Wingspread

Wingspread

Infobox_nrhp | name =Herbert F. Johnson House
nrhp_type =nhl


caption =
nearest_city= 33 East Four Mile Road, Wind Point, Wisconsin
locmapin = Wisconsin
area =
built =1937
architect= Frank Lloyd Wright
architecture= Prairie School, Other
designated= June 29, 1989cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1525&ResourceType=Building
title=Herbert F. Johnson House |accessdate=2007-12-31|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = January 08, 1975cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=75000076

Wingspread, also known as the Herbert F. Johnson House, is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. and built in 1938-1939 in the village of Wind Point near Racine, Wisconsin. The living room is the centre of the home, and four wings extend from it to four "zones": the master bedroom, the children’s rooms, the kitchen and servants' quarters, and the guestrooms/garage. The living room resembles a gigantic dome, and features a tall stone multiple fireplace rising from its centre.

Johnson was also Wright's client for the Johnson Wax Headquarters Building in Racine, which was built at about the same time.

Wingspread is no longer a residence; it was donated by Johnson and his wife to The Johnson Foundation in 1959 as an international educational conference facility.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/75000076.pdf National Register of Historic Places Registration: Wingspread / Herbert F. Johnson House] |397 KiB |date=January 29, 1989 |author=Carolyn Pitts |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/75000076.pdf "Accompanying 14 photos, exterior and interior and of Frank Lloyd Wright with model, from 1980 and undated."] |1.63 MiB ]

It is located at 33 East Four Mile Road in Racine.

References

External links

* [http://www.johnsonfdn.org/tour.html Wingspread]


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