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Breuer partnered with Charles Burchard, a former student and employee, for a number of projects in the 1940s, including this design for tennis courts. The designs were an outgrowth of a conversation Burchard had in 1942 with Sherman M. Fairchild, the head of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation, regarding the use of "laminated wood counterbalanced arches in factory construction." A structure of three point laminated wood arches attached to a reinforced concrete wall covered two tennis courts laid end-to-end. The tennis courts were separated by club facilities; locker rooms on the ground floor and offices, a lounge and spectator galleries above. Visitors entered at a glazed, canopied recess in the center of the structure. The courts were never built.