1. This Eliot Noyes-designed home is one of Connecticut’s finest architectural treasures.

In the mid-twentieth century, a number of influential architects, including Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, and Eliot Noyes, settled in New Canaan, Connecticut. Together, they helped turn the bucolic town into a haven for mid-century modern design, peppering the landscape with sleek, sophisticated homes inspired by Walter Gropius—founder of the Bauhaus and a pioneer of Modernist architecture.