Roland Reisley House was built in Pleasantville,

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in 1951. The third of the "

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" (now known as the ''Usonia Historic District'') designed by

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. this is a building on a hillside with a masonry "core" and wood siding. Roland Reisley was 26 when he built his home. The entrance is dominated by a dramatic wood cantilevered

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, which leads to an impressive yet unpresumptuous low-slung house with

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paneling and indigenous stone. The original house, built in 1951, had one bedroom, a study and a kitchen and a total of . Wright returned five years later to design a addition. Usonia Homes was listed on the

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in 2012.

References

* Storrer, William Allin. ''The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion''. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, (S.318)

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Reisley House Pleasantville New York by Frank Lloyd Wright

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