WOW House

With $435,000 Asking Price, Unique Home Has the 'Wright' Look

Designed by architect often compared to Frank Lloyd Wright, this Racine County home in wooded surrounding overlooks a ravine and the Root River.

From elegant and stately mansions to modern, environmentally friendly abodes, southeastern Wisconsin is chock-full of one-of-a-kind homes for sale. Each week, Patch highlights one "Wow House" that caught our attention. This week, it's a home at 1505 Valley View Drive in Mount Pleasant known as "Trilogy" that was designed by architect John Randal McDonald, whose work is often compared to that of Frank Lloyd Wright. Also known as the John E. and Catherine Erskine House, the home has been featured on tours of homes designed by Wright and architects like him. According the website Wright in Wisconsin, Trilogy "is designed on an equilateral triangular grid, with triangularity as a repeated design motif throughout the entire home." The home …

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In Other Words: Frank Lloyd Wright

Each week, the Greenfield Public Library will provide a list of suggested books to check out.

Are you itching for a good book but not sure what to pick up? Look no further. Every Tuesday evening, the Greenfield Public Library will provide Greenfield Patch a themed list of recommended reads for you or your children to get lost in, a feature we're calling "In Other Words." One week it might be five classic books for children 5 and under, the next it might be the five-best "How To" books the library has to offer. As baseball season approaches, maybe you'll see a list of five great baseball books. The only way to know for sure what the library suggests you check out is to come back every Tuesday and see for yourself... The Milwaukee Art Museum is featuring the exhibit Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century …

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Bob McBride

4:44 pm on Thursday, March 3, 2011

"Frank Lloyd Wright - American System Built Homes in Milwaukee" by Shirley DuFresne McArthur - gives the history of the American System-Built Home models on Burham and Layton on the south side of Milwaukee and argues (circa 1983) for their preservation. "The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright - A Complete Catalog" - William Allin Storrer - THE field guide to all Wright's completed works.   more ›