The only adobe structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1920s was supposed to be built in El Paso, TX. But due to circumstances — rumored to be differences of opinion between Wright and the homeowner — the project never came to be, and by the end of the...
Entrepreneur Joseph Massaro bought a private island on a lake in New York state in 1996 and spent ten years constructing a home that had been custom designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the island but never built, using the original blueprints -- the result is...
A premiere auction Saturday of the historic Villa Rockledge in Laguna Beach, an ocean front property built by Frank Miller, the man who had a hand in shaping the famed Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside from 1918 to 1922, has been cancelled. That's because the...
I didn't know who owned this house until I got back to HQ - nicest house I've ever seen in the tract. The highest sale on the street was $1,340,000 in 2007, so the list price would be about right (-24%). What has changed is how buyers feel about the oceanfront thing:...
A 15-year old mansion built by former NFL star Rod Kush in Gretna, Neb., was reduced to smoldering rubble on Sunday after firefighters set the abandoned home ablaze as part of their training. The ostentatious, 14,000-square-foot former home of the ex-Buffalo Bills...
From wiki: Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which...
Artemesia is a seven bedroom/seven bath, 13,290sf Craftsman built in 1913 on 1.8 acres in the Hollywood Hills. It features six Batchelder-tile fireplaces, hand-blown art glass panels, a unique english arts and crafts interior, nearly 2 acres of wooded grounds with...
From this book written in 1922: Wheeler J. Bailey A business firmly rooted in time as well as in substantial integrity is the W. J. Bailey Company, which has been in existence at San Diego since 1888. Mr. Bailey is perhaps the dean of building material manufacturers...
The exterior of the 1907 Wheeler J. Bailey House, the grounds (expertly maintained by Marlene!) and views of the La Jolla Cove:
We finish the upstairs tour of the main house, and then view the two apartments:
