Cedric G. and Patricia Neils Boulter House, Frank Lloyd Wright residential design in Clifton, Cincinnati, United States.
The Cedric G. and Patricia Neils Boulter House is a single-family home in the Clifton neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is built from prefabricated concrete blocks and Douglas fir wood arranged on a modular grid, with a split-level layout where the bedroom and study sit above the main living area.
The house was commissioned in 1953 by two classics professors at the University of Cincinnati and completed in 1956. It belongs to the later group of Wright's Usonian designs, a series of modest private homes he developed from the 1930s onward.
The house follows Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian approach, which favored open living spaces, flat roofs, and large windows that draw the eye outward toward the garden and trees. Visitors standing outside can clearly see how the horizontal lines of the structure echo the slope of the surrounding land.
The house sits in a quiet residential street in Clifton and is visible from the sidewalk, making the exterior easy to view. Since it is a private home, access inside is not possible, but the façade and the relationship between the building and the surrounding garden are clearly readable from outside.
A fire in 2019 caused serious damage to the house, but the new owners took on an extensive restoration rather than rebuilding. This makes the house a rare example of mid-century modern residential architecture that has gone through documented post-fire recovery.
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