Wright Chat

The Black Cat, near the beginning, features a distance shot (probably a mockup) of Ennis.

They Drive by Night [1940] puts the boss's villianous wife in an ultra-deco house, from which she tries to seduce proletarian hero Bogart.

Keaton's Sherlock Junior, which has come up on Wright Chat before, shows the porches enclosed when the house was only a couple of years old. He did a similar enclosure for the Lovells early on.

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The owners, a few years ago and presumably today, were a couple from Connecticut who had done a serious restoration, undoing changes Fawcett's second wife brought in (painting the fireplace orange by one account). They hosted a Western PA Conservancy fundraiser. Los Banos is an odd place to have a v...

Ennis last sold for $14M. I don't know what VC Morris went for last time, but it was probably at least $8M.

If you fleshed out the three Wright sites with historical buildings he would have seen, Wright-influenced buildings and contemporary architecture, you could make it a most worthwhile visit. The FLlW Preservation Trust (wrightplus.org), custodians of the Home & Studio and Robie, has such a trip i...

Agents usually make an effort to post flattering photos. The condition of the lot (even allowing that March isn't a photogenic time of year) suggests that this one is a low priority, priced for quick sale.

These videos restore an as-designed detail in the living room. At 0:48 in both, we see a door on the west side adjacent to the pier. The mullions (if that's the word) line up with the blocks, thus making the top pane shorter vertically than the others. The carpenter apparently thought this was an er...

Article about Hill House preservation:

https://www.core77.com/posts/112270/Fix ... Gone-Wrong

When the Pearces in California hosted a tour, Mr. P (son of the original client) explained that the house had exploded at least once. The very steep canyons, in windstorms, set up vacuums outside that blew the glass panels out. The original plan had put a fireplace on the wall in question. The elder...

Matt2’s suggestion is a pretty good description of Hanna before they turned the playroom into a formal dining room. Dining table and central fireplace were side by side at the juncture of kitchen and living room.

In the metaverse we’ll have all the fireplaces we want.

As far as I know those gaps are only a design feature. Another idiosyncracy of the parapet is that it's only 32 inches high. That seems to be for scale. If we look up at it from the living room, we figure that it's standard waist height and estimate the rest of the room from that. Lloyd's bridge, to...

Here's another that can't be missed.

What’s in Long Beach?