The Neighborhood Files
In Pictures: For the Love of the Glass House
Ten New Canaan residents and tour guides share their favorite spots on Philip Johnson's famous estate.
Six days a week (except Tuesdays) from May through November a motley crew leads visitors through Philip Johnson's estate. Ten of the 19 guides are New Canaanites. Some are transplants, others are life-long New Canaan residents, some studied and worked in architecture, others in the financial industry. All of them love this place. Johnson called the site his "50-year diary". New Canaan resident and tour guide Peggy Dannemann tells her tours it was his "50-year laboratory". "He tried out different ideas and different concepts, constantly changing things, because he was curious about what was new," she explains inside his study. The study was his "monk's cell", a small Greek-style building that was once painted white, but which he, in the …
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