School teachers Sara Stein Smith and Melvyn Maxwell Smith met Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin in 1941 and commissioned a custom home. The Smith House is an excellent example of Wright’s Usonian ideal.
Wright’s characteristic design principles include connection to the landscape, a strong horizontal emphasis created by dramatic roof projections, and the interplay between interior and exterior spaces.
Privacy from the street is provided by limiting the glazing to narrow bands of clerestory windows.
Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House
