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710 Willowbrook Drive / Bill Price House / Architect: Hobart Wagener / Style: Frank Lloyd Wright ‘Usonian’ / built 1962wiht additions made around 2010
The architect of this house, Hobart Wagener, had the most successful office in Boulder, completing more than 200 modern buildings. He came to Boulder in the 1950 after working in the architecture office of Pietro Belluschi, one of the leaders of Modernism on the west coast of the U.S. Wagener worked at first in the office of James Hunter in Boulder before opening his office in 1953. His company designed several homes on this cul-de-sac. This one, for the Price family, is what he called a modern ‘Chalet’ style. It has a low sloping gable roof with floor-to-ceiling windows facing both the street and the backyard. The Frank Lloyd Wright influence is evident in broad roof overhangs and the use of local sandstone for siding on the exterior walls. The building has had two large second floor additions roughly in the similar triangular shape as the original house.
This point of interest is part of the tour: Mid-Century Modern Architecture in Boulder, CO - Lower Flagstaff
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