Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman-Wilson House

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‘With this house, we have a second story, and that’s unusual,’ says Scott Eccleston, director of operations at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. He’s gesturing to the upstairs level of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Usonian house that now sits on two acres of the museum’s vast Ozark woodland site, but could just as easily be speaking metaphorically. Having been transplanted – in trucks full of carefully catalogued pieces – some 1,250 miles from its original site in Millstone, New Jersey and meticulously reconstructed in Bentonville, Wright’s Bachman-Wilson house has started a second life nearly sixty years after it was first built.
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