Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Home Hits Market In Michigan

ANN ARBOR, MI – Frank Lloyd Wright homes are highly coveted domiciles – and this one, built in 1979, hit the market for first time in May. It can be yours for the price of $1.2 million.

The home, dubbed the Whiteford-Haddock House for its original owners, University of Michigan astrophysicist Fred Haddock and his wife at the time Priscilla Whiteford, was originally designed in 1939 for a school teacher in Wisconsin. Haddock commissioned the home's design 40 years later and it was built under the supervision of Charles Montooth of Taliesin Association Architects.

Deborah Fredericks, who later married Haddock, still lives in the house. Haddock died in 2009. Fredericks told Realtor.com that she has decided to downsize. "It’s going to be really weird after this to live in a house where people come to see me and not the house," she said.

Taliesin chose to locate the home on 10 acres sloping to Honey Creek in a wooded neighborhood of Ann Arbor. The placement and the house plan are key to Wright’s vision: Usonian houses were intended to blend into their natural surroundings.

"Wright called it a jewel box," Fredericks said of the design of the home, which has the name the Whiteford-Haddock House after its original owners.

The house's design was dubbed a "Below Zero" with sharply sloping roofs for snow to slide off and radiant floor heating. A rarity in Wright home, it also features high ceilings that slope to 20 feet. On a platform between the dining room and master bedroom, there is a large flat-screen television that lies horizontal and out of sight until turned on and raised into view.

The 1,300-square-foot home features two bedrooms and two baths.

• Address: 3935 Holden Dr, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Price: $1,200,000
• Square Feet: 1300
• Bedrooms: 2
• Bathrooms: 2 Baths
• Built: 1979
• Features: “The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one that makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built. - Frank Lloyd Wright.Enter past the gate, down the winding driveway, and you arrive at Haddock House, a nationally-significant home originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939 for a schoolteacher in Wisconsin. It took 40 years for this design to be fully realized; it remained unbuilt until it was commissioned in 1979 by astrophysicist Fred Haddock, and built under the supervision of Charles Montooth of Taliesin Assoc. Architects. Taliesin selected the design, and chose the property and site with Wright's vision in mind. The location embodies his principles of organic architecture, intertwining the house and the 10-acre property of gardens, sloping lawns and old-growth forest overlooking Honey Creek. Previously undisclosed to the public for privacy reasons, this Usonian-style home is designed for the harmony of interior, exterior and environment. This home is the exclusive listing of JoAnn Barrett, Howard Hanna Real Estate. Contact her at joann@joannbarrett.com or 734-678-8729.

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