I’ve thought about a little book like this for a long time but it was the rather recent impetus of the Greenwich Historical Society's recognition that brought this 56 page book to fruition.

After the recognition by the Greenwich Historical Society it was decided to do a review of the first ten, or so, ‘new’ houses done at the beginning of my career to determine if there was a noticeable change in the approach to house designing.

To show the progressive change, I would like to have shown some intermediate houses like the Miller house in 1964; the ‘Robinson’ house in 1970; and the Garett house in 1972. The Klausner house in 1973 and others, but there wasn’t enough material on any that would do justice to them, so I choose the four listed above.

After a forty-year practice and an almost twenty-year retirement, many of the houses completed long ago had faded from the architect's memory so, it came as a complete and very unexpected surprise when he was notified, by the Greenwich Historical Society, that one of his early houses, finished in 1959, was selected by the Society as an important example of 'mid-century' architecture and they landmarked the house with a handsome bronze plaque. It's mounted, near the entrance on one of the distinctive features of the design, a fiberglass closet. It's the first recognition of "contemporary" architecture in their 40 years of plaquing distinctive buildings in Greenwich, and rescued the aging house from an uncertain future.

Ed Paul