NYTimes article on Wright Restoration

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RA
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NYTimes article on Wright Restoration

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Wright restoration in the NYTimes.com:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/reale ... ref=slogin
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Congratulations on a job well done.
Paul Harding FAIA Restoration Architect for FLW's 1901 E. Arthur Davenport House, 1941 Lloyd Lewis House, 1952 Glore House | www.harding.com | LinkedIn
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The house is the 1954 Wilson (Bachman-Wilson) residence, S.366 (T.5402).

This is the only news article on a Wright house that I can recall, that omits the name of the original client.

Here is a portion of Storrer's page:

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Professor Storrer points out that "the south end of Turkel is a Usonian Automatic block version of the Wilson house."

He also mentions the materials used; like the immediately preceding Penfield house (in Storrer's chronology), Wilson is of concrete block and wood, with
mahogany substituting for the cypress that Wright specified.

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Post by EJ »

This looks like a spectacular house, and the award looks to be well deserved. Should I ever find myself in Millstone, I will beg the owners for a look.

Seriously, if/when I build my next house, I am going to borrow liberally from this design!
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Post by SDR »

The multiple-perfed-board screen is a variant on the ones that Palli is documenting, I suppose. The Karl Kundert Medical Clinic has three-board-high screens of this kind, as do a couple (?) of other late Usonians.

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