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Helen Storrow, a wealthy Boston-based supporter of modern art and architecture, paid for Walter and Ise Gropius's house in Lincoln, MA., along with houses for Breuer, Walter Bognar (another architect from Harvard's Graduate School of Design) and the sociologist James Ford. The rectangular house with an entrance canopy angling away from the front façade had multiple spaces for outdoor living, including a screened porch extending from the garden façade and a roof deck. The house was clad in vertical wooden siding that referred to the nearby colonial houses, but the underlying structure was a combination of steel and wooden framing. While Gropius obviously played a large part in the design of his house, Breuer's exact contribution is less clear. Joachim Driller asserts that Breuer's contributions can be found in details such as the sunshade protecting the garden façade and in the decision to change the plan of the house from an L-shape to a rectangle.