"I'd like you to design me a museum. But don't tell your partners that we're going to live in it."
According to The Washington Times, these are the words the late David Lloyd Kreeger said to architect Philip Johnson when he wanted Johnson to build a home for Kreeger, former president and chief executive officer of GEICO, Washington, D.C., and his wife, Carmen. Johnson's firm usually would not design private residences, and Kreeger's unique request was a way around that restriction.
Photos courtesy of Wagner Roofing Co., Hyattsville, Md.
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