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A Sleek And Airy Modernist Landmark
A Sleek And Airy Modernist Landmark

It's known, locally and in numerous architectural archives, as the "Castle House," but you'd never find it if you went in search of a castle-like structure along New London's waterfront Pequot Avenue. Instead of an ornate and massive bastion of tradition, the so-called Castle House is a sleek, airy, one-level showcase of modernism, its defining feature a cypress butterfly ceiling that appears capable of flight. The only traditional element is the 89-foot-tall 1801 Harbor Lighthouse next door. The name actually comes from the Castle family, for whom the house was designed in 1962 by Ulrich Franzen, one of the era's leading modernist architects. House &...