A pair of Usonian-period Frank Lloyd Wright homes have hit the market in Galesburg, Michigan, for an asking price of $4.5 million, according to a combined listing posted last week by Christie’s International Real Estate.

Located in The Acres, a Wright-designed subdivision that remained unfinished after the architect began work on the more successful Parkwyn Village nearby, both the Samuel & Dorothy Eppstein House and Eric & Pat Pratt House offer approximately 2,000 square feet of premium living space inside of Wright’s signature concrete block and mahogany detailed exteriors. 

Christie’s says the original built-ins of the houses have been well preserved by their owners, along with Wright’s floorplans. The sale represents the first time Wright homes have been offered in a bundle, and follows a spate of other rare homes in Arizona, Northern California, Texas, and Oklahoma to have been listed in the past two years.

As two of only five homes from an originally planned group of 21 that were completed on the 70-acre plot, the listings are significant examples of rare restorations of original Wright designs. 

The slightly smaller 2,200-square-foot Pratt house from 1951 offers two bedrooms and two baths with a small library, work studio, and original fireplace. Next to it, tucked into a berm on its own circular one-acre lot, is the 1953 Eppstein house, which features a total of three bedrooms and a more serene setting enhanced by outdoor terraces. Both were constructed by the original homeowners. The Eppstein home had been listed for just $455,000 previously, garnering its designation as the “world's least expensive” Wright home before a restoration was undertaken in order to address its disrepair. 

As mentioned, Wright’s homes have enjoyed quite a market in recent times following the closure of Taliesin West's School of Architecture in 2020. Wright’s grandson, Eric Lloyd Wright, a self-trained architect who died in April of this year, was himself a well-admired restorer of his grandfather's work. The Wright-designed Imperial Hotel in Tokyo also announced plans for a major expansion last week. 

Additional views of the Eppstein residence can be seen here via Airbnb.