Isaac Newton Hagan House

The story

Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com

The Isaac Newton Hagan House is a house in Chalk Hill, Stewart Township, Fayette County, less than a mile southwest of IN 2010 and IN 2019. Frank Lloyd Wright designed it in the Wrightian Modern Movement style, and it was built between 1954 and 1956.

Why it's listed

It was listed in the National Register in 2000 under Criterion C and criteria considerations C and G, with national-level significance in architecture. Its period of significance runs from 1954 to 1956, covering construction and the Hagans' 1956 move in; it was also designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000.

Physical character

The house centers on a hexagonal stone core, with sandstone, brick and tidewater red cypress walls under gambrel and hipped roofs of copper and gravel. Hexagonal skylights and a cypress-board clerestory carry its hexagonal grid through rooms of cork tile, and fire damaged the house, studio and carport in 1986.

Historical context

Isaac Newton and Bernadine Hagan bought a seventy-nine acre tract in 1953; construction began in 1954, and they moved into the finished house in 1956. The Palumbos, including Peter Palumbo, bought the house in 1985; the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy is associated with the property, which opened to the public with a tour program in 1996.