Booth House (Bedford, New York)

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| architectural_style = Modernist

| location = Bedford, New York

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| start_date = 1946

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| architect = Philip Johnson

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The Booth House is a single-story modernist house in Bedford, New York. Built in 1946, the house was American architect Philip Johnson's first residential commission,{{cite news |first=Ivy |last=Harrison |title=It Started With the Booth House |url=http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/October-2010/It-Started-With-the-Booth-House/ |work=Metropolis |date=October 29, 2010 |accessdate=January 19, 2016}} and is a stylistic precursor to Johnson's better-known 1949 Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut.{{cite news |first=Maya |last=Pope-Chappell|title=Philip Johnson's First House on Market |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704875604575280783775972208 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=June 1, 2010 |accessdate=November 6, 2010}}

The house's concrete block and plate glass exterior is supported by steel beams and columns, and its interior features a large masonry fireplace.{{cite news |first=Karla Cavarra |last=Britton |title=Philip Johnson's First Foray |url=http://0c28e4c7-a7a5-44da-9798-d33f02f28789-al-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/c9bd3796-cb88-417e-ad11-3233b562d940-damora_booth_pjs_story.pdf |work=Modern Magazine |type=PDF |date=March 2010 |accessdate=January 19, 2016}} Its design was influenced by Johnson's mentors. Landis Gores described the house as a "cross-breed in concrete block between [Johnson's] Lincoln project for [Professor] Bogner and [Le Corbusier's] De Mandrot house from which it had taken its origin: a raised podium."{{cite book |first=Franz |last=Schulze |title=Philip Johnson: Life and Work |page=186 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-226-74058-4 |url=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo3640523.html}}

Johnson designed the house for Richard and Olga Booth, a young couple who wanted a weekend house near Manhattan.{{cite news |first=Joseph |last=Montebello |title=Modernist Hideaway |url=http://www.townvibe.com/Bedford/November-December-2010/Modernist-Hideaway/ |work=TownVibe |location=Ridgefield, Connecticut |date=November–December 2010 |accessdate=November 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030232319/http://www.townvibe.com/Bedford/November-December-2010/Modernist-Hideaway/ |archive-date=October 30, 2010 |url-status=dead }} Architectural photographer Robert Damora and architect Sirkka Damora purchased the house in 1955 for $23,500 and lived there for 55 years. In 2010, the widowed Sirkka Damora put the {{convert|1440|sqft|m2|adj=on}} house, an {{convert|800|sqft|m2|adj=on}} studio building, and their {{convert|1.92|acre|ha|adj=on}} lot up for sale, with an asking price of $2 million.{{cite web |first=Anthony |last=Ardino |title=Signature Mid-Century Modern: Philip Johnson's First House, Bedford, NY 10506 |url=http://philipjohnsonsfirsthouse.com |publisher=William Raveis Real Estate |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208153940/http://philipjohnsonsfirsthouse.com/ |archive-date=February 8, 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=January 19, 2016}}