Hey Architecture Fans...Wright Mansion for Sale

From the Oct. 24th Chicago Tribune Elite Street column by Bob Goldsborough.

And for a cool $2.89 million, it can be yours!!

Riverside's Avery Coonley Mansion, built from 1908-1912 has just come on the market. For that price, you get five bedrooms, 6,000 square feet Prairie Style home that makes up two-thirds of the former estate. Frank Lloyd Wright even went so far as to describe it as his best house.

In 1950, it was split into two houses that now sit on two adjacent lots and have separate owners. What you would be buying is the part that housed public rooms and the servants' quarters.

Owner dean Eastman bought the 12-room mansion in 2000 for $975,000 and then spent large amounts to restore it.

It also includes five baths, three fire places, a wine room, a back deck, a reflecting pool, a summer house and a sunken garden.

On 2005, Eastman bought a decrepit Wright-designed coach house that was part of the original mansion for $350,000 and allowed the long-time resident to live there until until she died. He later restored it and the grounds and listed it for $1.6 million twice before taking it off the market.

There are lots of articles about this historic house.

Looks Like There is Some Money in Those Wright Houses. --RoadDog