The Stuart Richardson House (affectionately named 'Scherzo' by Frank Lloyd Wright) in Glen Ridge, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, was built in 1951 for Stuart Richardson (an actuary) and his wife Elisabeth. The Richardsons, with their two daughters Margot and Edith, moved in on October 23, 1951, and owned the house until 1970. It is one of Wright's "Usonian" homes, designed to be functional houses for people of average means. The primary building construction materials employed in the design of the house were red brick, old growth tidewater cypress wood, and glass on a Cherokee red radiant heated concrete floor mat.
The Richardson House, originally designed in 1941 to be built in Livingston, New Jersey was built a decade later in Glen Ridge due to complexities imposed by World War II. The design is an extremely rare example of a Wright Usonian home based on hexagonal geometry - all angles of the floor plan are either 60 or 120 degrees. Tucked into a landscaped woodland meadow with a stream, multiple ponds, and waterfalls running along its private entry invisible from the street, it is 20 miles/45 minutes from midtown Manhattan. The home's centerpiece is a massive triangular living/dining space with prow-like wood-burning fireplace, a unique sculptural inverted truss pyramidal ceiling unlike any other known to be designed by FLLW, and illuminated clerestory windows with perforated motifs whose design relates to Wright's name ('Scherzo') of the home. Fourteen floor-to-ceiling French doors create two window walls opening onto balconies and an in-ground heated swimming pool surrounded by a flagstone terrace on the south side of the home, effectively blurring indoor and outdoor space. On the north side of the home off the bedroom loggia is a large triangular planted terrace providing additional outdoor living space.
In addition to the spacious triangular living/dining area, the home also includes a carport, entry/loggia, large kitchen, library/studio, two bedrooms, a guest bathroom, a master suite with separate bedroom/dressing area/master bath, and mechanical room. Every room contains the original desks, dressers, shelving, tables, chairs, and credenzas designed by Wright, and there is ample storage space integrated throughout the home. A recent restoration by previous owners Edith and John Payne with New Jersey based TARANTINOarchitect returned The Richardson House to the integrity and beauty FLLW originally envisioned, and earned the 2010 Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Spirit Award for outstanding stewardship to private individuals in the conservation of their FLLW designed homes.
and 20 Related for: Stuart Richardson House information
The StuartRichardsonHouse (affectionately named 'Scherzo' by Frank Lloyd Wright) in Glen Ridge, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, was built in...
Missouri Pope–Leighey House 1941, Alexandria, Virginia StuartRichardsonHouse 1941 (built 1951) Glen Ridge, New Jersey Alvin Miller House (also known as the...
Frank Lloyd Wright designed over 1,000 houses, commercial buildings and other works. "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" is a UNESCO...
The Stuart period of British history lasted from 1603 to 1714 during the dynasty of the House of Stuart. The period ended with the death of Queen Anne...
Sophia Stuart (22 June 1606 – 23 June 1606) was the fourth daughter and last of nine children of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark. Anne of Denmark was...
Baron Castle Stuart. The Earls Castle Stewart claim to be the head representatives in the pure male line of the Scottish Royal House of Stuart. They are...
Kevin Michael Richardson is an American actor, known for his distinctively deep voice. He has mostly voiced villainous characters in animation and video...
a magistrate and the Trotters' landlord Jodhi May as Queen Anne Joely Richardson as Lady Eularia Moggerhanger, a newspaper magnate Iz Hesketh as Valerian...
Hilton Stuart, by H. Edward Richardson (McGraw-Hill, 1984) New Harvest: Forgotten Stories of Kentucky's Jesse Stuart, by David R. Palmore (Jesse Stuart Foundation...
International Center for Scholars Trustees Peter L. Richardson, Chairman of the Board Stuart S. Richardson, Vice Chair Marin J. Strmecki Sr. V.P. and Dir....
Stuart MacBride is a Scottish writer, whose crime thrillers are set in the "Granite City" of Aberdeen, with Detective Sergeant Logan McRae as protagonist...
(November 25, 1971 – January 8, 2023) and Herneitha Rochelle Hardaway Richardson (born January 17, 1971), known as Diamond and Silk, respectively, were...
James Patrick Stuart (born June 16, 1968) is an American actor, currently portraying Valentin Cassadine on the daytime soap opera General Hospital, for...
Stuart Blumberg, who co-wrote the screenplay with Matt Winston. The film stars Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Josh Gad, Joely Richardson...
Eliot House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. It is one of the seven original houses at the college. Opened in...
Thomas Phillip O'Neil as Dr. Neil Mosbach, FBI Medical Examiner. Rodney Richardson as Ray Stapleton, an FBI forensic technician (season 1). Nina Lisandrello...
Murray, Stuart A. P. (2009). The Library: An Illustrated History. New York: Skyhorse Pub. ISBN 978-1602397064. Richardson, p. 326. Richardson, p. 327...
Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba and his daughter Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba who was head of the House of Alba from 1955...
band Fleshbind broke up. They later recruited Mike Lewis on guitars, StuartRichardson on bass and Mike Chiplin on drums. Lostprophets released five studio...
Global Information
