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Portrait quality images, the website's blog entries, and QR code links to all of the video are now available in an online version of the hardcover books, one volume for each of the three construction years. 2011 https://fliphtml5.com/ruat/nevk 2012 https://fliphtml5.com/ruat/rmyj 2013 https://flipht...

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The website has been updated and revised to include the DeMoss workshop videos and nearly 300 images taken during October!

The website has been updated with our interview with Ken Berman who is installing the glass inserts and an accompanying "explainer" from Ron Bearer, who fabricated them.

See it at: http://www.buildingtheusonianhouse.com/glass.html

The website has been updated with our interview with Ken Berman who is installing the glass inserts and an accompanying "explainer" from Ron Bearer, who fabricated them.

See it at: http://www.buildingtheusonianhouse.com/glass.html

Ladies and gentlemen, We are now inside the final thirty days of major construction and interior finishing. It may be fair to assume that there will be continued "polishing" and detailing for some time to come, but the house will have its "premiere" on October 31st. We are visiting the site as many ...

Ken Berman of The Glass Onion is on site and installing the first of nearly 5,000 inserts. Stay tuned to the website for progress updates.

The ceiling installation has begun and is proceeding deliberately. The bungalow that will serve as a gift shop, and rest and refreshment center, is being expanded. A retention pond has been dug and the hum and "beep" of activity is once again easily heard each morning. Stay tuned.

TALLAHASSEE | Two long-sought projects involving Frank Lloyd Wright designs at Florida Southern College in Lakeland were funded over the weekend as legislative leaders ironed out final differences between the Florida House and Senate budgets.

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John,

Can you elaborate? Elucidate? Illuminate?
You can educate me directly at
michael@themaguiresoflakeland.com

Nothing official.

Street views are updated only occasionally, but the satellites are snapping away and a recent project for students at Florida Southern uncovered this image. The Usonian house is in the upper left corner and is shown with the roof completed. The view also shows the water dome in operation, a lucky sh...

A beautiful winter day in sunny Florida greeted members of the conservancy, who got up-close and personal with Wright's western campus along with a peek inside the Usonian. See photos and video at www.BuildingTheUsonianHouse.com

We have added link to the Guggenheim Library Archive page that allows you to download the souvenir booklet from the 1953 exhibition.

Merry Christmas!

Michael

... and, we have posted an animated 3D video of the wall construction: http://www.buildingtheusonianhouse.com/3danimation.html to some extent, the blocks were designed to be safely lifted and place by one man. Each 36x9 version weighs about 80 pounds. Some of the large corner blocks are much heavier...

The openings are for windows, which will be constructed by the DeMoss carpenters, who will be responsible for all of the wood elements. As for the authenticity of the house, I would refer you the architect's reply to a previous inquiry: http://www.buildingtheusonianhouse.com/resources.html Keep watc...