The Zimmerman House - by C.J. Heck
“Zimmerman House” (Built 1950)
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
150 Ash Street
Manchester, NH
The Zimmerman House is a house museum in the North End neighborhood of Manchester, New Hampshire.
Manchester is one town over from where I used to live in Bedford. One of my daughters and her family still live in Manchester (it’s a long way from Florida, where Robert and I live).
The one-story, two-bedroom house is 1,700 square feet and has no basement or attic. This is the only Wright designed house that’s open to the public in New England.
Though only 1,700-square feet and 2 bedrooms, the house’s built-in furniture, continuous concrete floor mat, large windows, and dramatic changes in ceiling height impart a sense of great spaciousness.
The Zimmermans, who would live in the house for the next 36 years, wrote to Wright in 1952 insisting that their home was “the most beautiful house in the world.”
In 1988 the building was bequeathed to the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH.
Now restored, the house is open to the public, offering visitors a glimpse inside this total work of art, enhanced by the Zimmerman’s personal collection of paintings, pottery and sculpture.
(Credit: Zimmerman House - Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation)
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