Frank Lloyd Wright House In Phoenix Faces Bulldozers

Frank Lloyd Wright House Faces Bulldozers
FILE - In this file photo of Aug. 16, 1938, architect Frank Lloyd Wright is seen in his studio and home in Talisien, Spring Green, Wis. A Frank Lloyd Wright archive of more than 23,000 architectural drawings and other material is being moved permanently to the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University's Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library in New York, it was announced, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012 by Sean Malone, president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - In this file photo of Aug. 16, 1938, architect Frank Lloyd Wright is seen in his studio and home in Talisien, Spring Green, Wis. A Frank Lloyd Wright archive of more than 23,000 architectural drawings and other material is being moved permanently to the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University's Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library in New York, it was announced, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012 by Sean Malone, president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. (AP Photo/File)

It's hard to say which is more startling. That a developer in Phoenix could threaten -- by Thursday, no less -- to knock down a 1952 house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Or that the house has until now slipped under the radar, escaping the attention of most architectural historians, even though it is one of Wright's great works, a spiral home for his son David.

Popular in the Community

Close

What's Hot