By James Day When famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright was working on his Usonian house design, one of the goals was to integrate as much as possible the outdoor spaces and the home’s interior. The Gordon House, the lone Wright-designed home in Oregon, has received nearly $30,000 in grant funds to help upgrade the landscape in an effort to fulfill […]
By James Day For Faith Rockenstein, it was love at first sight. The accomplished artist, arts educator and long-time museum manager, who has traveled widely in the U.S and abroad, was blown away a couple of years ago when she entered Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge. “I was just overwhelmed,” she said. Rockenstein decided to stay in Oregon and eventually found […]
The Gordon House Conservancy will hold the 13th annual Taste of Frank Lloyd Wright Friday, Sept. 25, 5 p.m. at the Eastbank Contractor Appliances Showroom, 800 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland. The Gordon House is located in Silverton, adjacent to The Oregon Garden. The event brings together well-known Northwest chefs providing cooking demonstrations in state-of-the-art kitchen technology showrooms. Oregon breweries and […]
By Brenna Wiegand A home that improves upon the landscape? This is what Frank Lloyd Wright determined to do in the creation of his “Usonian” line of homes. The only Frank Lloyd Wright building in Oregon was rescued from demolition in 2001 and relocated from Aurora to an oak savannah at the foot of The Oregon Garden. One of the […]
Imagine 4,000 to 5,000 people tromping through your house every year – up and down the stairs, opening and closing cupboards and doors. For any house built for single-family use, wear and tear would be inevitable.
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was a “foodie” say organizers of a fundraiser benefiting the Gordon House – the only Wright-designed building open to the public in the Pacific Northwest. The event’s planners point to Wright’s innovations for a small but functional kitchen he designed to be efficient, convenient and inspirational for food preparation.
Wright designed the home for Conrad and Evelyn Gordon, who built the house on their Clackamas County farm in 1964. To raise funds to maintain the Gordon House, now located next to The Oregon Garden in Silverton, there will be an evening of food and wine, a silent auction and a drawing with a “wine wall.”
