Van Tamelen House (1956)
According to Wikipedia, Marshall Erdman (born Mausas Erdmanas on 29 September 1922, in Tverai, Lithuania) “emigrated to the United States at age 17” and, after high school, “studied architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.” After service in the Army Corps of Engineers during WW II (where he helped build the pontoon bridge at […]
Gordon House (1957)
“Frank Lloyd Wright designed well over 1,000 homes and buildings throughout his illustrious career, but only one of those structures was built in the State of Oregon: The Gordon House. Commissioned by Conrad and Evelyn Gordon, the 88-year-old Wright designed the home in his Usonian style in 1957 for the couple’s sprawling farmland acreage that […]
Kraus House (1950)
Of the over 425 homes, commercial buildings and other works Frank Lloyd Wright has designed, residences are located in at least 38 states (including Hawaii). One of those residences – the Kraus House – is located in the idyllic city of Kirkwood, Missouri. About 15 minutes from downtown St. Louis, the city is named for […]
Curtis Meyer House (1950)
If there is a Frank Lloyd Wright house that is not an historic landmark, I’d like to see it. There are, in fact, numerous states that can brag of multiple Wright homes of historic stature. One of those states is Michigan. It boasts more than 30 of Wright’s designs. Photo Courtesy of Doug LaBrecque The […]
Eric & Pat Pratt House (1948)
The Eric and Pat Pratt House in Galesburg, Michigan is a single-story, Usonian I-style home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. It is one of the five Wright-designed homes in The Acres, a community of homes built in the early 1950s on a 72-acre plot of land. Other Wright-designed homes in The Acres include […]
Grant House (1946)
Located on a dead-end street and not easy to find, the house looks to be a single-story. Like most Wright designs though, all is not as it appears. Built on/into a hillside in 1946 and constructed from limestone quarried on the property by the original homeowners, the house features a 127-foot-long reinforced concrete roof and […]
Cedar Rock – Lowell Walter House (1945)
First settled in 1842 at a point where several Indian trails converged to ford the Wapsipinicon River, Quasqueton, Iowa is also home to Cedar Rock State Park, location of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Cedar Rock, a structure Wright designed and built for Agnes and Lowell Walter. Tours Cedar Rock is open for public tours. Reservations […]
Samuel & Dorothy Eppstein House (1949)
The Eppstein House is currently offered for sale with the Pratt House and is priced at $4,500,000. You can view the property listing here. In the mid- to late-1940s, a group of a dozen scientists, then working in research labs the for Upjohn Company, got together and decided that they wanted houses that they could […]
Dudley Spencer House (1956)
Photo Credit: HomeAdvisor Wright enthusiasts are familiar with the concept of the Usonian home – an affordable-for-everyone ranch-style home built to appear to come from nature and built from natural and local materials. Hallways were long and narrow; bedrooms had built-ins for extra storage space; use of natural materials such as brick, glass, and wood; […]
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 […]