Article: "Throwback Tulsa: Remembering Frank Lloyd Wright's Westhope and Price Tower"

[DavidC]

Throwback Tulsa: Remembering Frank Lloyd Wright's Westhope and Price Tower


David

[Duncan]

Those gutters and downspouts added to Westhope....Yikes.

[SDR]

I guess those glass corners were never frameless---eh ? Somehow the corner bead stands out, now . . .

S

[Roderick Grant]

That is correct, SDR, they never had frameless corners, because the framing was part of the design, including the mullions.

[DRN]

Yet another telling of the "There is water dripping on my....Move your....." in the article.
I wonder if these words were ever spoken by EJ Kaufmann, Hib Johnson, RL Jones, or any other client a docent or article monger decides to "bring to life". Considering telephones were not all over the place at the Taliesin's in Wright's day, I'm considering the prospect that the story is not true.

[Roderick Grant]

It's like the one about the skylight in Hollyhock living room being operable or Frank Lincoln Wright. They won't go away.

[SDR]

The new owner of the Alsop residence reports that the story we have heard, about the slab being damaged by frozen pipes, is "a myth." The house was left unheated by an owner, but the system was drained (or drained itself, according to the new report). Sighs of relief all around . . .

S