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How Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman Wilson House was moved from New Jersey to Arkansas

2015-10-12T18:08:00-04:00

In Bentonville, Arkansas, a house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for a New Jersey couple more than 60 years ago has been painstakingly reassembled, board by board and pane by pane, overlooking the clear waters of the Crystal Spring. When it opens to the public next month on the lushly wooded 120-acre campus of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, it will be the first Wright house in Arkansas—a delicately preserved later example of the so-called Usonian homes [...].

Previously on Archinect:

Frank Lloyd Wright's 'Usonian' house rises again in Arkansas

2014-11-18T13:43:00-05:00

How many truckloads does it take to transport a 2,800 sq. ft house, designed by one of America’s most revered Modern architects, more than 1,200 miles from New Jersey to Arkansas? [...] Staff at the three-year-old Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art put that question to the test recently when Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1950s Bachman Wilson House was moved from its flood-prone location on a riverbank in Millstone, New Jersey, to the institution’s sprawling 120-acre campus in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Previously: Museum buys a Frank Lloyd Wright house with plans to move it from New Jersey to Arkansas

Museum buys a Frank Lloyd Wright house with plans to move it from New Jersey to Arkansas

2014-01-16T13:52:00-05:00

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has bought a rare Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house, known as the Bachman Wilson House, located in the Borough of Millstone in Somerset County, New Jersey. Museum officials said the plan is to disassemble the house and move it to Arkansas, where it will be reassembled on the museum’s 120-acre grounds, located 25 miles north of Fayetteville.

A year ago a potential buyer wanted to move this house to Italy.

Architect Wants to Relocate New Jersey Frank Lloyd Wright to Italy

2013-02-25T14:38:00-05:00

Wright aficionado and architect Paolo Bulletti has launched an effort to purchase the 1954 Bachman Wilson House, one of Wright’s Usonian Houses in New Jersey, and transport the structure to the town of Fiesole outside Florence.