The Noyes House is an historic home on Country Club Road in

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. 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 Otis College of Art and Design, IBM Aerospace Research Cen ...

(1910–1977) and built in 1955 by Borglum & Meek of

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. 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

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in 2008.

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''Family Comes First'' magazine article about the house
* ttps://books.google.com/books?id=n0EEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48 ''A House for All Seasons'' LIFE magazine article, February 15, 1963 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

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