David Wright Residence
N 33° 30.086 W 111° 58.170
12S E 409947 N 3707298
Designed for his second son as a model of "How to live in the Southwest" it is the most elusive of FLlW's in the Phoenix area to locate... Update: ten years later the house is no longer difficult with Google Maps.
Waymark Code: WM126D
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 12/22/2006
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Wright believed that lifting the house off the hot desert floor would allow breezes to blow freely beneath it above the "lawn" of citrus trees. According to Legler, the house was originally conceived in wood, but Wright changed the material at his son's urging.
Although the 2,000 sq. ft. house appears from some angles to be a solid circle, it is actually a ramp-lke coil spiraling his classic in-line plan, where all the rooms are laid end-to-end and twisted until the head is posed over the tail.
Around the corner on N. Rubicon Ave from listed address on E. Exeter.
Since this Waymark was established this house has been through a roller coaster ride of a soap opera. From a breath of being demolished and "Do the Wright Thing" tee shirts to "Wright House, Wrong Place" signs in the neighborhood opposing commercialization of the house (
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