Title : "... Madison may soon act to preserve a limited view of Lake Mendota from the lone Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home Downtown — a home that can barely be seen by the public.
link : "... Madison may soon act to preserve a limited view of Lake Mendota from the lone Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home Downtown — a home that can barely be seen by the public.
"... Madison may soon act to preserve a limited view of Lake Mendota from the lone Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home Downtown — a home that can barely be seen by the public.
The Wisconsin State Journal reports.
The city, which has rarely if ever acted to preserve the view from a private property, may change its Downtown height map and reduce the allowable height of adjacent properties to preserve the view to the lake from the top floor of the three-story home, which Wright designed for his lifelong friend Robert Lamp and which originally captured views of lakes Monona and Mendota and the Capitol.
The owner of the Lamp House, which is now surrounded by other homes and much taller buildings, contends the view isn’t worth saving and that doing so could preclude a larger redevelopment that could involve moving the landmark out from the middle of the block to a more visible spot, while providing additional housing Downtown and boosting the property tax base....
The owner is Apex Property Management, which seems to be more interested in a proposal Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy to move the building "as part of a larger redevelopment." Obviously, that owner doesn't want restrictions on development. The chairman of the company, Bruce Bosben, says:
“I think it it is irresponsible to curtail development of Downtown real estate merely to preserve a view from a private house... There is no other such view preserved in Madison.”
But:
The city’s Plan Commission voted unanimously in favor of the ordinance amendment last Monday, and the City Council is set to consider it on Tuesday. Organizations that protect Wright’s legacy — Wright in Wisconsin and the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy — are looking at the bigger picture and encouraging a broader dialog on how best to preserve the landmark.
Speaking of views, it would be nice if we the people of Madison could see this building. It's in the middle of a block with buildings surrounding it! And yet, there is the subtle question whether the positioning in the middle of the block is integral to Wright's design and would be destroyed by moving the house.
The Lamp House design was intentional on Wright’s part, creating a private space for the dwelling in the heart of the city by constructing it in the middle of a block...
If you go to the article and can see it, look for the photograph with the caption: "The view toward Lake Mendota from the third-floor penthouse of the landmark Lamp House. Only a narrow sliver of the lake can be seen above the surrounding rooftops." The words "narrow sliver" barely convey the extreme tininess of the bit of lake to be seen.
Cradled among the taller buildings, the house’s grounds are overgrown and strewn with lawn chairs, a fire pit and other signs of student life.
Oh, no!
The cluttered, lived-in interior, typical of student housing, has wooden floors and features, fireplaces and attractive diamond-paned glass windows. The house, Bosben said, once had been divided into three apartments, returned to a single-family residence and then returned back to student housing, especially popular with members of the UW marching band.
“It’s in pretty decent shape,” Bosben said. “The inside is pretty much as built. The exterior never should have been painted. The glass has been a constant battle. We’ve probably replaced every piece of glass in the house at least once... I think the house should be moved to a location where it can be owner-occupied.”
I blogged about Lamp House once before, in 2009: "Do you know about the Lamp House? What do you think of this proposal to raze the surrounding buildings and construct a giant glass box all around it?"
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