The Rauh House, built in 1938 by prominent Cincinnati insurance agent Frederick Rauh and his wife, Harriet Frank Rauh, is one of the first International Style Modernist homes in Ohio. It is the crowning residential achievement of Cincinnati architect John Becker, a local pioneer in modern architecture. The long, narrow plan with whitewashed cinder block walls and corner windows was a dramatic departure from conventional house planning. It sits on nearly nine acres of gently rolling, wooded land at the western edge of the Village of Woodlawn. The landscape, designed by A.D. Taylor, a pioneer of landscape design, connected the Modernist house to its gently sloping site. (Ohio History Connection)