Wright Chat

The red marble (?) fireplace hood at 00:36 is a bit of a surprise. I don't think it should be taken for granted that a planked or plywood ceiling is the more desirable option in a postwar Wright house. There is quite a difference between two rooms of equal size, floor and wall material and ceiling h...

Frank Lloyd Wright - Trailer - (0:57)


David

Balcony level framing plan top right corner of Artstor Framing Plan Sheet 7 shows a 40'-6" long steel I-beam 10" deep. Big beam. Note also the large skylight behind living room fireplace over kitchen. Intriguing house. Another one I was unaware of before. White plaster ceilings leave somet...

The Keland House was put on the market in September with an asking price of $725,000, per listing records. Barely a month later, the house sold for $1.025 million.


David

Who knew that Wright would coin not one vague or indefinable term, but two: Organic, and Usonian. Well, the "Standard Detail Sheet for 'Usonian Type' Houses," circa 1940, defines the thing in terms of construction---but it doesn't deal with plans. I've used the term more loosely, as have o...

The article says it is one of the largest Usonian houses ever built. When does a Usonian cease to be a Usonian? Or for that matter, what is a Usonian? Is it now a catch-all for all of Wright's houses after 1938 (Jacobs 1)? This may be a beautiful house, but I have a hard time seeing it as 'Usonian'.

FLW Mount Pleasant, LLC. sounds a good deal more likable than "Intercoastal McMansion Development, Inc" or some such . . .! Fingers crossed.

S

Mount Pleasant home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for member of Johnson family has been sold


David

A delightfully generous display of images, of a house we may not see again for a long while ?

S

Spacious Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin Flies Off the Market at $725K


David

Thanks, John.

S

Actually there never was a garage until the Howe addition. There was originally a carport which became a bedroom. A diagonal covered walkway then connected the garage to the new front entrance, on the other side of the pillar of the original one.

Here's a plan I found in my files - not the best, but I'm sure you'll get the general idea...[URL=https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ ... fit=bounds]

Has a plan of the house as it appears today been published ? In looking for one here, I found this not-very-old thread. Why my images are not appearing is a mystery. They will open in a new tab or window, as before. https://wrightchat.savewright.org/viewtopic.php?p=109364 I am having all kinds of tr...

Howe's revisions were extensive - rearrangement of nearly all of the bedrooms and baths, the addition of Nikki's room to the end of the bedroom wing (off of the playroom), conversion of garage to another bedroom, and the construction of the new garage with conservatory to the north. You really have ...