Polishing an Architectural Treasure ; Famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Springfield Creation to Open As Museum

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SPRINGFIELD -- Primeval man crawled into a cave and huddled near a fire, which gave him warmth and light and a sense of security. The forest embraced him in its velvety dark greens and shaggy rich browns, a cloak of natural hues with speckles of golden sunlight filtering down through timeless shadows.

Thousands of years later, in 1908-1910, architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a 4,435-square-foot house for a Springfield industralist, Burton Westcott, his wife Orpha and their two children, and achieved much the same ambiance.

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Polishing an Architectural Treasure ; Famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Springfield Creation to Open As Museum

The Westcott House, Ohio's principal example of Wright's famed Prairie Style of "organic architecture," opens to the public Saturday after a painstaking, 5-year restoration. B...

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