Louis Penfield House
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The Louis Penfield House is a house built by Frank Lloyd Wright, located in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. It is one of nine "Usonian" homes in the state of Ohio.
Louis Penfield, a painter and acquaintance of Wright, commissioned the architect to design a house that would accommodate his 6 ft. 8 inch frame. This house, then, built in 1955, is unique in its high doorways, as Wright preferred low entryways.
Notably long and thin in comparison to an average home, the house has a "floating staircase" supported by ceiling beams, a bottleneck entryway, and several walls made almost entirely of windows, one of which gives a panoramic view of the outside. The house's basic color scheme centers on red-stained wood and ochre walls.
Some years after Louis died, the family moved out, and maintained it as a rental property for five years. The Penfield house was restored over a period of four years by Paul Penfield, son of Louis, at a cost of some $100,000 USD. Since 2003, it is one of the few of Wright's homes that allow guests to spend the night.
