Wright's statement chimney was meant to welcome a visitor like a smoke signal emerging from the heart of the house and saying, "we're home, it's warm in here, and you're invited." But in 1918, it leaked.
Go ahead: (Insert Leaky Roof Jokes Here…)
ASBH Window Study Reveals a Cost-for-Quality Decision made by Wright and Richards
As we assembled the proper tools and processes to make Frank Lloyd Wright's window sashes as Arthur Richard’s factory might have made them, we uncovered evidence of a decision to slow production in order to ensure quality, made a century ago.
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.
Tracking the restoration and preservation of a 102-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright house
A current project inventory and links to posts and images.
A quality roof by Frank Lloyd Wright
Wright took special care in specifying the gutters on American System-Built Homes as:
"...galvanized iron gutters and down spouts wherever and as indicated on drawings."
We're doing as he directed.
