PHPO visited Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, CT on September 5th. Built in 1949, it predates Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth House by two years. Upon the death of Philip Johnson in 2005, the Glass House and its 47 acre campus became a stewardship of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The mission of this International Style residence is “to be come a center point and catalyst for the preservation of Modern architecture, art and landscape design.”

Tickets for the Glass House go on sale for the 2009 season on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 9am. Tickets are $30 for 90-minute tours and $45 for 2-hour tours.