Visit two important examples of mid-century residential architecture on a half-day study tour of The Glass House in New Canaan, CT and the Marcel Breuer House on the grounds of  The Pocantico Center in Tarrytown, NY.

Your tour day starts at The Glass House, where one of our expert educators will guide you and a small group on a 90-minute tour of the site including the Glass House, the Brick House, the Painting and Sculpture Galleries and the sprawling 49-acre landscape. On view will be the 2026 season exhibition of Tomashi Jackson and Robert Rauschenberg: Catch One along with sculptures from the permanent collection.

The Modernist experience continues at the Marcel Breuer House with a special tour led by Kimberly Miller, managing director of Greenrock Corporation and Katrina London, curator of The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Katrina London is responsible for the stewardship of the museum collections within Kykuit and its environs at Pocantico, which includes supervising the conservation and care of works of art, curatorial research, and organizing exhibitions and educational programs. Kimberly Miller is managing director of Greenrock, which oversees security and maintenance for the buildings and grounds at Pocantico. Together, they will discuss the history of the house and how it was moved from the sculpture garden at MoMA to the suburbs of New York City, along with the house’s art and furnishings and how it is maintained and used today.

Program Itinerary

12:30 pm – 1:00pm – Arrive at Glass House Visitor Center (199 Elm Street, New Canaan, CT 06840)
1:00pm – Tour begins at the Glass House Visitor Center + group travels to the site via shuttle
3:00pm – Tour of the Glass House concludes
3:00 pm -3:45 pm – Travel to Breuer House / Pocantico Center. Please note transportation between sites is not included.
4:00pm – 5:00pm – Tour of Marcel Breuer House at Pocantico

The Glass House, built between 1949 and 1995 by architect Philip Johnson, is a National Trust Historic Site located in New Canaan, Connecticut. The pastoral 49-acre landscape comprises fourteen structures, including the Glass House (1949), and features a permanent collection of 20th-century painting and sculpture, along with temporary exhibitions.

The Marcel Breuer House, commissioned in 1948 for an exhibition to be displayed in the Museum of Modern Art’s garden, was architect Marcel Breuer’s vision of how the average American family could live in a well-designed, modern, expandable, and affordable home. His design influenced modern residential architecture with its use of glass, wood and natural stone, as well as by its use of distinct activity zones to define the interior and exterior spaces and the motion and flow of space. Today, the Breuer House at Pocantico is owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, administered and maintained by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and used for the Fund’s philanthropic and educational programs, which include residencies that support artists in their creative process.