From Minnesota to Pennsylvania: moving a Frank Lloyd House halfway across the country

2016-06-28T19:40:00-04:00

For more than 60 years, a home designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright stood tucked in the woods on the south side of Cloquet, little-seen and little-known as the city developed around it. Now, after being on the market for years, the R.W. Lindholm House has been deconstructed and its pieces are on their way to Pennsylvania, where they’ll be reassembled and the home opened to the public by a group dedicated to conserving Wright-designed structures.

The house is being carefully relocated to Polymath Park, a 130-acre "architectural park." While preservationists tend to prefer to keep Wright homes in their original context, the move is considered necessary for its long-term survival.

The house has already been dismantled, bit by bit, in a process that took four weeks. The team responsible for the deconstruction made sure to keep the project hush hush due to fears that souvenir seekers might raid the site.

Cloquet, Minnesota also happens to be the home of the world's only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed gas station.

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From Minnesota to Pennsylvania: moving a Frank Lloyd House halfway across the country