53 entries.
wrote on May 21, 2019
at
10:53 pm
Grew up down the street on Birch Ave, and walked/biked everywhere as a child. Don't know which had a bigger impact on me, the uniqueness of the house, or how scared I was to walk past the forest on the Birch Ave side of the property! 🙂
wrote on May 21, 2019
at
10:52 pm
Having grown up in SW Wisconsin, I'm a longtime fan of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture. I currently work in the FLW Museum Shop in Oak Park, IL, and I hope to visit the Jacobs House sometime soon - perhaps this year if possible. I'd like information on when (or if) tours are available. I've heard so many good things about the house, and I know how historically and architecturally significant it is.
wrote on May 19, 2019
at
2:20 am
Would like to be alerted to upcoming tour opportunities.
wrote on November 21, 2011
at
10:45 pm
Great website Jim. Hope to see you in 2012 while back in Madison.
wrote on October 21, 2011
at
10:44 pm
My daughter is a first year architecture student at FIU in Miami. I'm more of a FLW enthusiast than she, but I'll take her to Florida Southern College to see the FLW buildings. The USONIAN homes are my favorite FLW creations for their simplicity and distinctiveness. Still, like anything created by mankind they have flaws such as the narrow, closed in feeling of passageways or transit routes between rooms. Give me open space, light filled windows, and a simple step to the outside, and I will consider myself happy.
wrote on September 21, 2011
at
10:42 pm
If you ever get to Taos or Santa Fe Jim, look me up!
wrote on June 21, 2011
at
10:41 pm
Having grown up in Oak Park, I had never heard of this house and would love to tour it when I visit my daughter who lives in Madison,WI When is it open to the public?
wrote on May 21, 2011
at
10:40 pm
Thank you for restoring this house - this treasure - and sharing it with the public via the photos, drawings, and writing contained here.
wrote on May 21, 2011
at
10:38 pm
Usonia 1 is one of my favorite FLW homes!!
wrote on May 21, 2011
at
10:37 pm
Like the Bauhaus students, this house inspire me to made mi own studio house like a usonia house.
wrote on May 21, 2011
at
10:36 pm
Excellent intoduction to the Usonian concept. Hope to visit this fall and do all the Wright things. If ever in Oregon, consider visiting the FLW designed Gordon House. Located 10 minutes east of Salem, off I5, in Silverton, on the Oregon Gardens grounds. Well worth the stop.
wrote on May 21, 2011
at
10:35 pm
Nice website!!
wrote on May 21, 2011
at
10:34 pm
I will forward link to your website to an architect in Voralberg Austria. The site provides an excellent introduction to Usonian design.
wrote on May 21, 2011
at
10:33 pm
Had the pleasure of visiting the interior in 2001 on my first visit to Wisc ! Thanks !! Subsequently spend time volunteering at Taliesin and visited Pew and Jacobs II - an astonishing beautiful cultural patrimony for Southwest Wisconsin. A great debt owed to all those who maintain and keep these buildings in great shape.
wrote on December 4, 2009
at
10:30 pm
Its really nice site Thanks!
wrote on September 30, 2009
at
10:28 pm
Looking to build in the next 5 years. Definitely considering a Usonian style.
wrote on July 22, 2009
at
10:25 pm
This is an exquisite website. Thanks for all the excellent information.
wrote on July 19, 2009
at
12:02 am
I photographed the Usonia 1 House for Progressive Architecture Magazine and The California Redwood Association in 1983. I still have the photographs, the house looks as current today as it did then.
wrote on May 9, 2009
at
11:59 pm
It was nice to visit "In The Realm of Ideas" in Madison in 1991 (Wright drawings displayed). I took my mother as a 70th birthday gift, and Jacobs House I was also open for tours. Mom was the Jacobs' after school helper/babysitter when the home was new, and it was really a thrill to take her to see this lovely home about 53 years later. Thank you for this lovely website, too.
wrote on April 3, 2009
at
11:54 pm
BEAUTIFUL! I have seen many FLW homes on the house walks and hope to get up to WI soon, thanks for sharing this wonderful home!