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Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses
Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater: The House and Its History
Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House: The Illustrated Story of an Architectural Masterpiece
Frank Lloyd Wright's
Taliesin and Taliesin West
Buffalo, New York 1903 (Darwin D. Martin House)
George Barton House
The house, constructed in 1903 for George Barton & his wife Della Martin Barton (sister of Darwin D. Martin) at the northern corner of the Darwin D. Martin lot. George Barton at the time was employed with the Larkin company.
The basic floor plan of this house is a standard cruciform, with the dining room, living space such as; library, dining and reception areas open freely in to one another as discrete subdivisions of a continuous space taking up the central axis in a plan that is based on Henderson House. The two major bedrooms on the second story are located at the opposite ends of the corridor. The kitchen is tucked away behind the main stairway at the other end of the house from the entry porch.
Unlike the Henderson house, the fireplace is set off-center, in one of the inner corners of the cruciform shape, so that it warms the living-room space in the two-story portion of the house and the library. None of the areas is walled off from its surroundings, giving an open-plan concept, although Wright used piers and beams below ceiling height to define the spaces.
Wright repeatedly experimented with cross-axial plans in order to
lower the front of his houses and extend them farther into the
surrounding landscape. Today the building has been restored and it
serves as the visitors center for the Darwin Martin house.
The house is located at 118 Summit Avenue, Buffalo, N.Y. 14214. If
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