Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian (Built With Red Tidewater Cypress) Asks $425K in Wisconsin
Photos by Bryan Hung
It features Wright trademarks like a long horizontal roof and clerestory windows.
Price: $425,000
Location: Wausau, Wisconsin
This small town of around 40,000 people is a two-hour drive north of Madison, Wisconsin, and about one and a half hours west of Green Bay. The Wisconsin River runs straight through Wausau and is its most important feature ? a place to swim, fish, canoe, and kayak in the town?s white-water park. 1224 Highland Park Boulevard sits in the East Hill neighborhood, a mile northeast of the town?s historic river district and quaint lineup of Tudor Revival and Victorian Gothic storefronts. Despite the small-town feel, Wausau also boasts a few big-city amenities, like the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum (just a few blocks from the house) and the 29-acre Monk Botanical Gardens located just to the north. Specs: 4 beds, 3 baths, 2,462 square feet, 0.58 acres (an adjacent 0.34-acre lot is included in the sale)
There?s no shortage of Frank Lloyd Wright Usonians in the Midwest, but the Charles and Dorothy Manson House is one of the earliest examples of the style. Designed in 1938 and completed in 1941, the home features Wright trademarks like a long horizontal roof, windows with perforated panels, and clerestory lighting in the kitchen and hallways. The home?s red hue comes from red tidewater cypress used on both the exterior and interior in a board-and-batten design, mixed in with local red Ringle bricks. Wright pioneered radiant-heat...
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