Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fabulous Faucett Farm Seeks New Steward For $4.25 Million
Frank Lloyd Wright designed numerous offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, museums, and of course, hundreds of private residences. However, according to Arthur Dyson, the former dean of Wright’s Taliesin West institute, he only ever designed one farmhouse — the Fawcett Residence in Los Banos, California.
Sited on 76 acres in the agrarian San Joaquin Valley, the Fawcett farmhouse was one of the master’s final three projects, and was completed in 1961, two years after Wright’s death at the age of 91. The Usonian-style house was commissioned by Randall “Buck” Fawcett, a dairy farmer who had met Wright while taking an architecture class at Stanford, and his wife, Harriet Driscoll Fawcett. The couple built the 4,041-square-foot home themselves over the course of two years.
The seven-bedroom, six-bath residence’s plan follows an equilateral triangular form, with the walls of two wings extending at 60- and 120-degree angles from its living room/kitchen core to bedrooms on one side and the dining room and rec room on the other.
Signature FLW features abound, starting with its concrete block exterior, horizontal roofline with dramatic overhang, and stylized copper covering. Other standout elements include a 12-foot-wide fireplace, an extensive wall of swiveling glass doors, clerestory windows, mahogany wall paneling, and Wright-designed built-in furniture, light fixtures, and stained-glass, per Dirt.
The property also contains a semi-attached small museum, a large detached workshop, swimming pool, Koi pond, and Japanese garden designed by Buck Fawcett and landscape architect Jim Kamimoto.
The bespoke farmhouse remained in the Fawcett family for over half a century. In 2012, it was purchased for $1.6 million by Ken and Carrie Cox, who embarked on a thorough restoration of the property that was overseen by Taliesin Associate architect Arthur Dyson with input from Eric Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright’s son, who had made site visits when the house was originally being built. The restoration was honored with awards from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and the California Preservation Foundation.
After ten years of ownership, the Coxes are looking for the next stewards of the Fawcett farm — though given its rather remote Central California setting, two hours from San Francisco and four hours from Los Angeles, it could take a while before this rare pot finds its architecture aficionado lid.
The one-of-a-kind property is listed with Crosby Doe of Crosby Doe Associates at an asking price of $4.25 million.
Sources: Dirt
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