Wright goes to Arkansas

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 12:06 pm

Henry and Clare also had a winter vacation home (1937) near Charleston, SC, designed by FLW friend Edward Durrell Stone, who was quite a fine residential architect in his early days. It consisted of 4 small brick veneer cottages and a garage ranged about a large bowling green and swimming pool, published in "Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties" pp 108-109. The diminutive size of the 2-bedroom main house suggests that their three children were housed in the three guest cottages.

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:07 pm

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:17 pm

I just remembered that the Hills-DeCaro House was moved (but not very far) and rotated too.

It seems like I have heard a lot of stories of houses being moved frequently during the late 1800s and early 1900s. It appears to have been a fairly common practice.

krietzerjak · Post by **krietzerjak** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:06 pm

Paul,
There is the lobby from the Imperial Palace Hotel that was partially moved and reconstructed. Also pieces of Northome.

Andy

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:04 am

The Pope-Leighey House (previously mentioned) was built in 1941 in Falls Church, VA. After the war the Popes bought a farm 30 miles west, intending to build a larger Wright house; the Leigheys bought the house, in late 1946. A year after Robert Leighey died, the property was threatened by a proposed highway. The house was moved to Woodlawn Plantation at Mount Vernon (VA) in 1964-5, and Mrs Leighey resumed residency in 1969 after a period spent in Japan.

The house was moved 30 feet onto firmer soil, and thoroughly restored; it reopened in 1996.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/express/w ... a-usonian/

SDR

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:29 pm

The proposed highway was never built.

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:42 pm

Paul, the Hills House was originally a Victorian house located in what is now the Moore's back yard. Nathan Moore moved the house to an adjacent vacant lot and had FLW completely remodel the house as a wedding present for Moore's daughter.

krietzerjak · Post by **krietzerjak** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:03 pm

Edgar J. Kaufmann Office interior is now installed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

Andy

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:58 pm

In Terry Morton's 1983 preface to the reprint of his Preservation Press monograph on the house we find this line: ". . . Ironically, completion of the section of Interstate 66 that threatened the Pope-Leighey House was delayed until late 1982." So, maybe in the end there is a reason for the initial move ?

SDR

Unbrook · Post by **Unbrook** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:39 am

This may be a little off topic, but Cleveland is about to lose its only Edward Durell Stone building-the now vacant Jewish Federation headquarters. The building will be replaced by a rather uninteresting dorm for Cleveland State University. We have so few modernist buildings in the area, and although this is not the best of Stone, it is in the style of the National Geographic headquarters and the U.S. Embassy in Delhi. The renderings show a group of people standing on the sidewalk-crowded. The Federation building has a sunken plaza which certainly could provide the footprint for a more gracious space to gather. No financing was asked for from the city and it is a $50 million investment, so it seems to be a done deal.

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 11:10 am

krietzerjak wrote:Edgar J. Kaufmann Office interior is now installed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

This interior was removed from display several years ago and is now in storage.

DRN · Post by **DRN** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:09 am

The proposed highway was never built.

The original site was on Locust Street in Falls Church within the right of way for I-66, just west of what is now exit 68.

krietzerjak · Post by **krietzerjak** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:40 am

Paul Ringstrom wrote:This interior was removed from display several years ago and is now in storage.

Hopefully they will put it back on display. Pictures I saw of it, there was no ceiling, open to the museum's high ceiling. I thought it originally had a wood ceiling. Hopefully they can make it look original. Maybe it is hard to display as it originally looked.

Andy

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:28 pm

The book published by the museum shows that they do have the original ceiling, which was an exact reflection of the floor, 4'x4' plywood panels. Why they would erect a display without the ceiling is a puzzle.

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:42 pm

krietzerjak wrote:
Paul Ringstrom wrote:This interior was removed from display several years ago and is now in storage.
Hopefully they will put it back on display. Pictures I saw of it, there was no ceiling, open to the museum's high ceiling. I thought it originally had a wood ceiling. Hopefully they can make it look original. Maybe it is hard to display as it originally looked.

It should be moved back to Pennsylvania!