Frank Lloyd Wright's Only Tennessee House

Frank Lloyd Wright never once visited the site of The Shavin House, his only Tennessee build. He sent Taliesin apprentice Marvin Bachman to oversee construction, and when Bachman died in a car accident in 1951, it was his grieving sister who toured the finished house the following year and was moved enough to commission the Bachman-Wilson House, a project now rebuilt piece by piece at Arkansas's Crystal Bridges Museum. The Shavin House itself sits atop Chattanooga's Missionary Ridge, built from two materials: native Crab Orchard stone, laid with protruding ledges that echo Fallingwater, and Louisiana cypress millwork running through the interior. At 1,784 square feet on a 0.89-acre lot, the three-bedroom house is compact even by Usonian standards, with walls of glass angled to frame the Tennessee River and Lookout Mountain rather than add floor space. Commissioned by newlyweds Seamour and Gerte Shavin in 1949 and completed in 1952, it has stayed in the same family for more than 75 years and is only now reaching the market for the first time.

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