America’s most influential architect gifted the Bay with a beehive-inspired domicile, a “Mummy Room” and even a (leaky) ...

Young professionals wrote the star architect begging him to make their dream homes. To their great surprise, he often agreed.

The houses were to be affordable and accessible to the middle class; Wright even produced “Usonian Automatic” plans, like DIY Sears kits, for folks who weren’t professional builders.

The Tonkens House in Cincinnati was built in the Usonian Automatic style, in which interlocking concrete blocks were molded on site. Most such homes were for "common" people. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ...

The houses were to be affordable and accessible to the middle class; Wright even produced “Usonian Automatic” plans, like DIY Sears kits, for folks who weren’t professional builders.

The houses were to be affordable and accessible to the middle class; Wright even produced “Usonian Automatic” plans, like DIY Sears kits, for folks who weren’t professional builders.