If I only had 20 mil...

don't worry smalls...its likely to sell for alot more.

houses already sell at auction...sothebeys has a huge real estste department. One of the Koenig case studies sold at auction about a year ago; I belive that Wright Auction House out of Chicago sold it

It was probably a news item on here that told of LACMA buying houses as part of its collection of Art

Lord Palumbo has a small collection. Perhaps he sold the Farnsworth house, which flooded while he owned it and has flooded again since ? Do i have that right ?

the thing that gets me is that people will buy Neutra houses and tear them down...like buying a picasso and painting the canvas white

I was not struck by the house being auctioned so much as by the fact that it had been extensively "restored" and then put up for auction as a piece of architectural history. It does seem to reach into the priceless category...should it become a private gem or opened to the public for study and appreciation?

There's "restored" and then there's restored. This house was restored. A seventy-year-old building will not stay in shape indefinitely, especially after multiple owners and their whims.

It would be nice if someone would pay what the market will bear for this unique object and the turn around and open it to the public. The owners of Frank Lloyd Wright houses fall into three categories: private owners who may or may not allow visitors; private owners who open their properties as overnight or weekly rentals (as small but growing number) as a way of funding the care of the property; and private or public entities who care for the properties and accept paying visitors and give tours or the houses. Houses that require million-dollar restoratons (Fallingwater needed major surgery a couple of years ago) generally fall into the third group.

palumbo at one point owned corb's maisons jaoul, wright's kentuck knob & mies' farnsworth.

and of course ms. harris would say that "It’s an odd thing, but the more money this house goes for, the better it is for preservation" being that she'll probably bring home half of that slice o' bacon.

turns out she doesn't care about architecture as much as she does money, otherwise she'd donate it.

holz....sometimes buildings are best kept away from the PUBLIC!

Cause then you have a team of various ideas which I find for the most part are great at destroying things..

i find it hard to believe someone who is an arch. historian would develop a program to destroy the kaufmann haus.

and i realize that visitors can damage a building, there are ways to mitigate this.

all i'm saying is she's a hypocrite and i hope her next house burns to the ground (as long as it's not a landmark project)

Lynda Waggoner / Fallingwater:
"We have a high of 144,000 annual visitors, which is almost too many.
If 900 people tour Fallingwater, that is 14 every six minutes. Surveys
are important marketing tours at Fallingwater. Twenty-seven percent of
our visitors come because of Frank Lloyd Wright."

So, most people visit Fallingwater even though they know nothing about Wright. But somehow the house can absorb all those people without harm. I guess slate floors are a good investment !