Day 3608: A dog house?

 

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Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Guggenheim Museum -- and this 12-year-old boy's dog house

 

Famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed iconic buildings like the Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania and the Guggenheim Museum in New York -- and he also designed a dog house for a 12-year-old boy who sent a letter.

Jim Berger grew up in a San Anselmo, California, home that his parents had commissioned Wright to design, according to Marin County. In 1956, when Berger was 12 years old, he sent a letter to Wright asking for plans for a matching dog house for his labrador retriever, Eddie. "I would appreciate it if you would design me a dog house, which would be easy to build, but would go with our house," wrote Berger in the letter. "The reason I would like this dog house is for the winters mainly."

 "A house for Eddie is an opportunity," wrote Wright in his reply, dated June 28, 1956. "Someday I shall design one but just now I am too busy to concentrate on it. You write me next November to Phoenix, Arizona and I may have something then."

It wasn't until the next year that the architect sent Berger the plans for the triangular dog house, written on the back of an envelope and provided at no charge. The design features signatures of Wright's work generally and of the Bergers' home, a low-pitched roof and exaggerated overhang.

Architecture fans can see the dog house for themselves at the Marin County Civic Center, where it was put on permanent display on May 26, according to the county. The civic center itself is the largest building ever designed by Wright.

The dog house is the smallest structure Wright ever designed, the county says. The architect died in 1959, just two years after mailing Berger the design for his canine companion.

 

 

Update ...

Last week, Grandhunk #1 drove us to Nevada, on the way on Highway 15, we passed a road sign  that said ZZYZX ...

I had seen a story on Huell Hower's California Gold, so I remembered that it had a population of 1.  But, GH#1 and I had a debate about how it would score in Scrabble?

For the record, it's 42 points in Scrabble, but we decided there probably aren't 3 -Z's to begin with? So I looked it up, and the Scrabble tile letter distribution is as follows: A-9, B-2, C-2, D-4, E-12, F-2, G-3, H-2, I-9, J-1, K-1, L-4, M-2, N-6, O-8, P-2, Q-1, R-6, S-4, T-6, U-4, V-2, W-2, X-1, Y-2, Z-1 and Blanks-2. And now we know. TMI?

 

 

 

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