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Deaton House

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1966, Charles Deaton. On Mr. Genesee overlooking I-70
  • Deaton House (Tom Noel)

“People aren't angular. So why should they live in rectangles?” asked Charles Deaton, who calls himself a “sculptural architect.” The Denver architect built this “flying saucer” or “clamshell” house as his home and studio. It is a habitable sculpture on a reinforced concrete pedestal. Precast columns support a double shell of concrete sprayed on a welded steel frame. In this elliptical, three-story, cement and glass house, the doors, windows, walls, closets, and furniture are all curved, except for a few straight lines in the kitchen. The 3,000-square-foot house, built for $100,000, starred in the Woody Allen movie Sleeper.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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What's Nearby

Genesee Mountain Park, Subdivision, and Office Park
Lookout Mountain
Chief Hosa Lodge
Jefferson County Nature Center (Boettcher Summer Home)
Buffalo Bill Grave and Museum

Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Deaton House", [Golden, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-JF46.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 163-164.

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