WILLARD KELAND HOUSE FOR SALE?

[outside in]

Here's a plan I found in my files - not the best, but I'm sure you'll get the general idea...[URL=https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ ... fit=bounds]

[Mark Hertzberg]

Actually there never was a garage until the Howe addition. There was originally a carport which became a bedroom. A diagonal covered walkway then connected the garage to the new front entrance, on the other side of the pillar of the original one.

[SDR]

Thanks, John.

S

[DavidC]

Spacious Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin Flies Off the Market at $725K


David

[SDR]

A delightfully generous display of images, of a house we may not see again for a long while ?

S

[DavidC]

Mount Pleasant home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for member of Johnson family has been sold


David

[SDR]

FLW Mount Pleasant, LLC. sounds a good deal more likable than "Intercoastal McMansion Development, Inc" or some such . . .! Fingers crossed.

S

[HenryWhiting]

The article says it is one of the largest Usonian houses ever built. When does a Usonian cease to be a Usonian? Or for that matter, what is a Usonian? Is it now a catch-all for all of Wright's houses after 1938 (Jacobs 1)? This may be a beautiful house, but I have a hard time seeing it as 'Usonian'.

[SDR]

Who knew that Wright would coin not one vague or indefinable term, but two: Organic, and Usonian. Well, the "Standard Detail Sheet for 'Usonian Type' Houses," circa 1940, defines the thing in terms of construction---but it doesn't deal with plans. I've used the term more loosely, as have others, and I don't know what limits should be set, to distinguish Usonians from other postwar Wright residences. But I would agree with those who might suggest that the term be limited to those houses that conform, at least in part, to the detailing shown on those SDS drawings---whether with flat or with pitched roofs.

Is Pauson a Usonian ? Sweeton ? Lamberson ? Palmer ? Arnold Friedman ? Griggs ? The first, third and fourth of those have board-and-sunk-batten partitions; is that enough to include them ? It should be clear that nineteen or twenty houses, from Jacobs I through M M Smith (1935 through 1946), are Usonians in the strictest sense---but not of course Fallingwater or Wingspread. What about Jacobs II, Walter, Grant, Wall, Miller, etc etc.?

S

[DavidC]

The Keland House was put on the market in September with an asking price of $725,000, per listing records. Barely a month later, the house sold for $1.025 million.


David

[Tom]

Balcony level framing plan top right corner of Artstor Framing Plan Sheet 7 shows a 40'-6" long steel I-beam 10" deep.
Big beam.

Note also the large skylight behind living room fireplace over kitchen.

Intriguing house. Another one I was unaware of before.
White plaster ceilings leave something to be desired IMHO.
Would have thought this client could afford wood.

[DavidC]

Frank Lloyd Wright - Trailer - (0:57)


David

[SDR]

The red marble (?) fireplace hood at 00:36 is a bit of a surprise.

I don't think it should be taken for granted that a planked or plywood ceiling is the more desirable option in a postwar Wright house. There is quite a difference between two rooms of equal size, floor and wall material and ceiling height, with a wood ceiling versus a light-colored sand plaster one, the major difference being the amount of reflected daylight or artificial illumination in the space.

S