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James Macnabb commissioned a house from Breuer and York in 1936 and construction was completed the following year. The T-shaped house had an entrance hall, kitchen, maid's quarters and garage on the ground floor with the main living spaces above. The living and dining rooms opened onto a dramatic curved terrace, which could also be reached by exterior stairs and was supported by a single column. Breuer and Yorke extended a long row of bedrooms to take advantage of the sea view and raised this wing of the house on oval, concrete pilotis. Two different structural systems were used with load-bearing brick walls used for the two-story portion of the house and reinforced concrete for the bedroom wing. There, concrete pilotis supported a reinforced concrete floor slab with additional support provided by a concrete beam running along the top of the windows around the entire wing.