Frank Lloyd Wright

Complete transcript of the Frank Lloyd Wright Bachman Wilson House audio tour.

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Your tour concludes with an examination of the house’s grounds and carport.

The Grounds and Carport

Visit the guest room and bathroom, and learn about the upstairs spaces of the house.

Private Spaces

Learn how the kitchen, or “workspace,” was designed for efficiency.

Workspace

Explore the dining room’s modular furniture and mitered window.

Dining Room

Discover how Wright has designed the hearth to function as the backbone of the house.

Hearth

Crystal Bridges’ Executive Director Rod Bigelow welcomes you to the Bachman-Wilson House.

Introduction

Take a close look at the decorative windows that top the walls of the Bachman-Wilson House.

Clerestory

Learn about Wright’s choices of glass, wood, and concrete elements.

Materials in the Living Space

Discover how Wright used sensations of compression and release to add drama to your entry into the living space.

Living Space

In 2014, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced the acquisition of a rare Frank Lloyd Wright house originally built in 1954 along the Millstone River in New Jersey. Since then, the house has been disassembled, transported 1,200 miles across the country, and meticulously reconstructed on the grounds of the museum.

Reconstructing the Frank Lloyd Wright House

Windows and the staircase come next, all thoroughly labeled and wrapped in preparation for transport to Bentonville.

Bachman Wilson House Deconstruction Phase 4

Deconstruction of the Bachman Wilson House continues with dismantling of the exterior façade and doors, plus interior architectural elements.

Bachman Wilson House Deconstruction Phase 3

With the interior fixtures removed, the deconstruction team begins dismantling the walls and floors inside the house. Each board is labeled and inventoried, and the pieces are bundled and stacked for shipment to Crystal Bridges.

Bachman Wilson House Deconstruction Phase 2

Deconstruction of the Bachman Wilson house gets underway with the careful removal, inventory, and packaging of the home's interior fixtures and board and batten wall panels.

Bachman Wilson House Deconstruction Phase 1

Originally built in 1954 along the Millstone River in Somerset County, N.J., this classic Usonian home, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was acquired by Crystal Bridges late in 2013, and is in the process of being dismantled and relocated to the Museum gro

Meet Frank Lloyd Wright Bachman Wilson House

This is a posting of an audio tour for visitors to this Frank Lloyd Wright house at the Crystal Bridges Museum. Consequently it is a series of short ‘stops’ with tidbits of info that refer to things that you, as the listener, are not looking at. It also lacks any substantial depth of scholarship as it is designed for a different audience. This is simply cross-posted content - an otherwise missed opportunity- and not worthy of a ‘university course’ platform.

Audio tour for people onsite. Not a “course”.

Frank Lloyd Wright Bachman Wilson House

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