So maybe this will work.
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http://qctimes.com/news/local/barb-ickes/off-limits-places-the-quarry-ho...
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Oh, that's wonderful. Someone posted this same article at Wright Chat last week, and we enjoyed a peek at this unique aerie. So you've been there . . .
The fish-eye camera makes it a bit difficult to get the geometries sorted out -- but what a wonder. The stonework alone is noteworthy. Does it look as you remember it ?
I like the Nelson bench described as "a wood bench with metal legs". . . !
Why top of the morning, my dear.
Sweet Jesus, that article was posted in the qctimes (one of the papers that I read daily..a hometown thing, I guess)just last Sunday! News travels quick. The writer is a friend of my sister, I shall politely point out her lack of Nelson knowledge. And I have known the handsome Judge perched upon the slat bench for many years. A perfect gentleman.
Upon viewing the current snappy's of the interior after last being inside nearly 50 years ago, It seemed odd (and slightly unsanitary) to see so much patina on the copper trim. However, I'll bet it is better looking than it photographs. I recall as a child noting that the ceiling resembling my fathers boat, and I asked (at a young tender age) how they washed the windows? I recall Mr. Tyler's one word response...... "gingerly". Everyone laughed but me. I recall being quite impressed with the bath tub shower (and their connecting glass block wall), and I still think of that exterior mosaic tile trim around the windows. I did not understand the recessed florescent lightbulbs. Now I do. I wish that I had appreciated landscape architecture at a young age, as the setting of this jewel is priceless, and the enhancements even more. They did have an early dark green/tan 280sl parked in the drive. I was told that the lagoon was millions of feet deep, and full of snakes, so no swimming....and the lime content from the surrounding quarry would partially melt children skin. This house single handedly changed me into an aficionado of MCM architecture. Yes it did. Some day I will own this house. I will. I like it as well than any Wright that I've seen.
Best,
Your Aunt Mark
ps I am pretty sure that they played Andy Williams "Moon River" on the built in turntable. I remember details like that. I do. It was marvelous.
Thanks for posting this Mark,
Yes you should buy this house. Those second chances don't come very often.
I can relate to the steep terrain.
Would you actually live there? Or just want the chance to restore it, and visit occaisionally for secret meetings with SDR and spanky?
It looks rather isolated.
I like that.
Heh-heh -- yes. Readers should look it up. I don't recall if the iconoclast who made House on the Rock ever suggested any kinship to his nearby neighbor Frank Lloyd Wright; let's hope not.
Another designer's residence, in the Hudson Valley in New York State, comes to mind when "rock" appears in an architectural title; that would be Russell Wright's Dragon Rock:
Well hell, Eameshed. and hi!
Damn straight i'd love to purchase this gem, but it's not, nor will ever be for-sale...? Or so I've been informed. Probably for the better, as I see a problem with closet space. I like pants. But I'd consider cutting back on future sartorial splurges just for the chance of living in an unknown masterpiece such as this. Simply divine.
All the best,
Aunt Mark
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