Stay in a Frank Lloyd Wright House

[ellenkushner]

OK, whoever I promised this link to a week or two ago: Here it is!

One of them is right near Cleveland; the others are clustered around the rest of the Great Lakes - collect 'em all! trade with your friends! There is a list at the bottom of the second page. The houses are all "Usonians, smaller, simpler and designed toward the end of Wright’s career for the middle class." For some reason, everyone we mention this to already knew what "Usonians" meant. Except me.

Weirdly enough, the exact day before this article came out, some friends rented one of these to go stay in after Wiscon. We figure on getting lots of cooking - I mean writing - done for a few days.

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[magentamn.livejournal.com]

We stayed at the Usonian Inn, a small motel in Spring Green designed by a student of Wright. The web site is http://www.usonianinn.com/ It was a delightful place. We were on a side trip on the way to Wiscon, so we could see The House on the Rock.

[erink.livejournal.com]

House on the Rock...?

The horror...the horror.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/erink/17470784/in/set-414903/

[calimac.livejournal.com]

I see that the Bernard Schwartz house in Two Rivers is on the list. Bernard Schwartz was my great-uncle. Unfortunately Uncle Bernie and Aunt Fern had sold the house before I first went to visit them, so I never got to stay in it, but I've seen it.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

That is amazing.

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

"Usonian" is slightly fudged Esperanto. In E-o, "Usono" is the United States of [North] American; so the adjective is "Usona" and an "American" is an "Usonano"! As far as I know, FLW didn't actually study Esperanto to any great depth.

In googling to check this, I ran across a description of a karaoke cover of "Ziggy Stardust" with the lyrics translated into Esperanto. Ah, the wonders of the Interwebz!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

A-ha!! Thank you.

[darth-kittius.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!! Thank you for posting that! I hadn't heard of it and my dad is a huge FLW fan. I can't afford it right now, but that will be one of his gifts in the next few years!!!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Yay! I knew there was a reason for all this internet stuff....