A stay in a Frank Lloyd Wright House...

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About 6/8 months ago, my father asked me if Robert and I would be interested in spending a weekend in Two Rivers, WI -- renting a Frank Lloyd Wright house for the weekend, along with his wife and another couple with whom they are friends. I immediately jumped at the offer, being a long-time FLW enthusiast. One can very often take a tour of a FLW home, which can be a religious experience in and of itself. But words can't even describe how incredible it was to experience an extended stay, actually living in one of FLW's creations.

I took a whole bunch of pictures, and pared it down to what I'm about to post.

Here's me and Robert outside of the house...

 

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The house from the street. Very deceptive picture. It's actually a 4-bedroom 2.5 bath house.

 

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Love the low-overhanging carport/entry.

 

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The house from the back

 

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The other side of the house. A patio with an outdoor fireplace...photo taken from one of the 3 terraces off of each of the 3 upstairs bedrooms.

 

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The view from the bedroom terrace at the other end of the upstairs.

 

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The front door/entrance. Shall we go in?

 

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The entrance/foyer. Very typical of FLW to put a low, almost uncomfortable low-ceiling in the entrance of the home. It really makes you keep moving through it into the next space.

 

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A coat closet and built in correspondence desk is in this space, and the master bedroom is right off of the entrance/living room.

 

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Step down into the master bedroom...

 

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Looking back into the foyer, at the staircase.

 

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The dining area.

 

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Looking up at the fabulous clerestory windows.

 

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Looking down to the living room from the upstairs balcony. That's my dad on the sofa getting into a book. The floors are polished concrete, in FLW's signature color "Cherokee Red". The floors have radiant heat (which was absolutely delicious), and it's believed that this home has the oldest continuously operating radiant floor heating system in the country.

 

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The fabulous fireplace. There was a fire going all weekend long. It was awesome.

 

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The main living space, looking back the other way.

 

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The sun coming through the clerestory windows created a fabulous show.

 

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Here's Robert showing off the kitchen. It wasn't a huge kitchen, but when you walked through the dining area with a low ceiling - you entered the kitchen where the ceiling went up at least 20 feet, with a skylight.

 

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The early 70s GE range.

 

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Lasagna cooked in previously aforementioned range.

 

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The utility room with a pair of Charcoal Frigidaires.

 

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The guts of the radiant floor heating system...
The radiant floors in the master bedroom don't work anymore -- they had to be turned off in order to be able to salvage the heating system in the rest of the house. Why/how that is, I don't know.. but that's what we were told.

 

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Now for some nighttime shots...

 

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Living Room

 

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Back the other direction

 

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A cozy corner in which to curl up with a book.

 

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Another living room shot. Very dark at night, but very cozy.

 

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Another staircase shot.

 

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Dining room shelf-detail.

 

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Desk area upstairs.