Relocating a Frank Lloyd Wright house
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2021
- Polymath Park, in southwest Pennsylvania, offers visitors not only a unique opportunity to tour houses designed or inspired by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, but also a chance to spend a night in one. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with the park's proprietors, and with a Minnesota couple whose Wright-designed home was rescued by relocating it, piece by piece, to Pennsylvania.
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to think some of these homes have been torn down for a strip mall or a walmart just hurts my soul.
Our neighbors 1925. Brick home was eazed for an Indian therapy office that now site 3 quarter emoty
Capitalism saved these houses from being destroyed. By making money on their park and visitors who pay to stay and tour the homes and park, this couple is able to afford to purchase these homes, pay for the craftsmanship to dismantle and then erect at their park for future generations to enjoy.
It would have hurt Llyod Wright's soul even more than ours. He would be so grateful at what this video shows.
I got all choked up when they went back home
Thankyou so very much for this. As a carpenter for 50 years this brings tears to my eyes. Wright truly is one of the world's greatest ! And to see the couple reunited with there home was just awesome! Thankyou again!
I live in a Sears & Roebuck Catalogue Home called The Windsor. My grandparents built it in 1925. I understand your passion and appreciation of a structurally sound and esthetic ally appealing structure.
This also brought tears to my eyes. To see the reaction on their faces, when they saw it whole again in Pennsylvania, was priceless! 💕
@@bonniewalker9421 I repaired appliances for Sears for 23 years, and I designed and built my own home, no masterpiece, just home.
I doubt it Le Corbusier is as great as Lloyd Wright, my bias because I am a lover of nature.
I stayed at the Duncan House at Polymath Park! Great experience! My parents gave me a choice of where to go on spring break when I was in high school. And rather than go to Florida like most Michiganders do, I wanted to see Falling water (which is only about 40 minutes away from the park) and I also came upon the Duncan House and as a fan of FLW, I decided to do this.
You will have memories that last a lifetime. You can go to Florida any old time. My hat is off to you!
Good luck to you in your educational journey.
@@julieonthesummit you can go here any old time too…
This couple should be rewarded for all their efforts. All we can say is one short word, BEAUTIFUL!
We have one in Oregon that was almost torn down by the new owners of the property it was on. My friend and I worked on a mural in the owner's McMansion and they spoke about the Lloyd house with disdain because they couldn't demolish it when the state and preservation groups stepped in to save it. Thankfully it was moved and restored several miles away to the Oregon Gardens in Silverton.
A friend of my mothers Lou Penfield owned a Frank Lolyd Wright home in northern Ohio exclusively designed and built for Mr.Penfield. Lou was personal friends with Mr.Wright.
Together they collaborated on designing another Wright home for Lou. At the time Lou Penfield was teaching Art 🖼 at Mayfield High School. Lou told me that the day he received the second set of architectural plans from his friend Frank was the same day that Frank Loyd Wright passed away. Lou never built the second Wright home. He happily lived in the first one deep in the woods until he passed away. Lou Penfield’s son inherited the second set of the Wright/Penfield architectural plans.
I was a teenager when invited to a bonfire party on the grounds. I had just completed the term paper on Frank Loyd Wright. In my 30’s Lou invited me to spend a day at his Wright Home. We spent most of the time foraging through the woods and discovering branches and interesting stones. The Penfield’s were early settlers to our area and I believe they originally arrived on the Mayflower if I remember Lou’s story correctly. He was a gem.
I greatly admire the preservation of these historically important Wright Homes. I live in a Sears & Roebuck Catalogue Home called The Windsor. Built by my grandparents in 1925. The home was named after The Duke of Windsor who eventually became King Edward who abdicated the throne of England for the woman he loved.
Gorgeous house: www.penfieldhouse.com/
@@KevinHandydfw - Wrights Penfield House presentation talk ~ czcams.com/video/qCFJvTdv_mY/video.html
A brilliant story about conservation.
To live in a FLW house would be a dream come true.
The world needs more people like these!
This story is one of the reasons I have been watching CBS Sunday Morning show for decades. Please keep up the great work. Thank you so very much.
Well said.
@Mike Catalano hey troll why don't you keep your ignorant comments to yourself. I'll bet your favorite shows are on oan, newsmax and faux news, stations for the feeble minded.
Fantastic comment
Of course, Pennsylvania is where you'd want Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural orphans to find a permanent home. That's where arguably his greatest architectural triumph, Falling Water, resides. So glad these gems found a happy ending with people who so lovingly care.
There's also one on a nondescript street in Ardmore, Pa(suburban Phila).
Sad thing is despite its visual splendor, ‘Falling Water’ is structurally sound neither was it engineered to last on such a dynamic setting. There are reports that the floor on the main living space is bowing due to the suspension of the floor. But thank goodness there are efforts to save it.
@@henrylivingstone2800 - Actually, there was a report that during construction Wright’s instructions were ignored; he specified that the floors should not be crowned (the practice of placing the floor joists with their natural curve face up, so that the weight of the flooring and other loads would flatten that curve, compressing the planks together to reduce creaking). Since the floor was flagstone, and the parapets along their edges concrete, if they had not crowned the floors the weight would have flattened out the joists instead of pronouncing their curve and causing sagging.
Fallingwater = Rising Mildew...
Kentuck knob is just on the other side of Ohiopyle park from Fallingwater.
Have a little know Wright designed house in Rockford Il, The Laurent House, his only handicap accessible home he designed, for a disabled veteran.
I got to go inside it once.
My husband & I retired to Arkansas. We were privileged to purchase an E. Fay Jones home. Our Realtor was friends with elderly seller. It is like living in a piece of art! All original but tasteful. Materials are incredible. All stone floors, walnut wood work, vintage Formica & stone terraces. All original furniture was left with home. Jones was apprentice under Wright. My husband literally cried with joy.
THANK YOU FOR SAVING THESE JEWELS OF HISTORY !!!
PolyMath is on my " I have to go there right now! "list. This makes my heart happy.
Wow, saving those homes is something fantastic to have done! Frank Lloyd Wright was an amazing architect!
I am so impressed by this couple.
UNREAL. The idea that any FLW houses would be torn down is truly surreal.
I LOVE these people!!!
CBS needs to do more stories like this.
Thank you for this wonderful piece. I gasped when I realized that this Polymath Park is only 10 minutes from where my parents had bought their land, and my father built their dream home in Acme, PA. Thanks to Bob and Heather Papinchak, these mid-Century beauties live on. I actually cried when I saw the McKinney's reaction. Polymath is a great name, a person of Encyclopedic learning indeed. The Papinchaks, God and Frank Lloyd Wright did a beautful job! Thank you!
A time when homes did not look like every other house on the block.
You can have the home of your choosing if you have the money or the skills.
This story is very incredible, and the homes of Frank Lloyd Wright were outstanding. It is a very positive thing to bring you some comfort.
We visited in 2019 and the owner was our bus driver and such a nice person.
LUCKY Y🤓U‼ One can tell that he is genuine.
Countless beautiful, historical buildings have been demolished in the name of progress and monstrosities constructed in their place. It’s important to protect and preserve great architecture, and Wright primarily built residences. They are needed for us to enjoy, and as a reference for other architects and interior designers. They were absolutely revolutionary in their time, and in many ways still are today. If this gentleman can finance that through having guests stay there, great. Wright designed for a specific placement on a property, but if a property no longer exists as Wright saw it this is a fantastic solution.
So true...
Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress...John Muir
A thousand Bravos to the couple who are doing this holy work of restoration.
The look on their faces was priceless when they saw their old house put back together
Very heart warming
Beautiful story
I really enjoyed it
Have a wonderful day
I was very moved, above all because this is away from Ukraine's war and all those sad events of today's world.
To me This brings back the Americana spirit of preservation of our past. Well done folks I’m touched by your efforts and hope to visit soon.
Had the honor of being an art major at Florida Southern College home to the largest single location of FLWright architecture in the world. A truly beautiful and amazing experience. Sorority rituals in the Danforth chapel, long nights in the Roux Library, processing film under a stair case in Ordway and avoiding the rain under the esplanades.
So glad that these absolute treasures are being saved!
Believe it or not I cried when she was able to see her house again after it was moved. Glad they were able to save it.
What a fantastic story! Glad this guy found his calling, for his sake AND ours!
Wow…. Very teary-eyed here. Loved, … no, LOVE his designs. ❤️❤️❤️
We need to stop being a throw away society, embrace the history of these homes.
Tell Big Ugly biz that. This would only matter to them if it were happening to them.
💯!
It helps when there’s something worth keeping!! Need more homes and less houses.
Land usage changes every 25 years. Love Frank Lloyd Wright
Seeing the house reconstructed brought tears to my eyes. Amazing people preserving iconic architectural history.
& i was here last month....seeing all three homes after seeing Fallingwater :)
That is a long tie. Beautiful augment. Even buildings have energy
So awesome these people are preserving Wright's beautiful work and it would be truly incredible to stay there! Kudos to them!
I've been to Fallingwaters...
His homes are incredible!
This should certainly be on your bucket list!
Make it so!
12-22...update, just visited Polymath Park...unbelievable, got my picture taken with Mr Tom...my daughter made this happen...
Please Go!
Find a way!
Then you should know it's Fallingwater.
@@davidwilliams7935 at 64, I'm lucky enough to figure out this dam computer...lol...
Thanks!
@@kirk4086 perfect response well played
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That's right...big teeth...killer rabbit...thou shalt count to three...
Thanks again!
I love this story! How wonderful they all came together to make a “Field of Dreams” FLW would be proud of. Way to go!
Lovely story! glad to see that this unconventional method of conservation is keeping these FLW homes standing and lovingly preserved!
Incredible commitment
What an amazing story. How anyone could do anything but marvel at FLW’s work is a mystery!
I am impressed with the efforts to save these homes! I had the pleasure of visiting one of Frank's last projects that never got finished in Malibu. He was a national treasure!
I actually teared up…
I'm going there this Thursday! Now I know how it fits in the FLW universe. :)
How cool!
The people involved in this project most have had manny sleepless nights having that massive responsibility.
I’m sure that , that will be on top of their list of achievements as it would be for me..👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What an amazing story.
The Lindholms also had a Frank Lloyd Wright gas station in Cloquet, MN that is still there. A friend owns a 1960 Chrysler 300F that was reportedly owned by the Lindholms as well.
I'm from Cloquet (where the house was before). Came across this house once by accident while exploring the edges of Pine Valley during high school cross country. Twas a beautiful house, but yeah, the frontage road development on that side of 33 did make it quite a bit less secluded than I'm sure it once was. I heard it was getting moved, interesting to see what this entails!
I’ve stayed in the Duncan house! It was great. Very interesting and cool tour too
Frank Lloyd Wright houses always make me cry, this was no exception.
GOD BLESS this couple. Saving the art of a future thinking man. (I have loved Frank Lloyd Wright brilliance since childhood in the 1950's. For years I wanted to be an architect. Even designed houses in the 1960's which a woman bought from me riding the bus home from high school. Mine were nothing compared to these.)
Tour the Martin and Greycliff Wright homes in Buffalo.
I am glad that all the brilliant architectures were saved for future generation to enjoy and inspired. Great job!
I have been to "The Dana Thomas House" built by Frank Lloyd so many times ( over 100 ) I could give the tours. When I do go I'm telling the roup things about the home even the guides didn't know. His homes are amazing.
This is awesome! Thank you for saving his work for generations to come .
I’m in my 50’s now but when I was just a little child my father would work on his desk to design homes and he has a big architectural book of Frank LLoyd Wright design with pictures of the building and I would skim through it a lot.I would be at the job site with my father too .My father designed our house in Cebu Philippines , it was built with elements from FLW plus some Japanese flair lol . That house was different.Unfortunately we don’t own that house anymore.
Now in my older years , I still yearn to build a house with similar design. Ps I didn’t become an architect I became a nurse.Seeing FLW work brings back fond memories of my father.
Brought me to tears. What a great story about an amazing couple and a marvelous effort (to save these homes and their legacy) they are steering. Wonderful.
Polymath Park is an example of what should be for Wright orphans. Many more will come on the market today as I believe 60,000 Wright Usonians were built and we will see so many more that people will want nice prices for but that will not sell. This couple is amazing. I hope they can make enough money on the project to provide ongoing support for Polymath Park.
Love this thank you… tears of joy
Back when I was a teenager and I mowed grass I used to mow a yard across the street from a Frank Loyd Wright house. It was absolutely beautiful.
A wonderful piece, thank you Sunday Morning.
Frank Lloyd Wright homes are an experience not to be missed.
A project like this is truly a miracle.
An American Icon ❤️◻️🔵
Love,love FLW homes. So glad these were saved, even the two FLW student's homes. Thank you for sharing this incredible story.
It's so apparent that Frank Lloyd Wright was ahead of his time! So many of these brilliant designs were 100 years old! He achieved something rare in his brilliant designs by evoking a love and passion in me and thousands of others!
Preserving the work of one of our country's most known architects, how wonderful! This couple does have a calling. I love the idea of protecting our history and heritage, and creatively, while respectively, finding a way to earn from it. The paying guests is a great way of sharing Wright with everyone who appreciates this architect and his style and work. I wonder, can we build a home today using his designs?
Frank Lloyd Wright ❤️ houses are therapeutic. They are just beautiful.
UNESCO World Heritage worthy by all means.
Thrilling! We have several here in East Lansing MI and I’ve always been interested in what it would be like to stay in one. Treasures!
I had the opportunity to stay overnight at Duncan House and tour these properties. It’s wonderful! So glad for the preservation work they’re doing.
Awesome story - thank you for telling this!
It's very sad that they couldn't keep their house but so wonderful that it was so lovingly saved!
Generations from now will still be thinking of that wonderful couple who worked so hard making sure they were preserved
Some where up in heaven Frank must be smiling down on that couple and appreciating all the fuss
Have a wonderful day 😊
In Ohio there a many F.L.Wright homes, that have been restored and they offer tours of them. We have gone to many of them and I just love exploring them. In Columbus, Ohio there is a whole neighborhood, of homes designed and built by a disciple / student of FL Wright's. The area is called Rush Creek, built near the small river of the same name. There may be a dozen homes, hidden in the heavily wooded, area. In the 1980s, I worked in art gallery in Columbus, Ohio and my coworker, an older lady, owned one of those houses. Each one had a name,...named by the architect. Like "The Keyhole" house,....( I wish I could remember the others). Just last year or so in 2019 or 2020,...one was restored, and there was a wonderful photo documentary of the grounds and building. Another one, not in the same area,.....across town, had been abandoned and was rotting into dust,..and a local architect saved it and restored it completely. Also amazing looking, with all the details of those classic FL Wright homes. Those low-slung ones, a single story,......they are in harmony with the nature around them. They aren't everyone's cup a tea,.....so to speak. They use raw concrete block for the interior walls and lots of dark wall panels of wood. But they are filled with unique "Wright-ian" details. Everything is /was designed by the architect. The lighting, the furnishings, the interior and exterior. To enjoy them, look on-line for: "Usonian" styled homes,...(a FL Wright, invented word). Rush Creek, Columbus,Ohio and "The Gunning House", Columbus, Ohio. The disciple of Wright, the architect, & his name was Theodore van Fossen.
I grew up in a house that looked very similar to those. Don't think anyone significant designed it but it was a very special house to me. It was built on the sight of a really old house so there were huge oaks and beautiful rose gardens. Taken out by a highway expansion.
Literal tears!! This is beyond amazing!!
Sooo happy for the couple who saw their house in its future glory!!
We have a FLW house in Buffalo. Very popular. You can't stay in it but you can tour it. He was a genius.
The Darwin Martin house. Very beautiful!
This has to be one of the most inspirational videos I have ever watched. It brought me to tears. I have visited many of his homes and to think these people have 3…mind blown!!
LEARNING ABOUT FRANK LOYD WRIGHT IN SIXTH GRADE-SEEING THIS VIDEO AND KNOWING THE IMPORTANCE OF SAVING HISTORICAL HOMES-REALLY CHOKES ME UP!!
This made me cry tears of thank-you-and-I-want-to-stay-there. We've pilgrimaged to Fallingwater. Will make sure to book here for the next-decade visit. (From Manila, PH)
These aren't the only Frank Lloyd Wright houses that have been moved. The Bachman-Wilson house was moved from Millstone, New Jersey to Bentonville, Arkansas. The reason in that case was flooding at the original site on the bank of the Millstone River.
Mr. Wright's Genius is indeed timeless.
So glad they r saving FLW houses…..
It’s like a museum/hotel. He should have a section dedicated to people who live in these homes with a stipulation they have a deal to sell him the house on a predetermined price at a certain date/event, like if one passes.
So happy that these amazing homes are getting the care that they need.
I am so glad there are those that care.
Wooow what a story ! Frank Lloyd WRIGHT’s design jewels for the loving people who can appreciate them
Wow! Frank Lloyd Wright will now live on forever. As an art student in the 60s and a professional artist (now retired) this does my heart GOOD!
Wow..! just wow. Very moving story. Good to know people so cherish Frank's legacy, and keep it in safe hands.🇺🇸
We had the opportunity to go to Chicago and visit Frank Lloyd Wrights home. An architectural glory that it is to see.
We have one of his houses in Macon, Ga. Current owners put an edition on it...so much for historical legacy...
I think you meant “addition”, not edition. Unless you were telling us that the current owners made the house smaller!
What a shame. Mr. Wright would often provide for additions in his original plan. He realized that families would grow and change and that they would need more room for their families. Rather than go through the experience again many Wright clients of course left for something less expensive and more conventional.
God bless Tom and Heather Papinchak making a dream an opportunity and saving such beautiful works of living/live-in art. Thank you. I grew up visiting and taking art courses at the Hollyhock House and have had the opportunity to tour or stay in many of his works of art here in Los Angeles. I can’t wait to visit Polymath. Bravo and well done. ❤️🧡💚💙
We have a FLW house in our town and it’s our claim to fame!
I knew a couple who lived in one of frank loyd wrights houses in Folsom lake near Sacramento. Beautiful home..mostly wood and rock
Unbelievable devotion.
What absolutely incredible journalism!!! Well done CBS. This is an incredible story!!! Just wow!!
Truly an incredible way to honor these homes.
Amazing Americans preserving our culture! Bravo!
What an absolute labor of love,how awesome that people can stay in one. Love this❤️Beautiful park.