Via Matt Milliner comes this delightful story of a young boy who asked Frank Lloyd Wright to design a house for his dog:
Wright designed Berger’s family’s California home in the Marin County town of San Anselmo, prompting the then-12-year-old Jim Berger to ask his dad if Wright would design a home for his black Lab, Eddie. Berger’s dad said he didn’t know. So Berger decided to write to the great architect himself.“I would appreciate it if you would design me a doghouse, which would be easy to build, but would go with our house,” read the letter dated June 19, 1956. “[My dog] is two and a half feet high and three feet long. The reasons I would like this doghouse is for the winters mainly.”
He explained that he would pay Wright from the money he made from his paper route.
“A house for Eddie is an opportunity,” Wright wrote back. But he said he was too busy at the time and asked that Berger write him back in November. The boy did so on the first of the month, and the plan for the doghouse followed — at no charge.
One wonders what Fido made of the wide eaves. More here.
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