The Wright price: In an unusual move, an original Clifton home goes up
for auction
Cincinnati Business Courier -
by Richard Curtis
Miriam Gosling remembers the day her husband, David, heard about the
chance to buy a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, America's most
famous architect.
"It was like offering a Picasso to a painter," she said.
So appealing was the offer that it helped persuade David to leave his
professorship at Sheffield College in England and move to the United
States, where he became the Eminent Scholar for Urban Design at the
University of Cincinnati.
Now, 15 years later, her husband having passed away last spring, Gosling
hopes to find a new owner for the Clifton house that became the couple's
muse and, at times, their master.
But Gosling is taking a nontraditional approach to the sale. The house,
listed on the National Register of Historic Places and one of only three
official Wright homes in Greater Cincinnati, will be auctioned June 19.
"This is the first auction I've run across on a Wright home," said Ron
Scherubel, executive director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building
Conservancy in Chicago, a nonprofit dedicated to saving the architect's
works.
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| and more Wright in the news today,
| apparently it is the season...
Visiting Wright:
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/062006/06102006/197404
Recycling Wright:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/southwest/orl-swcollege1106jun11,0,5113253.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-swest