I recently posted about the Alcoa Care-free Home by Charles Goodman that is is for sale in Miami. The listing has no real images of the house, making clear that the property is being marketed for the land. Modern Capital readers who used to live in Hollin Hills and now live in Miami stopped by [...]

Only about two dozen of  Charles Goodman’s Alcoa Care-free Homes were built around the country. In the D.C. area there, at least two were built and still standing: one in Hollin Hills and one near Richmond (pictured above.) I just read that nother one may have been built in Alexandria. Does anyone know about it? [...]

I was checking out the mid-century modern real estate forum on LottaLiving today and found this Charles Goodman Alcoa Care-Free House for sale in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Goodman designed the home in 1957 based on feedback from the 1956 Women’s Congress on Housing. With Alcoa backing the project, Goodman used aluminum in various areas of [...]

Charles Goodman Launched nearly two years ago, the “Modern Homes Survey: New Canaan Connecticut” is now available online. The survey catalogues 91 homes built between 1939 and 1979 and has bios on 31 architects who helped turn New Canaan into one of the meccas of modernism in the country. D.C.’s very own Charles Goodman is [...]

As I noted in a previous post, Charles Goodman served for five years beginning in 1953 as a consulting architect for Lafayette, Ind.-based National Homes, which was the country’s largest prefab home manufacturer. A 1954 Time article described Jim Price, the founder of National Homes, as the “King of the Builders,” saying that he “has [...]

Here’s a new listing for a Charles Goodman barrel-roof townhome (the one on the right) in River Park in Southwest D.C. The 4/2 four-level townhome has a basement, original parquet wood floors and a nice fenced patio area. The kitchen and baths have some non-mid-century modern updates (granite countertops, a pedestal sink), but overall the [...]

“Our goal is to endow the home with a personality … delightful to be in, pleasant to live in, worthy of pleasure and pride in possession.” –Charles M. Goodman, A.I.A, Alcoa Care-free Home brochrue When I recently wrote about this Charles Goodman Alcoa Care-free house in Minnesota, a reader rightly noted that there is one [...]

Too bad this Charles Goodman Alcoa Care-Free Home is in Minnesota rather than here in D.C. It’s only $575K. How much do you think it would go for here? Listen to an audio tour of the house by journalist and blogger Todd Melby. Also, check out this great Flickr slideshow of an Alcoa Care-Free Home [...]

While D.C. architect Charles Goodman designed more than 1,000 homes in our area, his modern home designs also dot other cities across the country. These include the Alcoa Care-Free Home, which Goodman designed in 1957 based on feedback from the 1956 Women’s Congress on Housing. With Alcoa backing the project (Reynolds sponsored River Park in [...]