Frank Lloyd Wright Traditional Cache
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This is a typical cache...an Altoids tin. We brought you here to enjoy the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Santa Barbara.
George Stewart, a Scottish accountant, immigrated to California and settled in Fresno where he maintained a vineyard and orchards. He chose Montecito, then a rural town south of Santa Barbara as the location for a vacation home. Wright's work may have come to Stewart's attention through design magazines they acquired in San Francisco, where they had a second home.
This is the first home Wright constructed in California, and the only one in his famous prairie style. Wright on his plans labeled the house "a summer cottage", though at 4500 sq. ft., it is much larger than you may expect. Wright paid particular attention to the windows of this "summer cottage" and there are 365 art glass beauties that wrap around the house. The house is of cruciform plan with exterior of horizontal, redwood board and batten siding.
Now one acre, the site was originally five and included stables, which were later converted into a house and sold. A two-bedroom guest house is still on the property.
The writer T.C. Boyle now lives in the home and was inspired to write a novel about Wright called The Women.
There is a Waymark for this home that you can also claim.
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