The spiral house Frank Lloyd Wright designed for his son is under threat of demolition to allow a developer to sub-divide the plot and build two or more new houses. The move has caught preservationists on the hop, raising questions about how such a house could be at risk. Apparently David and Galdys Wright didn't want their home in a residential neighborhood to be a museum and when they died it was left, no longer in mint condition, to granddaughters who subsequently sold it to a buyer promising to fix it up and live in it. But the buyer did neither and the place went back on the market where it caught the eye of the developer because it had been uninhabited for four years and wasn't on a watch list. Read more...
Image: The 1952 house Frank Lloyd Wright designed for his son David
Image: The 1952 house Frank Lloyd Wright designed for his son David
