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What about that stucco?

Posted on March 20, 2017March 21, 2017 by Nick Hayes

Did the Kibbies not like the pebble-dash and cover it for aesthetic reasons only, thereby protecting it for 90 years?

Posted in History, Renovations, SpacesTagged American System-Built House, Architecture, ASBH, Elizabeth Murphy House, FLW, Frank Lloyd Wright, History, pebble, pebble-dash, stucco1 Comment

Join Taliesin’s Catherine Boldt and author Nicholas Hayes at Boswell Book Company



The Shorewood Historical Society and Boswell Book Company will co-host an evening with Nicholas D Hayes and Taliesin’s Catherine Boldt (Educational Outreach Docent) as they discuss Hayes’ findings in the new book FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S FORGOTTEN HOUSE: How an Omission Transformed the Architect’s Legacy.

May 17th, 2021, 7pm. ZOOM

RSVP or learn more here.

The Book

The Book "Frank Lloyd Wright's Forgotten House - How and Omission Transformed the Architect's Legacy" (UW-Press) is available for pre-order now.
The Book "Frank Lloyd Wright's Forgotten House - How and Omission Transformed the Architect's Legacy" (UW-Press) is available now.

“Beautifully written. A significant contribution to the field, this volume provides a useful unpacking of one of the largest and not yet thoroughly studied projects of the architect's career. Hayes's description of this early independent building program in line with Wright's overall aesthetic aims are on point.” —Michael Desmond, Louisiana State University School of Architecture

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