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The Sol Friedman House is an extraordinary masterpiece designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, nested on a bucolic site in renowned Usonia. Documented by architectural photographer Ezra Stoller and featured in numerous publications including Architectural Forum and the NY Times. Full-time home or amazing hidden retreat up a private drive approximately 50 minutes north of Manhattan. Presenting home-as-art, an innovative overlapping circular masonry design uniting structure and nature. Inside, the curving living space gives a sense of movement and connectivity to the outside, not unlike a tree house floating in the woods. Magnificent stone center fireplace & marvelous oak built-ins and furniture, designed by Wright himself, shows his genius in their utility. Just adjacent to the main house, atop the properties rising stone wall is a distinctive concrete formed pedestal carport; a mushroom seemingly growing up from the ground. A private residence respected and cherished.
Frank Lloyd Wright started building his 'Usonian' homes in the 1930s: simplified developments from his earlier prairie houses that brought his redesigned, open-plan ways of living to a modest size and budget.
The Usonian community at Pleasantville is relatively late in Wright's development: he developed the master plan in 1947. Fifty Usonian-style houses, with much variety within the common theme, are spread around 100 acres of woodland, with common land and facilities shared as a cooperative. Wright personally designed three of the houses, of which two are more or less unchanged today.
The Friedman House forms part of the development of Wright's use of the circle, culminating in his Guggenheim Museum in New York.
FOR SALE $1,500,000
11 Orchard Brook Dr, Pleasantville, NY 10570
3 beds | 2 Full/1 Half baths | 2164 sqft | 1.25 acres
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Listing Agent, Zillow, Realtor, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Galinsky,
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