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House VI

House VI, or the Frank Residence, is a significant building in Cornwall, Connecticut, designed by Peter Eisenman, completed in 1975. His second built work, this small getaway house, located on Great Hollow Road near Bird's Eye Brook in Cornwall, Connecticut, has become famous for both its revolutionary definition of a house as much as for the physical problems of design and difficulty of use. At the time of construc…

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1975

Cornwall, Cornwall, United States

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