Wright Chat

Article on Curbed.com

https://www.curbed.com/2020/6/24/213006 ... ale-manson

I really need to stop taking about the house after this because the more I talk about it, the more seller's remorse I have. Besides, you know I am biased :-) I would have named the house Tall Pines if I were Mr. Wright because the house is surrounded by tall pines and the perforated window patterns ...

SDR, Thank you very much for the kind words. All original free standing furniture were sold to some private collector decades ago, unfortunately. This topic alone is worthy of some discussion: why would someone buy all the furniture of a house but not the house itself? They sure have plenty of oppor...

Hi friends, Thank you so much for checking out the post and visiting our webpage. Working in Texas, it is getting tougher and tougher to make the 22 hour commute “one way” to restore and maintain the Manson house. We love the house dearly and it is the sweat and tears for the past 6 years for us. Ou...

Please visit “https://davdwood.wixsite.com/manson” for detailed information and 50+ photos of the house. The Charles and Dorothy Manson house has 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2462 sf on a 0.58 acre lot (an adjacent/separate 0.34 acre lot is included in the sale). Designed in 1938 and completed in 1941, the ...

The towering commercial looking antenna right next to the house really ruins the setting of the house. I wonder if that could be removed. From the earth view, it appears to have some type of commercial property right next to it too. Does anyone know what that is? Other than that, a good piece of pro...

From realtor.com, price has gone up from 356K to 400K.
I have never seen price increment on the listing before.

Should the owner add more windows in the living room racing the back/woods/north to bring in more light and make the house more livable, or should they adhere to Wright's original design? Is it really important to adhere to Wright's original design? With the current material such as triple pane wind...

Thank you DRN. I understand the concept and the need for protecting those windows. Did the current owner actually receive the $390,000 a decade ago? If that is the case, the current and future owner do not and will not own those windows, no matter what their intentions are. Who is responsible for re...

Very interesting article. Even more interesting, how can anyone get a clean title without owning a great deal of their windows? What is the story behind all this? Is that part of the reason why the house is listed in such a low price without a taker for so long? Can someone fill in the blanks here f...

Does anyone know the asking price and the condition of the house?

Thank you for the response about the range location.
If the range is going into that enclose, where does the fridge go?
I also saw an open space right under the big window. What is that space for?

Very nice photos in the blog. What a pleasure to see the process of the restoration. I am trying to figure out a few things from those photos posted: - where would be the range and exhaust fan in the kitchen? - is the main skylight over the entry meant to be in an angle (from the roof top view)? - w...

There are quite few pretty Usonians changed hands over Kalamazoo MI with a reasonable price tag in recent years. It is to my surprise that I have not seen any FLW houses over Galesburg MI came up for sale, considering there are quite a few great looking ones out there. Not sure if the Lindholm resid...

Thank you so much for those helpful information. I appreciate it.

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