For Sale: The Wheeler house, by Don Singer

Over the years, I observed that undisturbed and unaltered modernist homes do not become available very often – yet that is exactly what many modernist-deprived buyers are pining for.

 

A fine example and great opportunity* is the Wheeler house in Fort Lauderdale, designed by noted Florida modernist Don Singer for his friend Dick Wheeler. 

 

It's a very private 3/2 – which was quite a challenge for exterior shots –  with a 2-car garage and pool, built in 1976 on a double lot with mature foliage. With ca. 2487 sf under air (ca. 220 sqm), the house is spacious for modern architecture of that age, but so seem a lot of Singers. 

 

Curious? Read more about it here.  

 

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*Viewings currently by invitation only. Photo ©tckaiser

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Owners of Wright-house in Phoenix consider Selling or Razing later

A development team that bought the David-Wright-house in Phoenix designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright will sell the house rather than accept landmark status, reports the NYTimes today.

The house's owners, John Hoffman and Steve Sells, are hoping to sell the house before Nov. 7, when the City Council is scheduled to vote on giving it landmark status, which they oppose.

But in Arizona landmark status shields a property from development or destruction for only three years. So if the Council grants the request, something else might happen, Mr. Sells said. 

“I’ll move in, invite everybody to come in and take their pictures, and I’m going to wait three years,” he said, interlacing his fingers behind his neck as he slouched on the orange cushions of the master bedroom’s seating area. “Then I’m going to knock it down to recoup my losses.” 

Please read the full NYTimes article here, and then voice your opinion on the possible demolition here.

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Photo: The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives