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Image 3 of 3 from gallery of Frank Lloyd Wright House Saved. Photograph by Tarantino Studio 2013; courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
The famed architect included signature touches including wood beams, built-in shelving and walls of glass in the home, which he built in 1939 and extended in 1948. It is on the market for $1.65 million. —Adrienne Gaffney
Usonian architecture embodies an architectural philosophy developed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s that seeks to provide families with affordable housing based on modern principles..
Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith dreamed of living in a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Here’s how they made it happen on a modest teacher’s salary. By Susan Peck Photography by Brett Mountain If you keep on believing, the dream you wish will come true. If that sounds like a line from a fairy tale, it is. It was also the philosophy that helped Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith build their historic Frank Lloyd Wright house in Bloomfield Hills in 1949. The dream began for Melvyn Maxwell (known…