The World Has a New Frank Lloyd Wright Home

A design the architect submitted decades ago is brought to life in Ohio
Posted Mar 8, 2025 6:00 AM CST
The World Has a New Frank Lloyd Wright Home
An image of the newly finished house near Cleveland.   (RiverRock House)

A newly completed home near Cleveland has a unique claim to fame: It's a Frank Lloyd Wright house. It seems the renowned architect—who died in 1959—submitted his design for the private home in the 1950s but it was never built, reports Axios. However, the family that purchased the wooded property along with Wright's plans in 2018 moved ahead with construction, which recently wrapped up, per the local News-Herald. In fact, the Dykstra family is now making the "RiverRock" home available to renters, with rates starting at $800 a night. More photos of the home are available here.

"When we set out to build this home, we gave a mandate to the professional team involved: If you must change something due to current building regulations, code, products, etc., do so under the 'skin' so the house will look exactly the same," owner Sarah Dykstra tells the News-Herald. The home in Willoughby Hills sits on 30 acres through which the Chagrin River runs. It incorporates much local stone, in keeping with Wright's principle of having his designs fit naturally into their environs. (More Frank Lloyd Wright stories.)

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