He later relocated the Westcott Motor Car Co. “Most people never guess that it’s really a birdhouse.”īurton Westcott, treasurer of the Seeding Machine Co., commissioned the home after moving to Springfield in 1906. “It almost looks like a rocket,” Wojcik says. Tours of the home focus on its unique design elements: a magnificent skylight, a front porch with a Japanese reflecting pool and huge concrete urns, a pretty pergola in the garden and a puzzling pointed structure by the front door. “By including it, he was saying ‘This is one of my best,’” explains Marta Wojcik, the home’s executive director. Wright himself was so proud of the home that he included it in a portfolio of his finest designs used to showcase his work.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT WATERFALL HOUSE WINDOWS
With its cantilevers, Japanese-inspired details and rich earth tones, the Westcott House is definitely out of character with the rest of the neighborhood.īuilt in 1908, the house is the only Ohio example of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style homes, which feature strong horizontal lines, low-pitched roofs with broad overhanging eaves and ribbons of windows facing the street. Elegant Italianate and Richardsonian Romanesque homes are still found along it today, but be prepared to be startled by the structure at the far end of the street.
In the 20th century’s early years, Springfield’s High Street was home to the city’s wealthy industrialists and businessmen. In Ohio, most of the 11 Wright-designed structures still standing are private homes, but three of them - in Springfield, Oberlin and Willoughby Hills - are open to the public, making it possible to admire the beauty of Wright’s organic approach to architecture from the interiors as well as the outside. Although Frank Lloyd Wright designed hundreds of homes, offices, churches, schools, museums and hotels across the globe, there’s a great concentration of them in the Midwest, where he lived and worked.
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