Newark, Ohio is home to one of Louis Sullivan’s “jewel box” banks. The Home Building Association Building was designed in 1914, one of Sullivan’s eight small town banks (Ohio has a second one in Sydney).
Altered by a succession of tenants of the decades, a local paper, the Newark Advocate reports on new hopes for restoration. […]
The Westcott House has a page on YouTube with two videos, one a four minute documentary on the house and its restoration. Be warned, there is a brief, horrific sequence in the middle with footage of the pre-restoration state of the building; that the building has been restored, let alone to its current, stunningly beautiful […]
Heritage Hill is the neighborhood in Grand Rapids, MI that is home to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Meyer May House and the Mahoney/Von Holst/Wright Amberg House. There is a house-by-house on-line database (similar to the Oak Park Architectural Database) with recent photos, photos from 1969 and historical information for all of the 1,300 houses in the […]
More snow, more photos from Anthony McCune.
I’m a sucker for Usonians in the snow, so here is a group of nice pictures of the Dobkins House resting lightly on the Winter landscape.
Two upcoming events sponsored by The Westcott House that you may want to consider:
March 13: “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Building”
A lecture by Richard Cleary of the University of Texas at Austin
Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of organic architecture embraced building technology as well as form, space and materials, and he prided himself as […]
For health reasons, Dr. Christian won’t be at the reception at the Westcott House this Sunday.
The event is still scheduled — interpreters from Samara will be on hand to discuss the house.
Note that the Westcott House is organizing a trip to Samara on April 5 — if you live near Springfield, Ohio, this would be […]
The Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio is hosting an exhibit on Samara, a Usonian in Lafayette, Indiana:
This exhibition features the work of America’s most celebrated architect through an exciting collection of drawings depicting many of Wright’s most famous buildings as well as furnishings, textiles and other items designed for Samara, one of the late Usonian […]
Anthony McCune has taken a camera into Canton, Ohio’s snow for pictures of two Usonian homes. A Usonian in the Winter is a beautiful thing.
I’m tempted to head over to Oberlin on sunday and take pictures of Weltzheimer-Johnson house.
The (Cincinnati) Enquirer has an article on the William P. Boswell House in Indian Hill, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati). The home has had only two owners, and house has never be photographed for publication, or opened for a tour. It is currently on the market for $3.4 million.
The Boswell home is cradled in the […]
Dr. John Christian, the owner of the Usonian dubbed “Samara” by Frank Lloyd Wright, has been given an award for preservation by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology.
The award, which has been presented since 1999, recognizes local Hoosier advocates of historic preservation and their work. It is the highest honor […]