The Tracy House also known as the Bill and Elizabeth Tracy House is a

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-designed Usonian Automatic home that was constructed in

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, a suburb near

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, in 1956. The house, like other Wright-designed Usonian automatics, is composed of

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blocks that is broken up by glass and redwood plywood. The Tracy House is and has three bedrooms and one bathroom as well as a two-car

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; the lot itself is and faces the

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. The Tracy House was built for Bill and Elizabeth Tracy, who occupied it until the latter's death in 2012; the property was listed on the real estate market for the first time at a price of $950,000. In 2011, ''

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'' named it one of the ten greatest homes in the Seattle area.

References

* Storrer, William Allin. ''The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion''. University of Chicago Press (2006), S.389,

External links

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