Frank Lloyd Wright's Volt

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Steverino

Discussion Starter · Sep 19, 2012

Frank Llyoyd Wright was an innovator way ahead of his time. Like the Volt, his homes where often misunderstood, but many of his ideas became common over time and his homes have outlasted his critics.

This summer our family took a trip to Ann Arbor, where we had rented the Palmer house. On the way to Ann Arbor we stopped at an outlet mall in Michigan City Indiana where we plugged into a free ChargePoint station. While sight seeing and having lunch we loaded 38 miles into the battery and then we were on our way again. We were able to charge up again at the Palmer house. Return trip started on a full battery (with a stop at Zingerman's Deli for lunch), and the rest was ICE. Over the total trip of 573 miles we used 9 gals of gas (63.5 MPG).

I love seeing our Volt juxtaposed against this home.

http://flwpalmerhouse.com/

http://youtu.be/oxsixgQtMm4

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DonC

· #2 · Sep 19, 2012

His houses are very beautiful, great blend of modern and midwest. Perfect backdrop for the Volt!

If you ever get to Phoenix you might want to catch Taliesin West.

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JamesMcQuaid

· #3 · Sep 19, 2012

Thank you for the link, Steverino; the Palmer House website is quite good. I also enjoyed seeing your Volt with the house.

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kns

· #4 · Sep 19, 2012

JamesMcQuaid said:
Thank you for the link, Steverino; the Palmer House website is quite good. I also enjoyed seeing your Volt with the house.

OFF TOPIC: The university in Ann Arbor ain't bad either. GO BLUE!

KNS

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volt11

· #5 · Sep 19, 2012

Big FLW fan here. A few years ago we made the trek out to western PA for a weekend trip on the motorcycles, and saw Kentuck Knob and Falling Water houses in the same day as they're fairly close to one another. Both great, but Falling Water is on the highest level of human achievements in my book; more awe inspiring to me than the great cathedrals or pyramids, it feels like all of humanity was lifted when that house came into existence in the 1930s, I'm not kidding. I can't recommend it strongly enough. If you go, take one of the longer tours.

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Steverino

Discussion Starter · #6 · Sep 19, 2012

volt11 said:
Big FLW fan here. A few years ago we made the trek out to western PA for a weekend trip on the motorcycles, and saw Kentuck Knob and Falling Water houses in the same day as they're fairly close to one another. Both great, but Falling Water is on the highest level of human achievements in my book; more awe inspiring to me than the great cathedrals or pyramids, it feels like all of humanity was lifted when that house came into existence in the 1930s, I'm not kidding. I can't recommend it strongly enough. If you go, take one of the longer tours.

I second that, Volt11. Both those tours are awesome. The Palmer house is the 5th FLW house I have rented. There aren't many available to be rented, but every so often one like the Palmer pop up. Renting them for some days is the really long extended tour with a sleep over, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, haha.

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hvacman

· #7 · Sep 19, 2012

An American architectural icon meets Danish plastic engineering

http://architecture.lego.com/en-us/products/architect/fallingwater/

My brother has this set in his office. It is very cool.

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