Find the Wright House

Do those comfortable, Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie style houses make your heart skip a beat? Have you always dreamed of owning a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece like Fallingwater? Start packing. You can live in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright — or one that looks like it might have been. Here's how.

• Buy a Wright
  Frank Lloyd Wright built hundreds of private homes, and every year a few change ownership. Just look at some of the recent transactions: For $230,000, you could have purchased the Usonian style Manson House in Wausua, Wisconsin. $725,000 was the price placed on the river-view Carl E. Schultz House in St. Joseph, Michigan. Got more to spend? The classic Prairie Style Isabel Roberts House in River Forest, Illinois was recently priced at $1,250,000. To learn about Frank Lloyd Wright houses currently for sale, visit the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and click Wright on the Market.

• Build a Wright
  Nothing by Wright in your city? Consider hiring an architect to custom design a new home in the spirit of the master. Without doubt, the premier firm for Wright inspired creations is Taliesin Architects (TA). Continuing the architectural practice established by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1893, TA is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Taliesin design studios in Arizona and Wisconsin also provide a living laboratory for the training of apprentices in the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. John Rattenbury, a protégé of the late Frank Lloyd Wright, is the Taliesin architect responsible for the airy, Wright-like home chosen as the Life Magazine Dream House for 1997. For examples of modern-day architecture inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, see Rattenbury's book, A Living Architecture : Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects (compare prices).

• Use Mail Order House Plans
  Building on a budget? Consider purchasing construction-ready building plans for a Prairie Style house. While not duplicates of Wright's work, many of these plans resemble the rambling homes that Frank Lloyd Wright designed. To find Prairie house plans and other plans for Wright-inspired houses, see our directory of Frank Lloyd Wright House Plans.

• Add Wright Details
  Even if your new home is not a Wright original, it can incorporate his most popular details. Evoke the spirit of the master through furniture, glassware, fabrics, lighting, and wallpapers. To find Frank Lloyd Wright reproduction housewares, explore our Frank Lloyd Wright Shopping List.

What's your favorite house by Frank Lloyd Wright? Cast your vote!