John Saunders Chase House

The Legacy of the First Licensed Black Architect in Texas Lives Here

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Architect John S. Chase stands in front of his family home in Houston, Texas, with two of his three children, Anthony (left) and John Jr. (right). The 1959 Chase Residence is characterized by its low-slung brick form and an experimental central courtyard that shifted the paradigm for modernist residential architecture.