Wright design pillars for under the front cantilever. This was NOT because the cantilever was deflecting. The same size cantilever at the rear of the house was not deflecting then, nor has it Service's National Register of Historic Places since 1970, along with tens of thousands of other places. An oval brass plate noting the house's National Register status was placed in the sidewalk on the Nuttall Road side of the house. The bronze plaque for the landmark distinction was mounted on a sturdy rock on a day that I was already trying to say goodbye to the house. My friendship for the house had grown into love because I It was a singular honor, though, to be one of the few private homes to be recognized by the Department of the Interior for its contributions to American front porch with sturdy pillars. They must have liked the feeling of solid security. They had never even seen an airplane wing or a plane in flight, and perhaps could not imagine so much surface National Historic Landmark. On the list of twenty-two hundred such special places, there are but a precious few still in use as private residences. The house had already been on the National Park unsupported.
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