Greetings.  I got an e-mail from Brian who found what is identified as a Wright home in the Lighthouse Hill neighborhood of Staten Island.   

PLEASE CLICK HERE to see the web site where Brian found it.  It is about half way down the page on the left side.

I didn’t think that I had any of my Wright resources with me, but I totally forgot that I carry Storrer’s companion on CDRom in my laptop bag when I travel. 

That appears to be the Cass Residence in Richmond, New York.  It is an Erdman Prefab built in 1959.  According to the web site, Mrs. Cass passed away in 2004. 

This is some of what Storer has to say about it:

“The Cass house was shown at open houses for Macy’s, which furnished the home to Wright’s specifications.  Its name, the Crimson Beech, refers to a centuries-old Copper Beech tree around which the house was situated; it has since been destroyed by lightning. ”

 One of the photos in Storer’s book shows a lighthouse in the background.  That makes me think that the home is located at the beach.  Yahoo maps puts the house roughly 1.5 miles from the shore.  Google maps actually shows a lot more detail with the satellite photos.  There is, indeed a lighthouse in the lot next door.  Strange but true.

Thanks for reading.

 Pete