{"id":275118,"date":"2025-09-30T20:18:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dana.nwar.uk\/sa\/a-new-canan-house-from-a-frank-lloyd-wright-disciple\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:18:49","slug":"a-new-canan-house-from-a-frank-lloyd-wright-disciple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/a-new-canan-house-from-a-frank-lloyd-wright-disciple\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Canan House from A Frank Lloyd Wright Disciple"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Living Room with Original Stained-Glass Windows.
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When Sidney R. Bowen was a Kid, Architects Wold Show Up at House in Mason City, Iowa, Hoping to Get a Look Inside. Bowen and His Family Lived in a Prairie-Style Home, The Samuel Davis Drake House on the Cliffside of the Rock Glen-Rock Crest History-Essentially The Only Completed Prairie-Style Community in the Country. (The NeighBorhood\u2019s Architects, Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin, Shared An Oak Park Studio with Frank Lloyd Wright, The Most Famous of All Prairie School Architects, Forging What Writ Work Late to AS \u201cThe New School of the Middle West<\/a>. \u201c)\u201d I spent a lot of time in those houses and the details were so unlike Everything Else in Iowa, WHICH WAS ALL EATHER RANCE OR COLONIALS-The Broad Eaves and Open Plan, the Indoor-to-Outdoor Connections, Were Unique at Time. In Marketing at General Mills-He Landed Olympian Bruce Jenner on the Wheaties Box-and was Ready to build a HIS Own. I Became Close for the Rest of His Life, \u201dSays Bowen.<\/p>\n

Howe First Designed a Little Lakefront Proppery in Minnesota for Bowen, THEN, Several Years Later AFTER Howe, Got A Job at Sara Lee, Another, Large House in New Canan, Connecticut. That House was Completed in 1981. (Another Famous Wright Disciple, Edgar Tafeel<\/a>Who was based in new York, Collaborated on the New Canan Project Because How in Minnesota and Felt It Needed Someone on Site.) It\u201ds Clearly A Property with Wright Affinies \u2013 there\u2019s stained glas, exposed and stone and an arced, South-Facing Windows Looking out onto the Connecticut Woods.<\/p>\n

Last Week, The New Canan House, at 22 Father Peters Lane, Went on the Market Asking $ 3.99 Million<\/a>. The home was Designed in accordance with WRIGHT\u2019S Philosophy of Compression and Release-Smaller, Low-Ceiling Bedrooms and Other Auxilary Spaces Contratsted with Grand, High-Ceiling Living Spaces, Chau Ngo Prutting, The Douglas Elliman List, Told. (Earlier this year, prutting sold another architecture distinguished New Canan Home, The Frank Lloyd Wright -Decesins Tirranna<\/a>for $ 6 million.) The Wealthy Connecticut Suburb is Known for Its Abundance of Mid-Century Modern Homes, Designed by Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, and Other Members of the Harvard Five, but the Frank Lloyd WRIGH Harder-edged Houses: Organic with Softer, Curving Lines and A Careful Consideration of the Landscape.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Little House is in a really unique spot-i ae seven-acre parcel that goes down almost to the reservoir. It \u2018really in the wods; Over the years, Other Houses have Been Built Nearby, so Its not quite so isolated as itaa was, he adds, but being on seven Acres Certainly Helps. Wen we spoke, though, bowen was quick to point out that the new canan house han substantily alterad in other ways \u2013 the two owners after it from its originprint of 3,000 Square feet to about 7,200. \u201cIt was a small house. It was probably inevitable that it would be Changed,\u201d he Says. \u201cThe Worst Move Was the New Kitchen in the back. Butsese Things Happy.\u201d Bowen Only Lived in the House for a Short Time-He found an irresistible full of Land on the stamford waterfront, Collaborate with howe on another house, and realized that this, not a corpore jab (he was working at an Executive-search firm), was Spend the rest of his life doing. He\u2019s been an architect for the past 30 years. Howe WROTE HIS Letter of Recommendation to Mit.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kitchen was Very compressed \u2013 it was fine for a couple, but my clients wanted away,\u201d Says Prutting. They use materials that matched and complement the original home, she adds \u2013 Cypress Wood and Delaware River Stone (from a pennsylvania Quarry, not the river itelf) Has a warm, Pinkish Hue. Kitchens are one of the MANY STICKING POINTS FOR BUYERS OF OLDER, ARCHITECTURALLY SIGNIFICANT HOMES-IN MID-CENTURY MODERNS AND WRIGHT HOUSES, They\u2019re Typically Small, Functional Spaces Don\u2019t Square with the Big, Open Center-Luxury Modern Expect. (A recent Wall Street Journal<\/em> article <\/a>On Frank Lloyd Wright \u2013 Inspired Home Kits Notes That Was One of the Main Distinations BetWene Wright\u2019s Designs and the New Kits.) The home also a Large Primary suite, Added by Previous Owners, and Now in Four Bedrooms and Six Baths.<\/p>\n

But MANY ASPECTS OF THE HOUSE REMAIN-The Arced Shape Insided by Wright\u2019s Hemisphere Houses is designated to be warmed by the sun, with south-facing. (Bowen Told with They Designed Shutters to Go Over the Windows in the Evening-He Dubted they were Still there, butn, Windows are Much Better at Heat-Retention.) And, he adds, although he didn\u2019t live there long, it helped take to where he is now. \u201cHowe was a mentor to me in an interesting way,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m His Only Living Client.\u201d And while he dosesn\u2019t live in a howe house now, and hasn\u2019t for many years, \u201cin the end, it drove with back to what i cared.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The House Has Large, Wood Framed Windows and is Designed in Communication with the Landscape.
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The home is located on nearly seven acres.
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The House\u2019s Design is inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s Hemisphere Houses.
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The House Has Had Two Additions Since It Was Built, Taking the Total Square Feet from Around 3,000 to Just Over 7,000.
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The Original Kitchen, in Keeping with Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s Designs, was late expanded.
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Do Kitchen was added late.
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The Home\u2019s Large Windows Face South.
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A Primary Bedroom Suite, Added by Subsequent Owners.
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Bands of Wood and Windows Are Common Features in the Home.
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