Unbuilt homes.

Palli Davis Holubar · Post by **Palli Davis Holubar** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:31 pm

Of course, I forgot! the Boswell I in Cincinatti. The first "draft" of their houseâ€“too small for the brood of active children. The house is on the market and it is a good time to see it since it is in a gated community.

There are indeed 12 FLW Houses: the 1902 John E. Mosher residence was built in a small town 10 miles south of Oberlin- Wellington. Scholars have been discussing this for years because a revised plan has not been located to but it to rest.

Palli Davis Holubar · Post by **Palli Davis Holubar** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:32 pm

Of course, I forgot! Boswell I in Cincinatti. The first "draft" of their houseâ€“too small for the brood of active children. The house is on the market now and it is a good time to see it since it is in a gated community.

There are indeed 12 FLW Houses: the 1902 John E. Mosher residence was built in a small town 10 miles south of Oberlin- Wellington. Scholars have been discussing this for years because a revised plan has not been located to but it to rest.

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:00 pm

Boswell has sold, according to the Conservancy. Storrer has deleted Mosher from the canon; it appears to have been designed by MMG.

Palli Davis Holubar · Post by **Palli Davis Holubar** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:55 am

Mosher attribution may not be resolved.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:24 am

Has Mosher been published ?

SDR

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:30 pm

I got that wrong, mixed up with another house; Storrer still says Mosher is FLW, and includes a few pictures of it on his site. I'm not convinced. It looks more like William Drummond to me. The art glass doesn't ring true at all. Also, mea culpa, Boswell sold and is back on the market again!

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:48 pm

I can't find Mosher on Professor Storrer's site, Roderick. Can you tell me where to look ?

Stephen

jlesshafft · Post by **jlesshafft** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:13 pm

http://www.franklloydwrightinfo.com/mosher.html

MHOLUBAR · Post by **MHOLUBAR** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:49 am

Storrer has restored the Mosher house to his listing recently and we have been trying to track down some of the local history. The original client John Mosher worked with Ward Willits in their Chicago Foundry (Brass, I believe). I assume that they made hardware and other items. The address listed on the plan shows up near the Willits house. John Mosher's father bought farmland near Wellington, Ohio. John Mosher himself had applied for and received several patents for making camera shutter assemblies and parts. We believe that he took the FLW plans to Wellington to join his family and run his own business there. The house was certainly built without the benefit of the architect as there were definite departures from the plans, which make the house less attractive.

MattCline · Post by **MattCline** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:05 pm

I did some research on that house a couple of years ago. The lady who owned it at the time let me in and have a look around. I took several pictures to detail both floor layouts and some architectural details.

Based on the research I did with the original drawings for the house and what I saw, it is clear that someone altered the plans enough to be a departure from the original vision. However, it also retrains a lot of the original overall concept as well. Both the FLWBC and the FLW Foundation were unwilling to consider it an authentic Wright designed home for what I recall to be solid reasons. But it is an important house none the less.

I don't know who currently owns the house (I know its not the lady that owned it was I photographed it), so I am reluctant to publish interior photos. I may try and post some I took of the exterior when I get the chance.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:10 pm

It seems to belong with the Lake Delavan work, of the same year(s) ?

Doubtful that Wright would have chosen those classical moldings. . .!

SDR

jlesshafft · Post by **jlesshafft** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:34 pm

Here's a link to some photos taken last summer

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98315875@N00/2092222986/

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:55 pm

Those Wrightian hipped roofs are just unmistakable, aren't they ? And the insistent corner windows. . .

SDR

MattCline · Post by **MattCline** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:58 pm

Here are some interior and exterior shots (placed in a quicktime movie format) of the house from about 2004. I have many more of the interior, but I don't think I will post them for issues of privacy of the owner.

http://www.alliedinformation.com/wright ... nHouse.mov

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:38 pm

The overall scale, upstairs corner windows over downstairs row, the way the porch is not centered on the house, all that tells me that if Mosher started with a FLW plan, he altered it to such an extent that it is no more FLW than Robert Mueller.