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OLD-HOUSE JOURNAL Date: 1987 Title: Old-House Journal - September/October 1987
Author: Poore, Patricia Author: Restoration Products Description: Tile Roofs (Photo of Robie House) Description: Frank Lloyd Wright Products Size: Size: Pages: Pp 22-29 Pages: Pp 66 S#: 1987.10.0901 S#: 1987.11.0901 Date: 1990 Title: Old-House Journal - May/June 1990 (Published Bi-Monthly by Old House Journal Corporation, Brooklyn, NY)
Author: Price, Don
Description: "Cantilever Tales. A flat roof is often a challenge in a northern climate – even if the building is a home by Frank Lloyd Wright. So discovered Elizabeth Halstad, the owner of a late-1930s Wright House that needed roof repairs. In the summer of 1988, Elizabeth asked me to examine her home – especially the roof. So with Ann Arbor architect Marc Rueter, I investigated and found three areas of concern..." Repairing the Goetsch-Winkler House roof. Includes 15 photographs and illustrations.
Size: 8.25 x 11
Pages: Pp 42-47
ST#: 1990.119.1215
Date: 1993 Title: Old-House Journal - January / February 1993
Author: Moran, Maya
Description: "Prairie Plaster". A look at the sand-float finish and dye treatments that created multicolored walls in Wrightian Houses. Restoring the Tomek House.
Size:
Pages: Pp 3, 36-39
ST#: 1993.32.0804
Date: 1993 Title: Old-House Journal - March / April 1993
Author: Kelley, Stephan & Susan
Description: Letters: Prairie Plaster Uncovered
Size:
Pages: Pp 14
ST#: 1993.33.0804
Date: 1993 Title: Old-House Journal - November / December 1993
Author: Elliott, Lynn; Bock, Gordon
Description: "Lights for a new Century".
Size:
Pages: Pp 26-30
ST#: 1993.34.0804
OLD-HOUSE INTERIORS Date: 2009
Title: Old-House Interiors - July 2009 (Published monthly by Home Buyer Publications, Gloucester, MA)
Author: Schmidt, Franklin & Ester (Text & Photographs)
Description: Samara. Now in his 90s, Dr. John Christian still inhabits the home he and his wife commissioned from iconic architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
This Story proves that "you just don't know until you ask." In October of 1950, a young Purdue professor and his bride got it into their heads to ask Frank Lloyd Wright to design a house for them.
It would be a modest house: John and Catherine (Kay) Christian were barely in a financial position to own any home, let alone one designed by a famous architect. Wright, who was 83 in 1950, was a living legend, already considereed by many to be the greatest American architect.
To the Christians' amazement, Wright took their request seriously, answering that he might very well design a home based on his increasingly popular Usonian concept. Rather than a modular "everyman's house, though, the Christian house was to be a step up; Wright meant to design a house befitting a family who would...
Includes ten photographs of the Christian House, Samara.
Size: 8.25 x 10.9
Pages: Pp 43, 58-63
ST#: 2009.71.1024
Date: 2011 Title: Old-House Interiors - April 2011 (Published monthly by Home Buyer Publications, Gloucester, MA) Author: 1) Anonymous 3) Anonymous Author: 2) Coleman, Brian D. Description: 1) "Coming Wright Up..." 2011 Wright Plus Housewalk, May 20. Includes an interior photograph of the Rookery Building Lobby.
3) "Fallingwater. Wright’s masterpiece, Bear Run, Pennsylvania." Includes a brief history and one photograph of Fallingwater. Original cover price $4.95Description: 2) "Wright’s Pew House on Lake Mendota in Wisconsin recalls the architect’s famed Fallingwater, but on a more modest scale. The owner admits he had no interest in Frank Lloyd Wright – nor even in historic architecture --before his house hunt a few years ago. Elliot Butler was an apartment dweller in Madison for many years. In 2008, finally looking to buy a property, Elliot read a story about a historic house for sale in the local newspaper. He contacted the owner and arranged a visit, and that was that. The house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1939-40 for John C. Pew, a Madison businessman..." Includes 11 photographs by William Wright. Size: 8.25 x 10.9 Pages: 1) Pp 18 3) Pp 49 Pages: 2) Pp 44-48, 50 ST#: 2011.27.0320
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