Darwin D. Martin House

Buffalo, United States

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Visible from the street; the inside is private.

Admission: Ticketed

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The Darwin D. Martin House is a landmark example of Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School architecture, built between 1903 and 1907 in Buffalo, New York, for businessman Darwin D. Martin and his wife Isabelle. Located at 125 Jewett Parkway, the main house anchors a six-building estate that originally included a pergola, conservatory, carriage house, and gardener's cottage, along with the smaller George Barton House. The main residence displays characteristic Prairie style features: Roman brick and concrete trim, red roof tiles, distinctive "tree of life" art glass windows, and a cruciform plan with overlapping roofs at multiple levels, complemented by a western porte-cochère and eastern veranda. After decades of abandonment and division into apartments, comprehensive restoration began in the 1990s under the University at Buffalo and the Martin House Restoration Corporation, culminating in 2019 with the rebuilding of demolished structures, the reconstitution of the full estate, and the addition of a visitor center designed by Toshiko Mori. The project cost $50 million over thirty years and is now operated as a historic house museum.

Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

Movement

Prairie School architecture

Built: 1905
Type: single-family detached home
Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place, National Historic Landmark
Place: Buffalo, United States

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