Frank Lloyd Wright remains one of America’s most well-loved and celebrated architects and it’s easy to see why. From his love of all things non-right-angled to his connection with the natural landscape around the buildings he designed, his homes are as desirable as ever. One property called the Randall Fawcett Home has just hit the market in California with an asking price just shy of $6 million (US$4,250,000).
The Randall Fawcett Home was originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1955 (just four years before his death), after becoming close with the original owner Buck Fawcett during an architecture course at Stanford University. Fawcett was a successful college football player, who was even drafted by the Chicago Bears in the 1944 NFL Draft, but never played for the team and returned to his family farm following an illness his father suffered.
Using Frank Lloyd Wright’s blueprints, Fawcett and his wife Harriet built the home themselves over a two-year period, eventually completing the construction in 1961. The remarkable house was built in Los Banos, California, which is a somewhat unusual location to find such an architecturally important property, but makes the Randall Fawcett Home all the more special for its quiet surroundings.
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Sitting on a 76-acre block, the home contains seven bedrooms and six bathrooms, as well as a number of expansive open-plan living, dining and family areas. The home also features a semi-attached museum, a large workshop separate from the home, a swimming pool, Koi pond and even a Japanese garden.
“We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside, and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Since the original build, the Randall Fawcett Home has received an extensive restoration that was completed in consultation with Wright’s son, Eric Lloyd Wright, as well as the award-winning Taliesin Associate architect Arthur Dyson. The new owners are set to be just the third family to live in the home, making it a rare opportunity for American architecture enthusiasts to pick up a piece of history.
The property is currently listed by the Crosby Doe Associates real estate firm and is currently seeking expressions of interest.
