Frank Lloyd Wright home now more accessible
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Home & Studio increases accesibility
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Roderick Grant
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There ought to be limits to what historic sites are forced to do to accommodate persons with disabilities. There is nothing a museum can do to get the blind to understand paintings, nor an orchestra to help the deaf to hear music, nor a library to assist the blind to access books that have not been translated either into Braille or Books On Tape. Yet these are valuable social amenities that deserve tax dollars. This seems not to be an issue. Architectural landmarks are not always so lucky.
Hollyhock was pressured to add an elevator to get wheelchair-bound visitors up to the second floor, but Ginny Kazor demonstrated that by making available to them a video of the space, visitors were satisfied, and by buying a set of portable aluminum ramps (usually stored in a closet) it was not necessary to replace exterior steps with a permanent ramp for access to the building.
It sounds like H/S has found sympathetic and effective solutions to these problems.
Hollyhock was pressured to add an elevator to get wheelchair-bound visitors up to the second floor, but Ginny Kazor demonstrated that by making available to them a video of the space, visitors were satisfied, and by buying a set of portable aluminum ramps (usually stored in a closet) it was not necessary to replace exterior steps with a permanent ramp for access to the building.
It sounds like H/S has found sympathetic and effective solutions to these problems.