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First and Second Floor Plan - Kykuit, Marcel Breuer Exhibition House, 200 Lake Road, Pocantico Hills, Westchester County, NY
Photographer
Perez, Lorena
Title
First and Second Floor Plan - Kykuit, Marcel Breuer Exhibition House, 200 Lake Road, Pocantico Hills, Westchester County, NY
Depicted place New York; Westchester County; Pocantico Hills
Date 2010
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS NY-6334-G (sheet 2 of 5)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: In 1948, the architect Marcel Breuer was commissioned to design an exhibition house for the Museum of Modern Art as part of a series of exhibition buildings to be displayed in their garden. The house in the museum garden was Breuer's vision of how the average American family could live in a well designed, modern, expandable, and affordable home. His design, which was seen by thousands while on display, influenced modern residential architecture with its use of glass, wood and natural stone. Its use of distinct activity zones to define the interior and exterior spaces and the motion and flow of space. At the close of the six-month exhibit, the house, which had been slated for demolition, was acquired by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Rockefeller had it cut into four sections and transported 30 miles north to his estate in Pocantico Hills, where it was reassembled, modified, and used as a guest house. The house is significant not only for its role in the history of exhibition buildings but for its influence on modern residential design.
  • Survey number: HABS NY-6334-G
  • Building/structure dates: 1949 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work
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Breuer, Marcel, Architect
Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., Owner
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ny2350.sheet.00002a
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Object location41° 05′ 39.98″ N, 73° 50′ 11″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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