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Author Hayes, Nicholas D., author.

Title Frank Lloyd Wright's forgotten house : how an omission transformed the architect's legacy / Nicholas D. Hayes
Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 183 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Foreword -- People to Know -- Part One. How to Find a House by Frank Lloyd Wright -- 1. The Announcement -- 2. Hidden in Plain Sight -- 3. Wright's America -- 4. The Americans -- 5. The Tour -- 6. The System -- 7. The Timeline -- Part Two. How to Lose a House by Frank Lloyd Wright -- 8. The Afterthought -- 9. The Delay -- 10. The Finding -- 11. The Scare -- 12. The Records -- 13. The Unraveling -- 14. The Exception -- 15. The Flip -- Part Three. How to Build an Architectural Legacy -- 16. The Miss -- 17. The Overlap -- 18. The Pickup -- 19. The Silence --20. The Submission -- 21. The Legacy -- 22. The Man with the Hat -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology, 1914-19 -- Notes -- Index
Summary Frank Lloyd Wright's foray into affordable housing--the American System-Built Homes--is frequently overlooked. When Nicholas and Angela Hayes became stewards of one of them, they began to unearth evidence that revealed a one-hundred-year-old fiasco fueled by competing ambitions and conflicting visions that eventually gave way to Wright's most creative period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed July 31, 2023)
Subject Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
SUBJECT Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 fast
Subject Elizabeth Murphy House (Shorewood, Wis.)
SUBJECT Elizabeth Murphy House (Shorewood, Wis.) fast
Subject American System-Built Homes.
Architect-designed houses -- Wisconsin -- Shorewood
ARCHITECTURE / General
American System-Built Homes
Architect-designed houses
Wisconsin -- Shorewood
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780299331832
0299331830