Although the project was not profitable and Eichler withdrew after building only three homes, what he left behind were the only Eichler homes ever constructed outside of California. The three New York Eichlers are located in the small village of Chestnut Ridge, about 45 minutes from New York City ...

August 2, 2023 - Yes, there are Eichler homes in New York! They are sometimes called “lost Eichlers,” as most of noted mid-20th-century developer Joseph Eichler’s homes exist in Northern and, to a lesser degree, Southern California.

This simple Eichler home that somehow found itself in New York rather than sunny California will soon be a Hollywood star. This was how it looked back in pre-glitter-and-l

February 27, 2014 - Although the project was not successful, the three homes he did build are legendary as they are the only real Eichler homes ever built outside of California. The three New York Eichler homes are located in Chestnut Ridge, a small village located ...

August 2, 2023 - The home at 130 Grotke Road is a fine example of the big open-floor living and dining area’s mid-20th-century incarnation, with an eat-in kitchen–which which somehow resembles a modern kitchen in 1962 as much as it does a pricy Henrybuilt ...

January 4, 2024 - Though they were built 50 years ago, their revolutionary designs remain relevant and inspiring, and continue to inspire how we build homes today.Image via Remodelista (Photo: Joe Fletcher) Joseph Eichler's History Eichler was born in New York, New York in 1900.

April 26, 2025 - Remarkably, Eichler built three custom homes in Chestnut Ridge (Rockland County, north of NYC) – his only project outside California​ usmodernist.org​6sqft.com. This was intended to be a 216-home development, but New York’s winters scuttled ...

Exactly 50 years ago the New York ... upstate New York: “California Modern Invades Rockland County.” · Joe Eichler had just built the first of what were slated to be 216 houses an hour north of the Big Apple.

March 14, 2017 - This is a bona fide Eichler home located near the New York-New Jersey border, one of just three houses the famed midcentury developer built on the East Coast. Take a closer look.

October 22, 2025 - Joseph Eichler also built semi-custom designs for individual clients by commission. There are also three Eichlers built as the first houses of an aborted tract in the mid-1960s in Chestnut Ridge, New York...

November 22, 2019 - Located just 30 minutes north of Manhattan in Spring Valley, New York, the rare post-and-beam home was designed by renowned architects Jones and Emmons and built in 1962 by developer Joseph Eichler.

Remarkably, all three of the homes retain their original outward appearance. Even more remarkably, though surfaces have been altered, inside they’re quite intact as well. How many Eichler neighborhoods of any size can brag that they’re almost 100 percent original? True, preserving three Eichlers is a lot easier, percentage-wise, than preserving 150 or 200. But this is in the woods of New York, where you wouldn’t expect to find the same gung-ho Eichler spirit that animates, say, in Palo Alto.

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In addition to Eichler developments throughout California, he also built a small number of Eichler houses in New York, less than 1 hour north of Manhattan. Eichler-built homes shared similar design elements including open floor plans, walls of glass which helped blur the lines between indoor and outdoor living, and in-floor radiant heating systems which were a luxury typically reserved only for high-end, custom homes.

February 21, 1999 - Carole Lee leter on Gwnedolyn Wright's Feb 7 article notes home built by Joseph Eichler are still immensely popular and command high prices

February 6, 2025 - Joseph Eichler not only defined the middle-class home of the midcentury period, but also worked to dismantle racist housing policies. ... The 20th-century postwar developer Joseph Eichler’s name is synonymous with the stylish midcentury-modern tract houses that his company brought to the suburbs of California. His role in fighting for fair housing policies and integrated neighborhoods, however, is lesser known. Born in 1900 in New York City to German Jewish immigrants, Eichler founded the eponymous Eichler Homes, which built more than 11,000 residences concentrated in Northern and Southern California from the late 1940s through the ’60s.

March 11, 2016 - Eichler's homes weren't insulated, for example, a no-go in the northern New York town of Copake Lake (about 120 miles north of Manhattan), where Banks is building his home on a hillside site.

July 28, 2023 - Built in 1960, and reimagined in 1974 by the original architecture firm of Emmons & Jones, this unicorn-of-an-Eichler boasts over 3,000 square feet of living space, including a massive primary suite and landscaped backyard.

Developer Joe Eichler and his Eichler ... homes in California, beginning in the late 1940s. In Northern California, they can be found in areas in and around Marin county, the East Bay, San Mateo county, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, San Jose, San Francisco, and Sacramento. Three small communities of Eichlers in Southern California stand in Orange, Thousand Oaks, and Granada Hills. In addition, there are three Eichler-built residences in New York ...

June 24, 2016 - This is a bona fide Eichler home located near the New York-New Jersey border, one of just three houses the famed midcentury developer built on the East Coast.