Henry P. Glass

Glass found early success designing interiors and furnishings for Vienna's bohemian elite until the Anschluss.

He was denounced, sent to Dachau, then transferred to Buchenwald, where captors discovered his talents and forced him to design a cemetery for Nazi officers.

He immigrated to New York City in 1939, worked for Russel Wright and for Gilbert Rohde on the Anthracite Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair.

A William J. Brenner sofa designed by Glass was used on the living room set of the I Love Lucy show during the 1952-53 season.

When none but two prototypes of this house were built, Henry decided to become the architect of his own passive solar home which was one of the first of its kind in America.

In the Chicago area, George Fred Keck had included some of these passive solar design features (roof overhang, N-S ventilation, masonry floor) in the Spence House in 1941.