Wright’s San Francisco Office (1951)
Wright’s San Francisco office with his associate Aaron Green opened in 1951. Wright used the office for his northern California projects including the Marin County Civic Center and V.C. Morris Gift Shop. Sometime after Wright’s death, the office was disassembled and sold to a collector. It has recently found a new home in Erie, PA […]
Marin County Civic Center (1957)
After crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, the drive north is quite scenic in and of itself, but passing through Sausalito and then San Rafael — ignoring the traffic of course — will begin to give one a small sense of the connection to the land that Frank Lloyd Wright intended between the Marin County Civic […]
Randall Fawcett House (1955)
The Randall Fawcett House is currently for sale for $4,250,000. View the listing and 52 stunning photos on Zillow here. Photo Credit: “Fawcett House Detail” by David Gallagher is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Room to Breathe The Fawcett House is a beautiful, sprawling Usonian home located in California’s central valley with plenty of room to breathe. It […]
Kundert Medical Clinic (1955)
Dr. Karl Kundert had apparently seen numerous Frank Lloyd Wright designs in Madison, Wisconsin and been quite impressed with them (Wright has more than a dozen designs there). He began an ophthalmology practice in 1951 in San Luis Obispo, California and originally approached Wright in 1953 to design a building for him. Wright was not […]
Anderton Court Shops (1952)
The Anderton Court Shops is a small, three-story group of shops on fashionable Rodeo Drive in the downtown section of Beverly Hills, California. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1952. The building is a unique example of Wright’s Usonian architecture, which emphasizes simplicity, functionality, and harmony with nature. The building is […]
Della Walker House (1951)
A long time ago – long before I knew about the Walker House – I used to regularly walk by the unusual structure on Scenic Drive in Carmel-by-the-Sea, hardly paying much attention to it. Except for one thing: it reminded me very much of the prow of a ship, thrusting outward from the rocky shoreline, […]
Arthur Mathews House (1950)
The Mathews House sold on 9/9/22. View the property listing on Zillow. Located in a quiet Atherton, California neighborhood and barely visible from the street, one could easily walk past the house. Typical of Wright’s structures, the red brick and wood Usonian-style design is definitely “one” with the surrounding landscape. The ancient oak trees are […]
Robert Berger House (1950)
In his long and storied career, Frank Lloyd Wright had tried many times to develop a client base that consisted of persons of “modest means”. He referred to the homes he would design for these people as “Usonian“. It was Wright’s term to describe a new type of American architecture, and his first completed Usonian […]
Maynard Buehler House (1948)
One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s many stunning accomplishments was his vision describing how he perceived cities and the architecture of buildings should look. The word he used to describe this vision was Usonia, and he used the adjective Usonian – rather than American – to describe the character of the look. This page may contain affiliate […]
V. C. Morris Gift Store (1948)
“Xanadu Gallery is housed in San Francisco’s only Frank Lloyd Wright building. Officially designed as the V.C Morris Gift Store, the building was designed in 1948, and incorporates the now legendary spiral ramp theme which Wright had already designed for the Guggenheim Museum, though that project wasn’t finished until 1959, shortly after his death. The […]