Milam Residence, Modernist residence in Ponte Vedra Beach, US.

The Milam Residence is a private oceanfront house in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, designed by Paul Rudolph in the Sarasota Modern style and completed in 1961. Its facade facing the Atlantic is an orthogonal composition of large squares and rectangles that shade the interior; floor-to-ceiling glass fills the openings. The 6,858-square-foot home sits on 2 acres about 60 feet above the ocean.

Paul Rudolph designed the house in 1961 toward the end of his career as a residential architect, after he had already become one of the leading voices in American architecture. In 2016, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, confirming its place in the history of 20th-century home design.

The house is a private residence and is not open to visitors, so its cultural mark is the name it carries: Arthur W. Milam, the philanthropist who commissioned it, completed in 1961. It was named one of Architectural Record's 20 "Record Houses" of 1963, and in 2016 it joined the National Register of Historic Places.

The house is a private residence and can best be seen from the street, as access to the interior is not open to the general public without a special arrangement. The elevated setting means the ocean-facing side is best appreciated from a distance, especially in good weather.

The interior is divided into seven separate levels connected by varying ceiling heights, so each transition through the house feels different from the last. Rudolph used this vertical layering deliberately to make the act of moving through a home into an experience of its own.