The Duncan House, Acme, PA: This Frank Lloyd
Wright Usonian house, built in 1957 in Lisle,
Illinois, was deconstructed in 2004 and re-erected
last year in the Polymath Park resort, only 15 miles
from Wright’s Fallingwater, making it possible to
stay in a Wright house when touring his magnum
opus. $325 per night for up to three people, with
a two-night minimum. Public tours on Sundays.
877/833-7829,
info@polymathpark.com.
Gropius House, Lincoln, MA: Walter Gropius
designed this 1938 house for himself, when he
Guestroom at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower.
began teaching at the Harvard Graduate School
of Design. Marcel Breuer furnishings, made in the
Inn at Price Tower, Bartlesville,
Bauhaus workshops, are in place, as are other
OK: Seven upper floors of Frank
Gropius family possessions. 617/227-3956,
Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower have
www.spnea.org/visit/homes/gropius.htm.
been restored to residential use,
returning the building to its original,
groundbreaking mixed-use concept.
A museum of Wright’s work, with
temporary exhibitions of art, archi-
tecture and design, is also housed in
the building. The inn’s interiors have
been designed to offer modern com-
forts with Wright-inspired furnish-
illas.
ings; many original features remain
throughout the building. The Copper
Restaurant and Bar is on the 18th
tesy Beau Monde V
and 19th floors. Rates begin at
Cour
Designed by E. Stewart Williams in 1947, the Sinatra House
$145 per night. 877/424-2424,
wraps around a piano-shaped pool.
www.pricetower.org/innatpricetower.
RENTALS
Seth Peterson Cottage, Lake
Twin Palms Sinatra Estate, Palm Springs, CA:
Delton, WI: Conceived in 1958 by
There’s midcentury ring-a-ding-ding to spare in this
Frank Lloyd Wright as a summer cot-
1947 E. Stewart Williams design, created for Frank
tage, the house has been described
Sinatra. The house is built around a piano-shaped
by Wright protégé William Wesley
pool and while most furnishings are not Sinatra’s,
Peters as having “more architecture
they are appropriate pieces by such designers
per square foot than any other build-
as Vladimir Kagan and T.J. Robsjohn-Gibbings.
ing I know of.” Available at $275 per
Sinatra’s personal hi-fi system remains in
night, two-night minimum stay. Also
place, though not restored to usable condition.
open for tours, subject to availabil-
Rates are $7,800 for a three-night stay, with
ity, between rentals. 608/254-6551,
additional nights at $2,800 each. 877/318-2090
www.sethpeterson.org.
www.beaumondevillas.com/california/palm-springs/
twin-palms
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