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by DRN
Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:51 pm
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Topic: FLW'S 1893 Madison boathouse...
Replies: 5
Views: 2513

Here it is, I added 2017 to my search...

http://wrightchat.savewright.org/viewto ... 8c5ec67f43
by DRN
Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:48 pm
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Topic: FLW'S 1893 Madison boathouse...
Replies: 5
Views: 2513

I believe this is the article that sparked last year’s thread which I am having difficulty finding as well.

https://www.google.com/amp/host.madison ... 7.amp.html
by DRN
Mon Mar 12, 2018 3:45 pm
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Topic: Frank LINCOLN Wright
Replies: 107
Views: 56064

I received the following reply from Scott Perkins: Hi Dan, Meryle Secrest’s biography (1992) states it clearly on page 50: “One month later, on June 8, Anna gave birth to Frank Lincoln Wright.� And on page 79: “At about this time he changed his middle name from Lincoln to Ll...
by DRN
Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:32 am
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Topic: Frank LINCOLN Wright
Replies: 107
Views: 56064

A Google search of "Frank Lincoln Wright" yields an entry in the online version of the storied and hallowed Encyclopedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Lloyd-Wright Fallingwater's website follows suit with more explanation: https://www.fallingwater.org/history/about...
by DRN
Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:55 am
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Topic: Print Media Inclined to Capitalize on Wright Name ?
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Views: 3462

They are so freakin' cute! I'd name them Frank and Mamah, Frank and Aaron, or (name two females with a connection to the MCCC). In any case, unless Wright designed little arched openings into the café walls for the rats to enter, I can't see what animal control issues, common to any food service ...
by DRN
Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:46 am
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Topic: New Yamagiwa Frank Lloyd Wright lamps
Replies: 73
Views: 38053

I certainly hope that is not a permanent installation. Making a light fixture based on a Wright designed fireplace basket/grating and placing it in an unrelated brand X building seems fine in terms of ornament to my sensibilities, as does placing that fixture in the building for which the grating wa...
by DRN
Sun Mar 11, 2018 4:17 pm
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Topic: Frank LINCOLN Wright
Replies: 107
Views: 56064

The Winslow house is situated on a street called Auvergne Place. Wright designed a mock gateway at the street’s intersection with Lake Street.
by DRN
Sun Mar 11, 2018 2:39 pm
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Topic: Frank LINCOLN Wright
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Wright’s name is printed as “Frank Lloyd Wright� on the title page of the edition of William Gannet’s essay “The House Beautiful� he and William Herman Winslow printed in the winter of 1896-7. https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/wright-frank-lloyd-and-willia...
by DRN
Sun Mar 11, 2018 2:07 pm
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Topic: Frank LINCOLN Wright
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While perusing Taschen 1 this afternoon, I noticed in the drawings published that Wright’s title block changed from “Frank L. Wright� to “Frank Lloyd Wright� somewhere between the Edward C.Waller house remodeling of February 1899, and the Stephen A. Foster summer cotta...
by DRN
Sun Mar 11, 2018 7:44 am
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Topic: Links to David Romero’s Wright Recreations
Replies: 2
Views: 1633

This is the thread in which David introduced himself and the authentic color scheme of the Larkin Building was established with the research of Pat Mahoney.

http://wrightchat.savewright.org/viewto ... 2fcd90191e
by DRN
Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:45 pm
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Topic: For sale: E Fay Jones' Monaghan House in MI???
Replies: 17
Views: 14925

A pre-outage thread exists relative to Carl Gilmore Architect:

http://wrightchat.savewright.org/viewtopic.php?p=65409


Chat's Paul Ringstrom reached out to Carl and received a very nice letter which is included.
by DRN
Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:32 pm
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Topic: For sale: E Fay Jones' Monaghan House in MI???
Replies: 17
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For those who are curious, the unfinished Monaghan house by Jones+Jennings is visible via Google Earth (turn on map view to see street names): -Starting at Dominos Farms Corporate office, follow Earhart Road north under Route 14 until the intersection of Earhart Road and Warren Roads. -Turn east ont...
by DRN
Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:54 pm
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Topic: Westhope Original block color
Replies: 23
Views: 10023

More pics here: https://tulsatinystuff.blogspot.com/2017/09/frank-lloyd-wrights-westhope.html Includes a version of the oft told "roof is leaking on my.....Well, move your......" anecdote. One wonders which, if any (or all), were true. Bio of Richard Lloyd Jones: http://uudb.org/articles/r...
by DRN
Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:38 pm
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Topic: Video: Interview w/ FLW from 1958
Replies: 3
Views: 3022

The Hugh Downs interview. Segments of it were transcribed into one of Wright's books