The Dudley Spencer House, also called Laurel, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home in Wilmington, Delaware.
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| Location | 619 Shipley Rd, Wilmington, Delaware |
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| Coordinates | 39°46′25″N 75°31′00″W / 39.77355°N 75.51678°W |
| Area | 6.7 acres (2.7 ha) |
| Built | 1956-1961 |
| Architect | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Architectural style | Usonian |
| NRHP reference No. | 74000603[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 4, 1974 |
Wright designed this home in 1956 and named it "Laurel". This house is of the hemicycle design, and is built of irregularly coursed fieldstone. This single story house has a flat roof with curvilinear extensions and windows under roof extensions. The interior fireplace and hearth serves as dominant structural and aesthetic element. Typical of Wright designs, the home successfully blends with the surrounding wooded environment. The Dudley Spencer house is private and not accessible to the public. The house was built by its first owner, Dudley Spencer, over a five-year period between 1956 and 1961.
Following the death of Spencer in 2012, the house was sold to its current owners in 2013.[2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Laurel". National Park Service. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
Further reading
edit- Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 (S.402)
External links
edit- S.402 Dudley Spencer Residence on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- The Dudley Spencer House at the Wayback Machine (archived July 24, 2008)