There. I’ve said it.
Well, at least post a photo of it for the rest of us.
I grew up in Gainesville, Florida, and I remember a few houses along the basin that looked very similar to that.
I wish I would have carried a camera with me when I was 9.
-Kevin
I still have mine from when I was around 12 years old. Of course, the painting looks like it was done by someone that age. But I’ve always loved it too. It seemed like a house where James Bond would have been high up in the Alps.
Jim
Looks like a Brady Bunch home.
Mike
I think the Brady house looks a lot more traditional than mid-century-modern.
However, Mike Brady, the architect was supposedly known for his modern designs, so I guess it could be a “Brady” house designed by Mr. Brady!
-Kevin
Yeah, this Bachmann model is closer to the Brady house:
With that cantilevered look it kind of reminds me of the Van Damme house in North by Northwest:
https://hookedonhouses.net/2010/03/15/north-by-northwest-hitchcocks-house-on-mt-rushmore/
Carry on, Ed
Yes, I love that house! Featuring an early performance by Martin Landau!
While interesting and innovative, mid-century modern has never done much for me personally. I find much more warmth from a well-constructed Victorian or company house. There. I said it.
This is precisely why I go to train shows. It seems that most model railroaders lean into your camp, which allows me to do a quick breeze-by and snap up the moderne stuff that no one wants. I totally clean up for very little dough. [Y]
SC,
That’s great. Actually, I was speaking of the style in general; not necessarily as it relates to MRRing. I guess I just love older homes because they are generally well-constructed, exhibit an era where craftsmanship was the norm, and are more like…home to me.
I can appreciate a classic design like Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water. However, I’m not sure I would enjoy living in a home of that style. The surroundings, however, are different story. [:P]
Tom
I love Mid-Century-Modern furniture, and have enough to do the spare bedroom in that style.
I do not care for Mid-Century-Modern architecture. I think Arts And Craft is my favorite, but my wife and daughters all prefer Queen Anne Victorian. My oldest daughter owns a 1905 Queen Anne.
I simply love this style of house.
-Kevin
A few thoughts:
The Brady house is a “modern” style, just a slightly more practical to build 1960’s interpretation.
I’m a residential designer and historic restoration consultant, I’ve restored a few mid century modern homes, and a few Federal and Greek Revival ones as well.
But the Victorians are my favorites, especially the Queen Anne’s:
Just to be clear, “Victorian” is a time period, not a style. There are about 11 distinct “styles” that make up the Victorian Architectural period.
Frank Lloyd Wright was an interesting guy with interesting ideas, most of which I would not want to “live with” either.
No matter what style, I think they all have stylistic value, and their style should be respected by those who restore and renovate them.
As for my layout set in 1953, well I’m not really planning any “new” residential developements, but there will be a representive selection of all styles up to that point in time.
Sheldon
Yes, Arts and Crafts, and Colonial Revival, followed the Victorian period and gave us some of the most beautiful homes.
Sheldon
Sheldon,
Thanks for the clarification on the term “Victorian”. I do like the various styles of that era.
Kevin,
I agree with you on the Arts & Crafts houses. Warm and inviting.
Given the trees, I know that photo wasn’t taken in FL…
Tom
Have you ever been to Taliesin? Its worth the visit.
Mike
Wright’s work has never impressed me - lipstick-on-a-dead-pig, and with about the same warmth of character.
Wayne
Atlas offered a kit for a similar house - indeed so close that it may well be the same tooling, since they offered other structures at the time that were clearly European in origin (in contrast to the lumber yard, interlocking tower, water tank and other structures that were “their” tooling and not just imported.
Our circa 1953 house is mid-century modern with traces of a Frank Lloyd Wright influence in the use of woods, stone, slate, large windows and an angled room (rather like this Faller/Atlas kit) with a flat roof over that room. The suburban village I live in has many mid century modern houses and a few genuine F.L. Wrights, some with entirely flat roofs and let me tell you those flat roofs are not practical for our climate.
I am reminded that when Wright designed not just a famous office building but a personal home for the Johnsons of Johnson Wax fame, the Johnson family had just moved into the house and were having a celebratory dinner when it started to rain and S.C. Johnson called Wright angrily and told him that he was sitting in his new house and rain was failling on his head and what did Mr. Wright intend to do about it? Frank Lloyd Wright cooly told him “move your chair.”
That house, Wingspread, is now a conference center in Racine WI.
Wisconsin has a Frank Lloyd Wright house that anybody can rent and stay in, although there is a waiting list, the Seth Peterson cottage, a neat little house in a beautiful setting. Peterson was not wealthy but he put together some funds, sent a check to Wright with a request for a house design, and Wright was so broke at the time he cashed the check and thus a legal contract was created. Peterson went b