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House of Panes: 1939

June 12, 1939. "New York World's Fair, House of Glass. General exterior (rear). Landefeld & Hatch, architect." Our first exterior view of this crystal palace. 5x7 inch Agfa safety negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

June 12, 1939. "New York World's Fair, House of Glass. General exterior (rear). Landefeld & Hatch, architect." Our first exterior view of this crystal palace. 5x7 inch Agfa safety negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

 

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This picture could have been taken this afternoon - pretty cool that it was 76 years ago

A la Howard Roark

I'm picturing this as Gail Wynand's house in Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead.

Everything is relative

Yes it looks kind of anodyne to us, but compared to houses that people were familiar with at the time, it would have been like being taken up in a flying saucer or jumping 100 years forward in a time machine. I expect that the visitors were absolutely dazzled by it.

The forerunner

of all the "cookie cutter" look-alikes today, maybe?.

Cruel Joke

It's like these cutting edge architects back in the 30's got together and said, "I know, let's design the motel of the late 50's and early 60's. They'll love it!"

Motel 6

Without the parking.

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