Frank Lloyd Wright’s Turkel House Gets a Second Life

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When Dale Morgan and Norman Silk spotted a “For Sale” sign in front of a contemporary home in the Palmer Woods neighborhood of Detroit it was just what they were looking for, so they snatched it up. Little did they know that they had just stumbled into buying a true Frank Lloyd Wright designed home, known as the Turkel House.

To answer the question you are all asking yourselves, how could they not have known, it turns out that 25 years of disrepair, long periods of vacancy and changing owners hands combined with years of deferred maintenance and overgrown vegetation can hide a FLW design quite well.

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Cite: Kelly Minner. "Frank Lloyd Wright’s Turkel House Gets a Second Life" 23 Mar 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/122124/frank-lloyd-wrights-turkel-house-gets-a-second-life> ISSN 0719-8884

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