‘I never thought we’d be able to tour it:’ Michigan man restores historical Frank Lloyd Wright home

OKEMOS, Mich. (WLNS) — A Michigan man is allowing tours at his newly purchased Frank Lloyd Wright home.

The Goetsch-Winckler home was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, an American architect and designer in 1940.

Nate Meyer now owns the home in Okemos, Michigan, and is open to tours.

DeAndra Beck, who has lived in Okemos since 2014, says she contacted the current owner through Facebook. “I never thought we’d be able to tour it,” says Beck.

She says for many years she would visit the home and peak on the inside and outside the house, and she never got the opportunity to tour the home until now.

“And imagine my surprise and delight when I found out that Okemos, Michigan was the place where Frank Llyod Wright had intended to build what he called a Usonian community,” said Beck.

Dory Azar, an architect in Ontario, Canada, says he heard about the home while visiting a museum in the area.

He says he took a photo of the home and contacted the owners to set up a tour. “Anybody should be able to walk through that home and really kinda feel that connection to the landscape and to the materials of the home,” said Azar. “It’s just a really special place.”

Meyer and his wife purchased the home in December of last year. He says they stripped the home of the exterior paint to restore the natural wood. They repaired all of the screen doors, and the bathroom to its original state.

Meyer says his love of architecture started at the age of 13 when his family visited Falling Water, another historical landmark by Wright.

He says when he bought the home, it felt like a dream come true.

“We would love to just bring back some rough edges to the property,” said Meyer. “It’s been you know, over decades. It’s been increasingly suburbanized. We want it to feel a little bit more within nature, rather than separated from it.”

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