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This home, known as \u201cTirranna\u201d (the native American word for \u201crunning water\u201d) was built in 1955 in New Canaan, Conn., in a horseshoe shape and features glass walls that offer panoramic river and waterfall views. It boasts 7,000 square feet of living space along the Norton River. The home features seven bedrooms, nine baths, a rooftop observatory, a caretaker\u2019s suite, a guest studio, gold-leaf chimneys, swimming pool patio, tennis courts, and sculpture paths leading to the river\u2019s edge. The home was recently listed for $8 million but has been reduced to $7.2 million. All proceeds from the sale will be donated to charity.<\/p>\n
A Home for Everybody<\/strong><\/p>\n Wright often designed homes for the wealthy, but he also advocated for functional home designs that the middle class could also afford. A group of scientists from the Upjohn Company in Galesburg, Mich., requested that Wright design a community of homes in 1949, one on each circular acre. Four were ultimately constructed by Wright, showing off his Usonian design, focused on simplicity, form, and function. The homes were known as Wright\u2019s first foray into organic ranch-style architecture. The homes within Galesburg Country Homes Acres (later renamed to just The Acres) were built with natural materials, walls of glass for winter passive solar collection, radiant-heated floors, flat roof lines with overhangs, carports, and built-in furniture, TopTenRealEstate.com notes in the article. One of the homes, the Samuel and Dorothy Eppstein residence, was on the market last year and sold for $368,000, the lowest-priced Wright home on the market in 2016. The 2,250-square-foot Usonian home has three bedrooms, two baths, a large general purpose room, built-ins, and 10-foot walls of glass offering views of the outdoor valley and meadows.<\/p>\n Wright\u2019s Beach House<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wright designed this home on Crystal Lake in Virginia Beach originally for Andrew and Maude Cooke in the late 1950s. The construction on the home began in 1959, just two weeks before Wright\u2019s death. Wright designed the home to take advantage of the views of the woodland and dunes along the water. His Usonian design is again on display here, with \u201chis passive solar hemicycle aesthetic of a sweeping half circular design leading the eye to the dunes and lake,\u201d TopTenRealEstate.com notes. The home features a private drive leading to the home filled with towering trees and greenery, a conservative entrance that does little to hint at the long curve of solid glass that shows off the lake views from the home\u2019s interior. The home has been awarded a preservation award from the American Institute of Architects after the latest owners Daniel and Jane Duhl\u2019s reservation of preserving Wright\u2019s work in the home in the 1980s. The home recently sold in 2016 for $2.2 million.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/realtormag.realtor.org\/sites\/realtormag.realtor.org\/files\/rmo_files\/images\/2017_may\/Wright_HomeforEverybody.jpg\")
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