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Robert and Rae Levin House

Buildings and structures in Kalamazoo, MichiganFrank Lloyd Wright buildingsHouses completed in 1949Houses in Kalamazoo County, MichiganModernist architecture in Michigan
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Robert and Rae Levin House, also Robert Levin House and Robert Levin Residence, is a single-family home in Kalamazoo, Michigan and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1949, Robert and Rae Levin worked with Frank Lloyd Wright to build a house, the first one to be constructed in Parkwyn Village, a planned community of Usonian houses. Usonia is a word used by Frank Lloyd Wright and refers to the residents of the United States Of North America. Those houses were meant for the common man at that time. The finished house was constructed of textile blocks (patterned blocks made by pouring concrete into a mold), big windows and skylights, built-in furniture, and a mix of shallow and grand sloping ceilings. Wright designed the house to be connected closely to nature.

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Robert and Rae Levin House
Taliesin Drive, Kalamazoo

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Taliesin Drive

Taliesin Drive
49008 Kalamazoo
Michigan, United States
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