Frank Lloyd Wright's Forgotten House - The Elizabeth Murphy House in Shorewood, Wisconsin. (FLLW 1917)

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Thieves Caught Thieving

Posted on July 8, 2026July 9, 2026 by Nick Hayes

Let's stop blaming WWI and credit Frank Lloyd Wright for preventing the theft of his American System-Built Homes.

Posted in Education, HistoryTagged American System-Built Home, American System-Built House, Architectural History, Arthur L Richards, Arthur Richards, ASBH, FLW, Frank Lloyd Wright, Russell Barr Williamson, Russell Williamson2 Comments

Why did Frank Lloyd Wright keep the drawings he planned to forget?

Posted on October 11, 2025February 21, 2026 by Nick Hayes

Why do the vintage American System Built Homes (ASBH) plans exist at all? Frank Lloyd Wright didn't plan to re-use or show them. Was his decision to store almost 1000 drawings based on nostalgia or pride, or something more practical?

Posted in HistoryTagged American System-Built Home, American System-Built House, Architectural History, Architecture, Arthur Richards, ASBH, FLW, Frank Lloyd Wright, History, Prairie Architecture, Prairie Style Architecture, Russell Barr Williamson, Russell Williamson3 Comments

Tracking the restoration and preservation of a 107-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright house
"She thought he was an immoral man"
Three contemporaneous Wright draftsmen, three fates
Piecing together her history
Wisconsin House by Frank Lloyd Wright Forgotten for 50 years
Compress, release, repeat.
Prototypes and their progeny are never the same