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Frank Lloyd Wright published the Jacobs house as the first Usonian home in the 1938 Architectural Forum.

"What would be really sensible in this matter of the modest dwelling for our time and place? This house for a young journalist, his wife, and small daughter is now under roof. Cost: Fifty-five hundred dollars including architect's fee of four hundred and fifty.[…]" (Frank Lloyd Wright)

John Sergeant notes: "The Usonian house, designed in 1934, quickly increased in price. It was extremely difficult to achieve a built cost of $5,500 for the Jacobs house in 1937, $7,000 for the Pope house and $8,500 for the Pew house in 1940. […]"

All quotes:
John Sergeant, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S USONIAN HOUSES - 1984 Paperback Edition, Page 79 (First published 1976 in New York, by Whitney Library of Design) Page 16, Page 138

'Jacobs House' 1936:
'Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses' by Carla Lind, Pomegranate, 1994 (page 19)
'Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations' by Colin Davies, Laurence King Publishing, 2006
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Geoposition:
+43° 3' 30.63", -89° 26' 29.53"
Images:
http://www.brynmawr.edu/ 2 3 4 […]
http://www.scalarchives.it/
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/ 2 3
http://www.artdaily.org/ […]

'Rosenbaum House' 1939:
'Frank Lloyd Wright' by Bruno Zevi, Birkhäuser, 1998 (page 178)
2 [page 18]
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Geoposition:
+34° 47' 30.70", -87° 40' 58.81"
Images + Plans:
http://www.cybergeo.eu/ 2 […]


Usonian house:
http://en.wikipedia.org/
www.usonia1.com
www.pbs.org
www.eslarp.uiuc.edu
http://xroads.virginia.edu/
http://architecture.about.com/

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http://www.michaelwildman.com/ […]
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/ […]

Google books preview:

"Geschichte der Architekturtheorie Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart" von Hanno-Walter Kruft, Beck, München, 1991 http://books.google.at/ (Page 495)

"Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture", by Kenneth Frampton, John Cava, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, MIT Press, 2001 http://books.google.at/ (Page 114)

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• Outlining Broadacre City became necessary in the course of my urban diploma project 16/3 in 1999. Put online the same year in German, this 'preliminary' English translation became available in 2007.
• Context / related schemes (2007/2008)
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