Video: Documentary on Eric Brown House - Kalamazoo, MI

[DavidC]

Frank Lloyd Wright's Eric Brown House Documentary - [40:20]


David

[juankbedoya]

Frank Lloyd Wright's Eric Brown House Documentary - [40:20]


David

Interesting and emotive documentary. Round lots..!! so beautiful the use of the circles intersections... Do you have the (looong) floor plan or any architectural plan..?

[SDR]

https://savewright.org/building/anne-an ... n-house-4/







Four bathrooms !





© 1986 A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co., Ltd. and by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, © 1993 by William Allin Storrer

[juankbedoya]

https://savewright.org/building/anne-an ... n-house-4/

Thanks so much SDR... you are always in the party..!!

[Roderick Grant]

One of the best things about the Brown House is the wood ceiling. The soft brown goes so well with the concrete gray.

[juankbedoya]

One of the best things about the Brown House is the wood ceiling. The soft brown goes so well with the concrete gray.

I'm agree with you. I also love that looooong "gallery" along with the wood

[Jckazoo]

I am the owner of the Brown House, and I've never seen the photo that's at the top of SDR's March 29 post. What is the source of that photo? I'd love to know the date. The trees above the retaining wall are long gone.

[g.dorn]

Is there still a trench in front of the carport?

Seems like an awkward way of dealing with roof runoff - must make the carport difficult to drive into!

This view to me has quite a Japanese influence.

and what a cantilever.


looks like trench is gone

[g.dorn]

I am the owner of the Brown House, and I've never seen the photo that's at the top of SDR's March 29 post. What is the source of that photo? I'd love to know the date. The trees above the retaining wall are long gone.

Jckazoo
Please tells us your story

Please post some photos - it would be great to see some of the details never seen before - which for me is the whole thing!

and please post the Section drawings -probably sheet 4

[SDR]

Jckazoo, sorry I missed your post. The photo of the carport is found in A.D.A EDITA Wright Monograph 7 (1988); it is the only photo on the two-page entry for your house. Like all of the photos in these Monographs, it was taken by Yukio Futagawa. There is no date---but Futagawa began photographing Wright's work decades before these books were published, and I'm sure he took other shots of the house. Where they might be found I cannot say. His publishing house issued multiple volumes of Wright's work in addition to the Monographs . . .

S

[SDR]

To make up for that, here are the seven Alan Weintraub photos of Eric Brown, from "Frank Lloyd Wright Mid-Century Modern" (2007):









© 2007 Rizzoli International Publications


plan © 1993 by William Allin Storrer

[g.dorn]

found this article with 60 photos, says who owners are , and that they have nominated it for a National Register of Historic Places

https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/20 ... n_kal.html

here is a sample of some of the photos







is that the Levin house in the background?

[Roderick Grant]

Yes, g.dorn, that is the Levin House.

[SDR]

This sentence gives one pause---especially if misread:

"Time has added patina to the block exterior to paint it deeper into the landscape."

Let's not even whisper the word "paint" anywhere within a mile or more of a block house . . .!

Can someone provide translation of Wright's handwritten note to a letter found in the linked article ? (Not the letter to the electric utility; that is comprehensible . . .)

S

[juankbedoya]

To make up for that, here are the seven Alan Weintraub photos of Eric Brown, from "Frank Lloyd Wright Mid-Century Modern" (2007):

© 2007 Rizzoli International Publications

plan © 1993 by William Allin Storrer

Lovely pictures..!! thanks