PASADENA, CALIF., JANUARY 25–26: The Gamble House Lecture Series. “Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles” will be presented by Frank Henry, an adjunct professor at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesin West. Lecture starts Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Ahmanson Auditorium, Art Center College of Design, 1700 Lida St., Pasadena. The lecture will be followed the next day by a tour of a Frank Lloyd Wright House. Admission for the lecture is $25; the tour is $100. For more details and to register, visit gamblehouse.org or call 626 793-3334.
PHOENIX, AZ., FEBRUARY 10: Willo Historic Home Tour. Featuring Tudor, Spanish Revival and bungalow homes dating from the 1920s, one of Phoenix’s oldest and most beautiful andneighborhoods presents its 19th annual home tour and street fair. Take a trolley car or walk the tour, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are available for $15 the day of the tour at the neighborhood park, 3rd Ave. and Holly. Presale tickets can be purchased at willohistoricdistrict.com. For information, visit the Web site or call 602 694-1275.
UKIAH, CALIF., FEBRUARY 10– APRIL 22: Romance of the Bells: The California Missions in Art. This traveling exhibition from the Irvine Museum’s plein air collection features 59 oil paintings, etchings and watercolors of the 21 California missions by some of California’s finest landscape artists from the late 1800s to mid-1900s. Presented by the Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House, the 1911 Northern California Craftsman home of the nationally known painter of Native American portraiture, Grace Hudson, and her collector-scholar husband, John. The museum holds a collection of Pomo Indian artifacts, Grace Hudson paintings and collections focused on Western art, history and anthropology. Located at 431 S. Main, open Wednesday–Saturday 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Sunday noon–4:30 p.m. Visit gracehudsonmuseum.org or call 707 467-2836.
PASADENA, CALIF., FEBRUARY 9–10: Los Angeles Pottery Show. Bringing together 95 of the world’s best antique art pottery and tile dealers and over 2,000 dedicated pottery collectors, the show will feature verbal appraisals by David Rago and Suzanne Perrault, book signings and private collections exhibits. At the Pasadena Center Conference Building, 300 E. Green St., Saturday 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.–4 p.m. For more information, visit lapotteryshow.com or call 760 238-2493.
ASHEVILLE, N.C., FEBRUARY 22–24: 21st Annual Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Conference. One of the most well-known events for Arts and Crafts collectors, designers, artisans and experts takes place in the 512-room historic Blue Ridge Mountains inn. Antiques and reproductions, demonstrations, seminars, architectural tours and book discussions draw 3,000 attendees each year. This year’s show will be highlighted by the postponed presentation of its first Arts & Crafts Lifetime Achievement Award to “author, teacher, friend” and longtime American Bungalow advisor Robert Winter. The recipient of the award in 2007, Bob was unable to attend but promised to speak at this year’s conference. For information and reservations, call 828 628-1915 or visit arts-craftsconference.com.
PASADENA, CALIF., MARCH 20: The Gamble House Lecture Series. Art educator and historian Ron Steen will discuss the regional art movement of painting outdoors in natural light in “Plein Air: From Monet to Watchel” at 7:30 p.m. at the Neighborhood Church, 2 Westmoreland Place, Pasadena. Tickets are $25. Following the lecture, on March 22, tour the Judson Gallery’s Contemporary Plein Air exhibit in Los Angeles. Admission is $20. For more details and to register, visit gamblehouse.org or call 626-793-3334.
ARIZONA
FLAGSTAFF: The 13,000-square-foot Riordan Mansion at Riordan State Historic Park is one of the best examples of Craftsman architecture in Arizona. The house museum contains original family furnishings, including Stickley pieces by Harvey Ellis and items from Tiffany Studios. Guided tours daily; handicapped accessible. Located at 409 Riordan Rd.; for more information, call 928 779-4396
or visit azstateparks.com/parks/parkhtml/riordan.html.
CALIFORNIA
CITY OF INDUSTRY: The six-acre Homestead Museum features the Workman House, the 1920s La Casa Nueva and the El Campo Santo cemetery. They stage many living history and other events each year, and admission is free. Located 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles at 15415 E. Don Julian Rd. Call 626 968-8492 or visit homesteadmuseum.org.
CLAREMONT: Claremont Heritage Village Walking Tour the first Saturday of each month. The 13/4-hour walk begins at 10 a.m. in front of the Historic Claremont Metrolink Depot, 200 W. First St. (Walk is canceled if it is raining at 8 a.m.) Call 909 621-0848 for information.
GARDEN GROVE: The two-acre Stanley Ranch Museum is the site of some of Garden Grove’s oldest homes and commercial buildings, including a California bungalow built in 1916. Located at 12174 Euclid St. Opens at 1:30 p.m. on the third Sunday of each month. For more information, call the Garden Grove Historical Society at 714 530-8871.
HIGHLAND PARK: Lummis Home Museum (“El Alisal”). This state historic monument, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is the arroyo-stone home built by Charles Fletcher Lummis, founder of the Southwest Museum; 200 E. Avenue 43. Friday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. Free (donations welcome). Call 323 222-0546.
LA CAÑADA-FLINTRIDGE: Built in 1914 by Arthur Haley in the Craftsman style, the Lanterman House at 4420 Encinas Dr. stands as the region’s first concrete residence. Open Tuesday and Thursday, and the first and third Sunday of the month, 1 to 4 p.m. Adults $3; students $1; under
12 free. Call 818 790-1421 or visit lacanadaflintridge.com/points/lantermanhouse.htm.
LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles Conservancy’s Art Deco Tours of downtown Los Angeles. Every Saturday; admission, $5. For reservations, call 213 623-CITY (2489).Tour The Judson Studios, center of the Arroyo Craftsman movement at the turn of the century; 200 S. Avenue 66. Call 800 445-8376 or visit judsonstudios.com.
Tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House, built between 1919 and 1923. Located in Barnsdall Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd. Tours of the exterior on Saturdays and Sundays at 12:30, 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30; tours Wednesday through Friday by appointment. Visit hollyhockhouse.net or call 323 644-6269.
PASADENA: Tour of The Gamble House, designed by Charles and Henry Greene, 4 Westmoreland Place; Thursday to Sunday, noon to 3 p.m. Adults $8; seniors 65 and older and students with ID, $5; under 12 free with an adult. Call 626 793-3334 or visit gamblehouse.org.
SAN DIEGO: Tour of the George White and Anna Gunn Marston House, 3525 Seventh Ave.; Friday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (tours begin on the hour with the last tour at 4 p.m.). Call 619 298-3142 or visit sandiegohistory.org, click on Museums then on Marston House. (See story, AB No. 48, page 36.) SAN MARINO: The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. In addition to the classics of the 15th and 16th centuries, American art has became a significant part of the Huntington’s collections. Included in the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery is a permanent installation of works by Charles and Henry Greene and other Arts and Crafts objects, organized in collaboration with The Gamble House. The Huntington is located at 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. Hours are Tuesday–Friday, noon–4:30 p.m. and Saturday–Sunday, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Summer hours (June–August) are Tuesday–Sunday, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Closed Mondays and major holidays. Admission is free. For information, call 626 405-2100 or visit huntington.org.
SANTA FE SPRINGS: The 8,000-square-foot Clarke Estate, designed by Irving Gill in 1921, is one of the best examples of his work still in existence; 10211 Pioneer Blvd. For hours or rental information, call 562 863-4896.
COLORADO
COLORADO SPRINGS: Complimentary tours of Van Briggle Pottery, established in 1899. Located at 600 S. 21st St. Call 800 847-6341 or visit vanbriggle.com.
GOLDEN: The Boettcher Mansion at the Lookout Mountain Nature Preserve is Arts and Crafts in style with some Tudor Revival elements. The 1917 home, which is headquarters for the Colorado Arts & Crafts Society and hosts special events and conferences, is furnished with vintage and reproduction Arts and Crafts furniture, lighting and interior finishing, and historical exhibits line the halls. It is open to the public for self-guided tours 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday. Call 303 526-0855 or visit mansion.jeffco.us.
FLORIDA
WINTER PARK: Visit the Morse Museum, home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Now on view after extensive conservation are two Tiffany leaded-glass windows that have long been unavailable to the public: a six-foot-high landscape window panel, ca. 1908, from the Richard Beattie Mellon house in Pittsburgh, and. a 33-inch-high work, ca. 1890–1900, from the home of Joseph Briggs. At 445 N. Park Ave.; closed Mondays. Adults $3, students $1, children under 12 free. All visitors admitted free September–May on Fridays 4–8 p.m. Call 407 645-5311 or visit morsemuseum.org.
ILLINOIS
CHICAGO: Frederick C. Robie House. One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s best-known structures, the Robie House is a model of modern functional form. Tours weekdays at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.; weekends from 11 a.m to 3:30 p.m. Admission $9 for adults, $7 for youths and seniors. Junior Architecture Tours for children 6–12 and their parents are given by student guides on the second Saturday of every month (except December) beginning at 10 a.m.; $3 per person. Located at 5757 S. Woodlawn. Call 708 848-1976 for information.
(See "Novel Tours at the Robie House," AB No. 51, page 132.)
OAK PARK: The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust presents a variety of regular guided and self-guided tours of the restored Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Museum, 951 Chicago Ave., and the surrounding Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie School of Architecture National Historic District during the year, along with special ArchiTreks and ToursPlus events that offer in-depth learning experiences. The regular tours include Daily Tours, a Junior Architecture Tour for children on the fourth Saturday of every month except December, the Wright Plus Housewalk each May and Victorian Christmas Tours in December. The complete list of tours and prices can be viewed at the trust’s Web site, wrightplus.org.
Also in Oak Park, tour Unity Temple, Wright’s innovative 1908 concrete Prairie Style church within walking distance of the Wright Home and Studio. Open for self-guided, multilingual audio tours March–November weekdays 10:30 a.m.– 4:30 p.m., and weekends 1–4 p.m.; December–February, open daily 1–4 p.m. Guided tours are available on weekends. Located at 875 Lake St. Call 708 383-8873 or visit unitytemple-utrf.org.
MICHIGAN
DETROIT: Pewabic Pottery. Visit a still-functioning Arts and Crafts pottery, located at 10125 E. Jefferson Ave. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment. Call 313 822-0954 or visit pewabic.com.
MINNESOTA
DULUTH: Visit Glensheen, the English country manor-style home of the Congdon family, built in 1905–08, featured in AB No. 23. Daily tours include one of the third floor and attic, or the main house tour; open 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m. through mid-October. Winter hours, 11 a.m.–2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. Adults $11, seniors $9, children 6–12 $6, 5 and under free; family rate $33. Additional rates for tour of entire estate or a grounds pass. Call 888 454-GLEN or visit d.umn.edu/glen.
Minneapolis: The warm-colored, wood-trimmed Ulrich Architecture and Design Gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts offer the ideal backdrop for one of the top three collections of Prairie School objects in the United States. The collection includes furniture, art-glass windows, a rare example of Prairie School silver, Frank Lloyd Wright’s hallway from the Francis Little House and a large art-glass skylight from the Madison State Bank by Purcell and Elmslie. MIA is located at 2400 Third Ave. South. Open Tue.–Sun.; admission is free.
MONTANA
BILLINGS: Moss Mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has remained virtually unchanged since 1903. For information, call 406 256-5100 or visit mossmansion.com. Call 612 870-3131 or visit artsmia.org.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
MANCHESTER: Designed in 1950, the Isadore and Lucille Zimmerman House is the only residence in New England designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who planned its gardens, furniture, textiles and even the mailbox. Tours depart from the Currier Museum by shuttle van Thursdays through Mondays. Reservations are required. The house is closed during the winter season. Admission (which includes admission to the museum) is $11 for adults, $8 for seniors and students and free for Currier members; children under 7 years not admitted. For more information or reservations, visit currier.org or call the Visitor Services Desk at 603 669-6144, ext. 108.
NEW JERSEY
MORRIS PLAINS: The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, the 1911–1917 home of Gustav Stickley and his family, is open to the public from the first of April to the middle of November and during the first three weekends of December. Hours are Wednesday through Friday, noon to 3 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (except December, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.). Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for students and seniors, $3 for children 6–12 and free for children 6 and under. Special programs are scheduled each month during the year. For information, call 973 540-1165, e-mail craftsmanfarms@att.net or visit stickleymuseum.org.
NEW YORK
BUFFALO: The Charles Rand Penney Collection of Works by Roycroft Artists is a comprehensive collection of 400 objects and more than 500 books and magazines. At the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, State University of New York, 1300 Elmwood Avenue. For information, call 716 878-6011 or visit burchfield-penney.org.
The Darwin D. Martin House Complex is known as Frank Lloyd Wright’s most extensive Prairie House, a multistructure complex integrated into a richly designed landscape. Designed for Darwin and Isabelle Martin 100 years ago, the landmark residential complex included a spectacular main house and separate structures for the Martins’ extended family. Currently under restoration, the Complex offers docent-led tours by reservation only. Call 716 856-3858 or visit darwinmartinhouse.org.
DERBY: Tour Graycliff, the summer home of Darwin and Isabelle Martin, a 1927 two-story, 6,500-square-foot house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Set on a 70-foot cliff overlooking Lake Erie, the house marked Wright’s transitional point from his Prairie Style to his concrete designs. Regular tours (April–November), generally last 11/4 hours, and group tours are available by appointment. Special in-depth winter tours are held on the second Saturday of December–March. For additional information and reservations, call 716 947-9217 or e-mail graycliff@verizon.net.
ITHACA: Frank Lloyd Wright Art Glass from the Darwin Martin House is on view at Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. One of Wright’s famous “Tree of Life” windows from the 1905 Martin house in Buffalo is presented in tandem with the Museum’s own art-glass casements from the Martin House. The pairing of these panels designed for different areas of the house shows how Wright redefined the boundary between interior and exterior space and explores Wright’s revolutionary use of color and light in architecture. Admission is free. Second-floor American art galleries, at Central and University Avenues. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. For more information call 607 255-6464, e-mail museum@ cornell.edu or visit museum.cornell.edu.
NEW YORK CITY: Visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, open Sunday–Wednesday 9 a.m.–6 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 9 a.m.–8 p.m. Located at 1071 5th Ave. at 89th St. Call 212 423-3500 or visit guggenheim.org and click on the “New York” image.
Also don’t miss an exhibit devoted to the full range of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) in the permanent collections of the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It features some 70 examples of Tiffany’s windows, lamps, furniture, mosaics, blown Favrile glass and other vases, pottery, enamel work and jewelry. The American Wing’s collection of American decorative arts now fairly represents the changing tastes of the country’s inhabitants across more than two centuries, in all of its regions, in rural communities as well as urban centers. The 12,000 pieces include ceramics ranging from Pennsylvania-German redware to Rookwood Pottery. The collection also includes 25 furnished period rooms, including The Frank Lloyd Wright Room—the living room from Northome, the 1915 summer residence of Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Little.
The museum is located at 1000 Fifth Ave. and is closed on Mondays. Call 212 535-7710 or visit metmuseum.org.
OHIO
CINCINNATI: In the hometown of the renowned Rookwood Pottery Company, the Cincinnati Art Museum displays its extensive collection of the decorative tiles and ceramics prized by architects and collectors in the early 20th century and viewed today as exceptional works of art. As part of the 18,000-square-foot Cincinnati Wing, the Rookwood Gallery exhibits more than 300 pieces, showcasing the pottery’s history and importance in decorative art. Located at 953 Eden Park Dr., the museum is open Tuesday–Sunday 11 a.m.–5 p.m. (Wednesday 11 a.m.–9 p.m.) except holidays.
Call 513 721-2995 or visit cincinnatiartmuseum.org.
SPRINGFIELD: The Westcott House Tours. After a $5.3 million restoration, the Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Style home with its art glass, original hardware, hand-decorated walls and massive urns has been returned to its 1908 appearance. Furniture has been rebuilt according to Wright’s specifications and gardens re-landscaped in keeping with the time. General tours are available year-round, Wednesday–Saturday 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Sunday 1–5 p.m. (Closed holidays.) Admission is $8.50 for adults, $7 for seniors, $6 for students and groups (minimum of eight), and $4 for school groups. Located at 1340 West High St. Visit westcotthouse.org for information and reservations.
PENNSYLVANIA
BRYN ATHYN: Guided tours of the Bryn Athyn Cathedral, built between 1919 and 1927. Some of the original guild shops
are still in use and continue to house craftspeople. Located at Hwy. 232 and Cathedral Rd. Tours Tuesday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to
4 p.m., are free for individuals and $2 per person for large groups. Groups of 10 or more are asked to call 215 947-0266.
MILL RUN: Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s widely acclaimed 1935 house that is integrated into a waterfall, is open to the public daily, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., mid-March through November. Reservations are required; call 724 329-8501 or visit paconserve.org.
TEXAS
WICHITA FALLS: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the redbrick neoclassic Kell House was built in 1909 by Frank Kell and occupied continuously by his descendants until 1980. It features distinctive architecture, original family furnishings, textiles, decorative arts and early-20th-century costumes. Ask for directions to the Southland and Floral Heights bungalow neighborhoods when you visit.
Located at 900 Bluff St., the house is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday, 2 to 4 p.m. Adults $3; children 12 and under, $1. For information, call 940 723-0623.
WISCONSIN
LAKE DELTON: Tours of the Seth Peterson Cottage, built in 1958 when Frank Lloyd Wright was 90 years old. The restored interior has Wright-designed furniture. Tours 1–4 p.m. the second Sunday of each month; $2. Call 608 254-6051 or visit sethpeterson.org.
RACINE: Tour of the S.C. Johnson Wax Co. Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Located at 1525 Howe St. Tours are Friday only; reservations required. Call 262 260-2000. Also tour Wingspread, the 1938 14,000-square-foot Prairie Style home built by Wright for the Johnson family, now an educational conference center. Tours are by appointment weekdays 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Call 262 681-3353 or visit johnsonfdn.org.
SPRING GREEN: A variety of tours of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s compound 40 miles west of Madison. Options include guided visits to the Hillside Studio and Theater or the House, as well as a two-mile walking tour and a whole-estate tour. Call 608 588-7900 for tour options or visit
taliesinpreservation.org. |