A man who lived in a glass box

Architect Philip Johnson finished the Glass House in 1949 on his estate in New Canaan: a single room with glass walls on every side and a brick cylinder holding the bathroom.

He lived on the property for nearly sixty years, later with his partner, curator David Whitney, adding a painting gallery, a sculpture gallery and other buildings to the landscape.

Johnson and Whitney both died in 2005. The house is now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Privacy was the price of the view — Johnson paid it for half a century.