Article: David Wright owner buys adjacent properties

DRN · Post by **DRN** » Tue May 12, 2015 1:08 pm

Wright proposed a circle based house for a client with a hillside site in North Jersey around the same time in the early '50's, but it had more in common with the Sol Friedman house at Usonia in NY than it did with David Wright or "How to Live in the SW".

I suspect Ms. Levi may have misspoken or was misunderstood.

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Tue May 12, 2015 3:11 pm

David and Gladys Wright Home Owner Talks Preservation Plans

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DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Thu May 14, 2015 7:14 am

Exclusive: DiCiccio, opponents argue Arcadia deed restrictions block Frank Lloyd Wright house plans

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DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Wed May 20, 2015 4:03 pm

Op-ed: Preserve and breathe life into Arcadia's Wright House

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DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Wed May 20, 2015 4:06 pm

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE IN PHOENIX AT THE CENTER OF CONTROVERSY â€” AGAIN

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Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Thu May 21, 2015 11:42 am

The David Wright House is definitely a masterpiece, but is the 1950 house "Wright's last residential masterpiece" as the op-ed states? I will start a list of other masterpieces that followed with the Raymond Carlson House of the same year.

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Thu May 21, 2015 1:33 pm

I will add two that I think are worthy:

- 1953 Unsonian Exhibition House

- Seth Peterson Cottage

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Rood · Post by **Rood** » Thu May 21, 2015 5:18 pm

One of ...
In all honesty, I couldn't find where the op-ed implied the David Wright House was Wright's "last residential masterpiece." It did report ...' â€œThis is one of his last masterpieces," Rawling recently told a reporter from the Phoenix Business Journal.'

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Fri May 22, 2015 10:42 am

The article states:

"The goals of the foundation are threefold:

"__ Preserve Frank Lloyd Wright's last residential masterpiece and Arcadia's estate tradition.

"__ Celebrate the artistic legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright ... etc."

....about half way down.

This is from "Op-ed: Preserve and breathe life into Arcadia's Wright House," by Jim McPherson. The "Controversy" article by Robert Pela refers to it as "one of the last....

Goodness, Rood, your tone sounds accusatory.

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Fri May 22, 2015 10:44 am

I do agree with your choices, David. Too often the small wonders are overlooked. Peterson is a gem.

Rood · Post by **Rood** » Fri May 22, 2015 12:34 pm

I'm sorry if it sounded that way, Roderick, but "one of" is not quite the same as "last of", and it seemed only fair to give the guy credit for his willingness to entertain the possibility that Mr. Wright might have created multiple masterpieces after 1950. As you so rightly and fairly pointed out ... he did.

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Fri May 22, 2015 1:30 pm

... assuming by "the guy," you are referring to Pela? Not McPherson?

Rood · Post by **Rood** » Fri May 22, 2015 2:48 pm

"This is one of his last masterpieces,â€� Rawling recently told a reporter from the Phoenix Business Journal.

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Thu May 28, 2015 5:42 pm

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation staying out of fight over Phoenixâ€™s David Wright House

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DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:06 am

DavidC wrote:I will add two that I think are worthy:

- 1953 Unsonian Exhibition House

- Seth Peterson Cottage

if you will allow me to 'fudge' the post-1950 year deadline slightly, I would like to include the Laurent House (designed in mid-1949) to the list of Wright later-Usonian masterpieces.

David