Clark House

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Date
1950 - 1951

Project Type
Residential

Location
Orange, CT USA

Language
English

People/Firms
A. W. Burritt Co.
ALCOA
American Tire and Steel Co.
Architectural Forum
Architectural Record
Arundell Clarke Ltd.
Barone Bros.
Beard Concrete Co.
Beard Sand and Gravel Co.
Biggs, A.
Breuer, Marcel
Byrnes, H.
Charles Parker Co.
Cinque Construction Co.
Clark, Dallas

Clark House

Part of West Elevation

Correspondence   335  browse all »

Letter
Letter
Letter

Drawings   12  browse all »

Preliminary Floor Plan
Preliminary Floor Plan
Preliminary Floor Plans

In 1949, Donald and Dallas Clark approached Breuer about designing a house for them in Orange, CT. Breuer created a flat-roofed, two-story, 6,000 square-foot house set into a hillside. The garage, children's bedrooms and playroom were on the lower floor while the parents' bedroom, study, kitchen, dining and living rooms were located on the upper floor, surrounding a flagstone terrace in the center of the plan. Floor-to-ceiling windows alternated with expanses of fieldstone on the façades, and low-stone walls extended out from the house. Breuer also helped the Clarks decorate their house, ordering furniture from Herman Miller. The house was published in Architectural Forum, and numerous people visited the house during construction and after the house's completion.