| Sol Friedman House (Toyhill) | |
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| General information | |
| Type | House |
| Architectural style | Usonian |
| Location | Pleasantville, New York |
| Coordinates | 41°07′44″N 73°44′53″W / 41.128856°N 73.748003°W |
| Construction started | 1948 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Frank Lloyd Wright |
Sol Friedman House Toyhill, was built in Pleasantville, New York in 1948. This was the first of the three Frank Lloyd Wright homes built in the " Usonia Homes" development north of New York City.
The Friedman House forms part of the post-war development of Wright's use of the circle, culminating in his Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan. The Sol Friedman house in Pleasantville, N.Y., is roofed with mushroom-like concrete slabs; the two intersecting closed circles of the actual dwelling are balanced at the end of a straight terrace parapet by the mushroom-shaped carport. This house was completed in 1949 with battered (sloped) walls of almost Richardsonian random ashlar masonry below a strip of metal-framed windows.
Wright dubbed the house Toyhill because Sol Friedman was a retailer of books, records, and (in some stores) toys. [1]
See also
References
- ^ Reisley, Roland (2001). Usonia, New York: Building a Community with Frank Lloyd Wright. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-245-8.
- Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 (S.316)
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