aesthetically mandatory on a house with a flat roof, satisfying visually the desire for certain aspects of the pitched roof so long associated with residential architecture. 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. It's a great country house as well and surprisingly luxurious in a Busby Berkeley-meets-Bauhaus kind of way." 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." Gallery References External links Preservation League of New York State website A. Conger Goodyear House, NY (Steven Harris Architects LLP) Goodyear family (New York) Edward Durell Stone buildings Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) International style architecture in New York (state) Houses completed in 1938 Houses in Nassau County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Oyster Bay (town), New York