Frank Lloyd Wright Series #6: Graycliff Traditional Cache
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Frank Lloyd Wright Series #6: Graycliff
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This is the sixth cache in a series highlighting the local
structures designed by world famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
However, it is NOT required in order to find the
Frank Lloyd Wright Final.
Graycliff was the summer residence of Darwin and Isabelle Martin.
It sits atop a high bluff overlooking Lake Erie and generally
embodies Frank Lloyd Wright's prarie style, including a long, low,
rectangular form, stucco and stone materials, linear organization
of spaces, a massive chimney, and an interrelationship of building
with nature. Designed and built in the late 1920s, Graycliff is a
late and relatively restrained example of his prarie style.
From the beginning, the Martins had strong ideas about the design
of their summer home, and Wright accomodated their wishes. Isabelle
Martin's vision of Graycliff was driven by personal needs and
feelings about space and was significantly different than Wright's.
She never really liked the dark, private spaces of their home in
Buffalo. Graycliff is a stark contrast in that it is very open with
windows providing views of the lake and the land around the
house.
Darwin Martin died in 1935, and Isabelle Martin continued to live
in the house with her daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren until
her death in 1945. After 1945, the house remained vacant until 1950
when the Piarist Fathers acquired the house. Today, the Graycliff
Conservancy is in the process of restoring the buildings and site
to its original condition, after it was modified by the Piarists.
Tours of the estate are available by appointment in April through
November.
The cache has been placed with permission of the Graycliff
Conservancy. Please do not search for this cache after dark.
You will only have to venture a few feet into the wooded area to
find the cache. If the chain is up across the driveway, please do
not go beyond it.
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