Frank Lloyd Wright’s Burnham Block

Prototypes and their progeny are never the same

Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021 by Nick Hayes

It can seem strange to think of a Frank Lloyd Wright dwelling as a standard product - something that could be built with interchangeable parts and pieces - but American System-Built Homes were exactly that. One of those pieces was Byrkit Lath.

Elizabeth Murphy and the End of Frank Lloyd Wright’s American System-Built Experiment

Posted on February 22, 2020February 21, 2021 by Nick Hayes

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.