FLW House first time on Market in MPLS

[vertical_doug]

I am sure there are Frank LLoyd Wright fans on this forum. So get out the check book:
Rare Frank Lloyd Wright House Goes on Market For First Time Ever - Curbed

Interior looks like all the orignal period furniture is there too. Really fantastic


If you buy it, I will donate a cassina barrel chair.

[Too Tall]

Swoon

[Dave Thompson]

A real time capsule alright, it looks like FLW just left.

[caleb]

Gorgeous house, and the four acres of land it sits on must be worth most of the asking price. Among houses in its range, its probably a bargain.

[fmbp]

I saw this in the local paper this morning. The house is 1.5 miles down the greenway (MUT) from my house. Such a cool opportunity for someone, and the location is really excellent.

[clunk]

Absolutely stunning. Seems ridiculously cheap for such a trophy.

[NYCfixie]

FLW homes are all beautiful. We should also note that building materials have come a long way since the majority of his homes have been built.

Think about if the contractors of the time could use Glulams - not one roof/vault would ever have sagged in any of his homes.


I need to win the lottery first but I would buy one of his homes in a minute. I would spend whatever it needed to restore/update/upgrade to make it last forever.

There is nothing like living art.

[wwsunn]

I rode past this house today on my lunch ride (it's about 1 mile from my office). Nice neighborhood, about 5 miles from downtown Mpls and about 1/2 mile from the lakes. During mid-summer, things sure look green in Minneapolis! As you can tell from the photos, the house is kind of a sleeper from street!IMG_2315.jpgIMG_2319.jpg

[vertical_doug]

A gropius-breuer house in Mass for the architecture nerds.

68 Moore Rd, Wayland, MA 1778 | MLS# 7253698 | Redfin

[zetroc]

Price cut today, from $1,495,000 to $1,395,000. Funny, if this was in the Bay Area it'd have sold already for $2m+.

[davids]

Price cut today, from $1,495,000 to $1,395,000. Funny, if this was in the Bay Area it'd have sold already for $2m+.

Stuff at the high end of the market (and that's still the high end in greater Boston) moves more slowly. I've been surprised to see a couple cool, intriguing houses near me stay on the market for a rather long time.

[sonicw]

A gropius-breuer house in Mass for the architecture nerds.

68 Moore Rd, Wayland, MA 1778 | MLS# 7253698 | Redfin

It's rare and a real gem, but I can't imagine the flat roof as being very ideal for an older house, especially in the northeast. There's lots of McMansions in that range in Greater Boston too.

[davids]

It's rare and a real gem, but I can't imagine the flat roof as being very ideal for an older house, especially in the northeast. There's lots of McMansions in that range in Greater Boston too.

There's a couple older flat-roofed houses around Boston.

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[72gmc]

A gropius-breuer house in Mass for the architecture nerds.

68 Moore Rd, Wayland, MA 1778 | MLS# 7253698 | Redfin

The 99% Invisible episode "Photo Credit" is worth a listen for the bauhaus-inclined.

"In any case, right or wrong, Gropius kept making prints from Moholy’s negatives, kept publishing them, kept circulating them, and kept telling the story of the Bauhaus through her camerawork."