Cambridge, Ont. couple buy a Frank Lloyd Wright original in Galesburg, Mich. for US$368,000, and spend that much and more fixing it up
For two glorious mornings, Mother Nature nudged me gently awake. As morning broke, soft sunlight streamed in from a long row of windows just above my head and printed squares of light onto the mahogany walls. And, slowly, as the room became brighter and filled with birdsong, my eyes blinked open.
“We got in master painters that treated the blocks inside and out,” Ms. Broere says, “and we had Sherwin-Williams, the company, help us come up with a very, very special liquid so that the blocks wouldn’t look any different, but they would be protected for 50 years to come. … That cost an absolute fortune, we could’ve bought a very nice car for that.”Dave LeBlanc/The Globe and Mail
It was probably the cheapest Frank Lloyd Wright house to hit the market in the last two decades. Listed at US$455,000, the couple was able to get the 2,250-square-foot house for US$368,000 and then spent probably even more than that on the restoration. Wandering from room to room, one can admire how the evening light fills the home's long, narrow hallway.It’s this reality of a mother with five children versus the artistry and fantasy of America’s greatest architect that I try to balance as I wander from room to room.
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