Wright Chat

Another recommendation: The House on the Rock Resort (formerly The Springs by TAA). Located very close to Taliesin.

http://www.thehouseontherock.com/HOTR_L ... ayouts.htm

This is an excerpt from page 59: "The local representative of the American System-Built Homes in Wilmette was J. A. Shane, on Central Avenue, and in the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff area, it was Barnum & Wells. The American Home Building Company had the exclusive rights to build these homes on th...

I have been recently informed by a friend that: "In the book ' Frank Lloyd Wright: American System Built Homes in Milwaukee ', published 1983 by North Point Historical Society (ISBN 0960607218), this house is pictured on page 58B. It is right next door to the ASB at 330 Gregory Ave. According t...

This house seems to have been subsumed ala the Arthur Pieper House. From the description provided it seems that the original is about 10% of the current structure.

Paul and egads: I like the idea of beveled siding for the battens, particularly if it can be had in a composite material (less chance of warping). I am unaware of any composite siding material that is "beveled" similar to wood bevel siding. Most, like Hardie, are consistently rectangular ...

Are you sure they Mr. Wright was not talking about sweeping the bills under the rug?

I will drive up there and attempt to get some more photos of this particular house.

336 Gregory Avenue in Wilmette, Illinois

Maybe some of you were aware of this one but it was new to me. ------- "In 2008, Wright scholar, William Allin Storrer unveiled his controversial 29 undiscovered Frank Lloyd Wright works. One of these houses was the Thomas E. Sullivan House at 336 Gregory Avenue in Wilmette, Illinois, next door...

Best quote, so true.... Wright "helped promote the idea that he was a mythic figure, but he did it in a really interesting way, which was to be modest in his ideas but very bold in the dissemination." - Ralph Nelson, Assistant dean and director of graduate programs for the College of Archi...

John Rayward (Tirranna) House cannot be seen at all from the street or the gated fence.

I was under the impression the Marion Mahony designed most of the Prairie-era windows.

Any documentation one way or the other?

4'-7 7/16" = 55 7/16"

article on Ben

http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/home_ ... x?id=86510

Paul, Thanks for your suggestion regarding policies and etiquette. We are looking into several matters that have been brought to our attention for which we hope to find speedy and satisfactory solutions. I will be sure to keep you posted as we make progress. As always, please don’t hesitate to wri...

The sides of a 30/60/90 right triangle are in the ratio of 1:sqrt3:2, with the side opposite the 30 degree angle being the 1. Let me put my mathematician hat back on for the first time in a dozen years.... Solving the equation for x: sqrt3/1=4/x yields x= 2.30 which doubled yields a side of 4.6 is ...