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Hanna House

Begun in 1937 when the Hannas were a young married couple, Wright expanded and adapted the house over the next 25 years.

Stanford Professor Paul Hanna

737 Frenchman’s Rd.

Hanna House will be open twice a year for public tours. Send an email to [email protected] if you would like to receive a message when tours open for booking.

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The long-term collaboration between the Hannas and Wright resulted in an unprecedented design based on hexagonal geometry. This is the first and best example of Wright’s innovative hexagonal design. Also known as the Hanna-Honeycomb House due to the hexagonal modules of its floor plan, the design creates a remarkable degree of spatial continuity and flexibility, and proved to be a turning point in Wright’s career. The 1.5-acre site ultimately included a guesthouse, hobby shop, storage building, double garage, carport, breezeway and garden house. Though generally considered Usonian in style, the eventual size and cost of the complex far surpassed the means of the typical “Middle American.” Nevertheless, it exemplified how Wright’s designs could continually adapt to the needs of the family, while still embodying the principles of organic design. In 1975, having occupied the house for 38 years, the Hannas donated the property to Stanford University. It underwent extensive restoration following an earthquake in 1989 and reopened to the public in 1999.

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Hanna House was designed in 1936 for Stanford University professor Paul Hanna, his wife Jean, and their five children.

The Hannas asked Frank Lloyd Wright to design an inexpensive house for their growing family. His solution was a glass-fronted collection of hexagon-shaped spaces surrounding a brick chimney. The Hannas thought it would cost about $15,000, but ended up instead with a price tag of $37,000. 

Nicknamed "Honeycomb House" for the hexagon shapes, it was Wright's first design based on non-rectangular forms. Hanna House is recognized by the American Institute of Architects as one of seventeen Wright buildings that best represent his contribution to American culture.

The house is generally considered to be one of Wright's Usonian designs, intended for middle-income families. However, subsequent additions pushed its eventual size and cost far beyond the budget of "Middle America." 

Hanna House Interior

The house is made of redwood and brick, with a concrete slab floor. It has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a kitchen, and a living area charmingly described ​on the blueprints as the "sanctum." Also on the property are a guest house, hobby shop, garage, and carport, as well as now-dry water features.

The house was the Hanna family home until 1975 when it was donated to Stanford University. It served as the provost's home until the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake severely damaged it and subsequently closed for almost a decade for a seismic retrofit.

You can see a few more photos - and a plan drawing - of it here

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If you want to know more about Wright's Usonian architecture, try this - or read  Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses  by Carla Lind.

Hanna House Details

737 Frenchman's Road Stanford, CA (about 30 miles south of San Francisco off I-280)

Tours of the Hanna House  are available by reservation only. You cannot get onto the grounds at any other time.

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Hanna House is one of a few California Wright sites that are open for public tours. You can  get a list of all the Frank Lloyd Wright tours in California in this guide .

It is also one of eight Wright designs in the San Francisco area, including two of his most important works.  Use the guide to Frank Lloyd Wright in the San Francisco area to find all of them .

Hanna House is among the 17 Wright buildings named his most important works by the American Institute of Architecture, three of which are in California. The others are the  Hollyhock House  in Los Angeles and the  V.C. Morris Gift Shop  in San Francisco.

It is also one of Wright's designs which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Others include the  Anderton Court Shops ,  Hollyhock House ,  Ennis House ,  Samuel Freeman House ,  Marin Civic Center , the  Millard House , and the  Storer House .

Wright's Usonian houses were designed for middle-income families. They featured indoor-outdoor connections and were often built in an "L" shape. They include the Sydney Bazett House ,  Buehler House ,  Randall Fawcett House , Sturges House,  Arthur Mathews House , and the  Kundert Medical Clinic in San Luis Obispo  (which is based on a Usonian House design).

Wright's work isn't all in the San Francisco area. He also designed nine structures in the Los Angeles area.  Use the guide to Wright Sites in Los Angeles to find out where they are . You'll also find several houses, a church, and a medical clinic in some of the most unexpected places.  Here's where to find Wright sites in the rest of California .

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You'll find  examples of Victorian style architecture all over San Francisco , including the famous Painted Ladies of Alamo Square. Other sights with particular architectural interest include the  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , the deYoung Museum and Renzo Piano's Academy of Sciences in  Golden Gate Park , and the Transamerica Building.

Nearby in San Jose, you'll find a city hall designed by Richard Meier. In Silicon Valley, the big-name tech companies like Apple, Google, Nvidia, and Facebook have buildings of architectural importance, but most are off limits except to their employees. 

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Hanna “honeycomb” house (1936).

The Hanna house on Stanford’s campus is also known as the “Honeycomb House” — this because its design was based on the hexagonal geometric figure (the honeycomb) produced by bees. It was Wright’s first non-rectangular design and… it drove the construction crews absolutely nuts. Ninety-degree angles were one thing, but in 1937 — the year the house was begun — no one seemed to be able to wrap their heads around the one hundred twenty-degree angles upon which the whole structure (and everything inside — including the furniture) is based. There isn’t a ninety-degree anywhere in the house. But the beauty of the hexagonal geometry in a seemingly un-geometric structure is simple and breathtaking. The only real problem was in the roof. Apparently not originally installed correctly, it — like many of Wright’s roofs — leaked profusely.

Public tours will be offered twice a year. 

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737 Frenchman’s Road, Stanford, CA

The house was designed for Paul R. Hanna and his wife Jean. Although born in Iowa , Hanna grew up in Minnesota , where he attended Hamline University; Hamline was also the place where he met and later proposed to and married Jean Shuman, the woman who shared his passions and his dreams. In 1935, after teaching a summer course in 1934, Paul would become an associate professor at Stanford University. Paul and Jean packed the three children and family dog into the car and headed west. Traveling to California, they had stopped at Taliesin (in Spring Green, WI) and fell in love with “the house on the hill” that Frank Lloyd Wright had designed and built there. Paul and Jean Hanna decided that they wanted Wright to build a similar house for them.

From the moment I first turned the corner and saw the sprawling, reddish house up on the hillside, there was no doubt it could only have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Initial impressions led me to believe that it was a Prairie Style… but closer inspection — and a tour — showed that was definitely a ranch; it was instantly my favorite of all the Wright homes that I have thus far been able to tour and likely because it felt almost as if it had been designed for me. The attention to detail, as in all of Wright’s structures, is phenomenal.

Designed to be built at an original price of $15,000, the Hanna house soon fell victim to Wright’s typical cost overruns and the cost ballooned to first $24,000 and then to $37,000 (equivalent to an inflation-adjusted price of more than a half-million dollars). Unaware of the future success of their literature and way beyond their means, the Hannas decided to take out a loan (arranged through Paul Hanna’s Publisher, Scott Foresman and company); they also delayed some of the original design features and incorporated them over the next twenty-five years, and after finances were less stretched.

Paul and Jean Hanna had their focus squarely on family and on their children; Wright designed the house to change according to the growth of the Hanna children. As one of many examples, a room that was originally designed as a children’s playroom was later converted to a formal dining room once the family’s needs changed.

Although the plans for the Honeycomb House called for it to be built on a flat piece of land, the plot leased by the Hannas in the far southwestern corner of Stanford was on a fairly substantial hill. The house, naturally, became one with it. Unfortunately, part of the property also contained a portion of the San Andreas Fault… Not a problem — apparently — as Wright boasted that his Imperial Hotel had survived an earthquake. Unfortunately, the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 wreaked havoc on the Hanna House; it was not as “earthquake-proof” as Wright had thought. At great cost, it has been restored and reopened to the public, although additional restoration — complicated by the honeycomb design — continues.

This is a definitely a true gem in the collection of preserved Wright homes!

Resources, Links & Products

Browse these resources for more information about this FLW Building, it’s history and information about the region.

• Hanna House Online Collection (blueprints, photos)
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House: The Clients' Report by Paul & Jean Hanna

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“ This historic house, one of Frank Lloyd Wright 's last designs, was recently retrofitted and has reopened for tours. ” in 5 reviews

“ This used to be the provost 's house until the 1989 quake, so the last full time resident was Condaleeza Rice (no, seriously, I'm not kidding, it was!). ” in 2 reviews

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1 of only 3 Public Frank Lloyd Wright sites in CA and they only allow visitors twice a year so count yourself an architecture nerd and a lucky-one if you do get a spot on the tour. Older review from before Covid, you can email [email protected] for next tour dates. You can take as many pictures as you want outside but no pictures of the interior so I added some I found online. This is what makes this design unique compared to other FLW works: -Hexagons/honeycomb, back in 1936 imagine the precision that had to be done by hand to make the huge structure a honeycomb as well as small details like the stone tiles. One cut slightly wrong would have snowballed into huge misalignments. -First FLW work in non-rectangular structures -First FLW work in the Bay Area It's not as epic and grand as Fallingwater or as contemplative as Taliesin West and it is smaller than some of the US public FLW sites but it's only 1 of 3 in Cali you can see the interior of and you get a more complete picture if you can see inside/out and hear the docents anecdotes about the design and house.

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Hanna House is one of the few northern California buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Located in a residential neighborhood within the boundaries of the sprawling Stanford University campus, the home is currently occupied by a private party and is not open to the public. However, it once served as the official residence for the Provost where the university regularly held alumni and fundraising events and one might reasonably assume the home may someday return to it's previous semi-public stature. Although visitors are discouraged from trespassing on the property, the house has been magnificently maintained and is visible from the street below. A relatively new arrangement with the Stanford Historical Society will enable the public to tour the house twice each year. Interested parties should contact [email protected] to receive information about future tour dates and booking arrangements.

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First time to see Hanna House which is a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Professor Paul Hanna, his wife Jean, and 3 kids. It was designed in the mid 1930s. Tours are 1hr by RSVP only, call (650) 725-8352 or email: [email protected]. Tours are $10 per person, parking is $5 per car - best to carpool. We had tour guide: Barbara Newton. She was good and it was very informative. Notice lots of horizontals & hexagons. Built 72 yrs ago. It had some damage in the 1989 earthquake and it took 10 yrs to restore. No one lives in the home anymore, grad students live in the guest house. You can take lots of pics of the outside of the house, NONE inside. One bathroom was available for use - I was the only one on my tour that needed to go, oh well, I can say I peed in a FLW house. Website: http://www.stanford.edu/home/welcome/campus/hanna.html AAA mention, old article and prices are wrong now: http://www.viamagazine.com/top_stories/articles/hanna_house01.asp

Had the best Sunday at the Hanna House! The house was beautiful inside and out. I can't describe to you that moment you walk into the living space and take it all in. You'll have to find out for yourselves! Our docent Susan was extremely welcoming and took the time to give us a tour in so much detail. For reservations, we corresponded with Alana. We were very lucky for her help because I think we would have ended up waiting another 6 months otherwise. Thank you!!

One word AMAZING the house and the Docent who guided our tour. For more information click onto the link below. Thank You http://hannahousetours.stanford.edu/

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Seriously, this is one of those places I had been meaning to go to for like 10 years. Very few people know there are Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the Bay Area, and fewer know about the Hanna Honeycomb House. I made a point of dragging a co-worker here within about a month of starting work at Stanford. You will not be disappointed! The tour is wonderful, and very informative without boring you. The house is lovely, and typifies some of Wright's main interests and stylistic themes. This used to be the provost's house until the 1989 quake, so the last full time resident was Condaleeza Rice (no, seriously, I'm not kidding, it was!). The grounds are beautiful too, and so is the amazing fountain. The home's systems, like all Wright homes, were incredibly modern for their era. You do have to reserve in advance, and they send you tickets and a parking pass for the street (its restricted parking so people who live on the street aren't constantly inundated by tourists parking on the street). Also, the driveway is very steep. Don't wear heels, either, you have to wear soft-soled shoes in the house to protect the floors. And tours start on time, so don't be late or you could miss out. FYI, there is also another Frank Lloyd Wright building in SF, on Maiden Lane near Union Square.

One word. AMAZING!!!! The house is amazing and the tour is amazing too! Just went this past weekend and it was my second time seeing a Frank Lloyd Wright building in the flesh (first one being the Guggenheim Museum in NYC), but this was the first residential home I'd seen of his. The differences between the two types of Wright buildings was large, but it still had a similar style reminiscent of Wright. I love the hexagonal honeycomb shape of the building, tiles and furniture. It was pretty cool. The living room was also hexagonal shaped. Our docent, Martha, told us that Frank Lloyd Wright didn't like rectangular shaped rooms because people don't naturally move in the shape of a rectangle when moving about in a room. The hexagon shape definitely made the natural progression of the room more smooth and felt expansive. The amount of storage space and design of public areas were pretty amazing. The immense amount of detail and thought put into the architecture was super interesting. Great for architecture buffs! Definitely plan ahead for this because you do need to book tickets ahead of time. They're only open certain days in the month and my friend and I were fortunate since we decided 2 weeks beforehand that we wanted to go and they were still selling tickets for the tours. Make note to carpool also since each parking permit is $5, you need a special permit to park in the area because the rest of the area is residential and they don't want randoms blocking traffic there without a permit. The tour was supposed to be an hour long but ran a little over because there was so much to go over. Super informative! I think it was the most I'd ever learned about a space of this size in an hour. Also, I think they only offer 3 tours on Saturday, one at 11, 11:15 and 11:30 and we saw them closing the window shades by the time we were leaving. Tickets are also $10 so it wasn't too bad for what you get. I would totally come here again just to stare at the insides of the house!

This historic house, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's last designs, was recently retrofitted and has reopened for tours. Check out the repeating honeycombs in the tiles, the building's structure, and the floors. If you're thinking about going, act early, because they're only open 1st & 3rd Sundays of each month, and 2nd and 4th Thursdays. Sunday tours take a long time to get into, so make sure to check out the website and call/email ahead for your reservation.

The Hanna House docents are wonderful. This is a special opportunity to view the first California house by FLW. We were fortunate to have John Hanna join our tour for an intimate look into his family home's history.

If you will be in Stanford make sure you don't miss Hanna House. This early Frank Lloyd Wright house is beautiful and fascinating. Among other things this house was designed to change as the family aged and children left; bedrooms became studies and playrooms morphed to dining rooms. The tour is interesting and I only wish that it lasted even longer. The tours fill up well in advance so plan ahead, if you have shorter notice try the Thursday tour which fills up slower.

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A National Historic Landmark, the Hanna-Honeycomb House was Frank Lloyd Wright's (1867-1959) first work in the San Francisco region. Begun in 1937 and expanded over 25 years, this is the first and best example of Wright's innovative hexagonal design. Patterned after the honeycomb of a bee, the house incorporates six-sided figures with 120-degree angles in its plan, in its numerous tiled terraces, and even in built-in furnishings. Wright, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, was an internationally known architect who combined the reformist ideals of 19th-century America with aspects of modernism. Wright created an organic architecture, and became arguably the best-known architect of the United States. In American National Bibliography Frederick Ivor-Campbell wrote "(the) Honeycomb House showed how Wright's system of Polygonal modules could provide the openness that he associated with freedom of movement while gracefully integrating the house with its sloping topography. The hexagonal modules of the floor plan gave the appearance of a honeycomb; hence the name of the house."

The Hanna-Honeycomb house was designed for Paul R. Hanna and his wife Jean, both well-known educators and for many years associated with Stanford University and the Hoover Institute. The project was begun while they were a young married couple and the house was expanded and adapted over time, with Wright's assistance, as their professional and personal needs changed. The house is one-story high with a central clerestory (an outside wall of a room or building that rises above an adjoining roof and contains windows) and is constructed of native redwood board and batten, San Jose brick, cement and plate glass. The house clings to and completes the hillside on which it was built as the floor and courtyard levels conform to the slope of this one and one-half acre site. The entire site includes the main house, a guesthouse, hobby shop, storage building, double garage, carport, breezeway, and garden house with pools and water cascade. After living in the house for 38 years, the Hannas gave the property to Stanford University in 1974. It was severely damaged by the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, and a major 10-year restoration was recently completed.

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29 Frank Lloyd Wright Homes You Can Actually Visit

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Visiting one of the many Frank Lloyd Wright homes open for tours is perhaps the greatest way to experience the architect’s genius. Though many of his public buildings, such as the Guggenheim or the Marin County Civic Center are exemplary, it’s his private residences that demonstrate Wright’s guiding passions, philosophies, and beliefs. Ultimately, he maintained that good design enriched people’s lives, and perhaps nowhere was that more important than the places we rest our heads at night. So the architect crafted homes that prompted life in harmony with nature and advocated for affordable, beautiful residences for all. To this day, many of his homes remain in the hands of private owners and continue to inspire their stewards to slow down, appreciate the world around them, and bask in the small moments.

While having the opportunity to live in a Frank Lloyd Wright house is the exception among modernist architecture lovers and not the rule, there are a number of homes by the mastermind that the public can actually visit—some of the sites even offer overnight stays. Below, AD visits 30 Frank Lloyd Wright homes open for tours, from his early Prairie style designs to his Usonian masterpieces and experimental moments in between.

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio.

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio (1889)

Go back and see where it all began at the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio. As the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust puts it, the historic home was “the birthplace of an architectural revolution.” Here, Wright experimented with his own aesthetic ideas while developing his signature Prairie style, which can be seen across a number of Wright properties around Chicago. Admission: $20–$30. Buy tickets here .

The Bradley House

Bradley House (1900)

Considered Wright’s first Prairie house, the Bradley House was the former home of B. Harley Bradley and his wife, Anna. Featuring over 90 art glass windows, the early design exemplifies Wright’s lifelong pursuit of blurring the indoors and the outside. Now owned by the non-profit Wright in Kankakee, the organization offers various tour options throughout the year. Admission: $25–$100. Book a tour here .

The Dana-Thomas House

Dana-Thomas House (1902)

Designed for Susan Lawrence Dana, a progressive socialite, this Springfield home was Wright’s 72nd construction. Spanning 12,000 square feet, the property houses more than 100 original pieces of furniture and 450 works of art glass. The Historic Preservation Division of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources currently maintains the property. Tours are available daily at 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 and 3:00 p.m. Admission: Free. Book a tour here .

Fabyan Villa Museum

Fabyan Villa (1907)

Multimillionaire couple George and Nelle Fabyan hired Wright in 1907 to remodel their home located on their country estate, Riverbank. The architect added hallmark elements of his Prairie style including three verandas, large eaves, and geometric window motifs. The home is now a museum, which tells the story of the couple as well as the work Wright completed. The property reopens for tours in May. Admission: $10. Book a tour here .

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The Martin House

Martin House (1903)

Darwin Martin, an employee of the Larkin Soap Company, and his wife, Isabelle Reidpath Martin, were important early patrons of Wright’s work. Darwin originally hired the architect in the 1900s to design a home for his sister, Delta, and her husband, George Barton. Considered successful, Darwin offered Wright his first-ever commercial commission, the Larkin Administration Building, as well as the chance to design the Martin’s own home and the rest of the Martin House estate. Admission: $15 and up to $500 for private tours. Book a tour here .

The Meyer May House

Meyer May House (1908)

Considered Michigan’s Prairie masterpiece, the Meyer May House is among Wright’s finest Prairie style homes. The property features a T floor plan, two stories, hip roofs with overhanging eaves, and art glass windows. Meyer S. May and his wife, Sophie, commissioned the home, which is now open for tours on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. Admission: Free. Book a tour here .

George Stockman House (1908)

While meeting with clients in Mason City to discuss plans for a proposed bank, hotel, and office, Wright met Dr. George C. Stockman, who commissioned a home from the up-and-coming architect. The home is the third built example of Wright’s fireproof home , a design originally published in Ladies Home Journal with an accompanying article. Though the version published in the magazine called for concrete, the Stockman House is made from a wood frame and stucco. Admission: $15. Book a tour here.

The Robie House

Robie House (1908)

Perhaps Wright’s most famous Prairie style design, the Robie House was designated by the American Institute of Architects as one of the 10 most significant structures of the 20th century. When the house faced demolition threats, once in 1941 and again in 1957, Wright himself campaigned for its salvation. Admission: $20–$75. Book a tour here .

Taliesin in Wisconsin

Taliesin (1911)

Wright’s second home and studio—and his school—is located in the Wisconsin valley, settled decades before by the architect’s Welsh ancestors. The move from his Oak Park studio to Wisconsin coincided with some less than shining press after Wright began an affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney, the wife of his neighbor and client. The two would soon abandon their families for a year to travel Europe and, unsurprisingly, received a cold welcome upon their return. Going back to his boyhood roots, Wright built Taliesin so he and Borthwick Cheney could start a new life. The Taliesin Preservation offers various tours of the home including private, group, full estate, and home highlight tours. Admission: $37–$200. Book a tour here .

Henry J. Allen House (1915)

Wright began working on the Allen House—commissioned by Elsie and Henry Allen—while simultaneously enthralled with designing for the Imperial Hotel in Japan. Featuring a square structure with an enclosed lily pool and garden, the home carries obvious Japanese influence. Tours take place Wednesday through Sunday. Admission: $22–$40. Book a tour here .

The Hollyhock House

Hollyhock House (1919)

Wright’s first California commission, the Hollyhock House, stands in an arena of its own. The architect himself called the style California Romanza, though it has also been described as Asian-, Egyptian-, Mayan-, and Aztec-inspired. The home is often viewed as a merging point between Wright’s Prairie style and the textile block structures that he would continue to explore throughout the 1920s. Aline Barnsdall, an oil heiress, commissioned the home. Admission: $3–$7. Book a tour here .

Graycliff (1926)

Nicknamed the “jewel on the lake,” Graycliff was a summer estate designed for the Martin family, the same couple who commissioned the Martin House. Spanning 8.5 acres, the property includes three structures and gardens designed by Wright, including a main house with a pavilion-like transparent center that offers views through to the nearby Lake Erie. Admission: $25. Book a tou r here .

Hanna House (1937)

Located on Stanford University’s campus, the Hanna House was designed for Stanford professor Paul Hanna and his wife, Jean. The home served as an important experimentation for Wright, who designed the property based on hexagonal geometry without any right angles in the floor plan. The property is open for tours twice a year. Inquire about tours here .

Fallingwater

Fallingwater (1935)

No Frank Lloyd Wright home is as famous as Fallingwater, his 1936 masterpiece designed for Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann. Built over a waterfall, the home is one of the most pristine examples of Wright’s organic architecture philosophies. The home is open for visits Thursday through Tuesday. Admission: $35–$1,800. Book a tour here .

Taliesin West

Taliesin West (1937)

Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home and studio, Taliesin West, was inspired by the Arizona desert. The property was built and maintained by Wright and his apprentices and is now the home of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Guests can take part in a number of visit options, including a self-guided audio tour and a guided tour. Admission: $39–$54. Book a tour here .

Wingspread (1938)

What Wright considered his final Prairie house, Wingspread was commissioned by the S.C. Johnson family, who were longtime patrons of Wright’s work. Spanning 14,000 square feet, it’s also the architect’s largest Prairie home. Now owned by the S.C. Johnson Foundation, tours of the home are available for free with advance reservations. Admission: Free. Book a tour here .

Bernard Schwartz House (1938)

Also known as Still Bend, the Bernard Schwartz House is a rare two-story Usonian home. Designed as part of a Life Magazine article titled “Eight Houses for Modern Living,” the glossy commissioned eight plans from architects—four modern and four traditional—for typical American families with incomes ranging between $2,000 to $10,000 a year. Wright designed a modern home for the Blackbourn family, whose annual household income was between $5,000 to $6,000 but were unable to build the property. Later, Bernard and Fern Schwartz, who were eager to own a Wright home, commissioned the Life dream home, which Wright was happy to see materialize. The home is now open for both overnight stays and tours. Admission: $25. Book a tour here .

Stanley Rosenbaum House

Stanley Rosenbaum House (1939)

Wright believed that Usonian houses should grow with a family, a conviction made abundantly clear with the Stanley Rosenbaum House. The property was originally 1,540 square feet, but when the family grew to include four sons, the Rosenbaums reached out to Wright asking for an addition. So in 1948 Wright added 1,084 square feet that blend seamlessly with the rest of the home. Admission: $10. Book a tour here .

The Pope-Leighey House

Pope-Leighey House (1939)

The Pope-Leighey House was originally built in Falls Church, Virginia, but has since been relocated to Woodlawn Plantation, a historic site once owned by George Washington. The Wright home, designed in his Usonian style, was commissioned by newspaper columnist Loren Pope and later sold to Robert and Marjorie Leighey. When threatened with demolition in 1963, Marjorie, by then a widow, made a deal with the National trust for Historic Preservation. The property was moved to Woodlawn, where Marjorie lived until her death, and was then converted into a museum. Admission: $15. Book a tour here .

The Walter House

Lowell Walter House at Cedar Rock (1942)

Cedar Rock is more than just a Usonian house, it’s a whole Usonian estate. On the property are multiple Wright designs, including the main house, a boathouse, the entrance gate, and an outdoor hearth. The primary residence follows a similar “tadpole” plan as other Usonian designs, featuring a wing of bedrooms as the “tail” and the living and dining area in the “head.” Tours open for the season in May. Admission: Free. Book a tour here .

The Laurent House

Laurent House (1948)

The Laurent House is particularly special in Wright’s catalog of work, as it was the only home he designed for someone with a disability, Kenneth Laurent, who used a wheelchair, and his wife, Phyllis. “This house helps me focus on my capabilities, not my disability. That is the true gift Mr. Wright gave to me,” Kenneth said about the property. Admission: $25. Book a tour here .

Wilbur Pearce House (1950)

One of Wright’s rare solar hemicycle designs, the residence’s southern face curves inward to take maximum advantage of the sun. Konrad Pearce, the owner and grandson of the original client, is currently offering tours of the home to fund a restoration of the property. Admission: $50. Book a tour here .

Spring House (1950)

“Find your ground, not on a lot and get in touch.” This is what Frank Lloyd Wright said to Clifton Lewis when she asked the architect to design a house for her family. One of only two “pod-shaped” houses, it was designed at the same time as the Guggenheim Museum, with both structures based on the confluence of arcs. Admission: $25. Book a tour here .

The Kraus House

Kraus House (1951)

Defined by its complex geometry, the Kraus House is constructed based on two intersecting parallelograms and features a dramatic cantilevered roof on its southern side. The property is unique among Wright homes in that it still has most of its original furnishings and fabrics. Admission: $25. Book a tour here .

The Bachman-Wilson House

Bachman-Wilson House (1954)

Built for Gloria and Abraham Wilson in 1956, the Bachman-Wilson House was originally located along the Millstone River. But after facing multiple flood threats throughout the year, its second owners, Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino, decided to sell the house to an institution that could relocate it. In 2013, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art bought the home, then had it taken apart and rebuilt on their campus in 2015. Admission: $12. Book a tour here .

Samara in West Lafayette

Samara (1956)

Designed for Purdue University professor Dr. John Christian and his wife, Catherine, Samara is one of Wright’s last designs. The property gets its name from the winged seed found in pinecones, which are abundant in the Hoosier state. Samara recently underwent a $2 million yearlong renovation and is now open for tours once again. Admission: $20. Book a tour here .

The Gordon House

Gordon House (1957)

Among the many Frank Lloyd Wright homes open for tours, the Gordon House is the only one in Oregon. In fact, it’s the only Wright design in Oregon at all. Commissioned by Evelyn and Ed Gordon, the residence was based on the same Life Magazine dream house design and was completed five years after the architect’s death in 1964. Originally located in Wilsonville, Oregon, the home was dismantled and moved to Silverton in 2001. In addition to tours, the property is also open for overnight stays. Admission: $20. Book a tour here .

The Seth Peterson cottage

Seth Peterson Cottage (1958)

At 880 square feet, the Seth Peterson Cottage is Wright’s smallest residential design. Seth Peterson, a longtime admirer of the architect, had tried to commission Wright multiple times but was consistently turned down. Peterson then sent Wright a $1,000 retainer, which the architect spent immediately, giving him no choice but to accept the commission. Sadly, Peterson, 24 years old at the time, committed suicide before the cottage was finished. The State of Wisconsin bought the home six years later, and in 1989 local volunteers negotiated a lease with the state to manage the home. Admission: $5. Book a tour here .

George and Millie Ablin House (1958)

When Mildred Ablin wrote to Wright asking him to design a home for their large family, she was smart to include plenty of information about the land she and her husband owned. “We have a high, steep hilltop lot with an excellent view…at the edge of the Mojave desert with mountains always prominently visible.” Perhaps this is why Wright agreed to the commission—much to the surprise of the couple—and drew up plans in 1958, a year before his death. Tours are led by its current owner, David Coffey. Admission: $50. Book a tour here .

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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

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Hannah purchased 240 acres of land on the south side of Indianapolis where he built the Hannah House. 

He was a longtime bachelor before marrying Elizabeth Jackson. They had one child who was stillborn. 

“We don’t know much about what he did under those roles, but that’s what sparked this legend. It’s said that he would allow enslaved runaways to stay for the day, and he would take them to their next destination at night,” said Fischer. 

“We can’t confirm that though. We can only imagine that as a businessman, one night he couldn’t take them because he was away at an event somewhere, so he allowed this group to stay overnight in his cellar.” 

The tale is that someone tipped over an oil lamp in the cellar, which went up in flames, killing the group of enslaved runaways. Hannah came back to the scene but could not get help because he did not want the authorities to know he was aiding in their escape. So, he buried their bodies in the cellar. 

Now, their spirits reportedly haunt the old house. 

Fischer said stories of paranormal activity started in the 1960s. People have reported smelling burning flesh in the cellar and seeing apparitions of enslaved runaways and a man in a suit believed to be Hannah walking around the house. 

Hannah House hauntings

A woman has also been seen near a window of the home and is believed to be Hannah’s wife holding the stillborn child she lost in life. 

“Even though we don’t know if it’s real, I’d like to think he was helping people. I hate the fact that this story comes from the death of people,” said Fischer. 

Hannah passed away in his 80s with no heirs. The home was purchased in 1899 by German immigrant Roman Oehler. It is still in the Oehler family. 

Today, visitors can schedule an open house history tour every first Sunday of the month for $8 at the property. Admission for children 12 and younger is free.

Paranormal investigators or those who want to host events can book the location as well. 

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Leon Bates, a Pan-African historian, said he does not like the way the realities of slavery have turned into a haunted attraction. 

He believes these kinds of urban myths do damage to the history of slavery and would love for Hoosiers to learn about true stories of African American history in Indiana.

“The Underground Railroad had several different paths through Indiana. One came through Indianapolis, and Bethel A.M.E Church was deeply involved in that, so much so that they were being threatened by local white people in favor of slavery or those who didn’t believe in assisting runaways,” said Bates. 

“The church mysteriously caught fire and was burned down in the 1860s. They never found out who did it, but members kept helping runaways even after, and they had to rebuild.”

Bates said there were Quaker settlements all throughout Indiana that would point runaways to their next stop. 

At the time, the Fugitive Slave Act made it illegal to help runaways. 

“These different churches knew each other and trusted each other, and they would move these runaways, whether it was a Quaker church or like a Bethel A.M.E church,” said Bates. 

“If the Hannah House story is true about the fire, then they would have had to rebuild on top of the old foundation. It’s doubtful that they would have buried them in the cellar. It doesn’t mean that they didn’t bury them somewhere else nearby in a mass grave.” 

Generations have come and gone, but the story of Hannah House has endured, indirectly acknowledging painful truths about slavery’s past. 

Contact staff writer Jade Jackson at (317) 762-7853or by email  [email protected] . Follow her on Twitter @IAMJADEJACKSON

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Go beneath the streets on this tour of the spectacular, mind-bending Moscow Metro! Be awed by architecture and spot the Propaganda , then hear soviet stories from a local in the know. Finish it all up above ground, looking up to Stalins skyscrapers, and get the inside scoop on whats gone on behind those walls.

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We begin our Moscow tour beneath the city, exploring the underground palace of the Moscow Metro. From the Square of Revolution station, famous for its huge statues of soviet people (an armed soldier, a farmer with a rooster, a warrior, and more), we’ll move onto some of the most significant stations, where impressive mosaics, columns, and chandeliers will boggle your eyes! Moreover, these stations reveal a big part of soviet reality — the walls depict plenty of Propaganda , with party leaders looking down from images on the walls. Your local guide will share personal stories of his/her family from USSR times, giving you insight into Russia’s complicated past and present. Then we’re coming back up to street level, where we’ll take a break and refuel with some Russian fast food: traditional pancakes, called bliny. And then, stomachs satiated, we are ready to move forward! We’ll take the eco-friendly electric trolleybus, with a route along the Moscow Garden Ring. Used mainly by Russian babushkas(grannies) during the day, the trolleybus hits peak hours in the mornings and evenings, when many locals use it going to and from their days. Our first stop will be the Aviator’s House, one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — and you’ll hear the legends of what has gone on inside the walls. Throughout your Moscow tour, you’ll learn curious facts from soviet history while seeing how Russia exists now, 25 years after the USSR.

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This tour exceeded our expectations. Nikolai (Nick), our tour guide, was very knowledgeable, thorough, and has a great personality. He didn't take shortcuts and really covered everything that was on the agenda in great detail. We saw beautiful metro stations and learned the history behind them, including many of the murals and designs.

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Introduction of moscow subway system (metro).

Nowadays the Moscow Metro has 12 lines, light subway and monorail. All stations are unique and beautiful in their own way. Unfortunately, in order to visit them all, you need to spend many days. I invite guests to visit the ones that have the greatest cultural and historical interest from my point of view. Among them are the Revolution Square, Arbatskaya, Kievskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line № 3); Kievskaya, Belarusskaya, Novoslobodskaya, Komsomolskaya (the Ring line number 5). Let us dwell a bit on each.

Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line

Subway station "revolution square".

Most recently - in the year 2008-2010 – the Eastern lobby was renovated. Because of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow subway that took place several hours before the planned opening of the East lobby after renovation, the solemn part of the event was canceled.

Subway station Arbatskaya

Subway Arbatskaya is located on the same subway line as the station "Revolution Square." It was founded in 1953. It received the name in honor of the Arbat Street. It has one ground lobby (Western). Initially, the lobby was in a separate building, but the new building of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense started, the lobby appeared to be in its atrium. The old exits were bricked up; a new entrance was built into the building of General Staff of the street Vozdvizhenka. There is a huge frame with a missing portrait in the ground lobby - until mid-1950 there was a portrait of Stalin. According to some reports, it survived, but closed with plaster.

The lobby was restored and partially reconstructed in 2007-2008.

The depth of the station is 41 meters.

Pylons are finished with red marble at the bottom, decorated with bouquets of flowers made from ceramics. The floor is laid out with gray granite. The walls lined with glazed ceramic tiles, white top and black bottom. The station hall is illuminated by massive bronze chandeliers in the form of rings.

Subway station Kievskaya

There are several subway stations "Kievskaya" in Moscow, located on different branches. This name is quite popular. It comes from the capital of Ukraine - one of Russia's nearest neighbors - the city of Kiev. The name is fully consistent with the idea of the subway station. The interior the station devoted to Soviet Ukraine and the reunification of Ukraine and Russia. The station is decorated with a large number of paintings .Twenty four murals depicting workers of Soviet Ukraine are placed on the arch above the pylons. The wall from the side of platform also contains frescos, mainly with images of fantastic plants. Pylons are decorated with light marble and additionally decorated with colorful ceramic cornice. The butt of the station has a large mosaic, depicting festivities to celebrate the 300 anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine and Russia.

Opened in 1953, this subway station for a long time was the final (1953-2003).

The station has one lobby, combined with the station ring line and located in the building of the Kievskaya railway station. The diameter of the central hall station is 9.5 m, the diameter of side one is 8.5 m. The depth of the station is 38 meters.

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It opened in 1954. The station received its name after the Kiev station, and locked the Ring line. During the construction of the station many projects were proposed, but the victory in the competition won the Kiev architects who made the construction of the station. It is the only station of the Ring Line which is not located in the Central Administrative District of Moscow.

The station has a pylon structure. Eighteen pylons are decorated with mosaic panels of glazes, decorated on the theme of Ukrainian history and friendship between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, which started in the mid-17 century.

On the front wall of the central hall of the station a large panel with molding in the form of flags and a mosaic portrait of Lenin in the center are located. There are lines of the Soviet national anthem around the portrait, and under the portrait - the words of Lenin. One of the ways out of the station was designed by French architects modeled on the Paris Subway in 2006.

At one of the mosaics – “The Struggle for Soviet power in Ukraine "- modern passengers observe a mobile phone and PDA in the hand of one of the guerrillas, and on his knees - a laptop. In fact, he uses a field telephone, which was really a heavy thing (guerrillas holds it in two hands), and thing that people see a laptop is the lid of a box with a telephone. However, these phones have begun to produce only in the second half of the 20-ies of XX century. We must assume that the mosaic depicts a foreign field telephone transmitter.

Subway station Belorusskaya

The founded of the station was in 1952. It received the name after the Belarusian railway station nearby. The station has two ground-based lobbies. The Western one goes to Tverskaya  Zastava. It is decorated with beautiful carvings. The Eastern one leads to Butyrskiy shaft and Forest Street. The Eastern lobby is known for its majolica panels.

The station Belorusskaya is located at a depth of 42.5 m below ground. The diameter of the central hall is 9.5 meters.

Pylons are faced with light marble. The walls lined with white ceramic tiles, the floor is covered with ceramic tiles, gray, white and red colors. Lamps placed on pylons, in the form of vases made of glass and marble. The theme of decoration is economy and culture of Belarus. Decorative pattern on the floor repeats the theme of traditional Belarusian embroidery. Decorations of the ceiling consist of stucco decorations and 12 mosaic panels depicting the life of the Belarusian people.

Subway station Novoslobodskaya

Built in 1952, Subway station Novoslobodskaya got its name from the eponymous street:  the station is located at the very beginning of it.

Novoslobodskaya is pylon station of deep foundation (its depth is 40 m) with three arches.

Exit to the street is through the ground lobby with column portico, located on Novoslobodskaya Street lined with gray marble. Pylons of the underground station are faced with marble from the Urals. Thirty two spectacularly illuminated stained-glasses, placed inside the pylon and bordered by steel and gilt brass are splendid decoration of the station. A remarkable mosaic "World Peace" is located at the end of the central hall. The picture depicts a happy mother with a baby in her arms; it was the face of Stalin at the picture: the child gave a hand to him. But in times of Khrushchev the face of the former leader of USSR was removed from the panel. The walls are lined with bright marble; floor is covered with white and black granite slabs, placed in a checkerboard pattern.

Subway station Komsomolskaya

The station was built in 1952 and named in honor of the Komsomolskaya Square, which is situated nearby.

This subway station is the station of the deep bedding. Its depth is 37 meters. The station has column and three- arched design. Cast iron decoration is used in the construction, monolithic slab used as a tray for a collapsible finishing. The length of the boarding hall is 190 meters; width of it is 10 meters. There are 68 octagonal columns at station.

The main theme of the interior of the station is the fighting of the Russian people for their independence. The ceiling is decorated with eight station mosaic mural made from glazes and precious stones. Six of them represent the Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, Alexander Suvorov and Mikhail Kutuzov, the Soviet soldiers and officers at the walls of the Reichstag.

 Two other panels, depicting Stalin ("Victory Parade" and "Presentation of the Guards Banner"), were replaced after the dethronement of Stalin's personality cult in 1963. New panels depict Lenin's speech in front of the Red Guards and the Motherland on the background of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower.

The yellow ceiling is decorated with mosaic and moldings. The hall is illuminated by massive chandeliers hanging between the panels; platforms are illuminated with smaller chandeliers. The columns are decorated with marble capitals and trimmed with light marble, as well as the wall station. The floor is laid with pink granite. There is a bust of Lenin at the end of the hall. At the opposite end of the escalator is a large Florentine mosaic of the Order of Victory with red banners on the background. The ground lobby of the station is decorated with bas-reliefs.

In conclusion...

Each of the stations of the Moscow subway is attractive and interesting in its own way. Each has its own long and fascinating history and is beautifully decorated. The Moscow subway is a whole world, which can be talking about for hours. I suggest you short - no more than one hour and a half - and a fascinating journey through the world of the Moscow subway. The pleasure is guaranteed!

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