the destruction of the Bavinger House is not surprising. Back in 2011, the home appeared to suffer damage in a storm, and when a crew with News 9 attempted to see the house, they were “greeted with gunfire.” [...]
the house remained something of a mystery (it sat on private property, accessed by a rural road) until last July, when PraireMod reported that it had been contacted by Bob Bavinger’s son, Boz, who claimed to be putting the property up for sale for the price of $1.5 million.
— hyperallergic.com
Our own Donna Sink reported on the 2011 damage to the house: Goff's Bavinger House collapses. See below for a shot of the demolition scene:
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so sad....but in the end you could not do anything to the house. I still remember when i found his work one day in the library during school and especially this house.
This is a real shame that this house could not have been loved and cared for. It was truly iconic architecture. Bruce Goff was a big influence on me early in my career, and I was lucky to have been able to meet and spend time with Mr. Goff while I was at Cal Poly SLO. What a talented, gentile, kind man he was.
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