CREDITS
The historical materials for Modernism and New Canaan, Eliot F. Noyes, and Origins were sourced from multiple archives. I am grateful to Lee Ault III and Fred Noyes for sharing their records and providing context for the historical material. All the photographs included in Renovations and Light and Shadow are everyday memories captured by my family over the last eight years.
Modernism and New Canaan
Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus 1919 - 1933 (Updated edition 2018)
Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, Walter Gropius, An Illustrated Biography (2022)
House + Home, It happened in New Canaan (1953)
Jason Cohn, Modernism Inc. (2023)
William D. Earls, The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Midcentury Modern Houses, (2006)
Eliot F Noyes
USModernist, Modernist Architects and Houses, Elliot Fette Noyes
USModernist, Eliot Noyes, One of the Harvard Five: Fred Noyes, Radio Episode 122 (2019)
Gordon Bruce, Eliot Noyes: A pioneer of design and architecture in the age of American Modernism (2007)
Henry Colburn, A Modern Architect in the Ancient World, Harvard Art Museum (2015)
Origins
NYTimes, SIX MODERN HOMES INVITE THE PUBLIC; Glass Walls and Sky Lighting Among Features of
New Canaan Advertiser, Modern House Tour Attracts Attention (October 1953)
Stamford Advocate, Living the Modern Way in New Canaan (October 1953)
Architectural Record, Recent Work of Eliot Noyes: Four Houses (November 1958)
New Canaan Historical Society, Ault House archives (accessed 2025 - 2026)
Ault family archives, Ault Collection, Valentine Gallery and Ault House pictures of 1950's (accessed 2020)
Madsbjerg family archives, Original Ault House architectural drawings
Fred Noyes interview (2026)
Renovations
Gordon Bruce, Eliot Noyes: A Pioneer of Design and Architecture in the Age of American Modernism (2007)
Email exchanges with Fred Noyes (2026)
Madsbjerg family photographs (2018-2026)
Light and Shadows
Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture (1927)
Eliot Noyes, Moods are Not Accidents, Life Magazine (1963)
Madsbjerg family photographs (2018-2026)