Roland Reisley is 100 years old and the last living client of the great architect still residing in the house Wright designed for him.

A MODEST house, this Usonian house, a dwelling place that has ... a house of this type could not be well built and achieve its design except as an architect oversees the building.

His residences that were meant to be affordable and democratic in design came to be known ... while the Jacobs House (a 1,560-square-foot Usonian built in 1936) cost $5,000 as a quick comparison.

An adaptation of the original Usonian house, these homes were built with ... designing three of the homes himself while approving plans for the remaining houses by other architects.

Frank Lloyd Wright created the Usonian Houses and designed a model ... in 1935 when the Resettlement Administration put forward plans to build four new towns comprised of housing for low-income ...

His groundbreaking approach to house design changed our landscape and redefined ... then later in his Usonian style Prairie buildings – these low, linear, horizontal structures were designed ...