Frank Lloyd Wright home in Rockford to get visitors’ center
A museum preserving the Laurent House, the only house designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright specifically for an individual with a disability, will be able to build a visitors’ center. This will enable it to offer crucial amenities including bathrooms, which are prohibited in the house. Constructed in 1952 for a World War II veteran who used a wheelchair, the Laurent House meets about 90 percent of the Americans with Disabilities Act’s accessibility requirements and was counted by Wright as one of his 38 masterworks.
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