Curbed
tuesday, november 10, 2020
buy it for the architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian on Market for First Time Since 1965, at $1.7M
Located about 40 minutes north of Chicago, the Carr house has only ever had two owners.
 
Photo: Matara Media for Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty
 

After Frank Lloyd Wright built the first Usonian home in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1936, he spent decades iterating on his concept of affordable middle-class housing, tweaking angles and rooflines so that each design, while almost always single-story and full of windows, was still slightly different. Take this Usonian in Glenview, a suburb about 40 minutes north of Chicago, which has around 80 Wright-designed homes in its metro area. Commissioned in 1950 by local John Carr, the L-shape, 1,800-square-foot house sits on three acres with more than 50 oak trees, just a few minutes west of town center.

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