Our book club read the novel, Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan. The story is about Frank Lloyd Wright and his affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney. One of our members had been to Frank Lloyd Wright's Westcott House , designed in 1906 and built in 1908 for the automobile manufactuer, Burton J. Westcott. She recommended we take a field trip to see the restored house. 
We arrived earlier than expected, so we took a walk around the block. 
"The Westcott House represents an evolution of Wright's Prairie concept - relating a building to its site by means of terraces, pools, gardens and landscape." Our guide is the gentleman in the foreground. 
"The extensive pergola capped with an intricate wooden trellis connects the detached Carriage House to the main house, a design element that clearly demonstrates its Japanese influence - included in only a few of Wright's Prairie style houses during this period known as Wright's Golden Age of Architecture. " There is a doorway leading from the children's room to the pergola. 
The gardens behind the house and the Carriage House. One day, the Carriage House will hold a Westcott automobile. Upon completion of a $5.8 million, 5 year restoration, the Westcott House was opened to the public in 2005.
On the return trip, we stopped at Young's Jersey Dairy for lunch and ice-cream.
# posted by Martha @ 7:52 PM
