[2] The home has been described as "a remarkable balancing act between the austerity of the then·developing high modernism of Mies van der Rohe and the warm, site-oriented romantic functionalism of earlier American masters like Frank Lloyd Wright.

[2] Later that year, the fund sold it to the Modernist design dealer Troy Halterman [4] with constrictive limitations on renovations to the interior and exterior, though the lot was reduced from 100 acres.

[1][6] In his 1962 memoir, The Evolution of an Architect, Edward Durell Stone wrote: The site, a barren hilltop, demanded the low horizontal lines of a one-story house.

[7]Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, told The New York Times, "It's one of the few great International Style houses by an American architect of the 1930s.

"[8] The New Yorker architecture critic, Paul Goldberger, called the Goodyear home "one of the most important houses built in the United States between the two world wars.