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Article: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- November 25, 1996
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The guides wear white gloves at the house Frank Lloyd Wright built in Manchester, New Hampshire. They move primly through the Zimmerman home like tea-party hosts, protecting the property meticulously restored by the Currier Gallery. We visitors, too, protect the place, donning plastic booties like the medical staff in Outbreak. Moonwalkers all, we tiptoe through the pristine environs. In the mode of house museums everywhere, the architecture has been transformed into both memorial and crypt.
If this is the white-gloves museum of memory that Frank Lloyd Wright evokes, the shade of America's premier architect, an outcast and outsider at times, still resides in a ...