WBG's Blythe House is coming on the market

[Paul Ringstrom]

Walter Burley Griffin's Blythe House in Mason City is going to
be coming on the market soon. This is the house that Dr. Bob McCoy
owns.

Specific details to follow.

[SDR]

https://www.iowaarchitecture.org/discov ... 703fb3a5e/

https://docublogger.typepad.com/midcent ... -iowa.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thompsonp ... otostream/

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[Roderick Grant]

Blythe is one of WBG's best houses. The interior is splendid. I visited in 1984 on a house tour during a Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting in Minneapolis. Although the bus tour to Mason City and back - by way of Winona, Rochester and Owatonna - took place on May 1 and 2, the trip took off with -6 degree wind chill and a snow storm. The weather was more felicitous when FLWBC returned some time in the 90s. I hope the house finds a new owner as dedicated to stewardship as the McCoys have been.

[SDR]

If Dixie Legler can claim that there is a pre-Columbian precedent for the bow-tie shapes found on the exterior of the Blythe residence, I guess I can without shame point to Secessionist influence in Mahony's fireplace front. Is either of us correct ?

Three photos by Christian Korab, from Legler's 1999 "Prairie Style," pp 176-77):

[Roderick Grant]

no

[SDR]

Man of Few Words Dept . . .

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