The A. Conger Goodyear House, completed in 1938, has been lauded as one of the nation’s finest examples of the International Style. Many consider it to be architect Edward Durell Stone’s greatest accomplishment in domestic architecture. The house represents an unusually close relationship between patron and architect: Goodyear was a founder and the first president of The Museum of Modern Art, and Stone was, at the time, working on the building that would house MoMA’s collections. The Goodyear House was celebrated during the 1940s in journals, books, and popular magazines. In the late 1970s, the Goodyear family donated the house to the New York Institute of Technology for use as the president’s house. Following a preservation battle in the late 1990s, in which the Institute sold the property to a developer who proposed to build new, large luxury homes, the house was ultimately landmarked, restored, and is now privately owned and protected by a preservation easement. (Adapted from the World Monuments Fund website)