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The Noyes House is an historic home on Country Club Road in
New Canaan, Connecticut New Canaan () is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 20,622 according to the 2020 census. About an hour from Manhattan by train, the town is considered part of Connecticut's Gold Coast. The town is bound ...
. Designed in the
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style of architecture by
Eliot Noyes Eliot Fette Noyes (August 12, 1910 – July 18, 1977) was an American architect and industrial designer, who worked on projects for IBM, most notably the IBM Selectric typewriter and the IBM Aerospace Research Center in Los Angeles, California ...
(1910–1977) and built in 1955 by Borglum & Meek of
Wilton, Connecticut Wilton is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 18,503. In 2017, it was the sixth-wealthiest town per capita in Connecticut, the wealthiest U.S. state per capita. Officially reco ...
. It was the second New Canaan house that Noyes designed for his own family to live in. The first one no longer exists. The house is a single story structure with a courtyard plan. One rectangular module houses bedrooms, while another houses the living areas. The two are separated by an open courtyard, but joined by concrete walkways covered by the flat roof of the house. The north and south walls are fieldstone, while the east and west walls are banks of floor-to-ceiling glass, separated by wood and steel columns.Alexandra Lange, "Family Comes First," MetropolisMag.com August, 2006
/ref> The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 2008.


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''Family Comes First'' magazine article about the house
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut Houses completed in 1955 International style architecture in Connecticut Houses in New Canaan, Connecticut Eliot Noyes buildings National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut 1955 establishments in Connecticut {{Connecticut-NRHP-stub