Frank Lloyd Wright’s California seaside project, Mrs. Clinton Walker House, has sold for $22 million after being listed on the market in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The 1,400-square-foot home was completed in 1952 for a wealthy widower residing in one of California's sought-after surf meccas.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016 and features a copper-shingled roof with the home's shape designed to resemble a ship’s bow breaking the waves overlooking the point towards nearby Pebble Beach. Thomas Church was also responsible for the landscaping at the site in his pioneering California Style.
The Journal quoted a 1948 letter from homeowner Della Walker to Wright (in which she reportedly references Fallingwater as an inspiration) as saying: “I am a woman living alone. I wish protection from the wind and privacy from the road and a house as enduring as the rocks but as transparent and charming as the waves and delicate as the seashore. You are the only man who can do this—will you help me?”
This is the second California home Wright designed to grace the market recently, following the Fawcett Farm in the Central Valley. His final residential design also went on sale recently in Arizona. Other designs are also for sale in nearby Atherton and Los Banos.
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shouldn’t that be a “widow”, not “widower”?
Nice tour of the house with her great-grandson Chuck Henderson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aV2UkigsCQ
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