One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s exquisitely designed homes is now on the market in California and can be yours for $4.25 million.
Recently designated a seven bedroom, six bathroom home in California’s Central Valley, the Fawcett House is perfect for those who enjoy indoor/outdoor living.
“We no longer have an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside can come in, and the inside can and will go outside,” the famed architect said of the home, according to the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.
One of Frank Lloyd-Wright’s exquisitely designed homes is now on the market in California and can be yours for $4.25 million
The house is located in California’s Central Valley
The home, located 120 miles southeast of San Francisco, is one of many designed by the architect, whose designs have been praised for their open and light concepts.
Other properties designed by Wright have sold for as little as $725,000, with a property currently listed for $7.95 million.
Los Banos home sits on 76 acres in the Central Valley and received the 2019 California Preservation Design Award for Restoration.
However, it almost didn’t come to fruition.
After the property’s owner, Buck Fawcett, proposed the site to Wright, the architect said he didn’t want to do it: “Not much beauty there.”
“In fact, Mr. Wright, the Central Valley of California contains some of the most fertile farmland in the world, and you should consider it an honor to build a home there,” Fawcett replied.
Wright’s interest was piqued, and it eventually became one of the few open-site homes the architect designed during his lifetime.
The ‘Fawcett House’ in Los Banos California has seven bedrooms
The house sits on 76 acres of land
The house almost didn’t happen, as Wright originally said he didn’t see “a lot of beauty” there.
“In fact, Mr. Wright, the Central Valley of California contains some of the most fertile farmland in the world, and you should consider it an honor to build a home there,” the landowner said
The stunning home is also considered one of the finest examples of Wright’s signature “Usonian” home.
The term refers to about sixty middle-income homes designed by Wright.
Usonian homes are typically smaller, often single-story buildings with no garage.
They are usually L-shaped to fit around a garden patio and rely on solar heating and natural cooling, meaning more windows and doors.
“A strong visual connection between the interior and exterior spaces is an important feature of all Usonian homes,” states the California Preservation Foundation.
That was the intention, according to the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.
“They belong to each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution when the nature of the materials and the method and purpose are in harmony,” said Wright.
This is the living room of the house, complete with furniture reflecting the 1960’s vibe
This is the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright
Photos of the property shared this week by Zillow Gone Wild, a social media site that highlights interesting and sometimes hilarious deals.
The images clearly show the abundance of natural light that the home sees through the multitude of windows.
The house has large open spaces and long narrow ones, all surrounded by light.
The 1955 construction caught the attention of a few social media users, who were drawn to the beauty of the house as well as the sheer number of windows.
“So if I buy this house, do I have to stop throwing stones?” one person joked.
“I love everything about it but someone else needs to clean all those windows and glass doors!” commented one.
The house has six bathrooms in addition to the seven bedrooms
“We no longer have an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside can come in, and the inside can and will go outside,” Lloyd Wright said of the house
The 1955 construction caught the attention of a few social media users, who were drawn to the beauty of the house as well as the sheer number of windows
This is the kitchen of the house in the Central Valley of California
Wright is often cited as one of the greatest American architects of all time.
The designer died in 1959 at the age of 91.
His illustrious career has spanned 1,100 designs and more than 500 projects.
Eight of its buildings have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as cultural sites – perhaps the most famous of which is the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
More than a third of Wright’s remaining 409 buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places or are in a National Historic District.
Wright is often cited as one of the greatest American architects of all time
Eight of its buildings have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as cultural sites – perhaps the most famous of which is the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York City
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Arguably the most famous private creation, Fallingwater, outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was once named “the finest work of American architecture of all time” by the American Institute of Architects.
The home was built in the 1930’s for the Kaufman family, who owned the largest department store in Pittsburgh.
The house is stunningly situated on top of a living waterfall in a wooded area.
Millions have visited the house since it opened to the public almost 60 years ago.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater was named “the greatest work of American architecture of all time”.