GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: While many neighboring houses appear to sprout straight up and occupy only a small portion of the lot, leaving a massive backyard, the Frank Lloyd Wright house remains low and tight to the property. The driveway runs along the north side of the house, stretching from one city block […]
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GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: Wright once said, “The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.” The Boynton house was originally one of the first to occupy the boulevard.
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GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: The house sat vacant for a year until June 1, 1919 when J. Oswald Dailey purchased it. The 1920s were a tumultuous time for both the country and the Boynton house. According to family members, Dailey lost all of his money and his wife’s money speculating in commodity futures.
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: My bedroom, once occupied by Edward E. Boynton’s 20-year-old daughter, Beulah, was a young girl’s dream. The room was made up of four separate sections, catering to a girl’s desire to dress up and beautify.
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GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: The room was dazzling. The ceiling soared up two stories and stained glass clerestory windows lined the top of the walls. The room seemed to flicker in the shifting light of a green, gold and yellow lighted glass panel covering the ceiling.
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GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: Frank Lloyd Wright believed that traditional homes, especially those with multiple chimneys, were an “insult to comfort.” Wright wrote that lots of little chimneys, “bristling up everywhere to hint at Judgment.” He despised the use of decorative mantels, marble and grates on these impractical fireplaces as
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: Frank Lloyd Wright emphasized the horizontal by painting the vertical sections of the grout a darker color that matched the bricks, but kept the horizontal grout lighter. The horizontal grout was also recessed deeper than the vertical grout.
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: My mother led us over to the trim on the ceiling in the living room. Recessed lights covered the perimeter of the room, housed behind a shelf trimmed with a 4-inch strip of oak. “See this wood? It is cut on the diagonal so your eye
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GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house on an expansive piece of property “parts of lots eight and nine, in the Cornelia C. F. Smith tract…” The house was flanked by a 30-foot by 60-foot reflecting pool, a tennis court, gardens, and Wright insisted on the costly
