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The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy is an organization devoted to the
historic preservation Historic preservation (US), built heritage preservation or built heritage conservation (UK) is an endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance. It is a philos ...
of buildings and their furnishings and decoration designed by American architect
Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed List of Frank Lloyd Wright works, more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key ...
, as well as to the study of Wright's career. The organization has grown since its founding in the late 1980s to have a worldwide membership reportedly numbering in the thousands. It was the publisher of ''Bulletin: The Quarterly Newsletter of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy'' (
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22863442), which was published from Vol. 1, issue 1 (June 1990) – v. 19, no. 3 (summer 2009); the publication was continued by the semiannual ''SaveWright: The Magazine of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy'' (
OCLC OCLC, Inc. See also: is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large". It was founded in 1967 as the ...
658925854), v. 1 no. 1, Spring 2010–. The conservancy holds annual conferences which include educational sessions and tours of private homes.


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List of Frank Lloyd Wright works Frank Lloyd Wright designed 1,141 houses, commercial buildings and other works throughout his lifetime, including 532 that were eventually built. , there were 409 extant structures designed by Wright. Over one-third of the extant structures are on ...


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* 1980s establishments in the United States Architecture organizations based in the United States Frank Lloyd Wright Historic preservation organizations in the United States Organizations established in the 1980s {{US-culture-org-stub