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The House at 130 Mohegan Avenue, also known as the House of Steel or Steel House, is a prefabricated, modular, International Style house in New London, Connecticut, United States. The House was designed by Howard T. Fisher, who founded General Houses, Inc. in 1932. Winslow Ames, a professor of art history at Connecticut College and the art director of the Lyman Allyn Museum, had the home built after attending the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. The House is a single story by rectangular steel prefabricated home that rests upon a concrete slab. It originally had a flat roof and included an attached garage. Throughout the years, the house has undergone significant alteration, including the addition of a gable roof. The house was used by Ames, and later by Connecticut College, as a rental property, until the structure was slated for demolition in 2004. The push to restore the house is credited to Doug Royalty, who worked with the college's Abigail Van Slyck. Completed in 2013, restoration cost $500,000 and involved several phases, including the dismantling, transportation, and reassembly of the house. The house was added to the Connecticut Historic Register in July 2007 and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 2009. == Construction and use == The house was designed by Howard T. Fisher, who founded General Houses, Inc., and commissioned by Winslow Ames, a professor of art history at Connecticut College and the art director of the Lyman Allyn Museum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=General Houses, Inc. (Archive.org capture from April 8, 2011) )〕 In 1933, Ames decided to construct two houses on the museum-owned property after seeing prefabricated homes at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago.〔 Ames had a strong interest in the Modernism movement and believed such houses would become predominant.〔 Completed in November 1933 and costing about $4,500 in total, the House is a single story by rectangular steel prefabricated home that rests upon a concrete slab.〔〔 The house is frameless, with the weight borne by by steel panels; the exterior panels are flanged and vertically bolted through wooden T-shaped pieces.〔 The interior wall panels are made of steel and filled with insulation.〔 Originally the house had a flat roof, but it changed to a gable roof at an unknown time.〔 The house has two bedrooms, one bathroom, and an open living-dining-kitchen space.〔 The house also has an attached garage.〔 After its completion, Winslow Ames used the house as a rental property until 1949 when he went to work in a museum in Springfield, Missouri.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=History (Archive.org capture from January 8, 2009) )〕 The house was sold to Connecticut College.〔 Connecticut College continued to rent it to staff and students until 2004, when plans were made to demolish the house.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=About the House (Archive.org capture from January 8, 2009) )〕 Changing the flat roof to a gable roof was a significant alteration from the original plan; the date of the alteration is unknown, but it preceded 1995.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「House at 130 Mohegan Avenue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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