Gordon House

Gordon House is a residential house designed by influential architect Frank Lloyd Wright as part of his Usonian vision for America. It is one of the last of the series designed for working-class U.S. consumers, which—in 1939—was considered $5,000–6,000 per year. It is based on a design for a modern home commissioned by Life magazine in 1938 at a time when Wright had little work. The house was designed in 1957 for Evelyn and Conrad Gordon, and finished in 1963 (four years after Frank Lloyd Wright's death) originally located adjacent to the Willamette River near Wilsonville, Oregon, United States. When its 2001 owners intended to destroy it, the Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy obtained a three-month reprieve to dismantle and move it to the...