Mrs. A. W. Gridley House
[2] With a low-pitch hip roof, projecting eaves, uninterrupted cedar trim and casement windows, the fourteen room stucco and cypress house is an excellent example of Wright's Prairie School style.Wright's original plan for the property also included a barn in a similar style to the house that was never executed (likely due to the advent of the automobile and the owners's then dwindling finances).The only substantial external modification to Wrights original facade plan can be seen on the east side facing Batavia Avenue aka Route 31, where a twenty-foot opening was cut through the low stuccoed masonry parapet wall which had previously completely enclosed the contiguous terrace, directly in front of the floor to ceiling glass terrace doors opening into the living room, and replaced with wide & shallow stone steps down to the front lawns, and flanked by matching pilastered plinths which support a pair of reproduction Wright designed planter bowls.This was to done to take advantage of the scenic vista to the east, where the property gently slopes down to the Fox river, which was previously only viewable from the upper storey windows.It would most certainly have met with the architect's approval as it's copied directly from his original plans for the very same terrace entablature along the street front of the recently restored Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, New York (albeit somewhat lower in height and rendered in brick instead of stucco), designed by Wright in the same Prairie Style, a mere three years prior to this commission.They are basically a shallow round bow topped with a thick squared off lip cast in medusa cement and specifically designed by Wright to be filled with soil to cultivate summer annuals.The east section was the living room, decorated with a Roman brick fireplace, glass terrace doors, side windows, and built-in oak bookcases.
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