Gardener’s Cottage, Darwin D. Martin House, Woodward Avenue, Parkside, Buffalo, NY : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Gardener’s Cottage, Darwin D. Martin House, Woodward Avenue, Parkside, Buffalo, NY / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1909, this Prairie-style house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to serve as the house of the gardener who tended the grounds of the adjacent Darwin D. Martin House, being the last and simplest of the three houses designed for the property by Wright. The cottage is sandwiched into a narrow strip of the property between two other houses, fronting Woodward Avenue to the west, with a size and shape more similar to the surrounding houses than the other two houses on the property. The house features an economical stucco-clad exterior with wooden trim, low-pitched hipped roofs with unadorned wide overhanging eaves, a west (front) facade with four art glass windows between corner pilasters, six art glass windows on the north and south facades, with the west end of the first floor south facade being recessed to provide a covered entry porch, and planters underneath the first floor windows. The rear of the house features an addition built circa 1990 to house a study and first floor bathroom, which is of a compatible and matching design to the original house, with the same art glass windows, and a large french door with art glass panes in the rear, and Frank Lloyd Wright-designed light fixtures and a ceiling reminiscent of the interior of the nearby Martin House inside. The interior of the house features simple, economical finishes, including stained pine wood trim, a modernized kitchen, wood floors, and a brick fireplace. The house was home to the gardeners that maintained the grounds of the Martin House until the Martin family abandoned the complex in 1937, and then languished with the rest of the complex, being acquired by the city due to back taxes in 1946, and sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, which intended to convert the complex into a summer retreat for priests, in 1951. The house was sold in 1955, to architect Sebastian Tauriello, whom worked hard to save the architecturally significant and by-then endangered property, hoping the house would avoid the fate that had befallen the Larkin Administration Building five years prior. The house was rented out, with the carriage house, pergola, and conservatory to the east demolished and the yard sold, and two uninspired apartment buildings with slapped-on Colonial Revival-style trim known as Jewett Gardens Apartments, were built to the rear of the house. In 1967, the University at Buffalo purchased the house, utilizing the main house as the university president’s residence, with the Barton House and Gardener’s Cottage being parceled off, both converted to function as independent single-family houses. A series of private owners made slight alterations to the cottage, but the exterior remained remarkably well-preserved. In 1975, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and in 1986, was listed as a National Historic Landmark. In 1992, the nonprofit Martin House Restoration Corporation was founded with the goal of eventually restoring the historically and architecturally significant complex, and opening it as a museum. In 2006, the Gardener’s cottage was purchased by the foundation, and the rest of the complex was restored over the period between 2007 and 2017. Today, the restored Darwin D. Martin House complex serves as a museum, allowing visitors to experience one of the largest Prairie-style complexes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, faithfully restored to its circa 1907 appearance, giving visitors a sense of the genius and design philosophy of Wright. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-08-13 13:18:12 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Buffalo, New York, United States 地図 |