One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s biggest private homes can be yours – and is a stunker available for less

One of the largest private houses built by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright is on the market in Tulsa, Oklahoma – and she just got a huge price reduction.

Dubbed â € œwesthope, â € Residence is one of the only five houses built with unique, geometric blocks accumulated in vertical columns. No less than 5,200 glass panels cover almost half the outer, and large lights of lights allow the sun even faster. It can be itself for $ 3.5 million – a 56% drop in its initial price required in 2023, Global Manion reported.

At 10.400 square meters, Westhope is one of Wrightâ’s largest private construction. In addition to five bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms, buyers receive a pool and a guest house. Sage Sothebyâ Realty International holds the list.â

One of the three Wright’s houses in the fast state, and this special house was a special work of love – the architect builds it on his cousin, Richard Lloyd Jones. Jones, the Toulsa Tribune publisher now immature, paid over $ 100,000 for the home in the 1920s, despite his cousin initially budgeting $ 30,000.

Westthope is the possible location of a common anecdote associated with the infamous phrase-boss models, according to Meryle Secret ‘Frank Lloyd Wright: a biography.â € The Story his cousin Wright in a rage. He complained that the roof was flowing at his table.â

Wright reportedly replied, “Richard, why don’t you move your table?”

In another case, Jones’ wife was falling in love with the living room during a heavy crash, using pots and pan to capture variable stems.

â € œwell, â € Mrs. Lloyd Jones is said to say, “That’s what we get to leave a work of art in the rain

The current owner of Westthope is a Tulsa real estate investor who was bought for $ 2.5 million in 2021 by a Tyson Foods heir. The seller undertook extensive renovations, including waterproofing, kitchen repair and window glass replacement.

The geometric style of the home textile block is based on a unique Wright innovated system in the early 1920s. Model concrete blocks are created by pouring a concrete mixture into the molds.

The blocks are reinforced with steel rods and create a repeated pattern throughout the home.

Westhope is the only example of Wright’s textile block style outside California.