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The article in Paul's new post is an unusually thorough recounting of the genesis of a house, and its trials up to the present time.
This sentence draws my attention: "Tafel was also instrumental in saving Wright’s house in Minnesota." Did Tafel restore Lovness, Willey, Neils, Olfelt, Bulbulian, Keys, McBean, or Elam ?
SDR , did you consider that he could have been involved in saving parts of the Little house? I don't know that , but might be a reasonable possibility.
Good point, Sequoia. In fact, Tafel devotes the final pages of "Apprentice to Genius" to the house and to his part in salvaging portions of it. He misspells Lovness but can be forgiven, under the circumstances . . .?
Of all the places for a downspout, the worst possible was chosen. Reminds me of the one at Dana (post restoration), running down the 'prow' stair tower of the gallery, which was eventually removed.
So -- two other options: a rain chain into a basin of gravel, feeding a subsurface drain -- or a gargoyle-sprit shooting the water out along a diagonal from the corner, captured by an elongated receptacle, perhaps in the form of a wedge-shaped opening in the paving ?
Or . . . the owner could forbid it to rain on his property -- I suppose. I wonder what the fine print is on that . . .
