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As one of the masterworks of modern architecture, Philip Johnson's Glass House is a key monument in postwar construction. Sited on an estate composed of sixteen buildings, structures, and objects situated on forty acres of land, the Glass House and its associated guest house were both built in 1949 to serve as Johnson's weekend residence. The main house is a simple rectangular prism with walls consisting entirely of floor-to-ceiling plate-glass sheets secured between black-painted steel piers. An off-center cylindrical mass of brick containing a fireplace on one side and the bathroom entrance on the other, protrudes through the top of the flat roof. The house epitomizes the International Style and has long been regarded as one of the premier representatives of Modernism.