For those of you who were still in diapers when Nixon was president, you're looking at a picture of the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, an archetictural icon since the day it was completed in 1949.

It was the home of Philip C. Johnson (1906-2005), the wealthy architect who designed the Lipstick Building in Manhattan and the Kline Biology Building at Yale, along with a host of other landmarks. It's on a 47-acre estate, so drapes aren't really needed. Although, I might add, it's not exactly the right place for people with privacy hangups.

Now, it belongs to the National Trust for Historic Preservation . It's also open to the public, but you might have to wait until 2008, as the tours for this year are nearly sold out.

There's a fund-rasing gala for the attraction on June 23, 2007. Tickets are $500, $1,000 and $5,000, but I'm told that the $500 tickets are sold out. (The $5,000 tickets are for two, if that helps.)