Tract housing is good for the economy as it's constructed to fall apart in twenty years or so. You don't mind buying new cars all the time, so why not new houses?
@@garryferrington811 Unlike you deranged boomers, I do NOT enjoy taking out an increasing "10k, 20k, 40k, now 50k" loan for a vehicle every 10-15 years... Much less the increasing "5k, 50k, 250k, now 400-500k" loan for a house that won't survive my lifetime.
@@garryferrington811 Nailed it. Also, they don't want you passing it down to your kids. They want to be able to demolish homes easily for what their needs are with us. Them/the one percent, Us/the rest of us.
The back story of this house is fascinating - a world class architect being challenged to design a beautiful and functional house for $5,000 - and succeeding! Glad to hear it has been carefully restored and continues to be used as a residence.
@John Meigs I had a builder explain to me that the homes built 100 years ago were built differently because then labor and materials were cheap and technology was expensive;electricity (100 amp),bathrooms, kitchens. Today technology is cheap but materials and labor are expensive. Also as you stated land was much cheaper which is a major problem now. The home is beautiful but that's because the lot is beautiful. It's a different time.
At the time, most middle class housing including the land cost about 5000 dollars. There is nothing remarkable about any architectural student designing an affordable house. Most wouldn’t make Wright’s mistakes of low ceilings and doorways, inadequate lighting, and poor ventilation. Wright did sometime create a beautiful building. He could have done a heap better if he cared about construction and livability.
@@zeroceiling basically modern architecture such as this was only created to bridge the gap of affordable housing. Society has lost the art of fun and elegance nowadays everything looks plain and boxy. For reference look at old photographs of buildings before demolition or natural disasters and you will vomit. I genuinely feel like the world has become more plain due to how complacently people dress nowadays so there is no longer and emphasis on how classy and elegant something is it’s just rather more about how big something is I go to so many modern houses/estate and it simply lacks life all you can see is just massive empty space
@John Meigs Yes, I understand that, and I know that even with the Usonian design and thought; Wright's house still came in over budget. But Wright was correct: the need for affordable housing, which is more than just a hovel, is sorely needed. Now, far more than in Wright's time. So, while I realize that his concepts for affordable housing were idealistic; the need is very high. And we could house everyone in this country - we simply choose not to.
@John Meigs Why are you comparing the medium (do you mean median?) wage and income in 1936 to the building costs in one of the most expensive cities in the country? Wouldn't it be better to compare modern building costs in Wisconsin where the house is located? Housing costs have certainly risen unsustainably, but you could make your argument better with more relevant data.
Very smart man. He only had one chance to get FLW to design a house for him and that was to get his ego invested in it with a bet. LOL. Well played, sir!
As a longtime admirer of Wright's designs, it is lovely to see a modest one that was designed and actually built, and is still being lived in today. Thank you for sharing this.
His earliest clients thirty years before Herb Jacobs came along were also average people, solid middle class folks who were among the first to escape to the “suburbs” though nowadays we’d call Oak Park Illinois very urban. It was only a very slow fifteen minutes from downtown at the time Wright opened his office.
Reminds me of the Usonian house at Florida Southern College in Lakeland - where he was also commissioned to do, basically, the college campus. Combination of budget and, well, FLW, meant that the entire vision never happened BUT there are a number of structures on campus designed by him, still in use AND you can tour these in addition to the house itself. It's really something of a surprise and can be easily reached from Tampa, little bit longer driver from Orlando, if you happen to be staying in either city, looking for a half day trip.
My first guess is cost - FLW designed this home as a one-off, not a regular occurrence, and he probably earned very little on it. Bigger budgets also allow for more creative freedom. While the occasional project with stricter boundaries may be fun, as a business model its hard. The cookie-cutter homes are basically built and designed wholesale, so they can be made quickly and cheaply, without the overhead and rules of an artistic architect.
Unbelievable! I'm now 60 years old and never been able to afford to build a house, so this house at this price would be fitting me just great! I love Frank Lloyd for his imagination and craftmanship, so clever in building his houses. Thank you for sharing and have a blessed day!
Can’t help but wonder whether it could still be built today for _close to_ $100K (plus land). Consider if the structure were pre-built in a modular factory, not like those mobile half-homes sections you see on the highway, but sections of walls, etc. factory formed; then those pieces flat packed on a truck bed; then framed & assembled on site, with brick siding (faux brick, perhaps?) & other exterior features added on to finish the look. Might be able to accomplish that for less than $200K.
@@paolomasone3754 HandyMan657 is right; I've heard this comment from more than one source. FLW's work is very much like Van Gogh's, or like owning a classic car. It is stunningly beautiful, charming, beguiling, and you could look at it for hours. But I'd never want to own a piece of either's work, or a car as an artwork. FLW's houses aren't practical. You're living in a museum, and you're always worried about something going wrong, and when it does, you're saddled with the expense and anxiety of fixing it. Every Spring, the creeks in Pennsylvania run high, and every year Fallingwater is flooded out. Who wants to live with that? Van Gogh's paintings are all driven by pain, gorgeous and nuanced as they are. I'd never want that in my living space. Jay Leno can have the fancy cars; he has the money and the love of the cars and fixing them. I want my car to be efficient and reliable, which is why I drive a Honda.
I wish I could have met Frank Loyd Wright. I am actually in the process of building my first home, and I am a special education teacher. I have a modest budget and I have saved for many years. I hope that my home turns out to be beautiful.
*Of all houses presented, this one I should like to live in.* My Favorite Architect, period! I would so enjoy his design space. This is one of my favorites.
Years ago, I watched a TV documentary about FLW and the houses he designed. They went into detail how difficult they were to build and how many longterm problems come with his houses. He didn't consider the internal plumbing, drainage, electric wiring, and other important concerns-- leaving that to the contractors. Apparently these houses require a great deal of expensive repairs and upkeep. I toured Taliesin West in Scottsdale in 1998, and the tour guide shared the same complaint. Creative, but not always well-thought out.
I’ve been a Wright fan since I was a kid. I had always wanted to build my own house, so home architecture was my big interest, and the architecture of FLW particularly. I did design and build my own home eventually, but it reflected none of Wrights influence, unfortunately. My design was focused on making it energy efficient and affordable on my limited budget, two things Wright seldom achieved in his designs. But I sacrificed aesthetics and my admiration of Wright’s work. He would not not have approved of my design! Wright’s oft-repeated promise of perfecting an architecture affordable to the average middle class American just never came true. Still, I love his design philosophy and have visited a number of homes of his design. My favorite architect.
This house demonstrates the genesis of Wright, I had heard of his desire to build mass housing for the public but never accomplished it. I wish the video would have shone more on the house. Thank you for posting it.
I live close to the Jacobs houses and am privileged to have been allowed inside Jacobs 1. I also attend Wright’s home congregation at the First Unitarian Society in Madison for which he designed an amazing and very famous building. There are still Wright homes, primarily Usonian and American System-Built houses being “discovered” in Wisconsin. For those who say they couldn’t live in such houses - there are certainly trade offs (horrible kitchens), but it’d be a privilege. Don’t judge them until you’ve actually personally experienced one or more of them, particularly the more modest sized houses. There’s a feeling of immediate comfort and coziness one experiences upon entering that extends throughout. I feel infinitely privileged to have experienced more than the average number of Wright homes and public buildings for myself. I highly recommend the Wright and Like tours which are held regularly. FUS and other sites like Taliesin (which is only half an hour outside of Madison, not “across the state”) are open for tours. Come to Madison and see a few of the many for yourself. You can also take a day trip to Oak Park to see his home and studio - also open for tours.
In 1990 as a college student in Southeast Kansas where I was from my Interior Design class visited Price Tower he built in Bartlesville OKlahoma. It was AMAZING!! I would have absolutely LOVED to have lived in one of those apartments!!
Mr. Jacobs wrote a book about his whole experience of working with Wright on both houses. It's a good book, if I remember correctly they were mad at each other for years.
This is what I love about original Eichler homes. They were affordable mid century modern for the masses. I didn’t know Frank Lloyd Wright experimented with an affordable home. It’s beautiful and modest!
We visited Fallingwater & had the privilege of going through one of his homes built for the average American family… It was one of many in a small sub-division. As well, as that private tour we also explored what was once a gas-station and restaurant on the top of a high hill that had a magnificent view! It was being restored,as the funds came in.
Wright was very heavily influenced by Japanese art and architecture, as were all devotees of the Arts & Crafts movement. He designed a hotel in Japan which was ultimately destroyed by an earthquake but it was built to withstand them and did for years, and he was a collector of Hiroshige works too.
It totally has the vibe of a Danish holiday home. I spent many holidays in my childhood in similar houses. Nice, but a bit too dark when you live in a country which has often dark days.
Years ago I saw a 2 hour or documentary of FLW on PBS. I didn’t know much about him but after watching I just was amazed at his talents and perspectives on life. It might of been longer than 2 hours but it was a great watch.
True. Here in SoCal Builders only build 3-bedroom 2-bath homes as a minimum and materials alone are going to be $200,000 plus the land. So the minimum price of a new home is going to be $350,000 Plus. And that's on the outskirts of Riverside County.
Frank Lloyd once said that spring dorms and large scut hollows should never meet in the flouring traps otherwise the string traps and roller nets would never be figured into the spaces. His notion for trailer keeping and sound jets never seemed as stormy as for the night route.
love anything that MR. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT created...I have several lithographs, hundreds of books and 1 large photograph of him in my livingroom...7ft x 4ft.... I wish I would have got to meet him but I was only one years old when he passed away wish my parents had asked him to build a cottage for them when they decided to build enjoy all the videos and books and every place else I've been to about this great wonderful Interesting Man I'm glad God created FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
The Frank Loyd Wright institute should up date the plans for this house and make the drawings avalible at cost to the general public to encourage people to build lots of homes with this design all over the country
This is the Rosenbaum house in Florence Alabama. It has been restored and is owned by the city and tours are available. The website shows more interior pictures. 5:07
John Trieber.... No it is not... This is the Jacobs House (aka Jacobs I) in Madison, WI. If you look at the landscape... It is nothing like the Rosenbaum house in Alabama!
The Usonian designs are incredibly lovely homes. The flat roof design has always been an issue in the Midwest. With the better materials we have today, that issue is entirely solvable. There are a fair number of these still around the MW and I know several people who have successfully dealt with some of the construction issues. Spending time in them is just such a treat.
It's one thing if the cost of building was only $5,000. But what about the price, and value, of the original plan? Wright could have charged a lot more for his idea. I love the open living area, and the exterior.
More proof of his architectural genuis and a 1595 sf home is a very big size. My home is only 1100 sf. Having a nice beautiful work of art home for only $5k is amazing. That's how much a custom built shed would cost now. I have been a fan of Wright since the 70s in Highschool and have all his books.
i grew up in oak park il.we had a field trip when i was in 3rd ,4th or 5th grade- cant remember anymore.the oak park village(?) or whatever organization bought the studio and had just started tours to the public.before that,the studio was divided into several studio apartments.nobody really cared about these homes.the one on the university of chicago campus was a sorority house for a bit.i had family members who owned one in oak park which was cool but it was not in great shape.the kitchens are small ,the electicity was erratic.Im glad to see people are still into frankie baby.
On the grand designs in the first 5 to 6 minutes of every episode the 3-D model is presented and you get a real feel about it even now when you use the imaginary walk-through possibilities which cadcam has nowadays.
I love FLW houses and buildings. I've visited a number of them. Most of them have design and leak problems, often a result of 'nature's swimming pools' on the roofs.
Apologizing in advance for the repetition of my comment further above, I own a FLLW Usonian House with a flat roof, the simple answer is that at the time many of his homes were designed, the common methodology for building an inexpensive flat roof membrane was to use tar and gravel. Wright understood that this initial design was not impervious to water, but it was the best available inexpensive solution at the time, and he believed that technology would eventually catch up with his vision and offer better technical solutions to fully resolve his artistic/aesthetic vision, and when available, the homeowner would upgrade the issue of concern. Which is exactly what happened in my case. About fifteen years ago, the entire original tar and gravel roof was peeled away, the wood support struts were reinforced with steel, and a new roof (a thin rubber membrane that was very slightly canted) was installed which has never leaked since - permanently resolving the issue while maintaining Wright's original architectural vision. It's really not a big deal. Once fixed with superior updated materials, the issue goes away forever.
@@richardsuggs8108 When flat roofs were originally conceived of, the whole point was the Bauhaus ideal/International Style of perfect stylized geometry. Nobody - FLW, Mies, Corbusier, etc. - canted roofs. It wasn't done at all, by anyone.
There is a show on A&E called Flipping down South in Birmingham Al. There are 5 shows and one of them was the flip of a dilapidated mid-cen mod, that from the outside looks exactly like this house. It was a great episode to watch and looked great when finished. I wonder if the custom home was a copy of this one, it was so similar and rare in that area. I love that he accepted the challenge.
We need more of this type of basic, well designed construction for first home buyers today, not the tract housing we are seeing everywhere.
Tract housing is good for the economy as it's constructed to fall apart in twenty years or so. You don't mind buying new cars all the time, so why not new houses?
@@garryferrington811
I know, crazy Industrialist Theory applied to the Public huh?
Agreed.
@@garryferrington811 Unlike you deranged boomers, I do NOT enjoy taking out an increasing "10k, 20k, 40k, now 50k" loan for a vehicle every 10-15 years... Much less the increasing "5k, 50k, 250k, now 400-500k" loan for a house that won't survive my lifetime.
@@garryferrington811 Nailed it. Also, they don't want you passing it down to your kids. They want to be able to demolish homes easily for what their needs are with us. Them/the one percent, Us/the rest of us.
The back story of this house is fascinating - a world class architect being challenged to design a beautiful and functional house for $5,000 - and succeeding! Glad to hear it has been carefully restored and continues to be used as a residence.
This house is the residential equivalent of the Volkswagen bug. Porsche and Wright...quite a pair.
Thats roughly half the cost of houses at the time, not nearly as impressive as you think, but still pretty impressive.
@Hitogokochi exactly…
@John Meigs I had a builder explain to me that the homes built 100 years ago were built differently because then labor and materials were cheap and technology was expensive;electricity (100 amp),bathrooms, kitchens. Today technology is cheap but materials and labor are expensive. Also as you stated land was much cheaper which is a major problem now. The home is beautiful but that's because the lot is beautiful. It's a different time.
At the time, most middle class housing including the land cost about 5000 dollars. There is nothing remarkable about any architectural student designing an affordable house. Most wouldn’t make Wright’s mistakes of low ceilings and doorways, inadequate lighting, and poor ventilation. Wright did sometime create a beautiful building. He could have done a heap better if he cared about construction and livability.
The house is still very "modern" looking. The open room concept is a feature of today's houses. Frank Lloyd Wright was ahead of his time. ❤
I agree but not necessarily a good thing just reveals how basic and plain modern architecture has become.
Always have loved his designs💕
@@lawfulbeneficiary1731 I’m not sure I understand the point you are making with your comment. Care to expand?
@@zeroceiling basically modern architecture such as this was only created to bridge the gap of affordable housing. Society has lost the art of fun and elegance nowadays everything looks plain and boxy. For reference look at old photographs of buildings before demolition or natural disasters and you will vomit. I genuinely feel like the world has become more plain due to how complacently people dress nowadays so there is no longer and emphasis on how classy and elegant something is it’s just rather more about how big something is I go to so many modern houses/estate and it simply lacks life all you can see is just massive empty space
He was his time
I've always loved Wright's Usonian homes. And, right now, God knows, the US could use quality, affordable housing.
Musk lives in a Boxabl
@John Meigs Yes, I understand that, and I know that even with the Usonian design and thought; Wright's house still came in over budget. But Wright was correct: the need for affordable housing, which is more than just a hovel, is sorely needed. Now, far more than in Wright's time. So, while I realize that his concepts for affordable housing were idealistic; the need is very high. And we could house everyone in this country - we simply choose not to.
@John Meigs Why are you comparing the medium (do you mean median?) wage and income in 1936 to the building costs in one of the most expensive cities in the country? Wouldn't it be better to compare modern building costs in Wisconsin where the house is located? Housing costs have certainly risen unsustainably, but you could make your argument better with more relevant data.
Yes for all the non tax paying scum flooding in...if you only knew
Very smart man. He only had one chance to get FLW to design a house for him and that was to get his ego invested in it with a bet. LOL. Well played, sir!
Herb and Katharine Jacobs had Wright design another house for them barely ten years later.
As a longtime admirer of Wright's designs, it is lovely to see a modest one that was designed and actually built, and is still being lived in today. Thank you for sharing this.
Incredible for Wright. This is probably Wright at his most human work, for the average person. I certainly applaud him for that.
His earliest clients thirty years before Herb Jacobs came along were also average people, solid middle class folks who were among the first to escape to the “suburbs” though nowadays we’d call Oak Park Illinois very urban. It was only a very slow fifteen minutes from downtown at the time Wright opened his office.
Very glad to hear that it's still a private residence
Reminds me of the Usonian house at Florida Southern College in Lakeland - where he was also commissioned to do, basically, the college campus. Combination of budget and, well, FLW, meant that the entire vision never happened BUT there are a number of structures on campus designed by him, still in use AND you can tour these in addition to the house itself. It's really something of a surprise and can be easily reached from Tampa, little bit longer driver from Orlando, if you happen to be staying in either city, looking for a half day trip.
Kinda makes you wonder why people settle for generic soulless tract housing when something like this could be built instead
Why do you need lawns? Because everybody else has one. Human beings are herd animals.
My first guess is cost - FLW designed this home as a one-off, not a regular occurrence, and he probably earned very little on it. Bigger budgets also allow for more creative freedom. While the occasional project with stricter boundaries may be fun, as a business model its hard. The cookie-cutter homes are basically built and designed wholesale, so they can be made quickly and cheaply, without the overhead and rules of an artistic architect.
The birth of Usonia is an important element of homes to come.
This is a wonderful and approachable (i.e., one can imagine ‘regular people’ living here) example of Wright’s work.
This is an testimony that if there is a will there is a way ,great work ,all the very best
Yes, if the will is FLW's tricking the client.
It's a major landmark in American architecture. It's the first of Wright's Usonian homes. FLLW was America's greatest artist. Thanks UNESCO.
Unbelievable! I'm now 60 years old and never been able to afford to build a house, so this house at this price would be fitting me just great! I love Frank Lloyd for his imagination and craftmanship, so clever in building his houses. Thank you for sharing and have a blessed day!
Can’t help but wonder whether it could still be built today for _close to_ $100K (plus land). Consider if the structure were pre-built in a modular factory, not like those mobile half-homes sections you see on the highway, but sections of walls, etc. factory formed; then those pieces flat packed on a truck bed; then framed & assembled on site, with brick siding (faux brick, perhaps?) & other exterior features added on to finish the look. Might be able to accomplish that for less than $200K.
Thanks for doing the math!
The upkeep on these things is incredible. I've worked on several and there is no end to the nightmare that is maintaining them.
Really? who are you? tell us something besides some vague insult. let's investigate your work and see how it stands up under the microscope.
@@paolomasone3754 HandyMan657 is right; I've heard this comment from more than one source. FLW's work is very much like Van Gogh's, or like owning a classic car. It is stunningly beautiful, charming, beguiling, and you could look at it for hours. But I'd never want to own a piece of either's work, or a car as an artwork. FLW's houses aren't practical. You're living in a museum, and you're always worried about something going wrong, and when it does, you're saddled with the expense and anxiety of fixing it. Every Spring, the creeks in Pennsylvania run high, and every year Fallingwater is flooded out. Who wants to live with that? Van Gogh's paintings are all driven by pain, gorgeous and nuanced as they are. I'd never want that in my living space. Jay Leno can have the fancy cars; he has the money and the love of the cars and fixing them. I want my car to be efficient and reliable, which is why I drive a Honda.
Thanks for highlighting the Usonian houses of FLW. This is truly important for middle to low income americans. Modest, but elegant looking.
This story is fascinating!!! Thanks for sharing this exciting video!!! 👍👍🙂
So wonderful Thank you so much for posting I always learn something from you!
the regality of his style but in this much more humble format makes it even more desirable. This has everything a dream home needs.
Finally some decent television programming
I wish I could have met Frank Loyd Wright. I am actually in the process of building my first home, and I am a special education teacher. I have a modest budget and I have saved for many years. I hope that my home turns out to be beautiful.
*Of all houses presented, this one I should like to live in.* My Favorite Architect, period!
I would so enjoy his design space.
This is one of my favorites.
I love his designs, Falling Water is my favorite. So cool thx
Years ago, I watched a TV documentary about FLW and the houses he designed. They went into detail how difficult they were to build and how many longterm problems come with his houses. He didn't consider the internal plumbing, drainage, electric wiring, and other important concerns-- leaving that to the contractors. Apparently these houses require a great deal of expensive repairs and upkeep. I toured Taliesin West in Scottsdale in 1998, and the tour guide shared the same complaint. Creative, but not always well-thought out.
I’ve been a Wright fan since I was a kid. I had always wanted to build my own house, so home architecture was my big interest, and the architecture of FLW particularly. I did design and build my own home eventually, but it reflected none of Wrights influence, unfortunately. My design was focused on making it energy efficient and affordable on my limited budget, two things Wright seldom achieved in his designs. But I sacrificed aesthetics and my admiration of Wright’s work. He would not not have approved of my design! Wright’s oft-repeated promise of perfecting an architecture affordable to the average middle class American just never came true. Still, I love his design philosophy and have visited a number of homes of his design. My favorite architect.
... He stole both design and philosophy!)))))))))
Fabulous is the only word. That one word describes all of FLW’s structures
Love this design! Smart. Workable. Right on.
This house demonstrates the genesis of Wright, I had heard of his desire to build mass housing for the public but never accomplished it. I wish the video would have shone more on the house. Thank you for posting it.
I live close to the Jacobs houses and am privileged to have been allowed inside Jacobs 1. I also attend Wright’s home congregation at the First Unitarian Society in Madison for which he designed an amazing and very famous building. There are still Wright homes, primarily Usonian and American System-Built houses being “discovered” in Wisconsin. For those who say they couldn’t live in such houses - there are certainly trade offs (horrible kitchens), but it’d be a privilege. Don’t judge them until you’ve actually personally experienced one or more of them, particularly the more modest sized houses. There’s a feeling of immediate comfort and coziness one experiences upon entering that extends throughout. I feel infinitely privileged to have experienced more than the average number of Wright homes and public buildings for myself. I highly recommend the Wright and Like tours which are held regularly. FUS and other sites like Taliesin (which is only half an hour outside of Madison, not “across the state”) are open for tours. Come to Madison and see a few of the many for yourself. You can also take a day trip to Oak Park to see his home and studio - also open for tours.
In 1990 as a college student in Southeast Kansas where I was from my Interior Design class visited Price Tower he built in Bartlesville OKlahoma. It was AMAZING!! I would have absolutely LOVED to have lived in one of those apartments!!
Thanks I Love Frank Lloyd Wrights homes .Thanks 4 The Video 🎥 .
Mr. Jacobs wrote a book about his whole experience of working with Wright on both houses. It's a good book, if I remember correctly they were mad at each other for years.
Seems like a great way to get Wright to do what you want was to phrase it as a challenge. :)
This design looks like a predecessor of the Bachman-Wilson House at Crystal Bridges. Gorgeous!!
This is what I love about original Eichler homes. They were affordable mid century modern for the masses. I didn’t know Frank Lloyd Wright experimented with an affordable home. It’s beautiful and modest!
A beautiful home. I would love to have something similar. FLW's manipulation of space and use of light make his designed homes feel serene.
I appreciate your inclusion of floorplans in your videos.
I noticed its beauty the moment I saw it.
We visited Fallingwater & had the privilege of going through one of his homes built for the average American family… It was one of many in a small sub-division. As well, as that private tour we also explored what was once a gas-station and restaurant on the top of a high hill that had a magnificent view! It was being restored,as the funds came in.
I really love that he wasn’t bothered by the budget and still wanted them to have a great home. Please make a video about the second house.
If I recall it is on a public street and you can sort of walk around it. Wait til dark and you can probably see a bit inside.
Or maybe don’t trespass onto private land and stare in someone’s window?! Just a thought…
@@rainbowsandlove you live in a FLW house, people are going to stare
@@davidhjortnaes2000 waiting until dark and looking in someone’s windows isn’t normal behaviour, irrespective of who designed the house…
Seems a very Japanese house to me. Beautiful.
Wright was very heavily influenced by Japanese art and architecture, as were all devotees of the Arts & Crafts movement.
He designed a hotel in Japan which was ultimately destroyed by an earthquake but it was built to withstand them and did for years, and he was a collector of Hiroshige works too.
It totally has the vibe of a Danish holiday home. I spent many holidays in my childhood in similar houses. Nice, but a bit too dark when you live in a country which has often dark days.
It's gorgeous. I have often thought about building an unbuilt Wright design , why have an ordinary house when you can have a masterpeice..
Years ago I saw a 2 hour or documentary of FLW on PBS. I didn’t know much about him but after watching I just was amazed at his talents and perspectives on life. It might of been longer than 2 hours but it was a great watch.
This was essentially the inspiration for early 1950s tract homes all across the country.
Now a days the builders won't even bother to make an affordable home
True. Here in SoCal Builders only build 3-bedroom 2-bath homes as a minimum and materials alone are going to be $200,000 plus the land. So the minimum price of a new home is going to be $350,000 Plus. And that's on the outskirts of Riverside County.
5,000$ in 1936 =107k today... so totally doable
In 2008/2009 I built a "copy" of this house, in modern materials.
It cost about $550,000 to build.
Frank Lloyd once said that spring dorms and large scut hollows should never meet in the flouring traps otherwise the string traps and roller nets would never be figured into the spaces. His notion for trailer keeping and sound jets never seemed as stormy as for the night route.
To all those who say 'Tiny', I say spread out, one level, total comfort, creativity, perfection, Frank Lloyd Wright!
nice to see some of wrights homes still being used for what they were designed for.
I would live here. I have been to both Taliesin East and West. The master!
love anything that MR. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT created...I have several lithographs, hundreds of books and 1 large photograph of him in my livingroom...7ft x 4ft.... I wish I would have got to meet him but I was only one years old when he passed away wish my parents had asked him to build a cottage for them when they decided to build enjoy all the videos and books and every place else I've been to about this great wonderful Interesting Man I'm glad God created
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
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Been there several times went a few months ago it's so amazing and it never looses it's awe everytime I return
Ken, I thoroughly enjoy your videos. And that you’re a fellow St Louisan is the icing on the cake. Well done!
Thanks for sharing!
The Frank Loyd Wright institute should up date the plans for this house and make the drawings avalible at cost to the general public to encourage people to build lots of homes with this design all over the country
This is the Rosenbaum house in Florence Alabama. It has been restored and is owned by the city and tours are available. The website shows more interior pictures. 5:07
John Trieber.... No it is not... This is the Jacobs House (aka Jacobs I) in Madison, WI. If you look at the landscape... It is nothing like the Rosenbaum house in Alabama!
The Usonian designs are incredibly lovely homes.
The flat roof design has always been an issue in the Midwest. With the better materials we have today, that issue is entirely solvable.
There are a fair number of these still around the MW and I know several people who have successfully dealt with some of the construction issues.
Spending time in them is just such a treat.
beautiful
OMG this home is on Toepfer in Madison Wisconsin just a few blocks from my childhood home. My friends lived there in the mid 70’s
Unbelevable this house is allmost a hundred years old .
It could be built in the 90s !
FLW was a true genius and artist FAR ahead of his time . ❤
I love his work, I would live in this house.
1:54 the modern day equivalent is $100,000. $5,000 was the 1937 equivalent.
Love the house. Is threr a way to find the architectural plans to reproduce this house as new construction.
It's one thing if the cost of building was only $5,000. But what about the price, and value, of the original plan? Wright could have charged a lot more for his idea. I love the open living area, and the exterior.
More proof of his architectural genuis and a 1595 sf home is a very big size. My home is only 1100 sf. Having a nice beautiful work of art home for only $5k is amazing. That's how much a custom built shed would cost now. I have been a fan of Wright since the 70s in Highschool and have all his books.
i grew up in oak park il.we had a field trip when i was in 3rd ,4th or 5th grade- cant remember anymore.the oak park village(?) or whatever organization bought the studio and had just started tours to the public.before that,the studio was divided into several studio apartments.nobody really cared about these homes.the one on the university of chicago campus was a sorority house for a bit.i had family members who owned one in oak park which was cool but it was not in great shape.the kitchens are small ,the electicity was erratic.Im glad to see people are still into frankie baby.
This kind of house should be perfect for me and my wife since our daughter moved out.
On the grand designs in the first 5 to 6 minutes of every episode the 3-D model is presented and you get a real feel about it even now when you use the imaginary walk-through possibilities which cadcam has nowadays.
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This house is amazing! Beautiful features and natural elements. Stunning!
This is my favorite kind of house. It's the vibe. ❤
I wish Frank and Buckminster could have designed one.
Oh wait, I did that.
There are documentaries on him. What is amazing is the man did not even have a degree in Architecture. He just had talent & imagination & used them.
FLR is 1 of my FAVORITE American Home Designers. I bought MY home BECAUSE it looked like it was inspired by FLR. 😎
What a great origins story!
$5,000 in 1936 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $108,215.83 today, an increase of $103,215.83 over 87 years.
All of his houses look like they would be challenging to heat and cold. Also a flat roof is a great place for nature to build a swimming pool.
I love FLW houses and buildings. I've visited a number of them. Most of them have design and leak problems, often a result of 'nature's swimming pools' on the roofs.
Apologizing in advance for the repetition of my comment further above, I own a FLLW Usonian House with a flat roof, the simple answer is that at the time many of his homes were designed, the common methodology for building an inexpensive flat roof membrane was to use tar and gravel. Wright understood that this initial design was not impervious to water, but it was the best available inexpensive solution at the time, and he believed that technology would eventually catch up with his vision and offer better technical solutions to fully resolve his artistic/aesthetic vision, and when available, the homeowner would upgrade the issue of concern. Which is exactly what happened in my case. About fifteen years ago, the entire original tar and gravel roof was peeled away, the wood support struts were reinforced with steel, and a new roof (a thin rubber membrane that was very slightly canted) was installed which has never leaked since - permanently resolving the issue while maintaining Wright's original architectural vision. It's really not a big deal. Once fixed with superior updated materials, the issue goes away forever.
@@toddlevin agreed. But perhaps Frank could have put a five or seven degree slope in the roof in the first place.
@@richardsuggs8108 When flat roofs were originally conceived of, the whole point was the Bauhaus ideal/International Style of perfect stylized geometry. Nobody - FLW, Mies, Corbusier, etc. - canted roofs. It wasn't done at all, by anyone.
FLW was the greatest architectural genius. No one even comes close.
It’s almost the perfect house. I would build it today.
There is a show on A&E called Flipping down South in Birmingham Al. There are 5 shows and one of them was the flip of a dilapidated mid-cen mod, that from the outside looks exactly like this house.
It was a great episode to watch and looked great when finished. I wonder if the custom home was a copy of this one, it was so similar and rare in that area.
I love that he accepted the challenge.
This was one hell of a practical and visionary man.....
Another really enjoyable video !!
Gorgeous!
Magnificent - would buy it in a split of a second and never move out again
I believe the black and white kitchen photo at 3.44 is the Stuart Richardson House by Mr. Wright, not the Jacobs House.
This is exactly why Wright was a great architect.
$5000 was quite a hefty sum in these times.
Very clever and harmonious design anyway.
Uau.. 5k for this.. So glad there are still affordable homes..
Grate house. Art makes our lives better and nicer.
Theres a Frank Lloyd Wright house in West Bloomfield in Michigan,its beautiful
The Samara House in W. Lafayette, IN cannot have cost much more than this one. The original owner lived into his 90’s and loved giving tours.
I really love Falling Water.
It's criminal that a video of the house is not shown
Jacobs II is my dream cabin on a mountain
I'm glad that it is still a private residence.