A Rare Frank Lloyd Wright Home Lists for $4.3M in California’s Central Valley

Sited on 76 bucolic acres, Fawcett Farm recently underwent an award-winning restoration with guidance from the legendary architect’s grandson.

A Rare Frank Lloyd Wright Home Lists for $4.3M in California’s Central Valley

Sited on 76 bucolic acres, Fawcett Farm recently underwent an award-winning restoration with guidance from the legendary architect’s grandson.

Location: Los Banos, California

Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright 

Restoration Architect: Arthur Dyson

Price: $4,250,000

 Year Built: 1961

Footprint: 4,041 square feet (seven bedrooms, 6 baths)

Lot Size: 76 acres

From the Agent: "In imagining the ideal setting for living a full, free, and rich life, Frank Lloyd Wright strove for an architecture where: ‘We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside, and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.’ That this unity is achieved at Fawcett Farm cannot fully be conveyed by words and pictures, but only by direct experience. Sited on 76 acres of land in California’s Central Valley, the residence and surrounding gardens afford an island of peace rising from the crops and merging with the distant mountains on the far horizon. A multi-award winning, world-class restoration and enhancements to the landscape, gardens, and security have been completed by the second owners in consultation with Eric Lloyd Wright, and overseen by Taliesin Associate architect Arthur Dyson."

The expansive home features an L-shaped wall of windows allowing view over the backyard lawn and pool from the living areas.

The expansive home features an L-shaped wall of windows overlooking the backyard lawn and pool.

Photo by Jim Simmons

Overseen by Arthur Dyson Associates and a team of engineers and landscape designers, the home's renovation received a 2019 Preservation Design Award for Restoration by the California Preservation Foundation.

Overseen by Arthur Dyson Associates and a team of engineers and landscape designers, the home’s renovation received a 2019 Preservation Design Award for Restoration from the California Preservation Foundation.

Photo by Jim Simmons

Photo by Jim Simmons

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