When completed in 1968, Richard Foster's Round House was the first and only round, fully-rotating residence in the world. Sometimes compared to a spaceship, the house is counted as one among a group of Modernist homes built in and around New Canaan following the precedent set by the “Harvard Five.” The house's shape sets it apart from any other structure in the area; it is a glass, steel, wood and concrete cylinder mounted twelve feet above the ground on top of a concrete base, upon which the house rotates 360 degrees. Given that its entire circumference is clad in glass, the rotation affords all inside ever changing views of the bucolic countryside setting in which the house is sited.