ConnecticutCollege reports its steel prefabricated house in New London, CT, manufactured by General Houses, Inc., of Chicago will be disassembled and shipped to Milner + Carr in Philadelphia, where each panel will be cleaned and restored. Built in 1933 for Winslow Ames, founding director of the New London Lyman Allyn Art Museum, it was gifted to the school in 1949, and occupied as faculty housing until 2004. With grants from the state and private sources, the panels will be made rust resistant, and the building will be reassembled in the spring on campus and used for student-centered activities relating to sustainability and the environment. Another prefabricated house on campus was restored in 1990. “The steel house is a very early example of modern architecture in the United States,” said Abigail Van Slyck, associate dean of the faculty and the Dayton Professor of Art History at Connecticut College. “These houses are rare, and this restoration project will ensure that we don’t lose this important piece of American history. Both of the College’s prefabricated houses were built to be single family homes, and they have very small footprints,” Van Slyck said. “They can serve as inspiration for green living.”
