Own a Frank Lloyd Wright home
This gorgeous home just two hours north southeast of San Francisco could be yours for just $2.7 million. That's not bad considering it's in California, has 5 bedrooms and 4.5 baths, and is 3,700 square feet on 80 acres. Oh yeah, it was also designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. From the San Francisco Chronicle (photo by Scott Mayoral):
Wright was known to tell clients selecting home sites to go as far away from cities as they could - and then go 10 miles farther. That advice stands at sharp odds with modern planning, which stresses the environmental benefits of dense urban design. But in the Fawcett house, one of the few still as remote as it was the day Wright glimpsed the setting, one can understand what he had in mind, at least from an aesthetic point of view."A rare chance to buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house" (Thanks, Gabe Adiv!)
The elongated structure and the lines of the low-pitched roof, banded with a copper fascia, echo the flatness of the fields around it. The wings stretch out like open arms to the Coast Range in the distance. Where the sections of typical homes feel squared off and self contained, the obtuse angles, walls of windows, loggia and terrace open up the space, blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior.
"He softened the whole effect of the place on that barren center of a valley by using the 120-degree angles," said William Storrer, author of "The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion." "It just seemed to be right for the space."
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So, the roof leaks?
I love F.L. Wright's houses,if I only had the money! I live just a couple of blocks away from his Meyer May house in Grand Rapids MI, and have toured it a few times. Steel Case restored the house to original except for a modern commercial kitchen that if anything is an improvement (I am a chef by trade and the kitchen it pure porn!) Here is a link to Meyer May house: http://www.steelcase.com/na/meyer_may_house_ourcompany.aspx?f=18708
I think this house is actually South East of SF. in the central valley. south of Merced.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/03/08/RE0U167P7D.DTL&o=7&type=realestate
you are correct little green
Isn't that the house, that the police use, from The Fast and the Furious?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/03/08/RE0U167P7D.DTL&o=7&type=realestate
you are correct little green
It was only 10 years ago you could have bought Frank Lloyd Wright's whole Price Tower:
http://www.steinerag.com/flw/Artifact%20Images/PriceTowerBr1999.jpg
It may not be "sustainable," and it may be incredibly high maintenance, but it's beautiful!
Or you could buy over 400 single family houses in Detroit.
Freaky, eh?
would that I could, wow 2.7, but?
3 car carport, not enough garage space for me, I need a workshop
ha ha ah if only I could afford 2 point 7 MILLION
jeebus
Still, that's an INCREDIBLE price for that.
Does it have the original furniture? I didn't see any in the photos. Wright usually designed the furniture custom for the house, it's a part of the design, not intended to be replaced....
I grew up in a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Great design. Red polished concrete floors and a flat roof. Terrible in the cold and wet climate of Michigan. Maintaining the house was incredibly expensive. Anyone looking to own a Wright house should seriously investigate utility bills and look at all the construction issues.
Perhaps it would have been wonderful in the desert. Most of his designs seem to be best suited for dry climates in my opinion.
Looks like the house from Bottle Rocket.
isn't that the house from Confessions of a Crap Artist?
@Starcadia
The house in Bottle Rocket was another FLW house, but in Dallas.
Good catch
I'd rather have a Meier.
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Good catch
Seconded.
And for anybody else who was wondering what the inexplicably mysterious location is: Los Banos.
Credit crunch much?
There are a lot of them for sale, including two in the suburb I live in.
http://www.savewright.org/index.php?page=33
I love Frank Lloyd Wright's designs. But I could never live in one. He was a very short man and he designed all of his homes to his own height specifications. I'm very tall. I think I would get real tired of achy backs and head wounds pretty quickly.
I live in Racine, WI, and there are several buildings and houses here that he designed. One small summer-house recently sold for $270K.
the guy definitely had a great style but from what i understand he really did not take the client's needs into consideration. from the pictures it looks like the ceilings are all terribly low. wright himself was a shorter man. i understand that when he did he kaufmann house ("falling water") the kaufmann's son was a tall man and couldn't even fit in his own bedroom. don't get me wrong - i really do like wright's buildings. but i studied architecture and can tell you that the greats really do/did have a god complex.
There are so many houses in California that sell for that same price. My parents' home in the suburbs is worth close to that. I can't believe a Frank Lloyd Wright house is going for so (relatively) cheap!
Here's the listing: http://www.estately.com/map#listings/info/2391015
I think this house was in oceans eleven.
Wright's low ceilings and doorways didn't really have to do much with his own height. Instead he consciously made a lot of his designs long and flattened, often in contrast with higher parts of the house. It was a design thing that he initially started with his Prairie houses to make them a part of their surroundings (in contrast to the tall 'n' pointy aesthetic of the Victorian and Edwardian styles).
I've been to Fallingwater. Most of the ceilings there are quite high. I do know the son shifted around his bedroom, but I believe that had to do with how the bed fit into it rather than the height of the ceilings.
Friends, this house is in Los Banos. Have you ever been to Los Banos? The only work anywhere near there is in the fast food joints on I-5, and the only thing to do at night is to hang out in their respective parking lots.
Or you could build your own Frank Lloyd Wright designed house for $5000. Well, $5000 in 1907 dollars.
http://www.antiquehomestyle.com/plans/lhj/1907/flw0407-fireproof.htm
there's a wright house available in pasadena, california as well.
http://www.millardhouse.com/
Too bad this wasn't posted last week. The house was open on Sunday. I'm not sure how many people went. I would've but I had to go to a kid's birthday party. Dang 8 year olds keeping me out of stranger's houses!