A stay in a Frank Lloyd Wright House...

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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.

 

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That's all! Apparently I didn't take any pictures of the bedrooms or the bathrooms.. but they were small and cozy as well.

Here's a link to the house's website... if you'd like more information about it.

 

Here's a link to an article that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that was the inspiration for us to rent the house this weekend.

 

Hope you enjoyed the pictures! I would definitely recommend doing this to any die-hard FLW fan.  It's incredible!

 

~Fred

 

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Fred----Thank you

Congratulations on your weekend, and thanks for the pictures. I always check out FLW homes and buildings in my travels, this is great!

Mark

 

 

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That is an awesome house! I wish I could get the chance to stay there, I'm jealous. I would be curious as to what the original 1939 appliances were. I love FLW. I think there is one of his houses in Houston (the only one in Houston) that was for sale recently (for seven figures, of course).

If I ever have the financial means, I want to build something like Fallingwater.

Was it FLW who said something like "Its hard to be humble when you know you're great?"[this post was last edited: 11/20/2011-13:26]

 

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Once I lived in Oak Park, IL when I was ORD based. It's home for tons of FLW homes, including his studio. The homes really are something they definitely were ahead of the times, very early 1900's.

I've visited just about all the homes that are open in Chicago and environs. The homes are usually named for the people who commissioned them from FLW. There is even one across the street from the University of Chicago, the Robie House. The last time I was there was a long time ago. The last family that lived there had just moved out and the preservationists were moving in.

I like the design, but I find the houses to be rather dark inside. Lighting does help a lot. I also tend to feel like they could be haunted too.

That kitchen! I am sure those cabinets were not original to the house! What are those fiberboard cabinets? They need to commission you and Robert to redo that kitchen appropriately to the house! Too bad they didn't have any of the FLW furniture to go with the house. When you bought a FLW house, he also designed the furniture to go along with it!

Have you ever been to the FLW design studio in Oak Park, IL?

 

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Amazing house! Beautiful! IIRC this house was not used for a while? I think I remember some other article about it, but I'm not sure if that was this house or a similar looking one.

Thanks for sharing the pictures and the links!

 

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Louis -- I believe the home you are thinking of is this one, the Seth Peterson Cottage... also in WI.

 

Allen -- I have been to FLW's Home and Studio in Oak Park... but it's been about 10 years.  I have also been to Taliesin once, and Fallingwater twice. 

 

There was an incredible exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum earlier this year, here's a review of that...  The exhibit was one of the coolest I've ever been to.  They had many original drawings, including the original drawings of Fallingwater.  Words escape me for describing how cool it was standing in front of those articles.

 

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I've always wanted to visit the Fallingwater house, but never had a chance to. Last I heard they were having some kind of structural problem with it because of the waterfall. Have they corrected that yet? (That you know of)

 

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Fred

Another nice house! But that is not the house I meant. The house in Two Rivers looks more like it.

BTW, how is the bedroom heated now? A pity the radiant floor heating doesn't work there anymore.

The Danish design furniture looks very good in this house.

 

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If you google "Fallingwater repairs", there's a lot of info on what they had to do to fix the building.  Yes, the repairs have been completed.    I definitely recommend visiting Fallingwater.  But if you go, do the "in depth home tour".  You have to get there at like 7am, but it's worth it to be able to take pictures and have a total run of the house.