Yale professor Vincent Scully collaborated with Albert Reese to design the landmark, cupola-topped home, which still has its original fixtures and finishes.
Location: 68 Orchard Road, Woodbridge, Connecticut
Price: $550,000
Year Built: 1950
Designers: Vincent Scully and Albert Reese
Footprint: 1,872 square feet (3 bedrooms, 1 baths)
Lot Size: 3.22 Acres
From the Agent: "This is a one of a kind midcentury-modern house designed by Vincent Scully and Albert Reese. The house is an interpretation of a simple box form often employed by pioneering modernist architects of the period. Characteristic modern features include its simple rectilinear form, strong horizontal lines, expansive windows, exposed concrete, wood and steel structural elements, plain, unornamented surfaces, and an open floor plan. The cupola, accessed by ladder, measuring eight and a half feet square and seven feet high, was added atop the roof in 1953 for a guest room and study. The house, garage, and outbuildings are remarkably unchanged from the original design, and later modifications were made by Vincent Scully."
The home was designed in part by its owner, Vincent Scully, a famed 20th-century art and architecture historian. He spent much of his career as a professor at Yale, which is nearby.
Photo by William Scott Media
The home was featured in the 2002 book, First House: The Grid, the Figure, and the Void by Christian Bjone.
Photo by William Scott Media
Photo by William Scott Media
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