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Builder versions of the 1907 Fireproof House for $5,000 (the inspiration for the Stockman House) were built all over the country since Ladies Home Journal sold the plans for $5.

The River City Society for Historic Preservation (RCSHP) celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Frank Lloyd Wright Stockman House being open to the public on June 22nd, giving special tribute to those volunteers that took on the tremendous undertaking to save the Stockman House from demoliti...

I think the case could be made for a scholarly paper, expandable to be a thoroughly illustrated book, documenting the origins of Wright's Fireproof House for $5000 and its built progeny designed by Wright and those architects such as Drummond who associated and aligned with him. The interplay of th...

Mr. McCarter commented that he thought William Drummond's design aesthetic more closely matched Frank Lloyd Wright's than Walter Burley Griffin's did.

I would like to know the average score on this quiz by an average docent at a public Wright Site.

I would like to know the percentage of docents who have actually visited a public Wright Site other than their own.

I arranged for Chip Kinsey to give him a tour of the Historic Park Inn tomorrow.

Chip was president of Wright on the Park during it restoration.

peterm wrote:Paul- Will he be writing a book on Drummond?

I wish, but I doubt it.

DRN wrote:Neat!
Hopefully you had a pen handy to have some of your books autographed?

yes, I did.

We were pleasantly surprised to have Robert McCarter drop by our house today for a tour.

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