Edward E. Boynton House

The Edward E. Boynton House is a building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright house in Rochester, New York. Built in the Prairie - style house was completed in 1908 and is now part of East Avenue Preservation District, which is entered in the National Register of Historic Places. It has the address 16 East Boulevard.

History and description of the house

Edward Boynton was a successful businessman Frank Wright by a business partner, Warren McArthur, met; for McArthur Wright had designed a house in Chicago. Wright came to Rochester in 1907 to Boynton and his daughter Beulah - Boyntons wife had died several years earlier - to advise on the selection of the building plot. Boynton earned four adjacent plots ( well 8000 meters), where not only the house but also an extensive garden, a large reflecting pool and tennis facilities needed space. Wright designed not only the house itself, but also the garden and large parts of the interior. He has worked closely with Beulah Boynton together - a harmonious partnership that was not at all typical of Wright - and took into account many of their suggestions.

The house is built on a lengthened T- plan and extends over two floors. The living room turns into a veranda that opens onto the street. At the very large dining room includes a plurality of rows of the characteristic for Wright houses stained glass windows, which serve in part as skylights. The total cost of the house was $ 55,000 with $ considerably for the time.

The Boyntons lived in the house until 1918 and then sold it. In the 1920s, the land was carved up, so Wright's conception, who had nestled the house into the landscape, was strongly questioned. The house is up to the present day in private ownership. The interior is not accessible to visitors and the outside can only be viewed from the street (East Boulevard, Hawthorne Street).

View from Hawthorne Street

South side (outside view of the dining room )

The interior of the dining room