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Sol Friedman House (also known as "Toyhill"),

Pleasantville, New York, United States,

"Fountainhead," Jackson, Mississippi, United States,

Wright called the three-bedroom property The Fountainhead after the eponymous novel by Ayn Rand, whose protagonist was famously inspired by the architect himself.

It was designed in 1948 and built from 1950 to 1954.

Locals called it the Hughes House, after Wright’s client J Willis Hughes, who lived here until 1980.

The current owner is architect Robert Parker Adams, who has spent decades restoring its Heart Tidewater Red Cypress walls and the original copper roof.

Frank Lloyd Wright Architect,

Mrs. Clinton Walker House (Aka Cabin on the Rocks), 

Carmel Point, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California,

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright,

The Usonian-style cottage was designed in 1945-1951and completed in 1952-1956 for Mrs. Clinton "Della" Walker of Pebble Beach. 

Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house to resemble a ship’s bow on the water making use of the reef. Although it was enlarged in 1956 to 130 square meters (1400sq. ft.), initially, it was 92,9 sqm (1,000 sq. ft.) with three bedrooms, three baths, a kitchen and a 37,2 sqm (400 sq. ft.) living area. 

In 1956, a studio addition was designed by Mr Wright for Ms Walker’s craftwork and weaving at the southeast corner of the building. The plans were eventually used to make way for an expanded primary bedroom in 1960

The house made the USA National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

Photograph by Matthew Millman,

The home of Roland Reisley in Pleasantville, NY, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (x, x, x).

“When you enter a Frank Lloyd Wright building, without exception, it is through a compressed entryway, with a low ceiling. And when you emerge from the corridor, that compression is released and the expansion occurs in each of the rooms, giving you a greater sense of each of those spaces.”

Reisley, age 101, has lived in this house for 73 years.

Melvyn Maxwell Smith and Sara Stein Smith

Smith House, 1950

Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright