Asking price is $2.5 million.

It’s both hefty (736 pages) and expensive ($65), but , according to this review in The Jewish Daily Forward, comprehensive (mostly, the review points out that Wright’s possible anti-Semitism is ignored) and carefully builds up the context for one of Wright’s last commissions:

Following a brief introduction, Siry spends the first half of his book laying out the larger biographical and architectural contexts for Wright’s design. He explains how the architect’s Unitarian religious background led him to develop a respectful attitude toward Judaism. He discusses how Wright’s experience working at the Chicago firm of Adler Sullivan exposed him to innovative synagogue designs at the turn of the century, most notably the comparatively modern Kehilath Anshe Ma’ariv, which opened in 1891.

And he shows how the architect’s designs for a series of Christian churches and chapels between the late 1920s and early ’40s helped Wright develop his own unique solution to the central architectural question of how to make a modern construction that would signify a denominational ideal.

The author, Joseph Siry, is an architectural historian and professor at Wesleyan University. He’s previously written books on Unity Temple, the Auditorium Building and the Carson, Pirie Scott Building.

I haven’t yet seen the book, but I’d trust Mark’s review; as an author and photographer, Mark knows the potential of a Wright book as well as anyone and as a professional journalist, he has trained eye for the strengths and weaknesses of non-fiction work.

I’ve said before, the best category of books on Wright is the site-specific book. His career is too long and varied to easily characterize from the whole; his talents and originality are best seen in the particular, not the aggregate. (and Hertzberg knows a good site-specific book when he sees one — he’s written a few himself).

Be sure to notice two notable features: the extraordinary masonry and the ceiling heights. The ceilings are an essential element of the solar hemicycle — Wright used them of moderate the temperature in side the house, allowing sun-warmed air to flow through the structure.

All three of the major exhibitions at the museum in 2011 attracted more than 100,000 visitors.

The latest was “Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper,” which ran from Oct. 14 to Jan. 8. Museum spokeswoman Kristin Settle said more than 103,000 visited it.

She said museum attendance has exceeded 100,000 for the four of their last five exhibitions since the summer of 2010 — the first time in museum history.

The other more popular ones were the “Summer of China” exhibitions, “Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century” and “American Quilts.”