Phoenix, Ariz.: Here are two neighboring FLW houses not far from the Arizona Biltmore Hotel.

Jorgine Boomer House (1953)
"Jorgine Boomer, a member of the Dupont family. Her husband, Lucius Messenger Boomer, was president and chairman of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Before her husband's death in 1947, the Boomers and the Adelmans came to the Biltmore Hotel in the winter where they might be found playing bridge with Mamie Eisenhower.
Description: 1,413 square foot home designed for a single person, with separate servant's and chauffeur's quarters. The compact two story house has a equilateral parallelogram footprint and is built around a central chimney flue. Wright described his design, which is virtually identical to the home he did for George Clark on the Carmel seaside in 1951, as a "mountain cottage". It is constructed with desert rubblestone walls and horizontal wood sheathing especially evident in the bedroom balcony."

Benjamin Adelman House (1951)
"Second home built for the Adelman family of Milwaukee. Originally designed as an inexpensive winter retreat, the Usonian house was composed of two concrete block buildings connected by a covered walkway. It had a two story living room and a kitchen with natural lighting from glass openings in the patterned block. Ceilings were suspended from concrete beams. Typical of Wright homes, halls were narrow and the bedrooms small. It featured another innovation which Wright is credited with inventing and naming: a carport."
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