from todays AR news:
A Philip Johnson-designed house in New Canaan, Connecticut, may be torn down if a suitable buyer doesn’t step forward, according to an article in The New York Times. The 1,773-square-foot Alice Ball House, as it’s called, is regarded as the “livable version” of Johnson’s Glass House, located just a few miles away. Built in 1953 for a single woman named Alice Ball, the light pink stucco and glass house sits on 2.2 acres. The owner, Cristina Ross, an architect and developer, is asking $3.1 million for the house—and has threatened to raze the structure if she can’t find a taker. Ross purchased the property three years ago for $1.5 million. At the time, architectural writer Fred Bernstein predicted the Ball house could face a dark fate. “The buyer, who is an architect, says that she plans to save it. And maybe she will,” he wrote in a piece for the August 2005 issue of Metropolis. “But New Canaanites have reason to be skeptical.”

- bill 5-31-2008 7:33 pm





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