09/04/2026
For 75 years, the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park has stood not because a house of this design simply endures, but because people have shown up for it — generation after generation, one project at a time.
You'll see workmen on the roof in this video, continuing the cedar shingle work that returned the house to Wright's original vision. But the roof is only the most visible chapter. Look closer, over 75 years, and you'll find the same devotion in the mortar repointing the walls, the hands restoring the textiles, the conservators treating the wood, the volunteers cataloguing archives, the donors who funded it all without asking for their names on a plaque.
This is what preservation actually looks like: not a single grand gesture, but thousands of small, exacting acts of labor, sustained across three generations, so that this house could remain part of our community's architectural legacy — not as a relic, but as a living structure people can still walk through and understand.
To everyone who has held a tool, written a check, or given a Saturday to this house over the last 75 years: this is your house too.
