Elevated on its site to overlook Lake Mendota (". . .probably the only house in Madison, Wisconsin,” said Wright, “that recognizes beautiful Lake Mendota, my boyhood lake") this is a relatively early house in Wright’s mature “Usonian” style.
Built by Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship in 1940 for John and Ruth Pew using lapped cypress boards and local stone, it cost just US$7,850 (around US$120,000) in today’s diluted money).
They finally sold it in 1983, and it was sold again in 2006 -- for US$1.5 million.
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"...and it was sold again in 2006 -- for US$1.5 million."
This is one of the major reasons I wish I had a boatload of money.
I just want to say how much I enjoy your architecture posts. I have been a fan of FLW since I first saw Fallingwater in a book as a teenager. We have some wonderful architecture in NZ despite the best efforts of government and councils to suppress creativity in favour of 'safety'.
I found some photos of the Pew house on the ExploringArt website. Unfortunately, the website has gone dark, but I was able to find a copy on archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071215053113/http://www.exploringart.net/index.php?n=FrankLloydWright.JohnClarencePewResidence
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