Friday we went to the Darwin Martin House. It was such a beautiful and different house from all the other homes in Buffalo. Darwin Martin worked with Frank Lloyd Wright to make this house of everyones dreams. It was so advanced for homes of that day because it had a kitchen inside, when that was uncalled for back then! The house was made out of bricks that were aupposed to look like silk wrapping around the house, it was framed with tons of beautiful stainglass windows, and had a not so obvious hidden entry to be something different than Victorian style. He wanted his home to seem like something that sprouted up from the earth, and nature was something very important to the house, where they had huge planters and plants all around with all the newest technologies. The inside of the house was a very open floorplan but still seperated diffferent rooms with lowing the cielings instead of using walls. If the cielings were low that meant to walk through.
I really enjoyed this tour because I love walking through cool homes in general, if its Mumford, a open house, or just my friend's house I think houses are all so unique and different. It;s cool to see things in houses you never could have imagined on your own, like how did Wright come up with this plan? It is so unique and a masterpeice!
It is so cool that they are doing all they can to restore this to its original beauty, The tour lady said it was abandoned for 17 years (or maybe it was 14?) and then the house kind of fell apart. They have put alot of money and hard work into it, $44 million so far and they are still expecting to put another $11 million into it!
It was a very nice tour and such a beautiful day for it, was definitly a great way to end the semester, and I got my mom a beautiful wooden lantern with the stainglass pattern on it so she can enjoy some of the beauty of this house!
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