel In Call-D
he was 8 years old tl,at h[s u•revolt offices far the Ferro u
reer would be in architecture.Chemfeal Corporation In Cleve-a
Tea Sousa In Balkans land,the Dayton(Ohio)Muse-
um of Natural History,a library C
The Austrian Army drafted and communications center tar a
Mr.Neutra in 1914 to fight as Adalphi College n Garden
OR artillery officer n [emace L-L
regions of the ltalkus in World Hit books Ind ed^Sutv9
War 1.While In the Balkans n Through Design'pubilahad by c
1915,he got his first.arehlteo-Oxford In 1854. 1
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RICHARD NEUTRA: A CHRONOLOGY
■The Landfair Apartments, Westwood, i A vacation house for John Nicholas ■Eurich house, Los Altos Hills, California.
Los Angeles, which constitute Neutra's g.Brown, Fishers Island, New York, Neutra's Built for a Stanford professor who had
most urbane essay in the reciprocal impera• largest and grandest house outside Califor- commissioned Neutra to design a house for
tives of density and privacy. In essence a nia, it contains over thirty rooms to be him in Minneapolis when he was a profes-
block of densely packed row houses,with staffed by six servants. Brown and Neutra sor at the University of Minnesota.Eurich's
staggered set-backs,unit by unit,augment- incorporate Buckminster Fuller's all-metal move to California confirms his desire to
ing the effect of separate, juxtaposed prefabricated bathrooms. Painted with continue working with Neutra, who de-
entities. The Landfair is in some respects silver-_gray aluminum ,paint, the sleek signs a house in the International Style—
an advance on the apartment buildings at wooden house with its tong bands of ribbon particularly effective in its skillful employ-
the Weissenhofsiedlung (1927) by Mart windows evokes the image of a train or ship ment of low, screenlike exterior walls that
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Stam and J.J.P.Oud. and is given the name"Windshield"Heav- extend the building into the landscape.The 7 4
■The Strathmore Apartments,Westwood, ily damaged by the unprecedented winds house has a lyrical informality that contrasts
a modernist updating of two older regional of the autumn hurricane of 1938.Rebuilt in with Neutra's tauter style of the early thir-
traditions:the ancient,stacked megastruc- 1939.Destroyed by fire in 1975ties.
tures of the Southwest Pueblo Indians and is Becomes western region architectural
the more recent bungalow courts of consultant for the National Youth Adminis-
Southern California. Strathmore contains tration (NYA) and builds functional and
six two bedroom flats and two one-
modestly handsome NYA training centers
bedroom units, each with separate .- in Sacramento and San Luis Obispo,
entrances to the terraced interior court- California. Serves as member and then
yard. Tenants include Luise Reiner, Orson µ chairman of the California State Planning
Welles,John Entenza,and Charles and Ray Board from 1939 to 1941.
Eames. l L' ■March: Arrival of third son, Raymond
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■Neutra takes vacation to Mexico and vis- Richard Neutra.
its painter Diego Rivera and architect Juan
O'Gorman. 1940
■The magazine Pencil Points devotes its 1939 is Beckstrand house, Palos Verdes, Califor-
July issue to Neutra. ■McIntosh house, Los Angeles. Neutra's nia. Neutra's first encounter with zoning
first redwood house in Southern California, codes that require pitched roofs. Here he
1938 built by clients who are willing to"go mod- takes advantage of the code's failure to
r A large house on the Santa Monica beach ern" at the insistence of their sons, who specify the degree of pitch and makes the
for MGM director Albert Lewin is entered have learned of Neutra in art school.They slant so minimal that the building reads
via a long, elegant courtyard. The upstairs are willing to venture into the brave new from the ground as a typical Neutra flat-
porch atop the curving bay of the living world of modernism, however, only it roofed modernist house.
room recalls the Sten house. Both Lewin Neutra will forego the harder surfaces and ■Kahn house, San Francisco- Neutra's
and the house serve as prototypes for a materials of the International Style and largest and best-known house in the Bay
character and a house in Charles Reznikov's build in the more familiar and "domestic" Area.Four stories tall,with an elevator lead-
Hollywood novel,The Manner Music. redwood. ing to the top living room level. Perched
■Designs a modernist version of the tradi- ■Davey house, near Carmel, California A high atop Telegraph Hill, the house has
tional San Francisco row house for William large,elegant redwood house on the Mon- spectacular views of the city and the Bay.
and Ilse Schiff, recent refugees from Nazi terrey peninsula that still uses the earlier Flat roof, banded windows,. cantilevered
Germany.The street facade is a curtain wall abstract white stucco forms. balconies, and white stucco with silver-
of casements; the garden side an alterna- ■Sciobereti house, Berkeley, California.A gray trim identify the house with Neutra's
tion of glass and stucco bands. Care is small,crisp,two-story house for a Univer- sternest,purest style.
taken to defer on the interior to furniture sity of California astronomer built of ■Avian Village,north of Dallas,Texas.Fed-
the Schiffs have brought from Germany ..cemesto" aggregate panels. Structurally erally sponsored housing for defense
designed by Bauhaus graduate Harry and formally it relates to the Plywood workers, designed and planned in collab-
Rosenthal. Model House,Los Angeles(1936). oration with Texas architects David Wil-
McIntosh house,Los Angeles,1939.
The Architecture of t{ichard Neutra. Drexel & Hines , 1982.
F1 3�
The Architecture of Richard Neutra.
Drexel & Hines. 1982.
BROWN HOUSE
Beeend Fleer Mee
20 South terrace
21 Mater bedroom
22 Mistress 6edr0ern i
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23.24 Mitts
25 Guestroorn - 21 22 25 t7 24 `}a,
28 Hae t MIME
27 Tutor's room
28 Slora9e
29 Children's Quarter(divdable) _
30 Bath —�N
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Fint•FloorMen -
I Social acrrvro8s
2 Family quarters Inivda4lel
3 Baihard€alel
4 Entry Oka
5 Guearroorn
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7 Terrace
8 Deo
9 bin;ng room
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12 Dining terrace J
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14 Servants'6nrrg room
15.18,i8 Servants rooms
17 Bath
19 Nvngarea
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32 Playroom and cinema
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35 Furnace room
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Figure 20. John Nicholas Brown house, Fisher's Island,N. Y.,1937-38.
By Richard I. Neutra.
First floor plan. (Provided by Mr.Neuira.)
Henry-Russeli Hitchcock, Jr. , Rhode Island Architecture. 1939
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