This upcoming new book begins by unravelling a mystery: how might a house designed by the world's most famous architect become lost in the first place?
“Frank Lloyd Wright’s Forgotten House” to be the Subject of a New Book
Elizabeth Murphy and the End of Frank Lloyd Wright’s American System-Built Experiment
While the historic Burnham Block represents the optimistic beginning of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first attempt to design modest homes, the Elizabeth Murphy House at 2106 East Newton in Shorewood, Wisconsin, marks the tumultuous end of the American System-Built idea.
Rediscovering pricelessness
Yes, it costs more to live in a historic home and it carries special burdens. But no steward that I know is in it to flip it.
Wait. There was no such thing as a “Ranch” home in 1918
Wright was thinking - forty years before anyone else - of lush walkable neighborhoods featuring long, low affordable homes with shadowy eaves, banks of windows, grassy yards and built-in gardens.
Preserving Shorewood’s Rich History
Stewardship is not a product of special oversight placed on historic homes. It comes, instead, from a shared commitment to storytelling, passed between generations.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Elizabeth Murphy House to be featured in 2019 OSHER presentation
Learn more about The Elizabeth Murphy House and its place in Frank Lloyd Wright's work and legacy, by attending a presentation on Friday, 6/14/2019 at 12:30pm at the Hefter Center at UWM.
The System within the System
Citing a vast body of drawings and plans, historians have called the ASBH project the largest single design effort by Frank Lloyd Wright.
