pirouettes without an audience. (This bit of ballet was taught to me and Audrey Hepburn, the film star, by our teacher Mevrouw Müller-van Gijen.) These rooms were made for dancing and being joyous. In 1869, the landscape architects and planners of this early suburb determined that all dwellings would be set back at least thirty feet from the road. So, there are long driveways that all need to have snow removed in winter. No need to join a health club if one lives in a Wright House. Its maintenance required sweeping sixty-foot-long roof gutters, mowing cantilever, from the front porch, as well as from the upstairs balcony and dining room skylight, where Mr. Wright had inadvertently invented a transparent outdoor “bathtub.” If one allows snow to pile up on that balcony, it could melt and soak through the stucco. If it were to stay afrnodmlathterdtorivweawtearytahnedmk.eBeepsindgesththee washing of windows and storm windows, ordinary gardening and eighty steps of the house free of debris, wet snow also needs to be cleared from the front door
there for any length of time, it would eventually end up in the walls and drip down somewhere, causing deterioration.
Made with FlippingBook flipbook maker