The Walter and Mary Ellen Rudin House is a

Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements o ...

-designed

Marshall Erdman Marshall Erdman (September 29, 1922 – September 17, 1995) was a Lithuanian-American builder and colleague of Frank Lloyd Wright. Life Early life Erdman was born Mausas Erdmanas on September 29, 1922, in Tverai, Lithuania. He emigrated to the Un ...

prefab building located at 110 Marinette Trail,

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. Designed in 1957, it is the first of the only two examples of the second type (known as Prefab #2) of the

Marshall Erdman Prefab Houses Throughout his career, Frank Lloyd Wright was interested in mass production of housing. In 1954, he discovered that Marshall Erdman, who contracted the First Unitarian Society of Madison, was selling modest prefabricated homes. Wright offered to ...

. This house and the James McBean Residence have the same floor plan and vary only in minor details such as paint color and siting. Construction was completed in June, 1959 and the house was sold to UW-Madison mathematicians

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and Mary Ellen Rudin. The house has a large, square 2-story living room which is lit by a wall of windows. Also on the first floor are the dining area, kitchen, entry hall, utility room, and the master bedroom. A large concrete block fireplace separates the kitchen and living room. A stairway leads to a balcony and three second-story bedrooms. Unusual for a Wright-designed house, it has a full basement. The house is constructed from concrete block with horizontal board and batten siding. A row of windows just below the

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make the chunky flat

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ed roof appear to float above the house. A carport attached to one corner of the house completes the design.

References

* Storrer, William Allin. ''The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion''. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, (S.412.1)

External links

Mary Ellen and Walter Rudin Residence

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