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Interesting...I'll try that direction. thanks
Do you know why it wasn't included in the 2006 Storrer Companion?
I hope you can help me further with the other posting about perforated boards.

This is an open request for information and photo documentation. A thread on wrightchat (Brandes House) some time ago indicated that several correspondents were interested in perforated boards. I am trying to complete a chart of the wood perforated boards in built Usonian houses as the first phase o...

Does anyone have information about the Goddard House (1953) in Plymouth, Michigan? It is included in the FLW Monographs with a photograph & elevation. Thanks

Yes, the private crypt is on the grounds, hidden in the natural beauty of the land they loved.

Michael Holubar and I are going; we look forward to all the conversations.

Fred, Thanks.

NOTICE: The Weltzheimer-Johnson House (1948) at Oberlin College is closed for an indefinite period. The W-J House had only limited public hours (the First and Third Sundays 12-5PM each month) but in the last few years special appointments were easily made for other times throughout the week. Last Sa...

It is now 7:15pm and the last participant in the Reconciling the Plans workshopat the Weltzheimer-Johnson House that began at 3:30 pm has left. Eight architects, form different firms and disciplines worked for hours, inside and outside, marking the different building sheets with dimensions, arrows a...

SDR- we have many balls! yes, we do work hard at having fun. Palli

Paul, thank you for noticing the Weltzheimer-Johnson Moving In Day announcement. You would enjoy the afternoon - kids count the dentil spheres, play croquet (necessary game due to the fascia wooden balls), figure the square footage, etc. Oberlin College Jugglers are coming to lead rely races carryin...

To echo others: A distinctive landscape is a joy and we remember Fallingwater wedded on that hillside overlooking the run. But, really, a lot of the Usonians were on unremarkable land, the "commonplace" terrain of the midwest. "Land nobody else wanted", FLW said. That didn't alwa...

I'm going to serious about this hypothetical, and state simply: I would build the Weltzheimer House, 1948. This time staying with the original plans as Davy Davidson drew them: perforated screen design, a smaller utility room thus the accurate placement of the carport with the brick storage room at ...

SDR- The image reference you are using... does it have any indication of the cut-out pattern on the perforated screens? Or any indication of hardware placement if they were moveable?

I don't live in the W-J House, a FLW public space, but I work here at all hours of the day and sometimes night. Visitors are often a wonderful diversion from work at hand and are always an opportunity to introduce the Usonian house as a house not a museum. I hone my interpretative skills with unexpe...

Idea, Sculpture, Architecture- The Pauson Residence is the epitome of clarity. The fire was a small great tragedy for the cause of art and architecture together.

Windswept is only a bit more overstated. Palli