# Frank Lloyd Wright Sesquicentennial **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434 "2017-06-08T14:13:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/21 "2017-06-08T20:51:39Z")
I don’t have a particular Wright favorite, but I wanted to share that the office where I work (in the [Monroe Building](http://www.themonroebuilding.com/) in downtown Chicago) was once one of Wright’s offices. One of our meeting rooms was originally his personal office, and there are still blueprint vaults in one wall of that room. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/22 "2017-06-08T21:04:08Z")
OK, the Illinois is just shear lunacy (and probably also sheer lunacy, given the stresses wind would put on it). ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/23 "2017-06-08T22:28:34Z")
_I never laughed so long So long So long_ ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/24 "2017-06-09T01:23:52Z")
[http://https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.\_C.\_DeRhodes\_House](http://https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._C._DeRhodes_House) I spent hours here as a youngster. I was friends with the daughter of the owners. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/25 "2017-06-09T01:35:02Z")
Aw, hell. I love ALL of Wright’s buildings. I have to tip my hat to the one on Maiden Lane in San Francisco, just east of Union Square. Because when you’re walking around Frisco, you don’t EXPECT to tun into a Wright building. [https://www.google.com/search?q=frank+lloyd+wright+san+francisco+maiden+lane&rlz=1C9BKJA\_enUS620US620&hl=en-US&prmd=imnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo9Obtzq\_UAhWBcz4KHTZ4DgkQ\_AUICSgB&biw=1024&bih=653#imgrc=7LSkuhcp3yWBAM:](https://www.google.com/search?q=frank+lloyd+wright+san+francisco+maiden+lane&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS620US620&hl=en-US&prmd=imnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo9Obtzq_UAhWBcz4KHTZ4DgkQ_AUICSgB&biw=1024&bih=653#imgrc=7LSkuhcp3yWBAM:) [https://www.google.com/search?q=frank+lloyd+wright+san+francisco+maiden+lane&rlz=1C9BKJA\_enUS620US620&hl=en-US&prmd=imnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo9Obtzq\_UAhWBcz4KHTZ4DgkQ\_AUICSgB&biw=1024&bih=653#imgrc=qFRBJRTEyWA11M:](https://www.google.com/search?q=frank+lloyd+wright+san+francisco+maiden+lane&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS620US620&hl=en-US&prmd=imnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo9Obtzq_UAhWBcz4KHTZ4DgkQ_AUICSgB&biw=1024&bih=653#imgrc=qFRBJRTEyWA11M:) Note the cool “Doctor No” skylight. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/26 "2017-06-09T03:39:30Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > [http://https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.\_C.\_DeRhodes\_House](http://https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._C._DeRhodes_House) > > I spent hours here as a youngster. I was friends with the daughter of the owners. Linky no worky. How about this?: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/K.\_C.\_DeRhodes\_House%2C\_May\_2011.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/K._C._DeRhodes_House%2C_May_2011.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/27 "2017-06-09T04:00:42Z")
Yodoko house is right near where I live and the only remaining Wright house left in Japan. [https://www.google.com/search?q=yodoko+house&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiomvqv4K\_UAhXIwbwKHcCjDZAQ\_AUIBygC&biw=1680&bih=955#imgrc=\_&spf=1496976597789](https://www.google.com/search?q=yodoko+house&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiomvqv4K_UAhXIwbwKHcCjDZAQ_AUIBygC&biw=1680&bih=955#imgrc=_&spf=1496976597789) It is currently under renovation so you’ll have to wait 2 years to visit it. It has an interesting history in that the family that commissioned it fought with Wright over the interior deisgn - Wright didn’t want tatami rooms, but the owner insisted on them. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/28 "2017-06-09T15:13:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Linky no worky. How about this?: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/K.\_C.\_DeRhodes\_House%2C\_May\_2011.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/K._C._DeRhodes_House%2C_May_2011.jpg) Many thanks! I suck at linking. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/29 "2017-06-09T15:26:37Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > OK, the Illinois is just shear lunacy (and probably also sheer lunacy, given the stresses wind would put on it). Given what FLW had to work with in the late Fifties, that’s probably true. However, PBS’s _Nova_ had an interesting documentary a few years ago arguing that there is now no practical engineering upper limit as to how high skyscrapers can be built; it’s just a matter of cost. Another favorite - the Ennis House: [http://ennishouse.com/wp-content/plugins/image-gallery-with-slideshow/uploads/slideshow/1318268096\_entrance.jpg](http://ennishouse.com/wp-content/plugins/image-gallery-with-slideshow/uploads/slideshow/1318268096_entrance.jpg) > **[Ennis House](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennis_House)** > > The Ennis House is a residential dwelling in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, south of Griffith Park. The home was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Charles and Mabel Ennis in 1923 and was built in 1924. > Following La Miniatura in Pasadena, and the Storer and Freeman Houses in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, the structure is the fourth and largest of Wright's textile block designs, constructed primarily of interlocking pre-cast concrete blocks, in the nor... ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/30 "2017-06-10T13:32:48Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > My wife grew up in Riverside (a neat suburb, designed by FL Olmstead), where there were some notable Wright homes. I asked her if she had ever been in any of them, and she said, “XXX lived in the Avery Coonley house. We smoked A LOT of pot in that house!” 🆒 Wow, your wife is lucky! That is a great house. My U of Chicago friends and I got high many times as we walked within a couple feet of the Robie House (it was between our dorm and campus), but I think we were usually sober when we went inside it. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/31 "2017-06-10T13:38:36Z")
…Another cool thing about the Cooley House is its connections to two of the greatest American landscape architects: Frederick Law Olmsted (who did the site planning for all of Riverside), and Jens Jensen (the Danish-born designer who did the exterior areas of the property). ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/32 "2017-06-10T13:41:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Another favorite - the Ennis House: > > [http://ennishouse.com/wp-content/plugins/image-gallery-with-slideshow/uploads/slideshow/1318268096\_entrance.jpg](http://ennishouse.com/wp-content/plugins/image-gallery-with-slideshow/uploads/slideshow/1318268096_entrance.jpg) > [Ennis House - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennis_House) Mayan Revival! Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/33 "2017-06-10T13:46:52Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Yodoko house is right near where I live and the only remaining Wright house left in Japan. That is fantastic – I’d never heard of it before! The profile of the narrow end, at the edge of that steep hillside … haunting and beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/34 "2017-06-10T13:52:29Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Aw, hell. I love ALL of Wright’s buildings. I have to tip my hat to the one on Maiden Lane in San Francisco, just east of Union Square. Because when you’re walking around Frisco, you don’t EXPECT to tun into a Wright building. > > [frank lloyd wright san francisco maiden lane - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=frank+lloyd+wright+san+francisco+maiden+lane&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS620US620&hl=en-US&prmd=imnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo9Obtzq_UAhWBcz4KHTZ4DgkQ_AUICSgB&biw=1024&bih=653#imgrc=7LSkuhcp3yWBAM:) > > [frank lloyd wright san francisco maiden lane - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=frank+lloyd+wright+san+francisco+maiden+lane&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS620US620&hl=en-US&prmd=imnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo9Obtzq_UAhWBcz4KHTZ4DgkQ_AUICSgB&biw=1024&bih=653#imgrc=qFRBJRTEyWA11M:) > > Note the cool “Doctor No” skylight. Wow, that’s terrific! The interior is reminiscent of Johnson Wax, Marin County Courthouse, and the Guggenheim, yet is totally its own thing. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/35 "2017-06-10T14:00:52Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > When I lived in Madison , Wisconsin, I lived down the street from the Unitaian Curch in Shorewood Hills. There weren’t/are many houses in the area designed by students of his. I used to ride my bike by that every morning in the summer on my way to my job at Blackhawk Country Club. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/36 "2017-06-10T16:24:44Z")
I could see it from the baseball field too. I should have spent more time watching the opponent’s pitchers. It’s the softball field now. Right by Picnic Point. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/37 "2017-06-10T16:54:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Elendil’s Heir** : > > Given what FLW had to work with in the late Fifties, that’s probably true. However, PBS’s Nova had an interesting documentary a few years ago arguing that there is now no practical engineering upper limit as to how high skyscrapers can be built; it’s just a matter of cost. One could also argue that there _is_ a practical engineering upper limit, and that most skyscrapers are nonetheless over it. As I saw pointed out some time shortly after 9/11, if an architect designed a single-story building a half-mile long with exits only at one end, it’d never pass code. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/38 "2017-06-10T17:14:27Z")
The wonderful thing about old age is that I remember Wright, one of my heroes, during his lifetime, speaking on live TV interviews, such as with Ed Murrow in his cloud of cigarette smoke… Wright was asked why he does not honor veterans or servicemen, he said “Because they are warriors”. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434/39 "2017-06-10T17:43:32Z")
oops ---
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> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I’ll go with the [Hollyhock House](https://goo.gl/images/aiOu0C). No one picture does it justice, so I linked to an architectural plan – but do a Google image search. Sort of Mayanesque exterior, but Prairie interior – and nice use of outdoor spaces, as befits its location. I live around the corner from the Hollyhock House. We occasionally have picnics there. And I can kind of see the Ennis house from my backyard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-lloyd-wright-sesquicentennial/788434.md?page=3)