Simeon B Chapin House

Simeon B Chapin House
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (SC), US
1936
attributed to Philip Johnson but, even though he was asked to design the house, he recommended a new Bauhaus grad named William Priestley for the job. Priestley was assisted by Johnson's friend, Jan Ruhtenberg. johnson did set up a small exhibition around the house design at MOMA July 10-Sept 30, 1933.

It is now a Sufi Center and has had renovations.
1936
attributed to Philip Johnson but, even though he was asked to design the house, he recommended a new Bauhaus grad named William Priestley for the job. Priestley was assisted by Johnson's friend, Jan Ruhtenberg. johnson did set up a small exhibition around the house design at MOMA July 10-Sept 30, 1933.

It is now a Sufi Center and has had renovations.
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@ 2021-03-15 20:54:46
This is wrong info: he recommended a new Bauhaus grad named William Priestley for the job. Priestley was assisted by Johnson's friend, Jan Ruhtenberg. johnson did set up a small exhibition around the house design at MOMA July 10-Sept 30, 1933.
The exhibition was for a house in North Carolina, and it was only Jan Ruhtenberg who was the architect for Youpon Dunes: Chapin home.
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@ 2021-03-15 21:00:51
This is wrong info: " . . .he recommended a new Bauhaus grad named William Priestley for the job. Priestley was assisted by Johnson's friend, Jan Ruhtenberg. Johnson did set up a small exhibition around the house design at MOMA July 10-Sept 30, 1933." Wrong info printed in the new book on P. Johnson.
From a newspaper of the time, the exhibition was for a totally different house in North Carolina, and it was only Jan Ruhtenberg, as is listed in his resume, who was the architect for Youpon Dunes: Chapin home-1933, not Priestley.
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@ 2022-11-01 14:26:07
He did not recommend William Priestly. He passed the commision from Mr. Chapin, on to his friend Jan Ruhtenberg, who designed it.

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