Posted on 02/27/2025 3:42:08 PM PST by mairdie
One of the largest private homes built by the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright is on the market in Tulsa, Oklahoma — and it just got a major price cut.
Dubbed “Westhope,” the residence is one of just five homes Wright built with unique, geometric blocks stacked in vertical columns. No fewer than 5,200 panes of glass cover almost half of the exterior, and large skylights let in even more Sooner sunshine. It can be yours for $3.5 million — a 56% drop from its initial asking price in 2023, Mansion Global reported.
At 10,400 square feet, Westhope is one of Wright’s largest private family builds. In addition to five bedrooms and 4.5 baths, buyers get a pool and a guesthouse. ...
In another [anecdote] instance, Jones’s wife was dashing around the living room during a torrential downpour, using pots and pans to catch the various leaks.
“Well,” Mrs. Lloyd Jones [Wright's cousin's wife] reportedly said, “This is what we get for leaving a work of art out in the rain.”
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I had a Frank Lloydd Wright house in Wisconsin. Very unique. Very interesting. Not a dwelling 99% of the public can appreciate at the level of practicality or market value.
Most of FLW’s houses are on some sort of historical or architectural register, making it next to impossible to make any changes or fixes or upgrades. This scares away many potential buyers.
Mine was a Usonian Architecture home.
VERY impressed. Saw there were 43 buildings by Wright in Wisconsin, which makes sense since one of his bases, Taliesin, was in Wisconsin on 800 acres.
Every tour I’ve taken is replete with anecdotes of how difficult it was to live in a living art sculpture. Falling Waters is having major structural problems right now.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed Fallingwater has a problem — with falling water
Frank Lloyd Wright’s design skills sucked.
I’ve always been amused by those that thought he was such a genius.
OK
I’ve been to this house
Kewel
https://franklloydwright.org/style/usonian/
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian style of architecture is a type of modern architecture that was designed to be affordable and efficient. It is characterized by its use of simple materials, such as concrete blocks and wood, and its open floor plans. Usonian homes are typically one-story, with a low-pitched roof and a large amount of natural light. They are often located on large, rural plots of land, and they are designed to be harmonious with their natural surroundings.
Wright believed that Usonian homes should be “organic” in their design, meaning that they should be shaped by the natural contours of the land on which they are built. He also believed that they should be “democratic” in their layout, meaning that they should be open and flexible, with multiple spaces that can be used for different purposes.
Wright designed over 1,000 Usonian homes, and many of them are still in use today. They are a testament to his genius and his commitment to creating affordable, beautiful, and sustainable homes for the American people.
The one thing I agree with Franklin Lloyd Wright is that bedrooms should be small, since they are relatively single purpose rooms. Maximum the rest of the house, but minimize the bedroom.
Ours had a flat roof, and after a fire the owners replaced it with a pitched, gable, shingled roof. Every bedroom had built in closets, dressers, and all interior dividing walls were glass block. The kitchen was all appliances that would swing up from the countertop when you pushed a button. The ceilings were hardwood tounge and groove, which was weird because the floors were carpeted or tile. All glass slanted in the front facing the street. It was normal to have three feet of snow piled up in front of the glass. Whirlpool-Jacuzzi tubs, and the entire garage exterior walls were glass blocks 8×8”, same as interior dividing walls.
Meh. His houses look cold and uncomfortable. I’d much rather view them as art than live in one.
Beautiful design. D- in engineering.
Sad.
I once read an article about a FLW house in the southern Mississippi delta. A beautiful appearance, but he experimented with using no footings. Crack, crack, crack. And he edged the fireplace with lights and glazed them in place. To change a lightbulb, the owners had to break the glazing. Personally, I prefer Greene and Greene from California. Same era.
Has all the appearances of a suburban Church which only boomer old people ge too. I bet it smells sweet, damp, and musky like several generations of grandmothers covering up for the mold growing in impossible to clean spaces.
Reminds me of a 60’s grade or high school.
Each to their own. My mother studied architecture and interior design at U of Chicago in the 30’s, so I was raised on continuous lectures of styles and furniture. Grew to adore Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as the sculptor Lorado Taft, whose studio mother studied in. When I attended U of C, in my turn, I also studied at Taft’s studio. Very exciting. Some of my earliest memories are of mother teaching me art deco lines in the dirt she smoothed in the backyard. I was always disappointed in myself because I couldn’t draw her smooth lines. I could only sketch continous lines trying to find the one that kept the proportions smooth. But Wright’s lines are so pure, it almost breaks my heart.
We visited a few. I would never live in one.
We loved it, but it was very hard to sell in a town of 1,100 and everyone was a farmer.
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