I remember when it went for 4. It was rumored that it'd take about $17m to keep it from sliding off the hill.
You can get a low end FLW house for what? Like low seven figures? Saw the headline and was skeptical. But damn if that ain't a fine example of his residential architecture. I'm driving delivery right now and the area is a bizarre mixture of poverty, wealth and hipster gentrification. I'd be content with some off brand Wright style house. And apparently there are a bunch in some weird North Atlanta limbo near where everyone buys heroin.
Among the modernists it's kind of the holy grail. There are four textile houses in LA and one of them, the Millard house, sold for a mere $1.6m in 2011. It was funny - there was an article on the Gettys in the New York Times with a picture of them in their living room and I fuckin' recognized the brick. The Henderson House is a cool million if you wanna live in Elmhurst, IL.
Oh yeah, I know the importance of an actual FLW house. I just had never heard of this one so $23 million sounded high. My mom raised me on his architecture as the epitome of awesome so I'm totally a Kool-aid drinker. There are just a ton of random prairie style houses of his out there and I assumed this was one of them when it's actually really cool. But if the roof of it leaks I wouldn't be surprised