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Coordinates: 38°34′57.43″N 90°26′32.38″W / 38.5826194°N 90.4423278°W / 38.5826194; -90.4423278
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Russell and Ruth Goetz Kraus House
Kraus House is located in Missouri
Kraus House
Kraus House is located in the United States
Kraus House
Location120 N. Ballas Road, Kirkwood, MO 63122
Coordinates38°34′57.43″N 90°26′32.38″W / 38.5826194°N 90.4423278°W / 38.5826194; -90.4423278
Built1952
ArchitectFrank Lloyd Wright; Lee Patterson
Architectural styleModern Movement, Usonian
NRHP reference No.96001595 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 31, 1997

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The Kraus House, also known as the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park, is a house in Kirkwood, Missouri designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The house was designed and constructed for Russell and Ruth Goetz Kraus, and the initial design was conceived in 1950. Construction continued until at least 1960 and was never formally completed. The owners lived in the house for about 40 years (Ruth died in 1992).

The house features parallelograms; indeed, the only right angles to be found in the house are located in the bathroom. Even the bed is a parallelogram and sheets must be custom made. The house itself sits on a parallelogram blueprint. The house features a carport, attached shed, and a workroom for Kraus, a glass work artist. Kraus heard of Wright's work and was so excited at the thought of living in a work of art himself, he wrote to Wright, who sent him the plans for his 'little house'.

In 1997, the house was recognized with listing on the National Register of Historic Places of the National Park Service. Russell Kraus sold the house in 2001 to a non-profit organization formed for the specific purpose of saving it. The title was subsequently transferred to the St. Louis County Parks and Recreation Department, which maintains the 10.5-acre (42,000 m2) grounds as Ebsworth Park. The house and park are open to the public by appointment only. Tours are available for a small fee and do not allow pictures to be taken inside the house.

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Notes

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ National Register of Historic Places Registration: Kraus House??. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
  • Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 (S.340)

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