Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpiece In Historic Usonia

PLEASANTVILLE, NY — Here's your chance to own a piece of history as well as a piece of art. This architectural masterpiece is nestled perfectly in its woodland setting, with curves and overlapping masonry to fit in with its environment. It was a joint vision of Frank Lloyd Wright and the client, and its history is a unique part of Pleasantville's past.

Starting in the 193os, a group of people and the famous architect shared a vision of community for a 100-acre tract in Pleasantville, according to Town & Country magazine. Wright designed a development of 47 houses on 100 acres called Usonia. He even designed three of the homes himself. They were designed to be middle-income properties.

The neighborhood is on the United States Registry of Historic Places. Architecture + Design magazine called it the best-designed small town in the country.

This is the Sol Friedman house.

• Address: 11 Orchard Brook Dr, Pleasantville, New York
• Price: $1,500,000
• Square Feet: 2164
• Bedrooms: 3
• Bathrooms: 2 Full and 1 Half Baths
• Built: 1948
• Features: The Sol Friedman House is an extraordinary masterpiece designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, nested on a bucolic site in renowned Usonia. Documented by architectural photographer Ezra Stoller and featured in numerous publications including Architectural Forum and the NY Times. Full-time home or amazing hidden retreat up a private drive approximately 50 minutes north of Manhattan. Presenting home-as-art, an innovative overlapping circular masonry design uniting structure and nature. Inside, the curving living space gives a sense of movement and connectivity to the outside, not unlike a tree house floating in the woods. Magnificent stone center fireplace & marvelous oak built-ins and furniture, designed by Wright himself, shows his genius in their utility. Just adjacent to the main house, atop the rising stone wall is a distinctive concrete formed pedestal carport; a mushroom seemingly growing up from the ground. A private residence respected and cherished.

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