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New face of 2714 W. Burnham St.
Posted by: mhertzberg on November 4, 2009 at 5:41PM CST
I regret the technical problems that have kept me from posting new articles for several months, and that have led to the disappearance of some earlier slide shows. I will continue to alert readers to new articles with notes to the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy's Wright Chat site and through the PrairieMod web site. The photo selection will be limited, as I cannot post slide shows at the moment.

 Text and photos (c) Mark Hertzberg

      Significant progress has been made in the restoration of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home at 2714 W. Burnham St. in Milwaukee. The 2700 block of W. Burnham is unique because it has six Wright American System-Built homes on it, including 2714, the B-1 model, which is sometimes called the Richards Small House.

 

     

 
         The restoration is an important milestone in the preservation of Wright's work. Members of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Council visited the house, and the block, in early October.

      

    The house, which was designed in 1915, is being restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin Tourism Heritage Group (Wright in Wisconsin). The group also owns two of the four duplexes in the group of six.

     

 

 

     The restoration has been helped by a variety of generous grants, including a Save America's Treasures grant. Work included removal of the covered front porch, to restore the original open porch design; asbestos removal; and removal and replacement of all the stucco; aswell as a restoration of the interior. Landscaping was provided by Milaeger's of Racine. See the group's website wrightinwisconsin.org for information about tours.

    

     A previous article, with a variety of slide shows during the restoration of 2714, is at:

http://http//my.journaltimes.com/post/wright-in-racine/burnham_street_update.html

 

 

 

 The Duplex Apartments:

 

 
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(4) Comments
Posted by: DobberDeeDee on November 4, 2009 6:27PM CST
Beautiful photos. And this is truly a project worthy of support. Thanks.

Posted by: Sassa on November 4, 2009 7:05PM CST
Excellent pictures. I think older homes have so much more personality with all their nooks and crannies. My moms house on Park Ave even had a little 'telephone' room with a window.

Posted by: Dr. Awkward on November 6, 2009 8:21AM CST
Great update. One of the masons pictured in your first blog about the restoration let me wander around the construction site this summer and showed me what they were working on. I guess I was in the Wright place at the Wright time! (ooh, that's bad).

Posted by: StormyKnight on November 9, 2009 10:25AM CST
GLad to see you back, mhertzberg.
Excellent photos! F.L. Wright sure had neat design concepts.
I was wondering if you know if this is true [a little off topic- sorry] - A few years back (while working securitiy @ Wingspread) I was told that the west wing of Wingspread lines up with the summer solstice. If you stand in the observation deck and face west, on the day of the summer solstice, the sunset lines up with the end of the west wing. Any truth to that?


Dr- lolol!!!!

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