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About New Canaan
New Canaan is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 8 miles
(13 km) northeast of Stamford, on the Five Mile River. In 1900, 2,968 people
lived in New Canaan, and in 1910, 3,667. The population was 19,395 at the 2000
census.
New Canaan has two Metro-North railroad stations. They are called "New Canaan"
and "Talmadge Hill". Travel time to Grand Central Terminal is approximately one
hour. New Canaan is one of the most affluent communities in the United States.
New Canaan was an important center of the modern design movement from the late
1940s through roughly the 1960s, when about 80 modern homes were built in town.
About 20 have been torn down since then.
"During the late 1940s and 50s, a group of students and teachers from the
Harvard Graduate School of Design migrated to New Canaan ... and rocked the
world of architectural design," according to an article in PureContemporary.com,
an online architecture design magazine. "Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Landis
Gores, John Johansen and Eliot Noyes -- known as the Harvard Five -- began
creating homes in a style that emerged as the complete antithesis of the
traditional build. Using new materials and open floor plans, best captured by
Johnson's Glass House, these treasures are being squandered as buyers are
knocking down these architectural icons and replacing them with cookie-cutter
new builds."
"Other architects, well known (Frank Lloyd Wright, for example) and not so well
known, also contributed significant modern houses that elicited strong reactions
from nearly everyone who saw them and are still astonishing today. ... New
Canaan came to be the locus of the modern movement's experimentation in
materials, construction methods, space, and form," according to an online
description of The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Mid-Century Modern Houses, by
William D. Earls.
Some other New Canaan architects designing modern homes were Victor Christ-Janer,
John Black Lee and Allan Gelbin. The film The Ice Storm (1997) shows many of New
Canaan's modern houses, both inside and out.