http://peterbeers.net/blog1 A Common Man's Travel's To See the Works of Frank Lloyd Wright Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:34:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   We finally had the opportunity to tour the Westcott House after the restoration was completed.  What a great house!  I can't believe how wonderful it looks.  We got to tour it early in the restoration process and the difference is night and day.  One thing that we noticed was that Springfield, ... http://peterbeers.net/blog1/2007/11/25/burton-and-orpha-westcott-house-1906-8/ Hey folks.  Mark, a reader of my web site, has done some travels of his own.  The Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio was his most recent destination.  He corrected my information on my web site as well as letting me know the link to his own.  (Design started in 1904, not building... and ... http://peterbeers.net/blog1/2007/10/30/new-westcott-web-site/ Hey folks.  I heard from my friend Greg that the 2007 Auldbrass Plantation tour is happening this weekend (November 3 and 4) in Beaufort, SC.  I attended the tour in 2003 and it was amazing.   If you make it to Beaufort this weekend for the tour, please post up your impressions of the ... http://peterbeers.net/blog1/2007/10/29/2007-auldbrass-plantation-tour-next-weekend/ Greetings!  I know... Long time no post.  I've been working way too much.  I was getting ready for work (at 5am on a Saturday) and saw this in Yahoo News.  It is probably old news to you Wright-heads, but it inspired me to post, so it can't be all that ... http://peterbeers.net/blog1/2007/10/27/lakeland-water-dome-comes-to-life-after-70-years/ Eeeeeeeeeek!  Two posts in one day??  What is happening???  Sorry about that. I even shocked myself with this post.  I was e-mailing with someone that has toured many of Wright's homes and he made some comments about a recent trip to western Pennsylvania.  He went up to tour Kentuck Knob and was ... http://peterbeers.net/blog1/2007/06/12/tour-and-docent-experiences/ Greetings.   As you can tell by the dates that I've posted lately, I haven't had much spare time to work on the web site or blog.  My solution is to live vicariously through others' road trips.   This post is kind of an odd one.  I don't really have a point to make ... http://peterbeers.net/blog1/2007/06/12/a-friends-flw-road-trip-and-my-aimless-post-d/ Stacey just posted this in another thread and I thought it deserved a thread of its own: "i see you are interested in FLW homes and featured two from Kankakee IL on your site.  My in-laws live right down the street from both of these houses. Sadly I have to report the ... http://peterbeers.net/blog1/2007/02/15/bradley-house-s052-in-kankakee-illinois-burned/ Well that got your attention.  Actually the Pope house isn't on Ebay.  My friend Rich allerted me to an auction for a book about the Pope house that appeared on ebay.  It is titled "Historic Preservation.  Special Issue on Pope-Leighey House:  A Property of the National Trust".    Historic Preservation Volume 21, ... http://peterbeers.net/blog1/2007/01/30/pope-house-on-ebay/ 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 ... http://peterbeers.net/blog1/2007/01/29/frank-lloyd-wright-home-in-staten-island-s4092/ Greetings.  Joan, one of the folks that reads this blog and contributes, noticed that Yahoo's question of the day for yesterday had to do with Frank Lloyd Wright.  HERE is the link.  Please discuss... That link will probably go south someday, so here's the text of the question and answer:   Dear Yahoo!: How many buildings did Frank ... http://peterbeers.net/blog1/2007/01/10/yahoos-question-of-the-day-for-tuesday-1907/