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Frank Lloyd Wright home in Rockford to get visitors’ center

Posted on May 9, 2019

Originally published May 9, 2019 by Washington Post
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Kenneth and Phyllis Laurent House in Rockford, IL, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Kenneth and Phyllis Laurent House in Rockford, IL, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A museum preserving the Laurent House, the only house designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright specifically for an individual with a disability, will be able to build a visitors’ center. This will enable it to offer crucial amenities including bathrooms, which are prohibited in the house. Constructed in 1952 for a World War II veteran who used a wheelchair, the Laurent House meets about 90 percent of the Americans with Disabilities Act’s accessibility requirements and was counted by Wright as one of his 38 masterworks.

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