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More Sites in Arizona
Biltmore Hotel
Taliesin West
Carlson House
D Wright House
Adelman House
Pieper House
Boomer Cottage
Price Sr House
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Lykes House
1st Christ. Chrch
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The Benjamin Adelman House was constructed
circa 1952 from a design Wright had done in the 1940s. The original
floor plan called for a 700 square-foot main house with living and dining
space, workspace, master bedroom, and bath, and a 500 square foot guest
house behind the main house that contained two bedrooms, two baths and a
sitting room with a fireplace. The home was built by local Native Americans
for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin businessman as a winter residence at a cost of
$25,000; it sold in 2002 for 1.2 million dollars. Of course by this
time, it had undergone extensive renovation and
change: square footage has now increased to over 3360...
The Adelman House is unique in that it was a
variation of Wright's Usonian theme (called a Usonian Automatic) and
featured a carport -- Wright's own invention. The structure consists
of blocks molded on-site that were knit together into a grid by the use of
rebar that ran down groves in the sides of the blocks. It has a great
look to it and the new owners seem to be taking really good care of it.
However, it bears little resemblance to the original. Arnold Roy, who
did an internship with Wright starting in 1952, said the Adelman House was
badly altered. "It has been so bastardized that I no longer call it a
Frank Lloyd Wright house," Roy said. I think that it is still worth a
look.
The
Adelman House and the Boomer Cottage
are located on the same street.
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