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MRS. CLINTON WALKER RESIDENCE (1948 - S.306) FLOOR PLAN DRAWINGS 1948 1952 EXTERIOR 2021 ADDITIONAL WRIGHT STUDIES Date: 1948
Title: Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, Perspective 1948 (1948 - S.306).
Description: Photograph of original drawing in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. Aerial perspective of the Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, viewed from the South. Built on a rocky outcrop in Carmel on the Pacific Ocean, the Living Room looks out over the ocean and the beach below. The basic grid is a diamond shaped equilateral parallelogram. Wright expanded the grid in the living room creating a hexagon. With glass window walls covering five sides, the cantilevered roof appears to float over the space, sheltering the living room from the elements. Four thin cast iron rods support the roof, and are invisible to the eye. The windows step out as they rise toward the ceiling. The vertical portions of the windows are stationary, while the horizontal portion is hinged, and folds down, allowing gentle ocean breezes to flow into the living room. When approaching the house from the south the terrace appears as a prow of a boat. FLLW #5122.007. Courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Avery Library. See additional details...
Size: Original 10 x 6 B&W photograph.
S#: 0746.39.0621Date: 1948
Title: Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, Perspective 1948 (1948 - S.306).
Description: Photograph of original drawing in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. Perspective of the Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, viewed from the beach below. Built on a rocky outcrop in Carmel on the Pacific Ocean, the Living Room looks out over the ocean and the beach below. The basic grid is a diamond shaped equilateral parallelogram. Wright expanded the grid in the living room creating a hexagon. With glass window walls covering five sides, the cantilevered roof appears to float over the space, sheltering the living room from the elements. Four thin cast iron rods support the roof, and are invisible to the eye. The windows step out as they rise toward the ceiling. The vertical portions of the windows are stationary, while the horizontal portion is hinged, and folds down, allowing gentle ocean breezes to flow into the living room. FLLW #5122.005. Courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Avery Library. Published in Frank Lloyd Wright, 1943-1959, Pfeiffer, 2009, p.183. See additional details...
Size: Original 10 x 6 B&W photograph.
S#: 0746.41.0621Date: 1948
Title: Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, Perspective 1948 FLLW #5122 (1948 - S.306).
Description: Photograph of original drawing in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. Perspective of the Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, viewed from the beach below. Built on a rocky outcrop in Carmel on the Pacific Ocean, the Living Room looks out over the ocean and the beach below. Designed using a triangle module, the hexagonal shaped living room walls and windows stair-step outward as they rise upward. FLLW #5122.05. Published in Frank Lloyd Wright, 1943-1959, Pfeiffer, 2009, p.183. See additional details...
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W photograph.
S#: 0746.33.1219Date: 1948
Title: Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, Plan 1948 (1948 - S.306).
Description: Photograph of original drawing in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. Plan for the Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence. Built on a rocky outcrop in Carmel on the Pacific Ocean, the Living Room looks out over the ocean and the beach below. The basic grid is a diamond shaped equilateral parallelogram. Wright expanded the grid in the living room creating a hexagon. FLLW #5122.031. Courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Avery Library. See additional details...
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W photograph.
S#: 0746.40.0621Date: 1948
Title: Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, Ground Plan 1948 FLLW #5122 (1948 - S.306).
Description: Photograph of original drawing in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. Ground plan for the Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, viewed from the beach below. Built on a rocky outcrop in Carmel on the Pacific Ocean, the Living Room looks out over the ocean and the beach below. Designed using a triangle module, the hexagonal shaped living room walls and windows stair-step outward as they rise upward. Additional illustrations published in Frank Lloyd Wright, 1943-1959, Pfeiffer, 2009, p.183.
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W photograph.
S#: 0746.34.1219 Date: Circa 1950
Mrs. Clinton (Della) Walker, courtesy of the Walker Family.
Title: Mrs. Clinton (Della) Walker (1948 - S.306).
Description: Possibly a reception with Della Walker, circa 1950. Frank Lloyd Wright standing with a group of people looking at the camera.. He is wearing a suite and tie, a gold chain runs up to his breast pocket. He is holding a glass in his right hand, his left is in his coat pocket. He appears to be at a reception close to Monterey, California. Carmel is adjacent to Monterey. The Fawcett home (1955 - S.385) in Los Banos is an hour and a half away. The Kundert Medical Clinic (1955 - S.397), San Luis Obispo, CA, is two and a quarter hours away. Possibly Della Walker is the women to the right of Wright. Stamped on face: "Lee Blaisdell, Photographer." Stamped on verso: "Lee Blaisdell Photo Service. Monterey, Calif."
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W photograph.
S#: 0831.41.0215
Date: Circa 1950 Title: Mrs. Clinton (Della) Walker (1948 - S.306).
Description: Possibly a reception with Della Walker, circa 1950. Frank Lloyd Wright sitting with a group of men. He is looking to the left, jestering with his right hand. Same suit and tie as (S.831.41), but has added an overcoat. He appears to be at a reception close to Monterey, California. Carmel is adjacent to Monterey. The Fawcett home (1955 - S.385) in Los Banos is an hour and a half away. The Kundert Medical Clinic (1955 - S.397), San Luis Obispo, CA, is two and a quarter hours away. Stamped on face: "Lee Blaisdell, Photographer." Stamped on verso: "Lee Blaisdell Photo Service. Monterey, Calif."
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W photograph.
S#: 0831.42.0215
Date: Circa 1950 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright along the Pacific Coast, possibly Carmel California on a visit to the area, circa 1950.
Description: Possibly on a visit to the Walker Residence (1948 - S.306) in Carmel California. Wright is standing with his arms behind his back, looking to the right. He is wearing a hat. A wind swept evergreen tree is in the background. Vegetation appears coastal. Overcoat appears to match the coat in (S#831.42).
Size: Original 8 x 10 color photograph.
S#: 0831.43.0215
Date: 1952
Title: Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, 1952 (1948 - S.306).
Description: Viewed from the Southwest, from the beach below. Built on a rocky outcrop in Carmel on the Pacific Ocean, the Living Room looks out over the ocean and the beach below. Designed using a triangle module, the hexagonal shaped living room walls and windows stair-step outward as they rise upward. Published in Architecture in America, Andrews, 1960, p.152. Label pasted to verso: "W 20, USA Arch. The University Gallery. Northrop Memorial Auditorium, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wright, Frank Lloyd. American, 1869--. Carmel, Calif. 1952. Res. Walker. Photo by Andrews 1474." Photographed by Wayne Andrews. Acquired from the archives of the University of Minnesota. See additional details...
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W photograph
S#: 0910.51.0420Date: 2016
Title: National Register of Historic Places, Walker, Mrs. Clinton House (Digital and printed copy) (Published by the National Park Service and the National Register of Historic Places, Washington D.C.)
Author: Saunders, Jenan
Description: Occupying a rocky promontory overlooking Carmel Bay in Carmel, California, the Mrs. Clinton Walker House (Walker House) is the only Usonian design completed by Frank Lloyd Wright in a coastal environment. The house rests on a concrete pad atop a triangular Carmel stone masonry wall system that appears as a ship’s prow growing out of the rocky landscape. The house’s most prominent feature is its hexagonal living room space framed in reverse-stepped glass panels that afford panoramic views of the Carmel coastline. Bedroom spaces are located in small wings toward the rear of the composition, creating an overall arrow-shaped plan. The house employs a cedar-framed structural system with Carmel stone exterior wall cladding, a cantilevered metal roof, and steel-framed, vented windows. A large, boxy chimney punctures the hexagonal living room roof and establishes the fireplace as the living room interior’s focal point... Includes 236 photographs and illustrations. (Digital and printed copy)
Size: 8.5 x 11
Pages: Pp 46
ST#: 2016.52.0621Date: 2021
Title: Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, Exterior 2021 (1948 - S.306).
Description: Set of 84 photographs of the Walker Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. The Walker Residence sets on a rocky outcrop jetting out into the Pacific Ocean. Della Brooks married Minneapolis lumber executive Clinton Walker, a successful Minneapolis businessman. In 1904 they moved to Piedmont, California and lived there until Mr. Walker’s death in 1944. After his death, she moved to Carmel. Her sister Alma gifted her the oceanfront o tract with its rocky outcropping, The perfect site for a Frank Lloyd Wright building. She wrote, "I own a rocky point of... Continue...
Size: Set of 84 high res 20 X 13.5 digital images.
ST#: 2021.05.0621 (1-84)
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Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, Plan 1948 (1948 - S.306). Photograph of original drawing in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. Plan for the Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence. Built on a rocky outcrop in Carmel on the Pacific Ocean, the Living Room looks out over the ocean and the beach below. The basic grid is a diamond shaped equilateral parallelogram. Wright expanded the grid in the living room creating a hexagon. FLLW #5122.031. Courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Avery Library. (S#0746.40.0621) WALKER DRAWINGS 1948
1) Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, Perspective 1948 (1948 - S.306). Photograph of original drawing in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. Aerial perspective of the Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, viewed from the South. Built on a rocky outcrop in Carmel on the Pacific Ocean, the Living Room looks out over the ocean and the beach below. The basic grid is a diamond shaped equilateral parallelogram. Wright expanded the grid in the living room creating a hexagon. With glass window walls covering five sides, the cantilevered roof appears to float over the space, sheltering the living room from the elements. Four thin cast iron rods support the roof, and are invisible to the eye. The windows step out as they rise toward the ceiling. The vertical portions of the windows are stationary, while the horizontal portion is hinged, and folds down, allowing gentle ocean breezes to flow into the living room. When approaching the house from the south the terrace appears as a prow of a boat. FLLW #5122.007. Courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Avery Library. (S#0746.39.0621) 1B) Detail of the Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, Perspective 1948 (1948 - S.306). 2) Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, Perspective 1948 (1948 - S.306). Photograph of original drawing in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. Perspective of the Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, viewed from the beach below. Built on a rocky outcrop in Carmel on the Pacific Ocean, the Living Room looks out over the ocean and the beach below. The basic grid is a diamond shaped equilateral parallelogram. Wright expanded the grid in the living room creating a hexagon. With glass window walls covering five sides, the cantilevered roof appears to float over the space, sheltering the living room from the elements. Four thin cast iron rods support the roof, and are invisible to the eye. The windows step out as they rise toward the ceiling. The vertical portions of the windows are stationary, while the horizontal portion is hinged, and folds down, allowing gentle ocean breezes to flow into the living room. FLLW #5122.005. Courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Avery Library. Published in Frank Lloyd Wright, 1943-1959, Pfeiffer, 2009, p.183. (S#0746.41.0621) 2B) Detail of the Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, Perspective 1948 (1948 - S.306). MRS. CLINTON WALKER RESIDENCE 1952
Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, 1952 (1948 - S.306). Viewed from the Southwest, from the beach below. Built on a rocky outcrop in Carmel on the Pacific Ocean, the Living Room looks out over the ocean and the beach below. Designed using a triangle module, the hexagonal shaped living room walls and windows stair-step outward as they rise upward. Published in Architecture in America, Andrews, 1960, p.152. Label pasted to verso: "W 20, USA Arch. The University Gallery. Northrop Memorial Auditorium, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wright, Frank Lloyd. American, 1869--. Carmel, Calif. 1952. Res. Walker. Photo by Andrews 1474." Photographed by Wayne Andrews. Acquired from the archives of the University of Minnesota. (S#0910.51.0420) MRS. CLINTON WALKER RESIDENCE EXTERIOR 2021
Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence, Carmel, CA, Exterior 2021 (1948 - S.306). Set of 84 photographs of the Walker Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. The Walker Residence sets on a rocky outcrop jetting out into the Pacific Ocean. Della Brooks married Minneapolis lumber executive Clinton Walker, a successful Minneapolis businessman. In 1904 they moved to Piedmont, California and lived there until Mr. Walker’s death in 1944. After his death, she moved to Carmel. Her sister Alma gifted her the oceanfront o tract with its rocky outcropping, The perfect site for a Frank Lloyd Wright building. She wrote, "I own a rocky point of land in Carmel, Calif. extending into the Pacific Ocean. The surface is flat, it is located at the end of a white sand beach… I am a woman living alone - I wish protection from the wind and privacy from the road and a house as enduring as the rocks but as transparent and charming as the waves and as delicate as a seashore. You are the only man who can do this -will you help me?" June 3, 1945. On November 3, 1945 she wrote, "My daughter is most enthusiastic on my having you plan the cabin, she sent me a picture from New York of Mr. Kaufmann’s house (which I have seen) and said ‘If Mr. Wright did this for a stream, what will he do for an ocean!’ " (Courtesy, Frank Lloyd Wright Archives at the J. Paul Getty Center.)
Correspondence continued and Wright presented his first design in 1948. Construction began in 1951 and wascompleted in 1952. The basic grid is a diamond shaped equilateral parallelogram. Wright expanded the grid in the living room creating a hexagon. With glass window walls covering five sides, the cantilevered roof appears to float over the space, sheltering the living room from the elements. Four thin cast iron rods support the roof, and are invisible to the eye. The windows step out as they rise toward the ceiling. The vertical portions of the windows are stationary, while the horizontal portion is hinged, and folds down, allowing gentle ocean breezes to flow into the living room. This was first proposed for the unrealized Haldron Residence in 1945. In 1956, a studio addition was designed by Wright, expanding the Master bedroom.
This day was overcast. Warm but very hazy at times. When approaching the house from the south the terrace appears as a prow of a boat. When approaching from the North, the outward stepping windows and the cantilevered living room roof are striking. As of this visit, the house is now seventy years old, and becomes more stunning with age.
Our intent is to record the details that create the totality of the design, creating a complete picture. Photographed during a drive up the coast from Los Angeles to Seattle, by Douglas M. Steiner, May 29, 2021. In an effort to expedite adding these photographs to this website, we have dispensed with a description for each photograph. Set of 100 high res 20 X 13.5 digital images.
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