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Edward and Margrit Fischer studied at the Bauhaus. Margrit was a sculptor and Edward a graphic designer. They asked Gropius and Breuer to design their house in New Hope, PA. after visiting the Hagerty House. The design for a two-story wood-frame house with vertical wooden cladding painted white was largely Breuer's. The long, thin rectangle of the upper story extended beyond the wider ground floor volume. The cantilevered portion was supported by a lally column and a fieldstone slab. Fieldstone walls marked the hearth and the entrance to the house. A shorter, curved fieldstone wall placed parallel to the end of the house marked the boundary of the terrace. Breuer created another terrace on the roof of the wider ground floor volume. This roof terrace could be accessed from the bedroom in the cantilevered portion of the upper story. Breuer also designed a separate studio structure located about 20 feet from the main house. The studio possessed spaces of different heights, whose roofs were connected by an angled skylight that flooded the building with light. A guest cottage was added to the site in 1947. The Fischers refused to allow their house to be photographed or published, which angered Breuer.