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Architecture, Buffalo, Canon, Canon 5D Mark III, Classic House, EOS 24-105 L Lens, FLW, Foster Home, Foster House, Frank Lloyd Wright, Greycliff, Greycliff Estate, HDR, HDR Photography, High Dynamic Range, Lake Erie, photo, photography
This a view of the Garage/Apartment area of the Greycliff Estate by Frank Lloyd Wright on Lake Erie South of Buffalo. This section was connected to the main part of the house by a few walls that were at a right angle. They made an “apartment” over the three car garage/ carriage house there that was bigger than most people’s homes. In this one area, Isabelle Martin allowed Frank Lloyd Wright to be more himself and use cantilevered overhangs and wide horizontal eves as he normally did. This Foster House, where the daughter and son in law of the Martins lived, is therefore more typical of Frank Lloyd Wright. I will show several views from different angles so you can see the soaring roofs and wide eves and cantilevered balconies not really present in the Main Greycliff house section:
Here you can see how close it is to the main Greycliff House:
ISO 100, F/9, 1/200 sec, 45 mm Lens
Jazzersten's HDR Blog 
Lack of rain gutters & downspouts enhances clean architectural appearance.
Wikipedia: The Foster House[8] was originally designed as a garage[9] with an apartment above for the chauffeur and his family.[3] In 1929 the Martins owned a Pierce-Arrow touring car as well as a Detroit Electric car.
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Oh this building DID have complete gutters out of copper no less. But all vertical downspouts are hidden or buried so as not to ruin the horizontal design, much as in the Darwin Martin house. The Pierce Arrow is in the garage and is tomorrow’s post.
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Amazing architectural design details. I’ll look forward to the Pierce-Arrow touring car.
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