With DWR now offering Frank Lloyd Wright furniture, we thought we’d take a peek at the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in New England that is open to the public. The Zimmerman house in Manchester, New Hampshire was donated to the Currier Museum of Art, which now runs frequent tours of the home and gardens.
Wright designed the house, along with the interiors, furnishings, textiles and gardens in 1950 and it was occupied for 36 years by Isadore and Lucille Zimmerman. This is the perfect time of year to head north and take in some fall foliage (Manchester is about an hour north of Boston) and we’re guessing it’s well worth the drive for anyone interested in seeing a preserved example of Wright's holistic approach to design.
For more information including hours and directions, visit currier.org.
(Images: © Currier Museum of Art)
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Anyone know where to buy FLW ish stocked home plans???
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Field trip!
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Damn. That man was a genius... I've seen some work of his followers/students... and it never fails to disappoint. I just wish, one day, that I can own one of his pieces. I found a site that deals only with Wright homes... that was pure torture lol
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Woohoo! Now that was nice. I played a gig in the FLW home in the L.A. Gledale hills area (30's?) and it left me cold with it's long cinderblock-ish hallway and small, almost non-functional rooms. This makes me purr. Besides, how could you not love a house with a freakin' cello? The separations in the carpet to expose the floor is brilliant.
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You know I literally live right down the street from this house and I've never actually toured it. I think I've found what I'm doing this weekend.
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what? no snark about the "clutter"? lol. not my favorite 19th century architect [nods to philip johnson], but an innovator and world class character.
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@parrishnut - i'm pretty sure you could get any book of FLW house plans from the library and take it to a local architect to get them updated for the 20th century (aka better wiring and such)... or look for the Wasmuth Portfolio, actual title: Studies and Executed Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright - it's got lithographs of his early works (pre-Taliesin prairie houses & hotel designs).
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Not to be negative, but couldn't the honor such a masterpiece just a little by not slapping a huge slab of asphalt in front? I can't imagine FLW would have approved. What about a living driveway or ??? What a shame.
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