When a Frank Lloyd Wright house hits the market, architecture aficionados pay attention. Crosby Doe Associates, a top agency specializing in midcentury homes, recently listed the Fawcett Farm, which was completed in 1961, two years after Wright’s death. Let the salivation begin.
Located on 76 acres of agricultural land in California’s Central Valley, wedged between San Francisco and Fresno, it’s a rare example of Wright’s rural projects. (Most of the 425 remaining homes he built are located in cities and suburbs, largely scattered about the Midwest.) The Fawcett Farm was originally built for a gentleman named Randall “Buck” Fawcett, who was a football star at Stanford and in fact was drafted in 1944 by the Chicago Bears before returning home to Los Banos to help his ailing father run the family farm, H. G. Fawcett Farms.
