WOW House
With $435,000 Asking Price, Unique Home Has the 'Wright' Look
Designed by architect often compared to Frank Lloyd Wright, this Racine County home in wooded surrounding overlooks a ravine and the Root River.
From elegant and stately mansions to modern, environmentally friendly abodes, southeastern Wisconsin is chock-full of one-of-a-kind homes for sale. Each week, Patch highlights one "Wow House" that caught our attention. This week, it's a home at 1505 Valley View Drive in Mount Pleasant known as "Trilogy" that was designed by architect John Randal McDonald, whose work is often compared to that of Frank Lloyd Wright. Also known as the John E. and Catherine Erskine House, the home has been featured on tours of homes designed by Wright and architects like him. According the website Wright in Wisconsin, Trilogy "is designed on an equilateral triangular grid, with triangularity as a repeated design motif throughout the entire home." The home …
CulinaryWasteland
12:04 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
I have toured this home. It has many of the signature elements of a McDonald design. With the good comes the bad. The HVAC only serves the top main floor; there is no AC on the lower levels including the master bedroom. The home site is precarious due to the home's positioning on a hillside. Reinforcements to the "cat walk" which borders the outside foundation were necessary to keep them from … more ›