William Landsberg House is a historic home located on a hill in a wooded area of the Incorporated Village of Baxter Estates in

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. It was designed by architect

William Landsberg William W. Landsberg (February 9, 1915 – October 6, 2013) was a Brooklyn-born modernist architect who designed dozens of homes, synagogues, and commercial buildings in the New York metropolitan area in the 50s and 60s. Landsberg studied at th ...

for himself and his family.

Description

The rectangular house with a flat roof features vertical cypress panels which cover the garage and second story, which cantilevers over the first story by 3 feet on the north and south sides. Custom-sized large windows, a few of which are floor to ceiling, ornament the facades creating an open feeling in the living and dining room. The house was modified in 1962–1963 to add nine feet, allowing expansion of the kitchen and living room; the rear porch was also replaced with the current stone patio. The house has been unchanged since then. Landsberg lived in the house until his death in 2013. The Landsberg house is considered a significant example of

Modernist Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, an ...

Architecture created in the United States, and as such was added to the

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on August 18, 2014.Photos
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. He was a graduate student at Harvard under

Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in conne ...

and

Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer ( ; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer. At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which ''The New York Times'' have called some of the most im ...

, and worked professionally with both men during his career.

References

External links

For Sale: home of architect William Landsberg, Design Within Reach blog
* TKS Historic Resources, Inc.
Significance Analysis for 238 East Broadway, Roslyn, NY
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