Healy Guest House

This article is about the residence in Florida. For the residence in Colorado, see Healy House Museum. For the residence in California, see Healy House.
Healy Guest House
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General information
TypeResidential guest house
Architectural styleModern architecture
Sarasota School of Architecture
LocationSiesta Key, Florida
Coordinates27°18′05″N 82°33′33″W / 27.30139°N 82.55917°W / 27.30139; -82.55917
Completed1950–1951
Renovated1990
Design and construction
Architect(s)Twitchell and Rudolph
(Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph)

The Healy Guest House (nicknamed the Cocoon House) is a small guest cottage located in Siesta Key, Florida, originally built for Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Healy. It was designed in 1948 by Paul Rudolph and Ralph Twitchell during their five-year partnership that sparked a modern architecture movement in Florida; the Sarasota School of Architecture. Its radical shape, featuring an inverted catenary roof, was an experiment in structure and technology. It is considered one of the most significant architectural works of the twentieth-century.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Built in USA: Post-War Architecture (Press Release)" (PDF). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. January 18, 1953.
  2. ^ "Healy Guest House". American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Library of Congress. August 2007.