Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House
Michigan, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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The Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House, also known as MyHaven, is a Usonian residence designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and built in 1949–1950. Designed for two public school teachers working within modest financial constraints, the house exemplifies Wright's philosophy of affordable, organic architecture tailored to its inhabitants' needs and means. The landscape was designed by Thomas Dolliver Church in 1957. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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- Type
- single-family detached home
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Michigan, United States
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