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Historic house in Wisconsin, United States
United States historic place
The
Richard C. Smith House
is a small
Usonian
home designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright
and constructed in
Jefferson, Wisconsin
in 1950.
[2]
It is one of Wright's diamond module homes, a form he used in the
Patrick and Margaret Kinney House
, the
E. Clarke and Julia Arnold House
and a number of other homes he designed in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
The house is one-story, with an h-shaped floor plan composed of diamond-shaped units, where the bottom legs of the h enclose a private terrace around a huge old
oak
. The north side of the house toward the road is mostly coursed
limestone
, giving privacy, and left rough to suggest a natural outcropping. The south side, facing the terrace and golf course, has many windows.
[3]
The diamond element repeats throughout, in piercings in the
eaves
and in the drawers in the bedrooms.
[2]
Wright seems to have started the design at the huge oak which was already on the lot. His blueprints show that he drew an imaginary triangle around the tree, then oriented the diamonds, terrace and house around it.
[2]
The house was a mixed success. The flat roof leaked. The house was either too hot or too cold. The oak tree withered after Wright paved over its roots. The house cost almost twice what Wright had estimated.
[2]
Yet the NRHP nomination concludes: "The Smith House is no pale imitation of earlier Usonian or Prairie School houses. It is the result of a natural and vital design evolution still underway in the mind of one of the world's greatest architects."
[3]
See also
[
edit
]
References
[
edit
]
- Storrer, William Allin.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion
. University Of Chicago Press, 2006,
ISBN
0-226-77621-2
(S.337)
External links
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