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October 3, 1985. The Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House, also known as the Affleck House, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in Metro Detroit. It is one of only about 25 pre- World War II Usonians to be built. [2] It is owned by Lawrence Technological University. [3]
The main living space spans a forty-foot ravine, and is anchored to the hill by the bedroom wing that culminates in a ground-level master suite. The Afflecks lived in the house until their deaths in the early 1970s. In 1978, their children donated the house to the Lawrence Technological University so that it could be used as an educational ...
Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House. 1941, Frank Lloyd Wright; 2007–present restoration, Lawrence Technological University architecture students. 1925 N. Woodward Ave. Gregor S. Affleck, a chemical engineer who invented a quick-drying automobile paint and established a manufacturing facility for it in Hamtramck, was quite familiar with ...
Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Frank Lloyd Wright, Lawrence Technological University, Gregor S Affleck, Elizabeth B Affleck, Mary Ann Affleck Lutomski Shurly, Gregor P Affleck, et al., Kieltyka, Andrew A, photographer. Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House, 925 Bloomfieldwoods Court, Bloomfield Hills, Oakland County, MI ...
Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House. The Affleck House is a brick and cypress, raised Usonian house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Sited in a wooded natural amphitheater, the house nestles along a gentle grade before its living area cantilevers dramatically over a small stream bed. A massive vertical brick shaft (fireplace, kitchen ...
Apr 7, 2011 · Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House, Bloomfield Hills, MI A childhood friend of Wright, in 1940 Gregor Affleck and his wife Elizabeth chose to commission the design of their new home from the renowned architect – despite the fact that Elizabeth had originally desired a “‘Colonial’ with white pillars to the roof.”
Placed on both the Michigan and National Registers of Historic Places, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House has been recognized by many architectural scholars and historians as one of Michigan’s most significant structures. Completed in 1941, Affleck House has been described as “…both a unique item ...
