Wright Chat

Does anyone know if this home originally had radiant heating? Did the system fail and was replaced by baseboard? I assume unheated concrete is unpleasant in the Northern winters, perhaps the reason for the wall to wall carpeting? The baseboard heat makes for some awkwardness at the 'window wall': ph...

Plenty of pictures...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/43-C ... 0468_zpid/

Yes, here's the listing.
https://www.redfin.com/NY/Thornwood/101 ... e/20097834
Doing a satellite view of the property is interesting.

I'm guessing this was originally a tight little house, 3BD and 1.5BR, that got an addition put on which blew out its proportions...? The office and Master suite shown on the floor plan at the end of the video seem highly inconsistent with the rest of the home, and in the absence of those office and ...

I'm curious as to what would happen if an old radiant system, which say had 1 inch steel pipes, was drained and had 3/4 inch PEX tubing snaked through (inside of the old pipes)? Would the heat transfer be insufficient in such a scenario? Has anyone tried this? Are there issues I'm not thinking of?

The last paragraph of the piece: Ultimately, the garden city future is a false Utopia. The answer to our current problems isn’t to run away from the metropolis. Rather, we need to build better social support systems for people in cities so that urban life becomes healthier, safer and more sustainabl...

Isn't there a distinction to be made between a "judgment"of personal character and a judgment pertaining to an action? "Sad that Gene didn't do 'the Wright thing'" is hardly a character attack. It is a criticism towards an action taken. That this criticism-of-an-action was conflated into a personal ...

I am feeling a little uneasy with posting this information, especially since so much work was done to restore this incredible home, but I do feel its important to re-emphasize what, exactly, restoring a wright house, or any historic home, means.

This seems to me the definition of civil discourse.

Very nice!

Thanks for the great scans, SDR. The upper fireplace is something, huh? "You have your big fireplaces for emergencies." Is this a joke about the studio being 'windswept' away? And what was the roofing material to be? The private area is interesting in its combination of living/bedroom duties. Shame ...

Have we discussed "Windswept" on these boards before? A very intriguing design ––– a Wright beach house! ––– that I'd love to know more about. https://visionsofwright.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/windswept-house-1940/ The lo-res images on the link above doesn't allow for a detailed viewing of the plan.

If you've got Amazon, you can watch the Sullivan documentary for free:
https://www.amazon.com/Louis-Sullivan-S ... deo&sr=1-2

Wow, that might be the best site on the east coast.