John and Dorothy Haynes House
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The John D. Haynes House is a private residence in Fort Wayne, Indiana
designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
. The house is a small and modest Usonian design in Chicago Common Brick, Red Tidewater Cypress with gravity heating. The gallery is offset to meet the rear of the great room at its center, rather than typically to one side. A music room and three bedrooms drop off this gallery. The plan thus generated is an outside T, with great room facing southwest and southeast, bedrooms looking southeast to the morning sun. The gabled roofing is asymmetrical. Plans for a fourth bedroom off the back of the gallery, asked for when Mrs. Haynes again became pregnant, and tool storage room plus bathhouse and swimming pool at the music room were never realized. With a family grown too large for this compact house, Haynes built an interesting, if non-Wrightian, circular home on an adjacent site. The house is located just outside of the Wildwood Park development which was originally laid out by the noted American landscape architect Arthur Asahel Shurcliff
. Mayor Tom Henry
made the property a Local Historic District in April 2008.
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana...
designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
. The house is a small and modest Usonian design in Chicago Common Brick, Red Tidewater Cypress with gravity heating. The gallery is offset to meet the rear of the great room at its center, rather than typically to one side. A music room and three bedrooms drop off this gallery. The plan thus generated is an outside T, with great room facing southwest and southeast, bedrooms looking southeast to the morning sun. The gabled roofing is asymmetrical. Plans for a fourth bedroom off the back of the gallery, asked for when Mrs. Haynes again became pregnant, and tool storage room plus bathhouse and swimming pool at the music room were never realized. With a family grown too large for this compact house, Haynes built an interesting, if non-Wrightian, circular home on an adjacent site. The house is located just outside of the Wildwood Park development which was originally laid out by the noted American landscape architect Arthur Asahel Shurcliff
Arthur Asahel Shurcliff
Arthur Asahel Shurcliff was a noted American landscape architect. Born Arthur Asahel Shurtleff he changed his last name in 1930 in order, he said, to conform to the "ancient spelling of the family name." After over 30 years of success as a practicing landscape architect and town planner, in 1928...
. Mayor Tom Henry
Tom Henry
Tom Henry is an American politician, former Fort Wayne City Councilman, and current Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. He has an MBA from the University of Saint Francis and is the President and CEO of the Gallant Group, a small insurance company in Fort Wayne...
made the property a Local Historic District in April 2008.