1945 House & Garden Architectural Awards, first prize, class I - Lester C. Tichy

A hilltop in Connecticut, with a wide view of Long Island Sound is the site for this house designed by the architect for himself, his wife and two children. It is a dramatic house, well-planned and thoroughly workable, but full of the unexpected and unusual-for example, the ramp which takes the place of a stairway.

The design is planned for large-scale entertaining. By placing the family living room on the second floor the whole area of the first floor becomes available for entertaining. The guest room may be used as a small sitting room or as a dressing room when the pool is in use. The arrangement of the master bedroom, bath and dressing room is interesting, as is the way in which the children's room, di- vided by a folding partition, may be opened up as a large daytime play space.

Besides the native stone used in the two chimney walls, and the broad expanses of glass, the exterior surfaces are mainly plywood and corrugated sheets of asbestos-cement; roof is slate-colored slag.

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source: House and Garden Magazine | August 1945