Description:
From the 1930s through the 1950s, architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a number of so-called Usonian homes -- designed to be compact, useful, elegant, and inexpensive to build. The Zimmerman House, built in a Manchester residential neighborhood in 1950, was one such home, though the owners didn't really cut corners on costs here. (In truth, few Usonian owners did, and most houses came in well over budget.) Wright designed the whole building, all the furniture, all the gardens -- everything right down to the hexagonal napkins in the dining room, the Japanese paper lamps, and the sleek, wooden Fallingwater-esque mailbox. Throughout, the home features luxe touches such as Georgia cypress trim and red-glazed brick. Only five Wright homes were built in the Northeast, and this is the only one open to the public. All in all, the home is a little gem, and it also offers a wonderful window into the 1950s and 1960s America that was.
Visitors are shuttled to the house from the Currier Museum via van service; the tours take 90 minutes. Advance reservations are required, and make them well ahead if your heart is really set on touring this home.
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Awards:
Frommer's
- Very Highly Recommended 2010
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Contact:
- visit website
- tel: +1 603 669 6144
- fax: +1 603 669 7194
- send email
Address:
- 223 Heather St
- C/O Currier Museum of Art. 201 Myrtle Way
- Manchester, NH 03104
Neighborhood:
North EndHours:
- Tours Mon and Thurs-Fri at 2pm; Sat at 11am and 12:30pm; Sun at 12:30 and 2pm. Reservations required
Strenuousness:
- No Sweat
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