Matt Swanseger, Erie Reader
August 13, 2021
In his lifetime, Wright drafted 1,114 architectural works for the civic, commercial, and residential spheres — 532 of them were ever constructed. Several lie to the north near Buffalo — the Darwin D. Martin House (1905) and Graycliff (1926) being the two most famous. Several others can be found to the south near Pittsburgh — most notably the masterpiece Fallingwater (1939) and the later Kentuck Knob (1956). Erie, however, had long remained disconnected from Wright's legacy — until now.
Traveling from one bay area to another via Pittsburgh and Buffalo, Wright's San Francisco Field Office has been faithfully curated and reassembled by Jeff Kidder and Mike Jefferys within a specially designed and newly constructed installation at Erie's Hagen History Center.