Wright Chat

I should have been clearer, Wright was, by most research, born in 1867. He claimed 1869 as his birth year, at what point I do not know. My awkward phrasing above was to note that I was unsure if Wright had begun using 1869 as his birth year at the time of the recording of Lloyd's birth in 1890. Lloy...

Thanks David. Wright would have been 23 in 1890 (year of FLW Jr.'s birth) if 1867 was Wright's "claimed" birth year at that point; if 1869 was being used by Wright by that time, the record would have been as of 1892. For those of us with GA or Taschen Monographs at their fingertips, at wha...

The issue of FLW's middle name has come up from time to time...lately in a thread on John Howe. It might be a good idea to memorialize on Chat what we have read or heard to see if we can sift through to the answer. I first read of the Lincoln middle name in Brendon Gill's "Many Masks" biog...

The problem is the money...$1.6M was a fair price to pay for the property if one was to redevelop it for a 3-story building with commercial on the 1st floor with 2 floors of apartments above. That price is too high in Whitefish for the lot with a 6200SF? one-story 1950's commercial building in need ...

Fragments of the Garrick (Schiller) Theater Building were in the article's first photo...that was a building that should not have come down. Had it survived, it could have been a great residential tower with a theater below, or a boutique hotel with banquet/meeting space below.

A few months ago, there was a set of Monographs (6,7,8) for sale on eBay which had been annotated by Howe as to who drew which drawing.

So glad you reached out torger12. Some questions: -In what years did you live in the house? - We don’t have a floor plan...do you remember how many beds and baths were in the house and on which level they were placed? -Do you have any specific memories of what it was like to live in the house...

Thanks for the clarification Forest...please excuse me while frown and wave a finger (not the middle one) in the general direction of a docent on Chicago Ave.

Oy. To be clear, was Anna’s house the one currently used as an office, which is right next to FLWs garage (Ginko Tree Gift Shop)? Or, was it 925 Chicago Ave., the next house east (the house just acquired)? If Anna’s was the house right next to the Home and Studio, it will be yet anothe...

As I understand it, a viable FLLW building is one that has not burned (Wyant), been racked by a hurricane (pick one), or remuddled and decayed beyond repair (WSCarr, Grand Beach, MI). The Hoffman Showroom in NYC, lost a few years ago, technically wasn’t a building, just an interior fit-out. T...

Again, the writing of an article seems befuddled...let me get this straight: The just acquired house in the article is to the east of the Home and Studio at 925 Chicago Ave; the Home and Studio is at 950 Chicago Ave.; later in the article it is noted the Trust acquired a house at 931 Chicago Ave. in...

Thanks for the images SDR...this is a link to a pre-outage thread with links to other Pottery/Klotsche/Bendheim discussions:

http://wrightchat.savewright.org/viewto ... 1f4bbfff6a

I Googled “Bendheim, Wright, Phoenix� and found this archival newspaper article: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/120240838/ It is a April 27, 1986 Arizona Republic article about the controversy that emerged when the Bendheims learned another Legacy house was being built from the same...

So, the Klotsche Pottery House was too big, and the other one built in Phoenix (now demolished) for the Bendheims was too small, was Burlingham just right?
Storrer has a pic of each here:
http://www.franklloydwrightinfo.com/wrightxtaa.html

Bendheim’s courtyard (the pink one) is a bit tight....

A much more thorough and consistent effort than most Prairie-esques we’ve seen...I like it too. It looks as if the Yahara Boathouse was on the mind of the designer.