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Individual Building Listings:

Francis W. Little House "Northhome" (S.173), Deephaven, Minnesota, 1912. Demolished and partially saved.
This large Prairie house used to be on Lake Minnetonka near Minneapolis. The library is now part of the collection at the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and the 55-foot living room is part of the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

A. H. Bulbulian House (S.292), Rochester, Minnesota, 1947.
Rochester, a town in southwestern Minnesota, home of the Mayo Clinic, is home to three of Mr. Wright's extant Minnesota designs. This particular one-story house is built with one 120-degree angle, and is constructed of cement brick and cypress.

Malcolm F. Willey House (S.229), Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1934.

• Willey House Restoration. Extensive site with many images, background information, and progress report on the restoration of this house which "is coming alive as Minneapolis's newest cultural resource"

David Lovness House (S.391), Stillwater, Minnesota, 1956.

Henry J. Neils house (S.314), in Minneapolis.
(Further information on this home is pending)

Thomas E. Keys House (S.321), Rochester, Minnesota, 1950.
This earth-bermed house is based on a 1938 design for Detroit auto workers. The Gunnar Berkirts design for "Dominos Farms" in Ann Arbor, Michigan bears some resemblance to this house, but on a Cyclopean scale.

S. P. Elam House (S.336), Austin, Minnesota, 1950.
This two-story stone and cypress building features a design based on triangles and rectangles. Austin, Minnesota, is known for the George a. Hormel company.

R. W. Lindholm House, "Mantyla" (S.353), Cloquet, Minnesota, 1952.
The clients also had the gas station in Cloquet built (Cloquet rhymes with Parkay, and the a's in "Mantyla" have double-dots over them).

James B. McBean House (S.413), Rochester, Minnesota, 1957.
This Usonian house is the second built on the Marshall Erdman Company's prefabricated plans.

Paul Olfelt house (S.427), St. Louis Park, Minnesota, 1958.
This house was completed by Taliesin Architects after Mr. Wright's death. It is a small house built into a hillside.

Lindholm Service Station (S.414), Cloquet (near Duluth), Minnesota, 1956
This working Phillips 66 gas station is currently open to the public.

• The station is featured at the Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station Page, here at the All-Wright Site. (Three color photographs and text)

Fasbender Clinic (S.424), Hastings, Minnesota, 1957
This has always been a commercial/professional building open to the public as such buildings usually are. The draping of the terne metal roof resembles an overturned boat hull. This design came just before another (but different in appearance) medical clinic in Montana.

• City of Hastings National Register Sites. Included with other buildings.

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