Frank Lloyd Wright designed a lot of places of work, church buildings, colleges, skyscrapers, motels, museums, and naturally, masses of private flats. However, in keeping with Arthur Dyson, the previous dean of Wright’s Taliesin West institute, he handiest ever designed one farmhouse — the Fawcett Residence in Los Banos, California.
Sited on 76 acres within the agrarian San Joaquin Valley, the Fawcett farmhouse was once one of the most grasp’s ultimate 3 projects, and used to be finished in 1961, two years after Wright’s demise at the age of 91. The Usonian-style house was commissioned by means of Randall “Buck” Fawcett, a dairy farmer who had met Wright while taking an structure elegance at Stanford, and his wife, Harriet Driscoll Fawcett. The couple built the 4,041-square-foot home themselves over the route of two years.
The seven-bedroom, six-bath place of dwelling’s plan follows an equilateral triangular form, with the partitions of two wings extending at 60- and 120-degree angles from its lounge/kitchen core to bedrooms on one facet and the dining room and rec room on the other.
Signature FLW options abound, beginning with its concrete block exterior, horizontal roofline with dramatic overhang, and stylized copper protecting. Other standout parts come with a 12-foot-wide hearth, an intensive wall of swiveling glass doorways, clerestory windows, mahogany wall paneling, and Wright-designed built-in furnishings, lighting fixtures, and stained-glass, per Dirt.
The belongings additionally contains a semi-attached small museum, a big detached workshop, swimming pool, Koi pond, and Japanese garden designed by Buck Fawcett and panorama architect Jim Kamimoto.
The bespoke farmhouse remained within the Fawcett circle of relatives for over half a century. In 2012, it was purchased for $1.6 million via Ken and Carrie Cox, who launched into a radical recovery of the property that was overseen through Taliesin Associate architect Arthur Dyson with enter from Eric Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright’s son, who had made site visits when the house was at the beginning being constructed. The recovery was venerated with awards from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and the California Preservation Foundation.
After ten years of possession, the Coxes are having a look for the next stewards of the Fawcett farm — even though given its fairly far off Central California atmosphere, two hours from San Francisco and four hours from Los Angeles, it will take a while before this uncommon pot finds its architecture aficionado lid.
The one-of-a-kind assets is listed with Crosby Doe of Crosby Doe Associates at an asking price of $4.25 million.
Sources: Dirt
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