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ellenkushner ([personal profile] ellenkushner) wrote2008-04-02 07:01 pm

Stay in a Frank Lloyd Wright House

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.

[identity profile] magentamn.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] erink.livejournal.com 2008-04-04 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
House on the Rock...?

The horror...the horror.

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

[identity profile] calimac.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com 2008-04-04 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
That is amazing.

[identity profile] orangemike.livejournal.com 2008-04-03 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
"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!

[identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com 2008-04-04 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
A-ha!! Thank you.

[identity profile] darth-kittius.livejournal.com 2008-04-03 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
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!!!

[identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com 2008-04-04 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! I knew there was a reason for all this internet stuff....