The Darwin D. Martin House Complex, also known as the Darwin Martin House State Historic Site, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built between 1903 & 1905, and is located at 125 Jewett Parkway in Buffalo, New York. It is considered to be one of the most important projects from Wright's Prairie School era, and ranks among his greatest works east of the Prairie, along with The Guggenheim in New York City and Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.
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The Darwin D. Martin House Complex, also known as the Darwin Martin House State Historic Site, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built between 1903 & 1905, and is located at 125 Jewett Parkway in Buffalo, New York. It is considered to be one of the most important projects from Wright's Prairie School era, and ranks among his greatest works east of the Prairie, along with The Guggenheim in New York City and Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.
Wright scholar Robert McCarter said of it:
"It can be argued that the Martin House Complex ... is the most important house design of the first half of Wright's career, matched only by Fallingwater over 30 years later."
The Martin House Complex was the home of Darwin D. Martin, an entrepreneur, and his wife Isabelle.
Martin and his brother, William E. Martin, were co-owners of the E-Z Stove Polish Company based in Chicago. In 1902 William commissioned Wright to build him a home in Oak Park, the resultant William E. Martin House built in 1903. Upon...
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