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Wright Sites in Arizona. Wright first came to Arizona in 1928 to consult on the design of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel. He was immediately smitten with the desert landscape and began to spend more and more time in the state. In 1937, he established Taliesin West, his winter home and studio in Scottsdale. Taliesin West was the first of several ...
Sep 12, 2019 · From the time Frank Lloyd Wright began visiting Arizona in the 1920s until his death in 1959, he witnessed the population of Phoenix multiply tenfold, from nearly 40,000 to over 400,000 people. This burgeoning society needed architecture and civic identity, but also had its share of challenges. Early in this phase of his life he stated that ...
- Arizona Biltmore
- Taliesin West
- ASU Gammage
- First Christian Church
- Raymond Carlson House
- Benjamin Adelman House
- David and Gladys Wright House
- Arthur Pieper House
- Boomer Cottage
- Harold Price House
Where:2400 W. Missouri Ave., Phoenix. Built:1929. Tours: 90-minute tours are available at 10 a.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, free to guests and $10 for visitors. 602-955-6600, arizonabiltmore.com. Architect Albert Chase McArthur was a protégé of Wright and also a brother to two of the entrepreneurs who opened the resort. Wright consulted on...
Where:12621 N. Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd., Scottsdale. (GPS address: 12345 N. Taliesin Drive.) Built:1937. Tours: Guided tours from one to three hours are held daily ($19-$75); reservations strongly recommended. 888-516-0811, franklloydwright.org/taliesin-west. Take the “virtual tour,” dubbed the Taliesin West Digital Experience, at franklloydwright....
Where:Mill Avenue and Apache Boulevard, Tempe. Built:1964. Tours: By appointment. 480-965-5062, asugammage.com. Wright’s last public commission before his death in 1959 was a world-class concert hall for Arizona State University and a budding metropolis that needed some cultural cachet. Dubbed the “pink wedding cake” for its swooping silhouette, th...
Where:6750 N. Seventh Ave., Phoenix. Built:1973. Tours: By appointment. 602-246-9206, fccphx.com. ASU Gammage isn’t the only Wright design that got repurposed (and many never got built at all). In 1949, he got a commission to create a campus for Southwest Christian Seminary, but the Bible school closed the next year. First Christian Church bought t...
Where:Near 11th Avenue and Bethany Home Road, Phoenix. Built:1950. Named after the Arizona Highwayseditor for whom Wright designed it, the home was last sold in 2003 for $400,000.
Where:Near 30th Street and the Arizona Canal, Phoenix. Built:1951. It’s one of Wright’s “Usonian Automatic” housesmade from modular concrete blocks to keep expenses down. The idea was to offer DIY materials for war veterans, but like many of Wright’s ideas, that didn’t pan out; an architect was still required. Designed for a Milwaukee businessman, ...
Where:Near Camelback Road and 54th Street, Phoenix. Built:1952. Tours: Public tours have been suspended, but you can take a virtual tour, including video and 360-degree photos, at davidwrighthouse.org. Built for Wright’s son, this spiral design is the architect’s best-known private residence in Arizona, thanks in part to controversy. When a previou...
Where:Near 65th Street and Cheney Road, Paradise Valley. Built:1952. The second of two Usonian houses in the Valley, it was designed for one of Wright’s apprentices. But is it really still a Wright house after it was expanded to triple its original square footage (1,400 to 4,500)?
Where:Near 30th Street and the Arizona Canal, Phoenix. Built:1953. With lots of glass in off-kilter angles, this two-story parallelogram was conceived as a beach house in California, but the striking redwood eaves blend perfectly with the landscape. Named for Jorgine Boomer, who had been co-owner (with her late husband, Lucius) of the famed Waldorf...
Where:Near Tatum Boulevard and Clearwater Parkway, Paradise Valley. Built:1955. The biggest (and maybe grandest) of Wright’s Arizona houses, it was the winter home of MaryLou and Harold Price, a businessman who inherited the Popsicle brand from his dad and commissioned Wright’s tallest design, the Price Tower, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
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Sep 17, 2018 · This architecturally significant three-bedroom, four-bath home was prelude to the iconic architect's future work. In 1952, Frank Lloyd Wright built this concrete block home on a 5.9-acre lot in the Arcadia neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona, for his son, David, and daughter-in-law, Gladys. Set in an orange grove, the circular home features ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright + Arizona. Frank Lloyd Wright’s connection to Arizona, the location of his personal winter home Taliesin West, runs deep, with his architectural influence seen all over the Valley. Here, PhD student David R. Richardson gives a brief overview of several of Wright’s most notable projects in the Grand Canyon state.
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Coordinates: 33°30′05″N 111°58′09″W. David and Gladys Wright House. The David and Gladys Wright House is a Frank Lloyd Wright residence built in 1952 in the Arcadia neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona. It has historically been listed with an address of 5212 East Exeter Boulevard, but currently has an entrance on the 4500 block of North ...
May 21, 2024 · Taliesin West Receives National Acclaim as Travel Destination. Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home and laboratory in Scottsdale, Arizona, welcomes over 100,000 visitors each year. National news organizations have joined the discussion about what makes this National Historic Landmark so extraordinary.
