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Rare beehive kiln is busy with Martin House contract - 10/14/2006
The use of beehive kilns to make bricks is about as common today as the beehive hairdo. Luckily for the Martin House Complex restoration, the 121-year-old Belden Brick Co. of Canton, Ohio, still uses the outdated labor- and energy-intensive process. Proponents insist that the blends and colors cannot be replicated in the modern tunnel kilns of today. |
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Light shed on Tree of Life - 10/3/2006
Of the 394 art glass windows that accented the completed Darwin Martin House a century ago, none was more intricate or has grown more famous over the years than the Tree of Life. |
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Martin House center architect to speak - 10/3/2006
Toshiko Mori, architect of the planned Darwin Martin House Visitors Center, will present an illustrated lecture Wednesday at the University at Buffalo, as part of the 2006 lecture series presented by UB's School of Architecture and Planning. |
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Buffalo's Wright revival - 10/1/2006
The decline of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Darwin Martin House Complex began after Martin's death in 1935. The architect's greatest "Prairie style" house and the other Wright-designed buildings on Jewett Parkway were neglected, razed or sold. |
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For Western New York, a day to remember - 10/1/2006
It may come to be known as the day Buffalo became a major player in architectural tourism. The guest list for Wednesday's dedication and private premiere of the "lost buildings" at the Darwin Martin House Complex certainly tells you the project is resonating far and wide. |
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Curator looks back on the challenging Martin House journey - 10/1/2006
When I arrived in Buffalo in 1975 to teach architectural history at the University at Buffalo, three of the six buildings that make up the Darwin Martin House Complex had been demolished, and the principal Martin residence was a sad spectacle of missing windows, crumbling concrete and deflecting eaves. Three small apartment buildings inserted into the site in the early 1960s seemed to make a mockery of Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous building plan. |
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The restoration was realized through dedication, work and money - 10/1/2006
Preservationists labored for years to return Frank Lloyd Wright's deteriorating Darwin D. Martin House to its place of pre-eminence. In the 1970s, individuals and organizations began writing legislators, raising funds for repairs and landscape improvements, meeting in small committees and giving tours of the house, all with the hope of someday seeing the historic landmark restored. |
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Wright's brilliance as architect grew over time - 10/1/2006
When the Darwin D. Martin House was completed in 1905, local publications had a field day with Frank Lloyd Wright's creation. The Buffalo Illustrated Express referred to it as both a "Jules Verne house" and "Chinese puzzle," while another publication dismissed it as a "freak house." |
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Depression, Martin's death led to neglect - 10/1/2006
Declining health and financial fallout from the Great Depression had a debilitating effect on Darwin D. Martin and his Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house. |
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THE HISTORIC BUILDINGS OF THE Darwin Martin House Complex - 10/1/2006
1) The Darwin Martin House Perhaps Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest "Prairie style" house and the creation he called his opus. Darwin D. and Isabelle Martin's house was substantially finished in 1905. |
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Intersection of two great men's lives was fruitful - 10/1/2006
They grew up under trying circumstances half a continent apart, but through self-motivation and talent became eminently successful men. After crossing paths in 1902, Frank Lloyd Wright and Darwin D. Martin, then in their 30s, molded a partnership that lasted more than three decades and produced much of the surviving early-20th century architecture - foremost the Darwin Martin House - that is expected to make Buffalo a must-see heritage tourism destination. |
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Martin, Wright exchanged many letters - 10/1/2006
The Darwin Martin House evolved from a rough sketch included in a two-page, typewritten letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Darwin Martin in May 1903 - one of hundreds of items in the University at Buffalo archives that offer extraordinary insight into the often prickly relationship between the men. |
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Buffalo's treasure trove of architectural gems - 10/1/2006
Buffalo's reputation as a great city for architecture will take a giant leap forward with the reconstruction of the Darwin Martin House. The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed complex is widely considered by architectural scholars to be among his greatest residences, and with seven buildings it was the largest of the 60 Prairie houses Wright developed. |
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Down the road, a new visitors center - 10/1/2006
While all eyes are on the reconstructed buildings at the Darwin D. Martin House complex, something wholly new on the site is also eagerly anticipated. |
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Architect's view of the restoration - 10/1/2006
We at Hamilton Houston Lownie Architects began our work on the Darwin Martin project with a small commission to restore a deteriorating living room skylight and bedroom terrace assembly. |
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More work to be done at the Martin House - 10/1/2006
Visitors to the Darwin D. Martin House reception room this week will see earth-toned colored walls, Frank Lloyd Wright's "Tree of Life" art glass and furnishings the famed architect designed. |
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Historic landmark has endured more than 100 years - 10/1/2006
• 1902 - Darwin Martin acquires site for home at Jewett Parkway and Summit Avenue • 1903 - Building of Barton House and Martin House begins. |
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A prolific career - 10/1/2006
• William R. Heath House, 76 Soldiers Place (1905). • Walter V. Davidson House, 57 Tillinghast Place (1909). • Graycliff, the Martin family's lakeshore summer house, 6472 Old Lakeshore Road, Derby (1927) (For tour information, call 947-9217 or visit its Web site: graycliff. |
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