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At 3901 North Washington Road, inside the street plan of the Wildwood Park development — a garden suburb laid out under a plan by the landscape architect Arthur Asahel Shurcliff — stands the only Frank Lloyd Wright building in Fort Wayne. Wright designed the house at Taliesin in 1950, and it was completed in 1952 for Dr. John D. Haynes, his wife Dorothy, and their four children. (The clients are sometimes mis-stated in secondary retellings; the National Register listing carries the house as the John and Dorothy Haynes House.) It is a small, complete Usonian: 1,350 square feet in glass, red tidewater cypress and Chicago common brick on a red concrete slab, with gravity heat, built-in furniture throughout, varied ceiling heights, and a cantilevered brick fireplace at the center of the living space, all under the broad, exaggerated roof planes of Wright's late domestic manner. Seven Wright-designed houses survive in Indiana; this is one of them.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 2004. In April 2008, at the out-of-state owner's own request, the city's Historic Preservation Review Board declared the property a single-site Local Historic District; in 2010 the same owner, Richard Herber, asked the board to rescind the designation, and the board refused. A later attempt to have the designation removed was denied by the City Council, a decision supported by Indiana Landmarks and ARCH. The house remains a private residence and is not open to the public.
Sources: Wikipedia, "John D. Haynes House" (National Register reference no. 04000635); Indiana Landmarks, "Frank Lloyd Wright in Indiana" (2018); Frank Lloyd Wright Society newsletter, "Wright's Legacy Perseveres in Northeast Indiana" (April 17, 2024); ACGSI, H Named Places.