Usonia () is a word that was used by American architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements o ...
to refer to the United States in general (in preference to ''America''), and more specifically to his vision for the landscape of the country, including the
planning of cities and the architecture of buildings. Wright proposed the use of the adjective ''Usonian'' to describe the particular
New World
The term ''New World'' is often used to mean the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas."America." ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (). McArthur, Tom, ed., 1992. New York: Oxford University Press, p. ...
character of the American landscape as distinct and free of previous architectural conventions.
Usonian houses
"Usonian" usually refers to a group of approximately 60 middle-income family homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright beginning in 1934 with the
Willey House, with most considering the
Herbert and Katherine Jacobs First House, 1937, to be the first true "Usonian." The "Usonian Homes" are typically small, single-story dwellings without a garage or much storage. They are often L-shaped to fit around a garden terrace on unusual and inexpensive sites. They are characterized by native materials; flat roofs and large
cantilever
A cantilever is a rigid structural element that extends horizontally and is supported at only one end. Typically it extends from a flat vertical surface such as a wall, to which it must be firmly attached. Like other structural elements, a cant ...
ed overhangs for passive
solar heating and natural cooling; natural lighting with
clerestory
In architecture, a clerestory ( ; , also clearstory, clearstorey, or overstorey) is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye level. Its purpose is to admit light, fresh air, or both.
Historically, ''clerestory'' denoted an upper ...
windows; and
radiant-floor heating. Another distinctive feature is that they typically have little exposure to the front/'public' side, while the rear/'private' sides are completely open to the outside. A strong visual connection between the interior and exterior spaces is an important characteristic of all Usonian homes. The word
carport was coined by Wright to describe an overhang for sheltering a parked vehicle.
The
Usonia Historic District is a planned community in
Pleasantville, New York built in the 1950s following this concept. Wright designed 3 of the 47 homes himself.
Variants of the Jacobs House design are still in existence today. The Usonian design is considered among the aesthetic origins of the
ranch-style house popular in the American west of the 1950s.
According to plans that Wright created in 1939,
Florida Southern College constructed in 2013 the 13th Wright building on their campus. The building includes
textile-block construction, colored glass in perforated concrete blocks, Wright photographs, a documentary film about the architect's work at the school, and furniture designed by Wright. Named the "Usonian House", it was originally designed as one of twenty faculty housing units. The building is home to the
Sharp Family Tourism and Education Center The Sharp Family Tourism and Education Center is a posthumous addition to Frank Lloyd Wright's Child of the Sun collection at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. Wright oversaw the construction of twelve buildings on Florida Southern' ...
, a visitor center for guests visiting campus to see the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings known as
Child of the Sun
Child of the Sun is a collection of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on the campus of the Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. The twelve original buildings were constructed between 1941 and 1958. Another of Wright's designs, ...
.
Origin of the word

The word ''Usonian'' appears to have been coined by James Duff Law, a Scottish writer born in 1865. In a miscellaneous collection, ''Here and There in Two Hemispheres'' (1903), Law quoted a letter of his own (dated June 18, 1903) that begins "We of the United States, in justice to Canadians and Mexicans, have no right to use the title 'Americans' when referring to matters pertaining exclusively to ourselves." He went on to acknowledge that some author had proposed "Usona", but that he preferred the form "Usonia". Perhaps the earliest published use by Wright was in 1927:
However, this may be a misattribution, as there is as yet no other published evidence that Butler ever used the word.
José F. Buscaglia-Salgado reclaims the term ''Usonian'' to refer to the peoples,
national ideology and
neo-imperial tradition of the United States of America.
Miguel Torres-Castro uses the term ''Usonian'' to refer to the origin of the
Atlantic puffin used in the children's book ''Jupu the Puffin: A Usonian Story''. The bird is a puffin from
Maine
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, US.
Noted Usonian houses
Precursor to Usonians
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Malcolm Willey House 1934,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
*Peters-Margedant House* 1934,
University of Evansville
The University of Evansville (UE) is a private university in Evansville, Indiana. It was founded in 1854 as Moores Hill College. The university operates a satellite center, Harlaxton College, in Grantham, England.
UE offers more than 80 differ ...
,
Evansville, Indiana
Evansville is a city in, and the county seat of, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. The population was 118,414 at the 2020 census, making it the state's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the largest city in ...
.
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Benjamin Rebhuhn House 1937,
Great Neck Estates, New York
Usonian Houses
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Herbert and Katherine Jacobs First House, "Jacobs I," 1937,
Madison, Wisconsin
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*
Paul and Jean Hanna House, "Honeycomb House," 1937,
Palo Alto, California
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The city was ...
* Andrew F.H. Armstrong House 1939, Ogden Dunes, Indiana
* Joseph Euchtman House 1939,
Baltimore, Maryland
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Bernard Schwartz House
The Bernard (and Fern) Schwartz House, also known as Still Bend, is a 3,000 sq foot Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. It is considered to be Wright's ''Life'' magazine "Dream House," and is a rare example of a two-story U ...
1939,
Two Rivers, Wisconsin
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*
George Sturges House 1939,
Los Angeles
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,
California
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John and Ruth Pew House 1939,
Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin
*
Hause House The Hause House project was one of the many un-built works designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939. This building structure was one of his Usonian designs that was a short-tailed rectangular plan to be located in Lansing, Michigan. Altho ...
1939,
Lansing, Michigan
Lansing () is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is mostly in Ingham County, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. The 2020 census placed the city's population at 112,644, maki ...
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Sidney Bazett House
The Sidney Bazett House, also known as the Bazett-Frank House, is a Usonian-style home on 101 Reservoir Road in Hillsborough, California, United States, designed in 1939 by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Sidney Bazett wrote to the architec ...
(also known as the Bazett-Frank House) 1940
Hillsborough, California
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*
Goetsch–Winckler House 1940,
Okemos, Michigan
*
Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House
The Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House, also known as the Affleck House, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in Metro Detroit. It is one of only about 25 pre-World War II Usonians to be built. It is ...
1940
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
*
Rosenbaum House 1940,
Florence, Alabama
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Theodore Baird Residence
The Theodore Baird Residence, also known as Baird House, is a suburban house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and located at 38 Shays Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the only Wright design in Massachuset ...
1940,
Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst () is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,263, making it the highest populated municipality in Hampshire County (although the county seat ...
*
Clarence Sondern House
The Clarence Sondern House is a historic residence located at 3600 Belleview Ave in the Roanoke neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. It is also known as the Sondern-Adler House.
History
Clarence Sondern commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to desi ...
1940,
Kansas City, Missouri
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Pope–Leighey House 1941,
Alexandria, Virginia
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In 2020, the population was 159,467. ...
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Stuart Richardson House
The Stuart Richardson House (affectionately named 'Scherzo' by Frank Lloyd Wright) in Glen Ridge, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, was built in 1951 for Stuart Richardson (an actuary) and his wife Elisabeth. The Richardsons, with their tw ...
1941 (built 1951)
Glen Ridge, New Jersey
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*
Alvin Miller House (also known as the Alvin and Inez Miller residence) 1946,
Charles City, Iowa
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* Erling P. Brauner House 1948,
Okemos, Michigan
*
Usonia Homes,
Pleasantville, New York
::*
Sol Friedman House
Sol Friedman House ''Toyhill'', was built in Pleasantville, New York in 1948. This was the first of the three Frank Lloyd Wright homes built in the "Usonia Homes" development north of New York City.
The Friedman House forms part of the post-w ...
1949
::*
Edward Serlin House 1951
::*
Roland Reisley House
Roland Reisley House was built in Pleasantville, New York in 1951. The third of the "Usonia Homes" (now known as the ''Usonia Historic District'') designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. this is a building on a hillside with a masonry "core" and wood sid ...
1951
*
Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House
The Melvyn Maxwell Smith and Sara Stein Smith House, also known as MyHaven, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home that was constructed in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1949 and 1950. The owners were two public school teachers living on a ...
1949, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
*
Robert and Rae Levin House 1949,
Kalamazoo, Michigan
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*
Weltzheimer/Johnson House 1949,
Oberlin, Ohio
Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, 31 miles southwest of Cleveland. Oberlin is the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students.
The town is the birthplace of t ...
*
Donald Schaberg House
Designed by America's famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the Schaberg House was commissioned in 1950 by Donald and Mary Lou Schaberg. The house is an example of Wright's now-famous Usonian style. The house is located in Okemos, Ingham County, ...
1950, Okemos, Michigan
*
Karl A. Staley House
The Karl A. Staley House was designed in 1950 by Frank Lloyd Wright. Situated on the shores of Lake Erie in North Madison, Ohio, this home is constructed with stone, in an I-plan form. The home originally had two bedrooms (a master bedroom, and ...
1950,
North Madison, Ohio
North Madison is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the unincorporated communities of Redbird and Madison-on-the-Lake in Lake County, Ohio, United States. The population was 8,547 at the 2010 census. The CDP is located north of the uninc ...
*
J.A. Sweeton Residence
The J.A. Sweeton Residence was built in 1950 in Cherry Hill, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. At , it is the smallest of the four Frank Lloyd Wright houses in New Jersey. This Usonian scheme house was constructed of concrete blocks ...
1950,
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Cherry Hill is a township within Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the township had a population of 74,553, which reflected an increase of 3,508 (+4.94%) from the 71,045 counted in the 2010 census. ...
*
Lowell and Agnes Walter House
Cedar Rock State Park is a state park of Iowa, USA, preserving the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Lowell Walter Residence, also known as Cedar Rock. The Usonian- style house was constructed on a bank of the Wapsipinicon River near Quasqueton, Iowa ...
1950,
Quasqueton, Iowa
*
Kraus House
The Kraus House, also known as the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park, is a house in Kirkwood, Missouri designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The house was designed and constructed for Russell and Ruth Goetz Kraus, and the initial de ...
1950,
Kirkwood, Missouri
Kirkwood is an inner-ring western suburb of St. Louis located in St. Louis County, Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 27,540. Founded in 1853, the city is named after James P. Kirkwood, builder of the Pacific Railroad th ...
*
Kenneth and Phyllis Laurent House 1951,
Rockford, Illinois
* Nathan Rubin House 1951,
Canton, Ohio
Canton () is a city in and the county seat of Stark County, Ohio. It is located approximately south of Cleveland and south of Akron in Northeast Ohio. The city lies on the edge of Ohio's extensive Amish country, particularly in Holmes ...
*
Muirhead Farmhouse
The Robert and Elizabeth Muirhead House is a historic house located at 42W814 Rohrson Road northeast of Plato Center, Illinois. Built in 1951–53, the house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in his Usonian style. Robert and Elizabeth Muirhead ...
1951,
Hampshire, Illinois
*
Zimmerman House 1951,
Manchester, New Hampshire
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New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusett ...
*
John D. Haynes House
The John D. Haynes House is a house in Fort Wayne, Indiana, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The house is a small and modest Usonian design in glass, red tidewater cypress, and Chicago Common Brick on a red concrete slab.
The gallery is offset ...
1952,
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is west of the Ohio border and south of the Michigan border. The city's population was 263,886 as of the 2020 Censu ...
*
Frank S. Sander House
The Frank S. Sander House ("Springbough") is a house located in Stamford, Connecticut. It was designed by the noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1952.
Springbough is composed of mahogany, burnt face brick and glass and is built into the side ...
1952,
Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford () is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut, outside of Manhattan. It is Connecticut's second-most populous city, behind Bridgeport. With a population of 135,470, Stamford passed Hartford and New Haven in population as of the 2 ...
*
Kentuck Knob 1953,
Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
*
John and Syd Dobkins House
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 and completed in 1954, the John and Syd Dobkins House is one of three Wright-designed Usonian houses in Canton, Ohio. Located farther east than the Nathan Rubin Residence and the Ellis A. Feiman House, it ...
1953, Canton, Ohio
*
Bachman–Wilson House
The Bachman–Wilson House, built in and originally located in Millstone, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, was originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954 for Abraham Wilson and his first wife, Gloria Bachman. Ms. Bachman's br ...
1954,
Millstone, New Jersey
Millstone is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. It was originally known as Somerset Courthouse and was the county seat. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 418,
* Ellis Feiman House 1954, Canton, Ohio
* John E. Christian House "
Samara
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" 1954,
West Lafayette, Indiana
West Lafayette () is a city in Wabash Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, about northwest of the state capital of Indianapolis and southeast of Chicago. West Lafayette is directly across the Wabash River from its sister ci ...
*
J. Willis Hughes house "Fountainhead", 1954,
Jackson, Mississippi
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*
William L. Thaxton Jr. House
The William L. Thaxton Jr. House is a large single-story Usonian house, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954 and built in Houston, Texas in 1955. The Thaxton House is Wright's only residential project in Houston. Thaxton was a successful insura ...
1955,
Houston
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,
Texas
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*
Louis Penfield House
The Louis Penfield House is a house built by Frank Lloyd Wright, located in the Cleveland suburb of Willoughby Hills. It is one of Wright's nine Usonian homes in Ohio.
Louis Penfield, a painter and acquaintance of Wright, commissioned the arch ...
1955,
Willoughby Hills, Ohio
*
Cedric G. and Patricia Neils Boulter House
Cedric G. Boulter and Patricia Neils House is a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed registered historic home in the Clifton neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. It was commissioned in 1953, with construction beginning in 1954, and completed in 1956. ...
1956,
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state lin ...
*
Dudley Spencer House 1956,
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington (Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christin ...
*
Donald C. Duncan House
Throughout his career, Frank Lloyd Wright was interested in mass production of housing. In 1954, he discovered that Marshall Erdman, who contracted the First Unitarian Society of Madison, was selling modest prefabricated homes. Wright offered to ...
1957,
Donegal, Pennsylvania (dismantled and relocated from its original location in
Lisle, Illinois
Lisle ( ) is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 22,390 at the 2010 census, and in 2019 the population was recorded to be 23,270. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Illinois Technology and Res ...
)
*
Evelyn and Conrad Gordon House 1957,
Wilsonville, Oregon (later moved to
Silverton, Oregon)
* Lovness House and Cottage 1957,
Stillwater, Minnesota
*
Robert H. Sunday House
The Robert H. Sunday House is located in Marshalltown, Iowa, United States. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Usonian style, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (N ...
1957,
Marshalltown, Iowa
Marshalltown is a city in and the county seat of Marshall County, Iowa, United States, located along the Iowa River. It is the seat and most populous settlement of Marshall County and the 16th largest city in Iowa, with a population of 27,591 at ...
*
John Gillin Residence
The John Gillin Residence is a large single-story Usonian house, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1950 and built in Dallas, Texas, in 1958. The Gillin House is Wright's only residential project in Dallas. Gillin, a successful oilman, geophysic ...
1958,
Dallas
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, Texas
*
Paul J. and Ida Trier House
The Paul J. and Ida Trier House is a historic building located in Johnston, Iowa, United States. It is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home that was constructed in 1958. It was the last of seven Wright Usonians built in Iowa. with Whil ...
1958,
Johnston, Iowa
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Johnsto ...
Usonian Automatic Houses
The Usonian Automatic houses were made with concrete blocks. An attempt on the part of Wright to further lower the cost of housing, the clients could actually be involved in the creation of the blocks and thus the construction of the building (such as in the
Tracy House
The Tracy House also known as the Bill and Elizabeth Tracy House is a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Usonian Automatic home that was constructed in Normandy Park, Washington, a suburb near Seattle, in 1956.
The house, like other Wright-designed ...
).
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Benjamin Adelman Residence
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1951,
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix ( ; nv, Hoozdo; es, Fénix or , yuf-x-wal, Banyà:nyuwá) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020. It is the fifth-most populous city in the United States, and the o ...
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Arthur Pieper Residence
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1952,
Paradise Valley, Arizona
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Gerald B. and Beverley Tonkens House 1954,
Amberley Village,
Hamilton County,
Ohio
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*
Toufic H. Kalil House
The Toufic H. Kalil House is a house museum in the North End neighborhood of Manchester, New Hampshire, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1955. The Usonian Automatic design of this house allowed Wright to meet the requirements of Dr. Toufic and ...
1955,
Manchester, New Hampshire
Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous city in New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusett ...
*
Theodore A. Pappas House
The Theodore A. Pappas House is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian house in St. Louis, Missouri. The Pappas house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, when it was only 15 years old. It is one of two houses in St. ...
1955,
Town and Country, Missouri
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Tracy House
The Tracy House also known as the Bill and Elizabeth Tracy House is a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Usonian Automatic home that was constructed in Normandy Park, Washington, a suburb near Seattle, in 1956.
The house, like other Wright-designed ...
1956,
Normandy Park, Washington
*
Dorothy H. Turkel House
The Dorothy H. Turkel House is a private residence located at 2760 West 7 Mile Road in north-central Detroit, Michigan, within the Palmer Woods neighborhood. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1956. P. 208.
The Dorothy H. Tur ...
1956,
Detroit, Michigan
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File:View_of_the_'Grand_Room'_in_the_Tonkens_House..jpg, View of the Great Room in the Tonkens House
File:Dorothy_Turkel_house.jpg, Exterior of the Dorothy H. Turkel House
See also
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Usonia Historic District
*
Polychrome Historic District, a similar effort to provide inexpensive housing, by John Joseph Earley
Notes
References
External links
Frank Lloyd Wright: Usonian Houseat PBS.org
at Columbia University
Inspiring Communities—Usoniaat archinform.net
*Specific houses
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John D. Haynes House*
Jones House*
Jacobs House*
The John and Catherine Christian House*
Pope-Leighey House Usonian house in Alexandria, Virginia, open to the public
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Usonian house in Oberlin, Ohio, open to the public
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Rosenbaum House Florence Alabama
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Building the Usonian Houseat Florida Southern College
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