Lambert Will Review Home’s Brief History

FLORENCE – When the city of Florence purchased the former home of Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum, the house was in critically serious condition. Years of leaks had damaged joists, ceilings, walls, and parts of the exterior trim. Termites had left their paths in many of the walls. The recommendation from a city building inspector was to tear it down.

However, the house was an architectural treasure. It was designed by renowned, visionary architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939 and built for the Rosenbaums when they were newlyweds. 

After the city bought the structure in 1999, Florence architect Don Lambert teamed with the city’s museum director, Barbara Kimberlin Broach, to help lead volunteers, professionals, and tradesmen in restoration work that saved this national, architectural gem.

Lambert will discuss the restoration work during a presentation at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library at 5:30pm on Thursday, June 30. The program is free and open the public.

The Rosenbaum house was one of the first few examples of Wright’s Usonian concept designed for informal living among middle-class families of the day. 

The Frank Lloyd Wright Rosenbaum House Museum is the only Wright-designed house open to the public in the southeastern U.S. It features some of the original furnishings Wright designed for the home.

You will not want to miss hearing about this restoration project on a work from a man the American Institute of Architects calls, ”the “greatest American architect of all time.”