Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bogk House Just Listed for the First Time in Almost 70 Years

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Asking $1.5M, the property is the legendary architect’s only single-family house in Milwaukee.

The home's overhanging roof is trimmed with copper, adding a subtle pop of color against its otherwise neutral, brick-clad facade.
The home's overhanging roof is trimmed with copper, adding a subtle pop of color against its otherwise neutral, brick-clad facade.

Location: 2420 N Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Price: $1,500,000

Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Year Built: 1917

Footprint: 6,712 square feet (five bedrooms, three full and one half baths)

Lot Size: 0.16 acres

From the Agent: "The Frederick C. Bogk House has the special distinction of being the only single-family residence designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the city of Milwaukee. Commissioned by alderman and entrepreneur Frederick C. Bogk in 1916, the house illustrates the visionary genius of Wright as a free-flowing and organically integrated and aesthetic whole. Selling for only the second time in 107 years, the Bogk house has been exquisitely maintained and cherished by the current owners since 1955."

The home's overhanging roof is trimmed with copper, adding a subtle pop of color against its otherwise neutral, brick-clad facade.
The home's overhanging roof is trimmed with copper, adding a subtle pop of color against its otherwise neutral, brick-clad facade.
"When the current owners bought the property in 1955, they wrote to Wright asking if he had designed any landscaping for the house; Wright responded that he hadn’t but directed them to buy furniture from his new line that matched the home,
"When the current owners bought the property in 1955, they wrote to Wright asking if he had designed any landscaping for the house; Wright responded that he hadn’t but directed them to buy furniture from his new line that matched the home,

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