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This two-story, T-plan residence is considered “Michigan’s Prairie masterpiece.” The house features pale brick, a hipped roof, lean masonry masses and long broad eaves.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Feb 4, 2017
The Martin House is considered among the most important designs of Wright’s career and is the largest and most highly developed Prairie house on the east coast.
While working on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Wright was introduced to the Hanis by his Japanese assistant, Arata Endo.
When the City National Bank considered expanding into Mason City, James Blythe and J.E.E.
Originally constructed on the shores of Minnesota’s scenic Lake Minnetonka, the extraordinarily large and complex Francis Little House II was among Wright’s richest expressions of the Prairie aesthetic and the last of his Midwestern Prairie houses.
In 1905 Cudworth Beye, whose family was friends with Wright, requested a design for a boathouse to serve the University of Wisconsin crew team.
George Fabyan, having inherited his father’s cotton-trading fortune, purchased a mid-1800s farmhouse and 600-acre estate as a country retreat from his Chicago home.