
Not all of Frank Lloyd Wright’s clients were extremely wealthy. He designed many homes for normal people, including this one in a residential neighborhood in Madison. Faced with a client, Mr Jacobs, who demanded a home for only $5,000, Wright also demonstrated that he could keep to a budget, building this for that price in 1936 during the Great Depression. He called this new style Usonian, which meant American Utopia open to the Democratic masses. The World Heritage committee must have been impressed with the full tour inside, but since it is still being lived in, the home is not open to tours.
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