Well as you can imagine, this house was something really different for Mason City in 1908.

The features that are really important to Frank Lloyd Wrights version of the Prairie School...

The bands of windows, contiguous windows together.

The edge of the roof line that makes a broad, horizontal statement.

Also, you have this thick and thin trim.

Instead of stopping at the edge of the wall, it bleeds off to the sides, which emphasizes that horizontal effect.

Your eyes dont stop at the edge It leads off, and directs your eyes out.

All of those things make it that when you come around the corner, and see the house theres no questions that this is a Prairie School home.

As you come up into the house, you can see that you get a vista not only of the living room area but through the veranda, and a large window.

So it makes it a very open feeling house.

Throughout the house, youll see symmetry as something that is a theme in the design.

Along with the symmetry, the trim in the house reflects the concept of ‘horizontality So we have this very wide trim along the walls and just down from the ceiling that is uniform throughout the house in all of the rooms.

The group that put the furniture in the house tried to immitate the design features of the furniture, as well as, keeping the house as it was.

Some of the other things on the wall, is an article from the New York Times talking about the moving of the house and the saving of it.

I like the headline: ‘Averting a Wright Wrong.

I hope you enjoy it, and enjoy your time in Mason City.