Frank Lloyd Wright - Fredrick House
Barrington - Illinois -1957
National Register of Historic Places
The Louis Fredrick House is a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright at 19 W. County Line Road in Barrington, Illinois.
Fredrick played a role in the design process as well, rejecting Wright's original plan on account of its concrete block walls and providing input on decisions such as coloring.
The house's design includes a brick exterior, long horizontal window bands, a low roof covered with cedar shakes, and a large chimney.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 2016.
Also in 2016 the house was sold through auction to David and Joyce McArdle.
The McArdles had previously owned and restored another Frank Lloyd Wright building, the F.B. Henderson House in Elmhurst, Illinois.
After acquiring the home, the couple approached John Eifler, of Eifler & Associates, to restore the home, which included adding geothermal heating and cooling, and the construction of furniture that had originally been intended for the home. This restoration was completed by 2018.
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In 1956, Frank Lloyd Wright said about an impossible client, “There can be but one Louis Fredrick . . . He does not know what he wants, nor what he does not want. He has cost us more pains in time and money . . . than he can ever repay. If ever he gets a house, he will be the architect—and God help both him and the house.” Oddly, Wright was addressing that complaint to the client himself.
Photographs by James Caulfield
FB post by Sameh Shawky
Today's quote:
Those seemingly ordinary moments of wonder in your life — when you are arrested by the sunset or swell of music or your child’s face, and the line between you and everything blurs — are not throw-away moments. They are actually portals into the sacred nature of things. |
VALARIE KAUR Sharing with Tom's Tuesday Treasures Today's art: %20Red%20Canna,%201925-1928..jpg) Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986) Red Canna, 1925-1928. |
The Wright house is beautiful. I have always loved O'Keefe's art. Take care, have a great day!
ReplyDeletesecond try...blogger didn't post the one I just typed. It had a typo, maybe that was why. Thanks so much for comment this morning, and you're always welcome to give your opinion.
DeleteHis houses don't grab me from the outside, but they always look great inside.
ReplyDeleteThe use of natural wood everywhere is really warm. Just hard to put up pictures I think. Just look at stainless steel counters in the kitchen! Nothing limiting the budget here!
Delete...Wright created some gorgeous houses, but for me his interiors and furniture are the frosting on the cake!
ReplyDeleteThey certainly make my mouth gape in awe quite often!
DeleteOH! My eyes are so happy! What a fabulous house, furniture, windows...OMG, Glorious ! Fancy living in art like that everyday waking to splendor! WOW.
ReplyDeleteBeorgia is a general heart beat as well- lovely colors
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DeleteI would hope there is a staff to take care of everything. Let's see if I lived there, someone would make my bed, draw my bath, cook my breakfast, and dust and vacuum and wash windows every day - and now I'm thinking to look for where my big ole wardrobe of beautiful clothes is stashed!
DeleteI love Georgia O'Keefe's work and that one is really nice. My first husband was from Barrington. His family was wealthier than mine and they sort of looked down on me, an upper middle class Texas girl. They were snobs and I was happy to let them have their lazy druggy son back.
ReplyDeleteI finally looked up where Barrington IL was. No wonder! Glad you divorced your uppity hubby from there. I'm a middle class Texas gal who was raised in St. Louis...I probably have relatives who think they are upper middle class. I don't bother!
DeleteI didn't think much about it back then but looking back that might have been my parent's strata. For while anyway. Then they made some bad financial decisions. I was a working artist all my life so working class with a few really good years now and then. Still prefer to hang around working class people.
DeleteHi Barbara, I do love the lines and look of Wright's homes...but we like 'stuff', art, photos, carpets and other decor to ever live in one. Take Care, Big Daddy Dave
ReplyDeleteYes, there is a starkness to these photos. Maybe if you (or I) lived there, there would be carpets and wall hangings to soften up the decor!
DeleteOh to live in a house like that! I do like your quote today.
ReplyDeleteThanks...me too. The quote.. I don't imagine living there would be that fun. Maybe I could try an old house that has been refurbished, but not a piece of art!
Deleteportals into the sacred nature of things. Thanks for that! Aloha 🌺
ReplyDeleteIsn't that neat? What many opportunities we have to be close to the sacred! And it/she is manifest in all of us with each loving gesture we make to others!
DeleteThe house is simply stunning. I guess I would be uncomfortable living in a place like that.
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to see it, but really hard to imagine living in such a museum place!
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