The Stockman House by Frank Lloyd Wright
Mason City, Iowa
The Stockman House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1908 for Dr. George and Eleanor Stockman as their family home, is now a museum. Restored to its 1908 presentation and furnished with period pieces and reproductions of furnishings Wright designed for other houses, the Stockman House provides visitors with Wright's vision of a modest home of the time. The house is located within easy walking distance of other significant Prairie School buildings.
Mason City is a major focus of the work of architects of the Prairie School in the upper Midwest. Come and visit us sometime!
2008 Rock Crest/Rock Glen Architectural Tour Information
A tour will be held on Saturday, June 21st. Mason City is a treasure trove of representative examples of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the other most significant architects in the American architecture movement called the Prairie School: Walter Burley Griffin and his wife, Marion Mahony Griffin; William Drummond and Barry Byrne.
The buildings of our city’s most far-reaching cultural significance are compactly located in a six-block area we call our “Cultural Crescent”. The ends of the Crescent are anchored by Frank Lloyd Wright buildings of national and international significance. -- Wright’s 1910 Park Inn Hotel and City National Bank are segments of one, larger multi-purpose building at the west end. They are in the process of historic rehabilitation. At the east end, the 1908 Stockman House has been open to the public as a Wright house museum since 1992 and now plans an interpretive center immediately adjacent to its north, along Willow Creek. |
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