Fort Wayne Fine Arts Center (1973)
Louis I. Kahn Architect
Now the Arts United Center, 303 E. Main Street Fort Wayne IN
Visited October 27 2013
Designed in 1961-64
Architect Louis I. Kahn designed a theater in Fort Wayne Indiana…who knew?
Famous for the Salk Institute in La Jolla, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, and the Parliament of Bangladesh in Dhaka, he actually built relatively few buildings so Fort Wayne is in excellent company. He was well known as the design critic at Yale School of Architecture and as Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He received the AIA’s Gold Medal.
The exterior of the building is a crisp, simple box constructed of dark brick. The front facade has two very shallow arched keyhole windows linked with a concrete form acting as a heavy lintel over the entry doors.
The theater in Fort Wayne will require another trip, as it was closed on a late sunday afternoon. Kahn’s interiors are known for their “poetic sensibilities” and a walk through the lobby and auditorium I am sure will be inspirational.
The Art Institute of Chicago’s Architecture in Context – Louis Kahn in the Midwest issue focusing on the Fort Wayne Theater.
Link to the Arts United Center website
Farnsworth House (1951)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect
14520 River Road, Plano IL 60545
Visited July 5, 2013
This is a great opportunity to experience a preeminent example of the International Style embodied in a small weekend house hovering over a vast green lawn on the banks of the Fox River. It is said that Mies personally designed the house after meeting Dr. Edith Farnsworth at a dinner party ( and obviously made a good impression…).
The pavilion is raised above the Fox River flood plain supported by 8 steel columns. The perimeter walls are composed of large floor to ceiling panes of plate glass. There is a core area which houses two bathrooms, the utility room, kitchen cabinets and fireplace. This core area does not engage the perimeter glass walls at all, and in fact does not even go to the ceiling except a small portion which is stepped back from the core walls. The core is clad in beautiful Primavera wood veneer, a rare wood from Central America, said to be Mies favorite. All of the utility connections and the roof drain all go through the floor plane to the ground in a relatively small cylinder inconspicuously placed under the utility room.
From the lawn, wide marble steps lead up from the lawn to an elevated terrace offset to the west of the pavilion. From this terrace, the marble steps continue to lead you up to the porch at the floor level of the house. The entrance is a pair of very narrow aluminum framed full height glass doors, slightly offset from the grid to the living room side of the house to direct visitors in that direction upon entry.
It is really a one-room house ( not including the bathrooms and utility space), with spaces arranged around this core. They all have a broad view of the river and the lawn through the vast windows. It is a spectacular experience, if only I was there without the other people on the tour, living in the house for the weekend – oh well, I can dream…and to think I could have bought this one-room house 10 years ago for only $7.5 million…
Thorncrown Chapel (1980)
E. Fay Jones, Architect
12968 U.S. 62 Eureka Springs, AR
Visited April 29, 2013
A Masterpiece. This building received the AIA’s 25 year Award, and is a truly spiritual place. Nestled in the Ozark Mountains outside Eureka Springs, this proud tall structure is exquisitely detailed, even though it is constructed mostly of 2×4’s and other common stock lumber. Although quite small in size, the proportions of the structure and view of the forest all around provides an experience that rivals some of the grand cathedrals – a pure, calm, reflective experience that was both relaxing and exhilarating at the same time..if that makes sense. It is one of those experiences that is hard to put into words. Just sitting there and watching the hawks or eagles ( I am not a ornithologist) soaring in the blue sky through the tree branches, with the ferns and moss covering the rocky outcropping of the forest floor it was really quite fantastic. If you are lucky, ask the host if she is the musical director of the chapel. She may go up to the altar and sing Amazing Grace – It was an extra beautiful bonus. Sometimes I wonder how I happen upon these moments…it seems it happens more often then I deserve.
Clinton Presidential Center – Interior (2004)
James Stewart Polshek FAIA, Architect
1200 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72201
Visited April 26, 2013
While at the Museum, have lunch at the museum cafe, FortyTwo
Clinton Presidential Center – Exterior (2004)
James Stewart Polshek FAIA, Architect
1200 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72201
Visited April 25 & 26, 2013
I finally got the opportunity to visit the William J. Clinton Presidential Center. Over the years I have heard other architects joking that it looks like a single wide trailer. I was shocked to chat with a local woman in Little Rock who found out that I was an architect there to see the Clinton Center – she leaned over and quietly said “I think it looks like a single wide trailer”.
I have seen other James Stewart Polshek buildings and know that they are striking, well detailed modern objects. This is no exception. This building is described as a bridge…at least the beginning of a bridge cantilevered out at the river’s edge. He uses the bridge reference literally from the adjacent abandoned railroad bridge, and figuratively from Clinton’s “Bridge to the Future” acceptance speech. This square tube truss dramatically cantilevers out toward the river at the eastern edge of downtown Little Rock. The western facade has fritted glass panels suspended several feet in front of the truss frame creating a sunscreen shielding the interior space. At night this glass curtain glows with the light from inside the museum. The cross bracing structural members on the ends are purposely placed off center to create a dynamic frame in what could have been a bland facade. It did not disappoint. Well done.
As far as the local’s reference to it looking like a single wide trailer, The Clinton Presidential Center is not alone with nicknames. Polshek’s Biomedical Science Research Building on the University of Michigan Campus is known as the “Pringle” building by locals – due to the potato chip shaped roof of the auditorium sited prominently out front. I am sure that James Stewart Polshek would not approve of either.
While visiting the Museum, have lunch at the museum cafe, FortyTwo
Palmer House – Interiors (1950)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
227 Orchard Hills Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Visited September 15-16, 2012
See my post “Palmer House – Exterior” for information on the property.
The interior dramatically changes personality as the light changes in the space. From morning light, afternoon light, evening light and then artificial light the spaces are transformed as time goes by. When the trees, lawn and natural gardens are in sunlight, the interiors takes a back seat as the windows and walls seemingly disappear and the beautiful natural hillside is the star. In the evening after the sun sets, the glass appears as black panels focusing attention inward to the interior. The integrated indirect lighting transforms the oil-finished cypress clad ceiling of the living room into a warm canopy focusing on the fireplace. The polished Cherokee red concrete floors subtly reflect the light from above. Wright’s Origami Chairs ( which are quite comfortable ) are placed around the living room focused on the fireplace. Built into a wall by the kitchen is the dining table surrounded by dining chairs ( which are not comfortable).
All of the interior walls come together at 60 or 120 degree angles, as the floor plan is organized on an equilateral triangle grid. This grid is implemented in the furniture as well, even the beds have 60 and 120 degree corners.
Palmer House – Exterior (1950) – revisited
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
227 Orchard Hills Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Visited September 15-16, 2012
Look at my first Palmer House post from two years ago for a description of the building.
The Palmer House has been purchased from the Palmer family estate, and is now available for overnight rentals (when the new owner is not in town). The purchase agreement comes with a very strict preservation agreement. Since it was purchased from the original owner’s estate, and the preservation agreement is in effect, this is an incredible opportunity to “live” in an original Frank Lloyd Wright house. The experience is pure Wright, without any unfortunate “updates” that mar many Wright properties that have gone through multiple ownership changes over the years.
Although recuperating from a back injury and not prepared with my tripod, I could not pass up an invitation from some amazing friends to spend the night. I have documented the house in 3 separate posts showing the exterior, the interior and the tea house on the property.
Palmer House – Tea House (1964)
John Howe, Architect
227 Orchard Hills Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Visited September 15-16, 2012
After visiting Japan, the Palmer’s planned a teahouse on their property sited down the hill from the main house. John Howe, the on-site Taliesin representative during construction of the main house, was the architect (Wright had passed away 5 years earlier).
The tea house uses the same materials and equilateral triangle grid as the main house. It includes a recessed sitting area and table for tea drinking, a fireplace, bed, and small kitchen and bathroom.
Irwin Union Bank (1954)
Eero Saarinen Architect
500 Washington Street Columbus IN
Photographs taken March 16 2012
As luck would have it ( although I say this with a sad heart ) the day I visited the Irwin Union Bank and walked in the front door…was the last day that this building was open to the public. At least as a bank. All of the employees were packing up their desks, and carting off their belongings. I was able to take lots of interior photographs, probably the last opportunity in a long time. I asked several of the bank employees what they were going to do with the building. They all hedged a little, and I got the feeling they have been asked that question a hundred times and were uncomfortable because they did not have an answer. The consensus was that it may become a museum sometime in the future…a hopeful result but an unconvincing delivery.
Even if it does open as a “museum” it will not have the same feeling as being what it was designed as…a bank. When I was there, even on the last day, people were coming in and cashing their checks, and doing their banking, just as they did the first day the bank opened in 1954.
The building is an interesting low glass box with a thin white roof plane. The roof plane has 9 domes projecting out above the roof in a 3×3 grid. These domes are actually the light fixtures for the bank interior – reflectors for the suspended uplights flooding the bank with warm light. The only walls that go to the ceiling are the perimeter glass walls. The interior “walls” stop short of the ceiling. They actually look like part of the file cabinet system, with the conference room/private offices enclosed with the cabinets. This keeps the overall ceiling plane pure and uninterrupted.
Still worth a visit….the exterior walls are all glass so you can still peek in.
First Christian Church (1943)
Eliel Saarinen Architect
531 Fifth Street, Columbus IN
Photographs taken March 15 & 16 2012
For those familiar with the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, MI, elements of this building should feel “familiar”. Eliel Saarinen the architect lived at Cranbrook. He designed many buildings at Cranbrook with similar brick detailing, and interesting asymetrical placements. The First Christian Church shows an interesting mix of contemporary, Art & Crafts and even a feeling of the old cloister and gothic places of worship skillfully integrated. His wife Loja, an acomplished textile artist, created the tapestry “Sermon on the Mount” hanging on the side wall of the alter. And keeping it in the family, the hanging light fixtures were designed by his son Eero, who also designed the St. Louis Arch, the TWA terminal at JFK, and the North Christian Church in Columbus Indiana.
Cleo Rogers Memorial Library (1969)
I.M. Pei, Architect
536 Fifth Street, Columbus IN 47201
Photos taken March 16, 2012
It is not every midwestern city of 45,000 that has a public library designed by I. M. Pei, and this one has a Henry Moore sculpture placed out front to boot. The citizens should feel lucky to have such a pair right downtown.
North Christian Church – Interior (1964)
Eero Saarinen, Architect
850 Tipton Lane, Columbus IN
Photographs taken March 16, 2012
The interior of this landmark church is as exceptional as the exterior.
It is intimate, simple, focused…
Inspirational.
North Christian Church – Exterior (1964)
Eero Saarinen, Architect
Daniel Kiley, Landscape Architect
850 Tipton Lane, Columbus IN
Photographs taken March 16, 2012
This is one of my favorite buildings. I have visited this building 4 times, and each time I am more impressed with it’s “complex simplicity” (this term is borrowed from a business associate who summarized my rambling passionate description of the building concisely).
Saarinen’s path he creates for the faithful (and tourist alike) is a sequence of carefully and subtly planned discoveries. Starting with Dan Kiley’s landscaping, each parking area is separated with rows of hedges just high enough to screen the cars, but the hovering hexagonal church is visible just above the hedges. The procession takes you through the only opening in the hedges on axis with the church’s exceptionally tall and slender steeple and main entrance. Past the last row of parking spaces, there is a stairway taking you up through the center of a bank of flowers approaching the church. Here you see that the hexagonal structure is centered in a recess in the ground, raised on a bunker-like base with a landscaped bank surrounding the church. You then drop down a series of low and very deep steps, “ducking” below the low metal eave, revealing the tall glass windows tucked up in the shadows of the steeply sloping soffit. The series of glass entry doors open up the glass perimeter wall allowing entry to the interior. See the next post for photos of the interior of this landmark church.
The hexagonal form is stretched in the east/west direction creating a bit of dynamism, but maintains it’s pure simple presense, floating slightly above the earth, and pointing directly to the heavens.
J. Irwin Miller House and Garden (1957)
Eero Saarinen Architect
Daniel Kiley, Landscape Architect
2760 Highland Way, Columbus IN 47201
Photos taken March 16 2012
My first stop in Columbus was the tour of the recently opened J.Irwin Miller House by Eero Saarinen. This modern masterpiece is well worth the trip. The 6,838 sq. ft. single story pavilion overlooks a 12 acre site designed by Landscape Architect Dan Kiley. The structure is organized in a grid formed by 16 cruciform steel columns connected by linear skylights. There is a 50 foot long display and storage wall, a cylindrical fireplace, and the quintessential conversation pit. The exterior walls are large glass panels which slide into pockets in the wall, opening the living room to the terrace and the yard beyond. Magnificent.
The house is now owned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and is open for tours. The house is meticulously preserved and maintained, none of which I can show you in my blog – as cameras, cell phones, sketch paper and pencils (or any other writing utensil) are prohibited. After the tour, you can buy a small book with photos of the house for $25 in the gift shop. I understand that this is one of the reasons that the house is (and will continue to be ) in “original” condition. ( I am also sure the rule helps with book sales). I would have paid an additional $25 if I could take my own photos.
The house is not visible from the street hidden behind Kiley’s hedge row.
I do hope that they add a special tour for photographers to capture the angles and elements they find interesting (following strict rules and supervision to not disrupt the house and its contents). If they do….I will add my photos of the building to this post
Lykes Residence (1959-66)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
6636 N. 36th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85018
“Wright’s last residential design to be built by the original client” – as identified in William Allin Storrer’s book The Architecture of Frank LLoyd Wright A Complete Catalog.
The design was sketched by Wright before his death in 1959, and Taliesin Fellow John Rattenbury supervised construction, which didn’t commence until 1966.
This pink block building gracefully arcs on the desert hillside above Phoenix. Clearly visible from the road, you can appreciate the mature work of Wright by taking a short roadtrip up 36th street from the city.
There are several Wright houses in the Phoenix area, but most are not very visible from the street. You can see the gate and part of the roof of the Harold Price Sr. house (1954) at 7211 Tatum. The David Wright House (1950) at 3212 E. Exeter had recently been purchased at the time of my visit, and was under renovation with a construction fence around the property. The Adelman Residence (1951) at 5802 N. 30th Street, is visible across a very large front lawn, but what I was able to see was not of great note (in my opinion). Next door is the Boomer Residence (1953) at 5808 N. 30th Street. Through the densely wooded yard you can just make out the roof from the street. The Carlson House (1950) at 1123 W. Palo Verde Dr. is a white paneled house with bright blue trim behind a block wall and blue metal fence. The carport is visible from the road, but the most prominent feature on site at the time of my visit was a classic red convertible.
After the roadtrip hunting down the Wright houses, even if just to catch a glimpse, I recommend a drink and dinner at Wright’s at the Biltmore, a fine food restaurant in the Arizona Biltmore (1927). See Traverse360 Restaurants for a description.
Taliesin West (1937)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
12621 N. Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ 95261
From the archives, Visited September 24, 2009
This is a “must see” destination for all Architecture Tourists – Frank Lloyd Wright’s own winter home and studio in Scottsdale AZ at the foot of the McDowell Mountains in the Arizona desert. Visiting you really can sense that it feels more like a camp than a permanent complex of buildings. As you would expect from Wright’s best buildings, the building is -as he would put it- “of the site”, not on the site. With the inclusion of the native american petroglyphs at the entrance, and the native materials used in the “Desert Masonry” walls, it feels as though it has been there forever – and I hope it remains there for many more generations to experience in person. Photos do not capture that sense of place and discovery that you experience walking through in person (and I have seen hundreds if not thousands of photos of Taliesin West over the many years). Taliesin West houses the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and still teaches architecture to its “apprentices” at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.
There are many types of tours available for Architectural Tourists. Check out the Taliesin West Tour Webpage for details.
I took the 3-hour Behind the Scenes Tour, but there are also less expensive 1-hour tours, 90 minute tours, and Night Light tours. Take your pick and I am sure you will not leave disapointed with any of them.
Not only is Taliesin West worth the trip to tour the complex, it also has a great bookstore and gift shop. The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives are also housed there for scholars and researchers to study the principles of Wright’s work. Checkout the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Website for details.
This is truly a working/living facility, not a mothballed museum behind plexiglas – come and experience it for yourself!
After exploring Taliesin West, I recommend you stay on theme and head to the Arizona Biltmore and relax over a drink and dinner at Wright’s at the Biltmore, a Traverse360Restaurant recommendation.
Gammage Memorial Auditorium (1959)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Arizona State University
Apache Blvd. at Mill Ave. , Tempe AZ 85281
From the archives, visited September 27, 2009
This building was never a favorite of mine while studying Wright’s architecture in college. I was in Phoenix to visit Taliesin West, and while there I located and visited all of Wright’s buildings in the area. This building surprised me, and I left liking it. In person, there are interesting perspectives and almost frivolous details in the copper colored arches cascading down the ramps holding the simple white globe lights in copper colored rings. The pink lollypop colonnade still perplexes me, but the brick rotunda in the rear with its row of shallow arches (reminiscent of Saarinen’s chapel at MIT) was strong and well worth the stop.
A Place to Stay:
On this trip I stayed at the aLoft in Tempe. Convenient with a cool vibe. Check it out on Traverse360 Hotels.
Smith House (1946)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
5045 Pon Valley Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Photos taken January 7, 2012
The Smith House is a great example of Wright’s Usonian Houses. It is a more refined version of the first Jacobs House in Madison. Situated in the upscale Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, this rather modest house is surrounded by huge mansions of the more traditional style.
The low, horizontal composition hugs the earth and extends across the site with the brick garden walls. The owner’s large scale sculpture collection still graces the grounds and provides a nice visual break from the otherwise austentatious bigger than big neighbors.
This house is visible from the street, with a complete view of the front and north side facades across the lawn. The Smith House gives you a clear view of a pristine example his Usonian House concept. Well worth the trip if you are in the area. It is just down the street from the Cranbrook Educational Community with it’s original Saarinen designed campus, and close by is Wright’s Affleck House.
Cranbrook Institute of Science Addition (1998)
Steven Holl, Architect
On the Campus of the Cranbrook Educational Community
39221 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
Photos taken January 7, 2012
Breaking News….The 2012 AIA Gold Medal Winner is……Steven Holl.
Upon hearing the news I decided to head up to the beautiful Cranbrook Educational Community Campus in Bloomfield Hills to visit Holl’s Institute of Science Addition. The unusually warm weather and fleeting sunshine helped out.
One main feature of the addition is that it creates a new public entrance for the facility (the original structure was designed by Eliel Saarinen). The tall entry box with the multitextured glass panel screen is meant to announce the new entry, as it is tucked back beyond the original entry and round planetarium. The building is clad in golden hued stone which is used generously in other buildings on the Cranbrook campus. The glass facade is arranged in a 3-dimensional framework with the glazing set in different planes. To add interest, Holl uses different glass types in each opening with wavy, ribbed and frosted finishes. In less talented hands this would come across as a glass sample showroom display, but here Holl manages a creative composition.
Architecturally, this corner is the most interesting facade and form on the exterior. There is a courtyard with a Science Garden, including a House of Ice and House of Vapor, and a reflecting pool. Even though we are exeriencing warmer than usual weather, the courtyard elements were closed until the spring. I will be happy to venture back and post some photos of the courtyard which promises to be worthy of its own post.
I have not seen any other works by Holl. Now with his Gold Medal recognition, I will have to investigate his work further.
UNM School of Architecture and Planning (2007)
Antoine Predock FAIA, Architect
University of New Mexico George Pearl Hall
1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
From my Archives, Photos taken December 13, 2008
Antoine Predock has delivered a strikingly modern building which acts as the gateway to the otherwise “ubiquitous Pueblo Revival architecture” of the University of New Mexico campus. The facility fronts Central Avenue which was part of the historic Route 66 through Albuquerque. The building provides a variety of gathering spaces, both interior and exterior for lectures, project crituques, studying and …..skateboarders. The white wall slab projecting out of the west facade over the entrance is used as a screen to project videos on after dark.
BOK Center (2008)
Cesar Pelli, Architect
200 South Denver, Tulsa, OK
From my archives, visited November 15, 2008
This bold, curving form clad in stainless steel panels and glass is an eyecatcher in downtown Tulsa.
Billed as “an iconic marvel that blends Art Deco and American Indian styles”, this 19,100 seat arena was designed by famed architect Cesar Pelli. He said the building would “pay tribute to downtown’s art deco history by taking an optimistic form; the Arkansas River by having a flowing feeling; and the city’s American Indian history by its use of circles.” I’ll let you be the judge of the inspiration, but the building does provide an iconic form that is memorable – which was the desired by the design review committee.
I am taking the time to go through my archives and posting some of the buildings I have visited prior starting this blog. While some of the photographs are taken with early low-resolution digital cameras, hopefully they capture the general feeling of the buildings…prompting a visit of your own.
Richard Lloyd Jones House “Westhope” (1929)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Richard Lloyd Jones House
3700 South Birmingham Avenue, Tulsa, OK
From my Archives, Photos taken October 19, 2004 and November 14, 2008
I am taking the time to go through my archives and posting some of the buildings I have visited prior starting this blog. While some of the photographs are taken with early low-resolution digital cameras, hopefully they capture the general feeling of the buildings…prompting a visit of your own.
This Frank Lloyd Wright house I always thought was a little odd based on the published photos and floor plans in the multiple books surveying Wright’s work. It is a large house (over 10,000 sq. ft.) and wraps around a courtyard with a swimming pool. Built on a corner lot, the house it very visible from the street on two sides. Richard Lloud Jones was Frank Lloyd Wright’s cousin and publisher of the Tulsa Tribune.
The scale of the house is very deceptive due to the block and window configuration. There is no clear reference for height and floor separation. The photos published in the book “In the Nature of Materials” ( by Hitchcock 1942, images 297-302 ) were my main reference prior to my visit. The black and white photos taken just after construction (prior to any landscaping) show a stark, brutalist, severe composition. In reality, the house is warm, interesting, and with the mature landscaping actually fits into the traditional neighborhood better than expected.
As has happened frequently while walking around photographing Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, an occasional neighbor will come out and start sharing their antidotes and experiences with Wright. In this case, an elderly neighbor followed me around and told me that when the house was built there were no trees at all on the lot (as can be confirmed in the Hitchcock book). He said that Wright stood on the porch of the house and had a sack of potatoes. He took a handfull of potatoes and tossed them into the front yard and told the owner to plant tress where the potatoes landed. The mature trees in the front yard he told me as he pointed to each of them one by one, were planted exactly where the pototoes landed. Wright seems to attract all sorts of stories that are repeated at many of his buildings. Most of them relate to leaking roofs, this was the first time I heard one relating to potatoes.
The blocks form piers, with the glass set back from the face of the block. You can see “through” the house to the courtyard beyond in many cases. The house really feels like an arrangement of piers with a roof, rather than a wall with windows. The all glass compositions at the ends of the wings (referenced as aviaries in one plan I recall) add a lightness to the otherwise heavy, closely spaced piers.
Affleck House (1941)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
1925 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Photos taken October 29, 2011
The Gregor and Elizabeth Affleck House is a great early example of Wright’s Usonian Houses. A model of the house was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York before it was constructed. It is in very good condition after several restoration projects undertaken by The Friends of the Affleck House and Lawrence Technological Univeristy’s School of Architecture which owns the structure.
I have been to the house many times since my college days. I was in the area late saturday afternoon and thought I would stop by and snap a few photos. The recent Chrysler commercial which features the house must have been in the back of my mind as I drove down Woodward Avenue. If you respect the owner’s of the adjacent houses, you can easily view the house from all sides from the drive that loops the house. I will go back after all the leaves are off the trees to get some additional photos featuring the cantilevered living room and deck. The University does provide tours of the house (see attached links). I thought it was interesting that I found a 1948 Oldsmobile TV commercial online that featured the house as well (see attached link to view). Look for a post of the nearby Smith House by Frank Lloyd Wright in the coming days. I stopped there following my visit to the Affleck House.
1948 Futuramic Oldsmobile TV Advertisement featuring the Affleck House
Exhibit Catalog– which contains copies of some of Wright’s drawings for the house and early B&W photos of the house and interiors
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