Wright Chat

Those who consider property rights to belong to the property owner, who gets to exercise his or her judgment without undue outside interference, not matter how significant others consider the property to be. Since I fall into the latter classification... You have presented a black-white situation. ...

SDR wrote: I'm afraid that I may have become the current holder of the title "Most Combative Wright Chatter" --

What?

If I had half the civility you consistently evidence here on Wright Chat I'd be a happy man, indeed!

I often wonder if we are living in a particularly uncivil age. With the Internet phenomenon, people are, more than ever before, able to publically express themselves. Sadly, if one reads the comments on any blog or news story, most of the comments are remarkable for their incivility. Really, what I ...

Very sad updates:

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2012/04/h ... ouse_1.php

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2012/04/l ... _today.php

Update:

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2012/05/p ... ouse_1.php

I think they thought the chair was by the famous furniture designer Wright Wegner….

Lovely interior post-restoration images:

http://www.washingtonlife.com/issues/ma ... ide-homes/

Hey, I could live there!

Previous short thread:

http://savewright.org/wright_chat/viewt ... rden+house

Link to listing:

http://marceegavula.bairdwarner.com/property/15232993/

I wish current floor plans were included!

Link to Drummond building:

http://marceegavula.bairdwarner.com/property/15232993/

I wish floor plans were included!

John,

At you at liberty to discuss costs?

I mean, is the purchase price, combined with the restoration costs, something that the owner can realistically recoup, say, ten years down the road?

Or is such a project mostly a labor of love?

The Before/After images are wholly fascinating. Before, the house before was certainly attractive, but perhaps mostly to Wright aficionados. It looked tired, shabby, and not quite right. Today, very few people wouldn’t think: Wow! What a GORGEOUS home! I want to live there! John, ya’ did good. O...

The house sold last year for almost $8 million. I assume Tafel paid, what, less than $50,000 in the early 1950s?

Eureka! 14 East 11th Street is, indeed, the Tafel residence, and is the same as pictured in 1954. From StreetEasy: http://streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/589499-multi-14-east-11th-street-greenwich-village-new-york The plans below confirm that the 1954 Tafel renovation was still intact, at least recently. Is...

Here is the Tafel home: http://www.trulia.com/property/3045341939-14-E-11th-St-New-York-NY-10003 More on Zillow: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/14-E-11th-St-New-York-NY-10003/31498543_zpid/ This includes the ominous statement: "The house, located at 14 East 11th Street, is currently vacant as the...

Thank you Craig. I think that would confirm that Tafel was still at 11th Street when he died last year.

The question is: is 11th Street the same place as shown in 1954? And is it intact? I would love to know.