595 Euclid Avenue - Jessor House

595 Euclid Avenue / RIchard Jessor House / Architect: Tician Papachristou / Style: Frank Lloyd Wright ‘Usonian’ / built 1959

Tician Papachristou designed this house and the one next door simultaneously, both for college professors. Papachristou homes were influenced by the vernacular architecture of his native Greece as well as masters of Modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. He utilized materials like concrete block, stucco and glass for their low cost and sustainability. Papachristou designed this home in 1959 as a series of interlocking cylinders for CU professor Richard Jessor and his young family. There is a circular living room, circular stair….. even the bathroom and bedrooms are circular. The shape of the house is formed by a series of curving, stacked concrete block walls, with accents of wood siding and innovative window patterns. There is a two-story wall of windows opening the living room to views of the patio and the foothills beyond. Papachristou went on to work with architect I.M. Pei on the N.C.A.R. Mesa lab building and then moved to New York to become a partner with the famous modernist architect, Marcel Breuer.