Wright Chat

Just found about this fundraising event: http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/feb/28/auldbrass-tour-to-help-yemassee-revitalization/ And saw in previous posts that the Conservancy has a tour on March 27th as well: http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/feb/28/auldbrass-tour-to-help-yemassee-revi...

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SDR: Thanks for those elevation and floor plan drawings. I'm wondering tho if the floor plan is before the entire complex was mirrored (left to right)? Mr. DeLong mentioned that happened at one point during the initial document creation stage. I unfortunately loaned out my book copy so cant ferret o...

Wanted to add my friend Sean's set of pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swtcurran/ ... 678136371/

-jono
Jon Farmer
San Rafael

To be specific - the two story portion on the lower right of the rendering is the unbuilt guest room section. Everything from the loggia and pool to the top of the rendering are currently existing. The pool was never built by the original client but by Mr. Silver after his acquisition. As to the con...

I've always thought it interesting that the guest wing was so much larger than the 'main' house!

-jono
Jon Farmer
San Rafael

SDR - Two speakers gave presentations. The first was Mr. David G. DeLong, Author of Auldbrass, Frank Llyod Wright’s Southern Plantation and he gave a very nice scholarly 45 minute talk that basically summarized the history of the house, its design, construction, dilapidation and rebirth. It was in...

Wanted to share the few pictures I took - was too busy enjoying the ambiance and amazing weather. Congrats to the Beaufort County Land Trust for a great weekend. Especially enjoyed the lectures on Saturday night. I'm ready to reserve tickets for 2011!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonosf/sets/721576...

Everyone - Thanks for the tips and insights. My tix arrived in the mail yesterday... is it November yet?? ;-) @hypnoraygun I'll definitely be going back after the lunches to view things a second and maybe even a third time, with hopefully less crowds. I've been 'driving' the roads with Google street...

TnGuy - just ordered my Tickets for this years event - reread yours and a few other summaries from previous years, checked out your flickr pics, and cant wait. I've been trying to go for the past 6 years (since I learned about the tours in 04) and finally can get away this year One question tho from...

And I'm one of the lucky ones benefiting from your sell off! I've been slowly acquiring the softcover versions since the mid 90's. Only a few more to go.

I wish I had a library nearby that had these, but not the case.

-jon

Is there more any information on the Wright items lost in the fire? Was this their own collection or had it been loaned to them?

Either way a tremendous loss,

-jon

[quote="RJH"] Once the concrete forms are removed the newspaper is taken off the rock faces. It was always a very complicated and tedious building method and probably why they didn