Today, the home features central air conditioning and an automatic sprinkler system. The pitched and angled roof was repaired in 2012, and the flat roofs worked on in 2018. In 2017, all the home’s skylights were replaced. But where the most modernization occurred is in the kitchen, which now boasts new KitchenAid appliances, a touchless faucet, granite counters, and slide-out pantry drawers. They also installed a Bosch security system, Emtek door hardware, and energy-efficient windows throughout.

In the most recent rounds of renovation, the owners installed Toto toilets, a tankless water heater, and Brizo Litze fixtures in the bathrooms. Both current and past owners kept the home as their primary residence.ĭesign details throughout the home that clearly bear Wright’s signature include recessed lighting, stained-glass entry doors, a floor-to-ceiling brick fireplace, banquette seating, and walls of windows. Before the current owners snapped it up 25 years ago, the 1,700-square-foot layout had already been expanded to 3,150 square feet, and two additional bedrooms were added to the original two. Ina Harper owned the home for just six years before dying in a tragic accident. When you come in and see the design … they just don’t build homes like this anymore.” “The owners have maintained every aspect meticulously,” says Gain. They worked closely with the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy in Chicago, hiring an approved contractor to carry out Wright’s original intent. It was built in 1950-just nine years before Wright’s death-for Harper and her husband, and the sellers have also poured a lot of love, labor, and money into a full restoration.

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