"The discovery launched a six-decade mystery into motion. Wright's final residential commission had been delivered to the Penfield family during Wright's funeral week in 1959, then forgotten as life moved on. The plans contained something extraordinary: Wright's complete vision for his last house, oriented around a specific poplar tree and built from locally quarried river stones. Every detail had been specified, every material chosen, every sight line calculated."
"For architecture enthusiasts who spend years touring Wright houses from behind velvet ropes, this discovery offered something unprecedented. Here was a Wright design that had never been built, never been compromised by decades of modifications, never been stripped of its original intentions. More importantly, it still had its original building site, and that poplar tree was still standing. The Mother-Daughter Mission That Changed Everything Sarah Dykstra purchased the original Penfield property in 2018, unaware she was acquiring one of architecture's greatest mysteries."
An unexpected discovery on a Penfield property revealed Frank Lloyd Wright's Project #5909, the final residential commission sketched on his drawing board when he died. The plans presented a complete Usonian vision oriented around a specific poplar tree and using locally quarried river stones, with every material, detail and sight line specified. The design had never been built and remained uncompromised, still sited on its original lot with the poplar tree intact. Sarah Dykstra purchased the property in 2018, acquiring both a 1955 Wright house and the unbuilt plans. Dykstra and her mother Debbie became co-general contractors, confronting modern codes and materials while insisting on preserving Wright's original intentions.
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