The Boulter House Frank Lloyd Wright Architect, 1956

Janet Groeber and Chuck Lohre 1 Rawson Woods Circle Cincinnati, OH 45220 513-751-9657, chuck@lohre.com Location Map

A view down to the entry from the second floor.	The distinctive mark or "Mayan glyph" of the home is the square, as seen in the transom above the plate glass windows.	Three identical, 98-sq.-ft. bedrooms line the second floor gallery. There is no master bedroom in the main house. Patricia used the room adjacent to Cedric’s.
On the east side, a unique three-room bath served the original family of four.	Wright loved piercing his glass facades with architectural elements; the second floor walkway becomes a balcony on the west side and the carport roof line becomes an interior plant shelf on the east side.	The west end room, which was Cedric’s study/bedroom overlooks the terrace and western yard.
Cedric's room showing the built in desk and drawers.	Cedric's balcony.	A view from Cedric's balcony down to the terrace.
A view of the corner glass and the living room from Cedric's balcony.	On the west side, double doors open onto the wrap-around terrace.	While Wright usually designed on acre lots or larger, his solution for this half acre yielded a two-story home with a stunning facade.
The south facing terrace.	A view of the addition from the terrace.	The terrace surrounds the south side and leads out into the "private side."
Wright’s signature glass-to-glass corner construction is used throughout the home, just one of the features Wright used to "break up the square."	Ten 2-by 8-in. redwood mullions on the south side support massive pairs of 4-by-14-in. Douglas fir roof beams.	A view of corner glass and Cedric's balcony.
Cedric's balcony side is a unique Wright parapet design.	Wright favored a "prow" for a number of hillside homes he designed allowing for the structures to "erupt" from their sites like natural stone outcroppings.	The west side balcony is supported by a metal tray circling the concrete column, similar to a "waiter’s tray," one of Wright’s "organic" structural elements.
A view east from the edge of the .6 acre lot.	Flat roofs were unique to Wright's designs.	The north side of the home was excavated in 1997 to relieve backfill stress on the home – a walkway there now provides access to the terrace.

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The primary Boulter House site: http://www.wrightboulter.com/site
Home restoration diary at Beck Hardware's "Ask Mr. Friendly" Blog: http://beckhardware.blogspot.com/
cf3 (Cincinnati Form Follows Function) Mid-Century Modern Club http://www.cf3.org
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation http://www.franklloydwright.org
The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy http://www.savewright.org/

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