Detroit’s only Frank Lloyd Wright home gets $1.2M renovation
The Dorothy Turkel House, Detroit’s sole Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home, is currently undergoing a painstaking renovation that is returning it to the architect’s original vision.
The Dorothy Turkel House, Detroit’s sole Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home, is currently undergoing a painstaking renovation that is returning it to the architect’s original vision.
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Owners Norman Silk and Dale Norman retained architect Lawrence Brink, a Wright expert, and began to pull together all of the available information on the house they could find, including the original blueprints and communication between Turkel and Wright. “Some things were documented in extreme, excrutiating detail, while others were completely ignored,” says Silk. “This long renovation process that we’ve gone through has made it more interesting and intriguing.”
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