GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: According to Beulah Boynton, we “had a telephone intercom through the house. We each had an individual buzz. We could deaden our own telephone lines so that no one could listen in.” Kurt and I stood in rapt attention. Eventually we would regurgitate all of this to architecture students, […]
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: My parents soon discovered that virtually every repair to the Wright house required professionals with additional – and expensive – expertise. When our refrigerator broke, no novice repairman would touch it. We located (by accident) the eighty-plus-year-old repairman who had originally worked on the unit four
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: The center table was Joan Clark’s first foray into stripping paint, but the icebox proved to be the most daunting. Joan performed most of the work on her own, without protective gear. Partway into stripping the icebox, Joan hired two local Zen Buddhists to assist. “They
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GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: My father told me that Frank Lloyd Wright built this home fully furnished – you could walk up to the front door, take off your hat, shoes and all of your clothes, walk in the house and everything you need would be inside.
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GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: The shower in the master bedroom had a large, round showerhead eight inches in diameter, which produced a glorious downpour. Tubing with tiny holes every 2 inches encircled a bather from shoulders to knees. When the shower backed up, we called the local plumber. He scratched
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: As we grabbed a present hidden on the fireplace and another tucked in the fishpond’s rickety pagoda, my parents shuffled into the room. “Merry Christmas!” my mother said. “Have you found all the presents?”
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: In addition to the dining room tables and a plant stand, a massive original library table sat in our living room. The beautiful oak tabletop sat on two sturdy shelves, each end flanked by cabinet doors. My runt brother could easily contort his body, hiding in
The dining room furniture was displayed at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY in the late 1990s.
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GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: As an adult, I learned to scorn Wright’s preference for form over function. Flat roofs abutting stained glass clerestory windows in the dining room caused continuous leaks when the snow piled up and melted against the windows warmed by the furnace.
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